Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-22
NORTHERN EMIGRAATs AND THE SOUTH.

The Nashville American is asking
WHY a million emfgrants pour into the
west in year and an ineonsequeEtial
number into the south" during the
same. period? Tennessee, according to
the American, offers greater induce
ments to immigration than any western
state, and ii is to the establishment of
the newspaper referred to that the
western states continue to receive the
floods of emigration from the east, and
even from the south itself. The Nash
vile newspaper can see no reason for
and many against this discrimination
against it's own state by the farmer
locking for home.
Nevertheless there are reasons good
and sufficient to the person most vital
ly interested for his preference shown
In favor OF the northwest. Emigration
invariably shuns the south The nat
ural movement of mankind is to the
west and north. Plants have the same
line of migration. Man, the least mi
eratory of animals when he moves a.
all is not likely to change latitude The
nessee over the western states as a tielu
for immigration is open to argument.
Tennessee has advantages of climate,
but the northern immigrant is not look
ing so much for climate as for corn
land He has found his greatest pros
netity in the culture of this staple crop
and its conversion into beef and pork.
The nlasl fed hogs and grass fatteped
cattle OF Tennessee are not in his line.
He wants a corn field, big red barn
and the lowing cattle and squealing
pigs that thrive best on feed in colo
weather. Good farmers gravitate to-
ward corn country. The hard-work-
ing Nortl, Carolinan formers of whom
there are many in low, passed the adj
Santages OF Tennessee for the greater
opportunity to prosper in the west
Everything draws the northern emf
grant to the west. His former neigh
bors have formed a colony in the new
er states and he goes among his own
people when he goes west or north. Hs
SHOWS he will find schools and churches
md social environment suited TO |
himself and his family If he moves to
Tennessee he finds himself among a I
strange people He fails, in many |
to find the intelligence T
md Responsibility he has been accus-
olned to in the north. He is unaccus-
omed to negroes and unable to sapar-
tie himaelf from the northerners in
'tinctive aversion to g negro neighbor.
The .tritling" ways of the south disgust
him. The methods and necessities of
arming are different. He pulls ur
takes at last and hurries back to the
vest or north to corn fields, hard work.
,ogs and cattle.
When the available lands of the west
ave risen to prohititory prices the
heaper southern lanes will attract the
ortherner, not before. When that
ime comes the influx of northern far
aers will build UP a new south North
IN colonies will be magnets to attract
he trained and industrious. But when
he northerner comes he will work
laterial and political change in the
outh. Before the flood of northern,
for which the Nashville
merican is anxious the cracker and
ne worm fences the Tillmans and
must disappear. When the }
ortherner comes he will take possess
on. Perhaps his ADVENT may work a
olution of the racial questions at pres :
at so disturbing and full of menace to i
lie advancement and prosperity Of the v
outh.
Stand Like a Stone Wall