The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-27
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Editor Morning NetUs: Your writer is
one who makes some little pretensions to
the study Of political and domestic economy.
He has not read history to no purpose, The
strength of a people is In the homoReneity of
that people, either as a nation, state or
community. Congeniality Of feeling, sym
patty OF natures, unity Of thought, and
national and state pride is the bond of union.
1t is the veriest stuff that ever found lodg-
ment in the brain Of any people TO seek an
immigration of discordant elements. In
1850 the laws Of Wisconsin were published
in five different languages; a people and
an immigration the result of land specula-
ors, as the great west is to-day built up by
sending over from Europe immigrants to
settle on land held by land spectators. /
do not object to foreigners coming in, but l
do object to begging aud buying them to
come
For one, l want no such immigration to
Georgia. To be plain, do not desire i'm
migration of any kind but in the good old
way. l want our immigrants to come to us
without any clothes on. We will cheerfully
clothe and feed when they put In their app
pearauce, and that they are doing every
day, and will continue 50 to do as long as
there Is such thing as love and marriage.
Now to the point. | see from the census
bulletin No. 200, school, militia and voting
ages, the number OF children In Georgia.
Let the man or legislator who is SO over
anxious for immigration put few questions
to himself. Where shall our children go to
If we fill up with q foreign population
How can our children make living with
the fierce competition a foreign population
would necessitatea Why drive our children
from the state Of their birth? These are
questions Of political and domestic economy.
Now as to facts and figures. The number
Of children in Georgia in 1890 from 8 20 2C
years Of age was III ,027. The aggregate
white was 396,475 Now where are those
1915, AIS to so to, TO live, to struggle and have
home il we invite in foreign population
to buy up our lands, to work in our shops
and to crowd our children to the walls Did
England do such thing to get popula-
tons Did Scotland or Ireland do such q
thtngl Did Holland, France or Germany
do such things Those nations are very
sensitive of their nationality, their unity OF
thought, their sympathy of feeling and
homogeneity OF natures
AS Georgian to the manner born. / am
for keeping Georgia soil for our children.
know our resources, know of the undevel-
oped wealth Of the state in every particular,
and am for keeping all of it for our chill
dren. They will develop the state fast
enough. They will be to the manner born
and need no appeals to their birthplace or
their country to get votes or tickle a national
pride. 1 hate demagogus. hate the man
whose only motives are actuated by expedi.
ency and policy alone. l look ahead
think Of the future; am interested in the
coming generations of those who will be
born in Georgia My motto is: ''Our chill
dren first, last and all the time, above and
beyond all others"
l am fully aware Of all the specious argu.
ments about capital, development ETC.. etc
AS population increases capital will increase.
The increase should be natural gradual
and permanent. Nature speaks in the
language of progression and development
by slow and natural degrees; not by rush,
push and extraordinary exert:ons. Then
where shall the 1906, AIS white children OF to-
day, 60 to in the next twenty years! Where
their home, their INTEREST," r. NJ. o.