The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-01
THE LINE OF WORK LAID OUT.
How the South May Be Made to
Grow and Prosper.
Tho Southern Interstate Immigration and
industrial Congress Adopt Resolu-
lions, the Plan OF which, II Carried
Out, May Accomplish What IL Most
Desired-A Controversy Between vir-
ginia Delegate and = Railroad Man.
Address by United statos Senator Jar
Wis, of North Carolina.

Gay 8 session OF the Sou thern Inter- State
immigration and Industrial Congress
has been full of speech making, and has
dispatched considerable amount of
work besides. After the morning session
was begun, the regular order WAS upon
committee on resolutions, and the fol-
lowing report was adopted:
1--WE, the subcommittee on resolu-
lions, after careful consideration of
the several plans presented to it, are
highly desirable that some uniform
method OF action be adopted and recon-
mend the following:
First. That wherever county and State
organizations have not already been
formed they be at once perfected, aud
that the officers of such county ORGANIC
atoms constitute State board OF immi.
grafton.
Second. That the officers duly author
lied by each State convention shall re-
port results of their efforts at least
twice each year to the secretary of the
Southern Immigration congress-.
Third. That the Southern immigra-
tion congress urge the corporation OF
all rail lines, State and county officers
and the citizens at large in the interest,"
OF the plan proposed.
Fourth. That this Southern i'm migra-
ton congress earnestly recommend to
the Congress of the United States the
establishment OF an appropriate exposi-
tion at the national capital in which
the products and resources Of the
several States of the union may be fltly
| and properly displayed.
Filth. That tho Congress OF the United
States is earnestly urged to make such
appropriations as may be needed to
OF this congress
Sixth. That this congress appoint q
committee to consists OF i've of its mem
bers to devise some practical D. an to Law
| before the better class of Immigrants
from Europe tbs manifold advantages
OF the South and TO induce AMI direct
this immigration 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 advertising, therefore be it
Resolved, That we endorse the work
of the executive committee of this as.
ISOLATION and their efforts to make ex-
hibits in the Northern New England
and Northwestern States, and in tho
| Dominion of Canada, and earnestly
| request Southern editors, landed com.
| panies, I'm migration associations, boarda
Of trade, railroad lines and progressive
business men OF the South TO co operate
with the executive committee in en-
larging this mode OF advertising by
establishing train Of cars in which will
bs exhibited.t the products OF the South.
Resolved, That committee OF FIVE,
with Gov. W. j. Northern, Of Georgia, as
chairman, be appointed 10 confer with
officers OF tho Southern railway and
steamship associations in regard to rates
| on Sou thern products.
Resolved, That in the opinion OF this
congress one OF the conditions which has
| greatly retarded the material develop.
mems OF the States here represented,
and which serves to discourage immi-
| grafton, Is the deplorable condition OF
our public roads.
Second. That this convention urge
| upon the legislature Of the several
States the great Importance Of adopt
ing better methods of building ana
maintaining our public roads under in
telligent engineering supervision.
| The next resolution was one indorsing
the continuance and development OF di.
rect trade between Southern ports and
Europe. Another was that the govern
ment OF the several States collect and
| publish information in regard to these
| States and further on urges the foster
Ing care and just treatment of capital
and labor by the courts and leRisla-
| lures.
Resolved further, That the time has
| come when we should regard railroads
as allies not enemies, for placing bu,i-
| ness before politics and to encourage
the enactment Of laws to increase con-
1dence both Of the laborer and capital
ist in the exposition OF the people OF
the South to treat them fairly and
justly.
The frst feature OF the report was
the one which elicted the most debate.
1t was attacked by delegate from Vr
GINA, Mr.. Sharp, as scheme OF the
Louisville aud Nashville railroad. and
was warmly defended by Mr.. Atwood,
Of the Louisville and Nashville, as q
patriotic effort to make the moss OF the
facilities at hand.
Resolutions were adopted indorsing
the Atlanta exposition OF next year, the
Baltimore centennial of 1897 and the
Tennessee centennial at Nashville in
1896.
United States Senator Jarvis, OF North
Carolina, read a paper on obstacles to
Southern development in which he ad.
vocated the establishment OF such
State, county and city governments
throughout the South as would give the
fullest assurance to the would be set.
tier that his life and property would be
! as secure as in any section OF the coun-
try.