The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-29

OF more udGlV6 NOEGn Od1O44uAaN LIZ"
live. There are fifteen States in this
class, while only Virginia, Tennessee
and South Carolina have sent more
than 5000 to US.
To Alabama North Carolina has
sent 1902 persons; Alabama has
sent US 927.
Twenty-thousand men and M
have gone from this State to Arkan-
sas; 300 Arkansas travellers have come
to us.
Over 10000 natives of North Caro-
lima now live in Florida; Florida has
sent us only 388 persons.
Thirty-two thousand Tar Heels are
in Georgia; we have within our Dor
ders 5,617 Crackers.
In Illinois are 1888 natives Of our
State; we have 454 persons in return.
Indiana has exchanged on a basis
of 1870 North Carolinians for 488
of her citizens.
Mississippi has 1853 living sons
and daughters of North Carolina; we
have 578 natives of Mississippi.
More han 10000 persons have gone
from this State to Missouri; only 358
have come from Missouri to us.
Some of New York's strongest men
are in the ranks of the 8,771 we have
sent her; she has sent us 1,74O.
Our exchange with Pennsylvania
has been at the ratio of 6,7417 for
1,759.
South Carolina is the only State
of my list that has toted fair with
us. We have 31,513 of her citizens
and have sent her only 1851 of ours
in return.
Tennessee has profted at the rate
of 28,4O5 for 6,784.
Texas has taken 23,O65; we have
from the Lone Star State only $50.
Last of all, Virginia, the State in
which most North Carolina exiles live
-53,235 of them; and of all States,
with the sole exception of South Caro-
lima, has sent most to us-25,619.
Now for aggregates. Altogether (to
these fifteen States and to the others
having less than 5000 native Tar
Heels) North Carolina has sent out
331,258 of her sons and daughters now
living-one-seventh of the total num-
ber-while we have within our borders
only 1920 persons born in other
States. This shows a net loss to us
of PAS 1903 persons, meaning a cost to
the State of a quarter of a billion dol;
lars, as DR.. Page would say.
And as he would say, furthermore,
when we remember that almost every
one of these e~migrants went to States
where taxes we're higher and schools
we're more numerous and better, and
where competition is fercer, and when
we remember that they went from a
State that is yet sparsely settled and
richer in natural opportunities than
the States to which most of them
went" the fact that something is
wrong somewhere becomes t~ragically
obvious"
The writer has been bordering this
matter ever since Mr.. Paul Collins an
nounced at the last A. and NJ. College
commencement that 10 of the % young
men who graduated there last year
now hold positions in other States. I
could hardly believe it. Here in the
midst of this industrial awakening in
North Carolina over 80 per cent of an
A. and NJ. graduating class leave the
State within a year after they get
their diplomas! I am not blaming
this excellent institution; I am sure
it has not encouraged the exodus. But
[ mention the fact because it is such
a striking illustration of the drift of
young manhood to other States
because it speaks loudly enough to
bring the matter to the attention of
all our people.
Our greatest resource is not our
farms or forests or factories, but our
educated manhood, and it is perhaps
not too much to say that North Caro-
lima could better have lost a dozen of
it's cotton factories or a hundred of it's
saw mills than these eighteen we'll
trained young men who left our State
last year.
And all this emigration in the face
of the fact that no young man who
wishes to find great work to do or
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