The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-16


ence recently that he believed Georgia
: was the most progressive and prosper
I, ous of the Southern States. Perusa'
Of the following clipping from the
"A .sspsss Chronicle will give an idea
much betser rnau vur,.-v---..:. On an
:. inent men of other States are pursu,
ing pepulistic vagaries as the remedy
for all our ills the Georgia statesmen
: are advertising the advantages of their
State, and showing why immigration
:: should come to her. What they say OF
Georgia can be said Of South Carolina
y Who have We in Washington to say a
good word for us? or who has done
so? Hero is what the Geergians say ::
The last number of the New York
Independent is most entertaining and
!. instructive issue. 1t is devoted to the
Pc South and its resources, aud is full Of
special articles of great merit prepared
for this number by leading Southern
nep: ga General Southern Outlook"
is the title of Secretary Of the Navy
Herbert's article, which is given the
place of honor, snd Secretary Of the
Interior Hoke Smith follows with sn
article on the Cotton States Exposition.
Senator Walsh comes next " ith az .gri.
culture in the South,' aud "Labor in
the South" is the subject of Senator
.Pssco's contribution. Congressman
Black has an article on Georgia, and
these are supplemented by many others
of COZ responding interest.
Dealing with the question of immi-
grafton to the South Secretary Herber,
says: "There ia really no prejudice
existing on the part cf Southern pep
pie toward immigration from the
North. This company Of Germans
that came down to Alabama and es-
tablished the colony of Cullnaan, came
from the Northwest. The great mis-
fortune with Us has beeu that immi- |
grafton generally travel on isothermal
lines, and immigrants who come from
Germany, Sweden, Norway and the !
United Kingdom, seem to leave the
Old World with the idea that in the |
Southern States Of America the climate
is too hot, and that it il sickly there 7
and so they first 90 ont West. Stats /
tics show Alabama TO be one of the (
healthiest States in the Union. The ]
immigration We have been getting in
the South has been from people who
have tried the Northwest and who, be.
ing comparatively near to US, have had
some opportunity Of learning what the
conditions in the Seuth really are"
Secretary Herbert is betrayed into
error by perhaps the same reasoning
that animates the Germsn Immigrants
themselves. "The great misfortune
with Us has been" not, as the Secretary
says, "that these immigrants trayel on
isothermal lines," but shat they have
net done 50. They have followed
pretty we'll the lines of latitude, but
not Of temperature. The EmiNant. a
German publication which has tnrneti
its attention to the South for the past
six months, has published some YER, {
valuable comparative tables st tem- ,
persture, showing that in the South r.. (
States tho German farmer wou'd fad 4
the same climate be left in The Fa,hr
land, and that he makes great mis- ,
take in imagining that the isothernal !
lines run into the Northwest. Ther
be encounters climate t. which he is |
not accustomed, while if he came to |
Georgia, the Carolinss or Alabama h- z
would fnd that be wss travelling o. ,
sothermsl lines, and would be in q {
and where prosperity wai:s On indu>- I
ry. t
Senator Walsh, in his article on agri. t
culture, sives some valuable statistics,
olloWed by timely comment, and is Il
veil enough to link it here with wla, ?
Secretary Herbert has said. With the =
nformation about the S,athern c.
nate. and the following suggestion I
rom Senat II Walsh about the chara = \
er Of crops that will pay, the South g