The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-30

The Washington Post in its issue OF
the Gath has an interesting and timely
article upon immigration to the South"
in which it expresses a doubt VIII Their,
by any process of filtration, the desirable
portion of foreign immigrants can be
separated from those who 'have added
to the squalor of the slums in our cities,
and changed mining dist lets from peace
and comfort into st ife and wetched-
ness" and thus avoid the da gers IN
cident to the rapid increase OF popula-
ton in other sections Of the country
Reference is made the opin on eX-
pressed by writer, in an Industrial
paper pu lished in the South, who mas
figured out the value of immigration on
a cash bas S =" and has cone uded that
the influx of million foreigners OF
va ious nationalities would stimulate IN
dustriai progress in the South. No
d ubt such a suit would follow: But
it is far preferable for our part
of the country to develop" more
slowly, and give no encouragement to
such indiscriminate influx OF people,
whose il fuonce upon communities is not
very salutary. Our land should not be
denudad of its forests, nor our other
numerous resources be unwisely and
too rapidly converted into articles OF
trade to satisfy the energetic rapaciiy OF
thus ling" men. What we have, should
be treated as an investment, to be care
fully and prudently used. The South
can thereby b kept in condition OF at
Effectiveness, for years and years, to de
sirable settlers from the North and
Northwest, who will gradually come
among US, invest their money in farms
and other Industries, and whose present
knowledge of the institutions of the
country will enable them to at once as
simulate the habits and customs of the
Southland without disturbing the homo
geneousness of our people, and become
zone of u.s..
The Post further observes:
"While the white population of the
South is chiefly composed of the descend
ants of Eaglishmen who came to this
country in the colonial period, the North
is largely populated by immigrants and
descendants of immigrants from Ireland,
Germany, Scandinavia, and other coun
tries of continental Europe. Many of
the newer States made great and costly
efforts to bring immigration within their
borders, and most Of them were benefit
ted by such enterprises. But among the
immigrants that have been pouring into
the country in recent years there have
been many thousands of table bodied
men" who have not been helpful to the
communities in which they have settled.
In a speech delivered at Yale College
some time ago, Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew,
of New York, after his return from
visit to the South, INDUCED in some eu-
logistic observations which are pertinent
here. Said he;
1.-THE net result of my visit is just
this: that the South is the Bonanza or
the Future. We have developed the
great opportunities for wealth 10 the
Northwestern States and on the Pacific
slope, but here is vast country with
the best climate in the world, with un-
PARALLEL conditions of health, vast
forests untouched, enormous veins of
coa1 and iron which vet have not known
anything beyond their original condi-
tions; with a soil which under proper
cultivation for little capital can support
tremendous population; with a trac
lions r the young men to go out from
the farms to seek settlement, not by
immigration from abroad, for ! do not
think it y i'll go that way, but by the
internal immigration from our own
country; and it is to become, in time, as
prosperous as any other section, and by
purely American development.
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