Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-07-10
immigrants and Capital Needed.
Baltimore Manufacturers Record.


The work Of attracting immigration
and capital to the South hardly receives
that attention from the Southern peo-
pie that its vast importance demands.
TO make known the unequaled advan-
tages OF the South, its untold wealth Of
natural resources, its bright and genial
climate, and thus to stimulate the peo-
pie of that section to still greater app
probation of their own glorious coun-
try, as well as to attract immigrants and
capital, is what the Manufacturers
Record week after week and year after
year is doing. The prosperity of the
whole South is its aim, and believing
that this prosperity can best be secured
by attracting immigrants and capital
from elsewhere, it is vigorously work
ing to accomplish this. When we
speak OF immigrants to the South, it
must not be imagined that we favor any
efforts looking to the bringing to that
section Of the class Of people that are
now giving so much trouble in Chicago
the ofscourings in the world in fact.
The better class of European elnigrants
would make most excellent citizens in
the South and the more OF them that
we can secnre the better for us, but it
is mainly immigration from the North
and West to which we refer in discuss
ing this matter. There are thousands
and tens of thousands OF well-to-do
people in the North and West who
would very quickly move South if they
fully realized its advantages and attrac-
tons. Some want to go to escape the
rigors OF Northern winters, some be-
cause OF present or threatened ill-health
and how many thousands there are OF
this class-some because they believe,
that the now rapidly developing South,
where land is cheap and where Lying il
cheap, there are better opportunities
for success in farming, in mechanical
pursuits, and in other occupations than
/ in the oyer-crowded North and West
1t only needs to convince these people
i by a personal examination that not one.
half has yet been told OF the South:
attractions to make them decide to 10
cate there. This is the class Of people
the South needs. They are intelligent
well-educated, thrifty and enterprising
and generally have money enough Il
establish themselves in some occupation
Many OF them are wealthy and they
will take their money with them for in
vestment. To attract this class OF i'm
migrants is the work that should engag
the attention Of the business men OF th
: South. 1t is work that should com
, mand the hearty support of every on
in any way interested in the growtl
and prosperity OF the South. Discus:
ing this question the Savannah New
3 says:
: "Immigrants and capital are needle
to secure this adyancement-capi t
build railroads, open mines and ereC
> factories, and immigrants to open farm
e and supply the demand for workme
: which new enterprises would create.
= The advancement OF Florida has bee
marvellous, and yet Florida has not a
fractions and advantages superior
e those Of Georgia. Immigrants and caI
J itai seek Florida because her enterpff
! ing citizens advertise her. They scatte
information respecting her climat'
: soil and productions all over the civi
e lied world. Georgia is greater Stat
j than Florida-greater in population
wealth, territory and resources-an
: yet people in Europe know all abol
= Florida who never heard OF Georgia.
n Let our leading men bestir then
4 selves. They can advance their oT