The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-06-05
THE IMMIGRATION CONVENTION.
SUGGESTIONS OF WORK In THE
FUTURE.

mended--A0yertisin the Resources
cf the South Urging Co-Operation
With the Railroads.
AT the Southern Immigration Con
gress held last week in Augusta, Ca,
the following resolutions were reported
by the committee on plans and resolu.
tions submitted for consideration
i. That wherever county and State
I organizations have not already been
formed, they be at once perfected, and
that the officers Of such county organi-
zations constitute q State board of inn
migration.
2. That the officers duly authorized
by each State convention shall report
results of their efforts at least twice
each year to the secretary of the South
ern Immigration Congress.
3. That the Southern Immigration
Congress urge the cooperation Of all
rail lines, State and county officers and
the citizens ut large in the furtherance
Of p an proposed.
4. That this Southern Immigration
Congress earnestly recommend to the
Congress of the United States the es-
tablishment of permanent exposition
at the National Capitol in which the
products aud resources of the several
States of the Union may be fifty and
properly displayed, and we urge upon
: the Legislatures of the various States
an appropriation of money necessary to
establish and maintain this most prac-
tical method OF bringing to public at
tion the resources of the one common
country.
5. That the Congress of the United
States is earnestly urged to make such
appropriations as may be needed to
carry into effect the recommendations
of this congress.
g. That this congress appoint COM
mittec of five fits members, to devise
some practical plan to lay before the
better class of emigrants from Europe,
the manifold advantages Of the South,
and to induce and encourage emigra-
tion to the Southern States, which
committee shall report to the next
meeting of this congress.
Whereas, it is the sense Of this con-
gress that the exhibition of the pro-
ducts of the farms. mines and forests
of the Southern States in the Northern,
New England and Northwestern States
and foreign countries is an excellent
mode of u .vertisng, Therefore be it,,
Resolved, That we endorse the work
of the executive committee Of this as
sociation and their efforts to make eX-
thibitions in the Northern, New Eng
land and Northwestern States, and in
the Dominion OF Canada, and earnestly
request Southern editors, landed cor
g porat,ons, immigration associations,
y boards of trade, railway lines and pro-
greSsive business men OF the South to
cooperate with the executive commit
tee IN enlarging this mode of advertis-
ing by ESTABLISHING u train of cars in
watch will be eXhi bted the products OF
the SOuth-said train OF cars to be car
-ried to every section Of tho said North
ern, Now England and Northwestern
Stntn nd tf,t hn mi nfl N la.
and that similar advertising shall be
doue in foreign countries as soon as
practicable. Tho details of these cN-
hib.t ts to be left to the executive com
mittce representing us 1T does the en-
tire South, us it is composed of one re-
preventative from each Southern State.
Resolved That IL committee OF i've,
Governor w. j. Mortimer of Georgia as
chairman, be appointed to confer With
officers of the Southern Railway and
Steamship AssOciOtion in regard to
rates on Southern products.
Resolved That in the opinion of this
convention one of the conditions which
has greatly retarded the material de-
velOpmtnt Of the States here repre-
sented, and which serves tOdiscourage
immigration is the deplorable condi-
tion or our public roads.
Resolved, That this convention ur-
ges upon the Legislatures of tho sew
eral States the great Importance OF
adopting better methods of building
aud maintaining our public roads und er
Intelligent engineering supervision,
Be it resolved. That this convention
endorse most earnestly the moveme mt
towards direct trade, both in the mat
ter of exports and imports between the
ports on the South Atlantic and Eu-
rope, which has already been success
fully inaugurated by loading large
steamers with grain and Western pro.
ducts from tho South Atlantic and
Gulf ports. And, be it further
Resolved. That this convention will
DO it's utmost to encourage desirable
! immigration through steamers coming
directly to Southern ports, and that all
the States in tho South will unite to
encourage and assist in settling up
their waste lands and setting forth the
great advantages Of climate and soil
in the various localities. That the
only hope for the future of our rail
roads and the permanent building up
of the Southern section of our country
is by the bringing in of new people to
stimulate industry and by putting new
life into enterprises and doing for the
South what immigration has done for
the waste lands of the great West.
Recognizing the fact that the peopl,
whom it is desired to bring with tn ell
labor and capital into the States here
represented look to the States them
selve, to publish accurate and impair
tial information concerning their re
sources.
Resolved, That this convention earn
estly recompiends to the government:
of these severa States that they con
tinue to collect through their gcOlogi
cal surveys and departments of agri
culture and immigration, such infor
nation, and publish it on large,
scale in an attractive form, and thai
this published information be widely
distributed in accordance with intelli
gent organized plans Recognizing
the fact that capital without labor can
not develop the resources of country
neither can labor without capital, ant
that they are equally dependent upor
each other, and that they are equally
entitled to the fostering care and JUS
treatment OF the courts and legisla
lures of the country; and recognizing
the further fact that neither can b;
induced to come into these Southern
States without assurance that it OF
they will be justly and fairly deal
with without regard to the fact as t,
whether it is organized or unorganizet
labor, or whether it be the capital o
individuals or corporations. There
forey.