The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-02-07
THE RACE QUESTION.
ANOTHER SOLUTION OF THE
NEGRO PRORLEM.

ANOTHER SOLUTION OF THE
NEGRO PRORLEM.
Boom Southern Industries and Thus
Attract White Mechanics.-An Inter
esfing Article from the Manufactur-
ers' Record.
1t is every where admitted that a
large increase in the white population
Of the Somh by means of heavy immi-
grafton would be a great blessing to
that section. It would settle the much
talked of race question, and be of as
much value to the negroes as to the
whites, because the former improve
very much more rapidly where they
are in the minority than where they
exceed the latter in numbers Immi-
grafton of the better clas. of whites is
now one of the Soutn's greatest needs,
| and one which, if secured, would
quickly settle all fear of any future
unpleasant race issues. The people
of the South fully appreciate this, and
| they are anxious to secure a large
influx of settlers. How shall this be
secured?
The first and most important. way
the one that will yield the largest
returns-is to encourage the develop
ment of industrial interests Northern
mechanics will readily flock South as
| rapidly as the demand for their labor
| gives assurance of steady employment
at profitable wages. Wherever they
settle, if we'll pleased, as the majority
are, they soon begin to seek to draw
their friends there One family is but
the forerunner of others, and from the
influence Of these, there is gradual
incoming of truck growers or marke;
gardeners, who locate near the most
thriving manufacturing towns. This
is tangible direct way to encourage
immigration, but factories must be es-
tablished to furnish employment; the
vast stores of mineral and timber
wealth must be made known to the
world that capitalists may come in
and develop these resources and fur
nish employment for skilled labor.
Here and there it may be possib BILE
to attract few farmers, and in time
it will be able to secure thousands
where tens 60 now, but for few years
immigration will mainly come through
the development of mines and the
building of furnaces and factories The
redemption of the agricultural inter
ests of the South from poverty to pros
perity, and the final settlement Of all
race issues to the benefit Of that sec
tion, must come mainly through man
ufactures. A large immigration which
would overcome the preponderance of
the colored race in parts of the South,
and home market for all that the
Southern farmer raises, are the two
great essentials necessary to the per
manent prosperity of that section. The
growth of manufactures and mining
will secure both of these, and hence
the South should to day give its great
est attention to the building up Of ev
cry branch Of industry, and to max
its natural resources 80 widely Known
that the people Of the North and
West will crowd in thousands towards
this section that they may share in
the developments of its coal and iron
and timber interests. These will be
the advance guard !; they can be cas-.
lily secured by persistent work, and
then will come the on the far
mers who will help to develop the ag
ricultural possibilities of this fair land.
A correspondent of the Little Rock
Gazette, writing from Kansas City,
referring to the progress already made
by the South, says:
"When the Southern press ard pol
iticians, and people all fall into line
as they do in the West and talk immi-
grafton, and every man is an enthus-
iastic advertising machine, so to
speak, as he is in the West, then the
South will be the most prosperous
section in the world, since in natural
advantage it is the richest section on
earth.
Immigration is her golden goose.
BY immigration her now worthless
mountains of iron and coal will turn
into gold her endless wilderness OF
timber will be converted into valuable
merchandise, her swamps will be gar
dens and her river bluffs will be lined
with cleaning cities. By it the val
ue of her farming lands will be in
creased ten fold and her cotton iron
and lumber will be manufactured at
home instead of 1000 miles away,
thus saving her people all the profit
of manufacture, a still greater item
than the increased value of lands.
BY it all race problems and section
al prejudice will disappear altogether.
and dream of empire may be realiz-
ed. Not one of the old fashioned and
diabolical sort of dreams of empire,
based on vain military glory and the
ruin of the people, but one which will
improve the condition of every citizen
of the South, and which to all races
and classes will prove blessing, and
by which the world will be benefited. .
The South must let the world know
what it has where its great mineral
and timber wealth can be found, and
while all should work in harmony
there ought at the same time to be a
generous rivslry that every city OF
town may be stimulated to do its ut
most to attract the attention of bus
mess men generally of the North and