The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-29

he LINES mas HaO OCCaSlon many
times already to speak of the various
colonization and immigration schemes
which have, rs their ultimate aim, the
population of the South Some have
already been started. others are in con-
temptation, and may be expected to
develop under proper circumstances.
But the most interesting scheme of
them all, though we can hardly say the
most plausible, was recently written up
by well-informed correspondent of the
New Orleans Picsyune, and which
article has since been widely copied.
The article calls attention to the fact
that what has supposed to be an ex-
animation Of limited portion OF the
mountain regions Of Maryland and
Pennsylvania by some rich Orientals,
who designed supplying the Eastern
cities with cattle, sheep and hogs, turns
out to be big scheme not confined to
meet the ambitions of colonization
movement likely to affect the trade of
the United States and the leading
European nations.
Instead OF looking IL over for a cattle
country the region which, besides those
sections mentions above, includes the
country lying west of the Cumberland
and Shenandoah valleys and south of
the Valley OF Virginia and the Valley
of East Tennessee, has been considered
mainly with vie W to the development of
the mineral, timber and textile resources
by industries to rival the middle and
New England States in metals and tex
tiles.
All this is to be done, so the writer
states, by an Asiatic combination of
skilled labor and accumulated money,
stronger than has entered any American
field of production or any new field of
the world. This combination, he con.
tinues, is religious order of Southern
Asia, known as the tribe of Tolo, the
Eberite. 1t numbers, in ali about 5,0Oo,-
GOO people, over four-fitths of whom
are adult and skilled laborers with
central organization twice as old as
Christianity.
The adult workers Of the tribe, the
correspondent writes, are among the
most skilled and expert artisans of the
Orient in the reduction of ores and in
working up metals in all their finer and
more valuable forms-steel, copper,
gold, silver. They have the finest lapi-
daries OF the East, cutting precious
stones. In porcelain making, in wood
and ivory working in tanning and work
ing up leather. in the spinning, weaving
and dyeing of wool, cotton, silk and
other textiles, in fact every kind of
highly skilled and highly paid labor in
the East, including scientific work, the
skilled operatives of the tribe are said
to be leaders, having been directed by
an intelligence greater than is known in
Asia outside the high prizes thood OF the
order to which these people belong.
The tribe OF Talo has existed since a
couple of centuries after the deluse.
Ialo was one OF the many sons of Eber,
who was the head of the fourth genera
alton OF the defendants of Shem, the
son OF Noah. Genesis XII, 1O:l7). Talo
was born little more than a century
after the food When about 100 years
old he with his family and tribe moved
from what Is now known as Armenia
into what we now call Northern India
In the course of another century they
had migrated along the Himalayas to
that stream, had crossed the interven-
ing country to hilly region in South
eastern China, now known as the
country OF the Meaon.Tse tribes. These
tribes now number some 100000
Their country is tho terra incognita
OF China, though lying in the center
OF the richest provinces of the en-
pire, the tribes being classed
as wild and semi. barbarous
The tribe is governed by high
priesthood more advanced in knowledge
OF the sciences, in art, in education and
skill of all kinds, than is known else
where in Asia. An organization 80 per-
feet that over three and half centuries
ago some OF its members, descendants
OF Europeans, who had penetrated that
country after tho time of the Palos,
and who had gone to Europe, were in
strumental in the organization and
were original members OF the society
founded by Loyols the order Of
Notwithstanding to form Its orRaniza-