The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-09-19

We find the following remarks in The
Springfield Republican:

We find the following remarks in The
Springfield Republican:
4 letter from Atlanta. Ga. to The New
York Evening Post. SAYS that the south
stu fatls to draw desired Immigration
from Europe. but it is gaining some from
the northwest. Since 1899 It IS said that
H. Goa persons have settled in Georgia from
the central western states. and the Illinois
Central railroad. through It's colonization
schemes has settled 4 still larger number
OF western farmers on lands in MISSISSIPPI
and Louisiana. But it IS rather surprising
TO hear tnat the south wants immigrants
from any quarter. Judging from the call
for territorial expansion into the tropics
which is made by such southern organs as
The Atlanta Constitution and The Column
bia :. c., State, the south IS already SO
cOn&ested WlLn population and capital that
il must have re!ief or burst.
The Constitution is OF the opinion
that us esteemed contemporary would
do well to discuss this Philippine ques-
ton on larger and more important lines.
IL is to be presumed that those who have
favored the annexation of the group, or
those VINO have leaned that way, or
those VINO have resented the impossible
idea of restoring the islands to Spanish
misrule, have not been governed by any
thought that it is necessary to provide
an outlet for our own population.
Speaking for ourselves, We may say
that we have discussed the question in
q purely tentative way, our purpose be-
inc to resist tne claim made in some
quarters that annexation cuts across the
Monroe doctrine or democratic doctrine,
in any shape or form. We have sought
70 show that the democratic party can
Il
trjnal grounds. Annexation may be inn
practicable or undesirable; that is an
otner matter entirely. We have tried
simply to abolish the idea that terri
torial expansion is undemOcratc.
In the course of the discussion, as far
as the matter has been treated in these
columns. we have suggested that if
there is any promise whatever in the in
situations which we have inherited, it
might be a part of our destiny to SOW
the seeds of liberty and government
among peoples less fortunately situated,
this sowing TO take place i'll the fullness
of time and opportunity
We think that some of the troubles OF
New England today are to be traced dl-
rectly to the fact that her business men
and her editOrS-eSpecia her editors
have fallen away from That largeness OF
mind and breadth of view that may be
found in Emerson and Hawthorne, and,
in a less degree, in Lowell. The south
NAV never have had any great intellec'
tual guides of her own production, but
to have had and to have lost is surely
mark of decay. New Engiands intel
lectual guides have stumbled and fallen
into the pits of trade and speculation;
and the result is that even the great
question of human liberty, and the very
idea of disseminating abroad the spirit
Of freedom, are viewed in their CONNER
Cial aspect.
VIII il pay? DO we get any returns?
These are the questions that press more
heavily on the New England conscience
than any other. They are the lest. 1t
was not so in the past, and we hope it
will not be so in the dim future; but it
is so now. and New England is paying
heavily for it in some material ways. 1t
ought to be pointed out to her that ex-