The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-30
SARGE PLUNKETT.
d NATURAL INCREASE SHOULD Pop
ULATE THE SOUTHERN COUNTRY.
FATHERS should Divide Up the Great Old
Plantations and Settle the Child
rem i'll Homes of Their Own.

Ing 10 ma SOme Other way of regulating
the country.
According to Browns figuring Atlanta
should nave a population of 200 900 in ten
years if not another person was to move
there from other places. This would be
low estimate of the natural increase by
births in that time. There should be one
thousand new homes yearly for the next
ten years built for the new married couples
OF Auantas own sons and daughters If
you are good on figures you can soon see
where this would put the city in a few
years, remembering that it is such
heaIthy place that but few need be sub
tracted on account of deaths. 1t has re-
solved ITSELF after Brown and myself have
given much thought to the problem that
all you have to do IS to get the young
folks to mate off and then wait. The same
will do to apply to the whole southern
Countrywide rural districts may be de-
pended upon to perform their part in this
good work.
Ihis IS no wild speculation and there is
no WIG experiment in the order of popu-
lauon it will give-like produces like. We
nave figured that it would be the nice
thing to do to establish a bureau for the
announcement of matrimony instead of
bureau Tor the encouragement of emigra-
ton. There is no doubt but what there
Is a growing tendency among men to re-
man bachelors and it is just as true that
the young women have learned to dread the
responsibilities of motherhood. The causes
which create these conditions should be
sought out and remeiied. France was
upon down grade to decay, because of
this disposition to live single and even now
thinking Frenchmen are alarmed for their
country. We want Americans and Brown
ana L have figured that the government
should furnish forty acres and mule to
every young couple who marry and wish
to settle down and prosper their country.
We don't want much talk about the hard
times and don't want the question of
style to affect the matter of increase
We know some couples who would scorn to
have more than two children because they
have heard some fool say it was ''unfash-
lonable' and naughty. These same Simln
heads would break their necks for twenty
children If some other fashionable author
ity was to give out that twenty was the
proper number. This following of the
fashion is mighty strong in some people
and mention it here to show the wisdom
of encoura ging fashions to the best re-
suits
The great old plantation will soon be a
thing of the past in Georgia and / think
Of all the south. y division among heirs
is the cause of this. An old plantation
of a thousand acres divided among ten
children builds ten homes, and pretty
the birds begin to fly from their nests,'
as it We're, and other little homes are built
about on the hundred acres as they We're
upon the thousand, and so as
natural increase of families the
great old farms decrease, till
he south will bloom and blossom under
he touch of her own sons and daughters,
apd rejoice that a providence shielded them
tI5m a faint of foreign isms' that have al
2tadY began to blight in other sections.
q rte Garden poured her stream of human
i'".nto the great west until even that great
saiion, with all it's ''roominess,' eroaps
1T h the weight of a too speedy and Vn-
butterl increase. The south has receWed
sweetof emgrants, in the meantim9, of
gasp ans country can be proud, and these
been very ants much opposed to an
Il eypeion in this matter of emigration
John, bly, native born southerner./ Every
He tu.d of the riffraf of Europe that goes |
't,ll,her sections the more surely secures |
toMie south influx of the thinking, bet
tey class of emigrants. The south is the |
cJing section a., she is the best, if |
mae haste slowly in emigration schemes |
andkeep we'll in view the motto for our |
guiance, "Wisdon, justice and modera-
tor
Tere is no "nothingism' in these re-
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hight or reason, are welcome to carry
tfr disconteht to other climess If you
vi notice thy names of persons in accounts
o1dynamite/ plots and outrageous acts Of
vtenoe in Jan the disturbances, you will
fd the wisdom of going slow on emigra-
tn. STange that emigrants from the
pst ty/annical government. The Rus
dsatisHed in our government. The Rus
sns won't be satisfied with anything,
vile he subjects of more liberal govern
enS in Europe come here and live in |
a/eful c0ntentment. Respectable for
thers everywhere remark upon the demon |
/zation of the great cities of the west.
Iere the population could best be denomi-
ted as a ''conglomeration." 1t is mis-
tie to presume that these restless spirits
the men who fought mid Siegel."
ne that Siegel had a lot with him and |
ere were many besides in the yankee |
any, but all OF these n)w living are draw
j. pensions or laying up in soldiers homes.
'ese restless spirits are emigrants --em-
snts who run after by agents and
ded down with flaming advertisements
cthe great northwest With the results
n so far, | think that in this emigration
liter we should let moderation be our
ide
Brown thinks that if we will Just go slow
genuine yankees will move down south |
aoVe away from the conditions they have
mght about. Now these are the fellows; |
them come. There are already some
them in our settlement, and such work
| never saw before. They never tire |
d they have a good chance to get tired,
they have to do their own Work-the
groes avoid them even in passing, and
a negro in Georgia would work for them
IRE than day. A long New Yorker,
the name of Grant Dorn-named after
aeral Grant--haS laid more negroes up
repairs since he came down to Georgia
an the most vigorous klukluX of the
* period. He does" them in differ
way, but the negroes say they'd as leave
shot to dea tn as worked to death. These
the sort of men to come south-a lit
money with their yankee energy soon .
Is them on a solid foundation and they
? as ready to praise the section as any
e else.
But, to return to the natural increase
ssibilities the southern white man is the
an for the south ] want to see them all
tn homes of their own and the children
lying at every door. Go ye and multi
! and cut the great old farms up and
vide and keep on dividing. A father should
be slow in settling his children in
anes around him-give them off few
res and watch them prosper. There are
theirs not ten miles from me now who
G bowling for emigrants to come and '
In them farm the thousand-acre planta- G
n while their own children are making I
.ancpments to get off to Texas where