The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-03-01
MORE IMMIGRATION
Brownsville TrIbunel

Anything that viii induce immigration /
10 our State and county must of neeessi- /
by be OF inestimablc benefit CO our poo
pie. Particularly is immigration needed /
IN West Tennessee. We are flyOTablv
impressed with the idea advanced by
Col Robert Gates on Tuesday night of
last week in his speech on the Tennessee
centennial it was shown that the ex-
position would benefit West Tennessee
more than Middle on East Tennessee,
and for the reason that West Tennessee
presents superior inducements 20 the
line of capital and the character of im-
migration coming South. The mining,
mineral and furnace sections are em-
barrassed with bursted booms and hot
bed towns, and they would do well 20
blow in their silent furnaces and start
then idle machinery. tits believed they
will be enabled TO do this. But the me-
cessity for mining and iron working ma
chinery TO come South is not so impera-
tive as for cotton and wood working ma
chinery. There is iron and coal all over
the North and the chief advantage, and
that is considerable, the South has on
these lines of industry is climatic which
allows all yearround work, longer hours
and cheaper living. But in cotton man
ufacture and wood products the situation
is different The raw material for these
lines Of industry ore in the South and
the Northern mills that work them into
goods must ship long distances In this
age of sharp competition aud low prices,
transportation is prime factorin the So
luton Of the industrial problem. Hence
the necessity is actual and intensifying
every year, for the machinery that fash
ions cotton and wood into staple and or
namental uses TO come to the raw mate.
rial, to come South, thereby saving in
the cost of labor by longer hours and
cheaper living, and in transportation,
the two prime ana potent factors in sue
cessful manufacturing. In the matters
Of manufacturing cotton and wood pro-
ducts, and in transportation facilities
! West Tennessee leads the rest of the
State immensely, leads the other diyi-
sions on these lines as the whole State
leads its sisters in variety and excellence
Of resources Of field, forests and miner
ais.
The immigration coming South is ag-
ricultural, home seekers, thrifty farmers
who seek a milder climate and land of
greater diversity of productions than
they have found in the Northwest where
rainless skies blight one.half the year
and billiards blast the other half. Ten
nessee is to this class of immigrants best
suited and most inviting West Ten
nessee will be the future market garden
of the Mississippi valley. BY virtue of
soil and climate it is capable Of the
greatest variety and most valuable pro-
auctions. 1t is midway between the
great lakes and the gulf cities, with four
trunk roads to carry its products in few
hours to their markets, and crossed by
four east ana west lines leading to the
mammoth cities Of the Atlantic.
The lands of West Tennessee are the
best for the price in the State or in the
South, and well farmed, the best for di-
versiied crops, and small fruits and veg
etables in the world.
All that West Tennessee needs, is to
be known-to help herself to be known.
immigration is the only remedy for
existing evils here and more or less all
over the State. The area of waste, i'm
poveTished and abandoned land is too
great to be restored by the local popula-
ton. This fact has and is discouraging
many of the better class of those "to the
manor born" For years there has been
emigration from this once prosperous
land Emigration for the most part of
the industrious and ambitious who in
despair of restoring where there is such
wide waste and under such depressing
conditions, have sought other lands more
inviting, the fortunes deemed hopeless
here immigration must come to take
the place of emigration; and thus as
waste lands blossom with the fruits of
industry our home people will be inspir-
ed with new hope; emigration will fall
to minimum and our young men and
women will build new homes around
the old ores.
This is the way of experience, tits the
way of history, it is the way that the
centennial exposition Will open and illu-
mine for our people-keeping our young
people at home by making our land in
wiling and multiplying fortunes by null
tiplying chances.
During the egislativerecess hepeople
of the various counties in the State should
fully discuss the centennial exposition