The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-01-08
SETTLE in THE SOUTH
MOVEMENT TO BRING EURoPE's
UNEMPLOYED HERE.
Urged by Mr.. A. s. Appleton-Eng-
iish, Scotch and Belgian Artisans
TO Be Brought over-To Take
City Poor to Country.

&AJtt0Qn SpGClaI correspondents VI HG
A movement is under way here among
charity organizations in connection with
the International Bureau of Charities.
Volunteers of America and others in
America TO call an International confer
ence in Washington, d. c., looking to
practical solution OF the present and
pioyed. many Of whom. with their fam
lilies, are objects OF charity against their
NOMINATIONS and because of industrial
conditions beyond their control.
a. Stewart Appleton, the scientist, lit
terateur and financier. who has been for
years actively promoting Industrial de-
vetopments in various sections of Amer
lea, and to whose efforts, through his
ropean cities. is chiefly que the great
Influx OF high-class Europeans into Amer
lea t.ie past year, was seen at the Carl
ton Hotel. He will leave for America
the coming week and proceed through
the south and West. accompanied by sew
eral representative New England gentle
men--L. ID. Martin, G. S. Pratt, s. Il.
hughes and others-to locate sites for
communities of Northern families who
wish to renounce the rigors of winter and
also high-class European colonists, prin-
cipaliy English, Scotch and Belgian ar
lsans whom he has interested, on ac-
count OF depressed Industrial Conditions
here, to seek prosperity In America.
Mar. Appleton has long publicly advo-
Gated in europe and America the solu-
ton Of congested urban conditions by
the more enterprising citizens migrating
to the independence and allurements OF
country life. Hard times in Europe and
the coal famine In America greatly ia
cilitate this movement. The party will
Tampa, Fla, and go thence by way of
birmingham, Ala. and Memphis, Tenn,
through Arkansas and Texas, visiting
Baltimore, Md, Richmond and Norfolk,
Va; Wilmington. N. C.; Charleston, s.
c.. and Atlanta. Ca. and returning East
from st. Louis, wnere they will inspect
the progress of the LOUISIANA Purchase
Exposition. go thence to Kansas City,
Mo-; Omaha. Neb.; Chicago. Milwaukee,
Wis. and St. Paul, MIMI, and thence
through Michigan to investigate the min
ing, agricultural and lumber resources of
that state.
Opportunities for Charities.
Regarding the movement of charity Or
CARNATIONS originated by the Information
al Bureau of University Education. of
which Mr.. Appleton Is president. and the
immediate results of such conference
In Washington upon present relief work
In congested American and European
cities. Mr.. Appleton said:
here has never before been time
in the history of the world when human
society offered such golden opportunities
for organized Christian charities to ben.
eft men, woman and children on purely
practical lines. Painting railroad loco
motives and trains equipped with COM
Portable tourist cars at minimum trans
portation rates stand waiting in every
American city depot to convey families
from overcrowded cities to unoccupied.
fertile country districts. In the history
of Rome you will remember when the
Gracchi fed the starving people with corn
The armies had come in from the wars.
and. having nothing to do to earn live
lihood were idle, hungry and cold. That
is very nearly the condition in England
and Americas great cities today. The
London and Manchester poor, many Of
whom are high-class mechanics and ar
tisans, are hungry. American municipal
authorities are supplying coal and food
to the freezing unemployed.
such men as Robert Treat Paine pres
ident OF Boston's Associated Charities;
Edwin d. Mead, originator of THE Twen-
tieth Century Club of Boston; Robert
A. Woods. head of the South End House,
and his associates in that city; the Chi
cago Civic Federation Hull House, con-
Quoted by Jane Adams, and other or
| CARNATIONS are performing miracles in
ameliorating suffering. The Southern and
Western Government and railroad lands
| of America alone afford a solution to the
problem which chelity organizations are
| facing.
some Of Those in the Work.
Mrs. John A. Logan of Washington,
with pen and tongue, is urging TINS solu-
ton Every winter William r. Hearst,
publisher of leading newspapers in three
principal American cites, SENDS wagons
at Midnight to feed the cold and starving
| ones IN the streets and parks of New
| York. Chicago and San Francisco. The
| Southern ana w estern fields. ] say, are
the only permanent solution of these
| peoples ills.
| "kldridge r. Gerry of New York. pres
| ident of the Society for the Prevention of
| Cruelty to Children, Is solving the diff
| Guilty by sending boys and girls to Kan
sas and other Western States Anne
| O Hagan the American magazine writer,
| has clearly shown the blessings of West
| ern independence bestowed on New York
| waits by her stories in Munsey's Maya
| zine. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has put ner
inspiring and brilliant pen to work. Booth
| tucker general of the Salvation Army
in An.e. lea. has organized a Iarm in Texas
| lad another near Cleveland, ONO, To
| which deserving city poor are trans
ported G; Lo!ing Brace. of the emil
! forth in all his literature the merits of
| its boys farm at kenslco. n. Y. Mrs.
| Elizabeth b. GrannIs, the President of
the American Christian League for the
| Promotion of Social Purity and founder
| of the W oman's Refuge In New York has
also turned her attention to this soiuuon.
| Robert G. Ogden and William II. Bald
win, Jr.. of New York, organizers of the
| Southern Educational Board have recOg-
| nized the merits OF rural population en-
| Vlronment. Jacob Riis of New York, WV
| idly portrays in his Battle Win tie
| the ana permanent AID
| necessary to great city's unemployeL
| John Wanamaker, who through his
great Sunday School is educating the
youth of Philadelphia and through his
| mammoth stores furnishes Well-paId em-
| ployment to thousands OF men and wo-
men, Is an earnest advocate VI the prac-
tical philanthropy of rural life and Occu-
patton for the cltys unemployed
| Suggestions of method.
Have you any suggestions you would
make regarding such u work. MIR. Apple
| tonT inquired the correspondent.
Il have this suggestion TO make said
| Mr.. Appleton: ~ nat the various char
| ity organizations of the United States
and Europe combine in an international
movement whereby areas of undeveloped
| or partially developed country in Amer
| lea be appropriated and a systematic sub
division of such land be made. according
to the tastes, fnancia, condition ard aol-
| ity of the various c. marty lncumb-
| ents, and apportione IN on time
purchase or rental It each DIS
| trict have an organize. ..-.- eau and au-
| thorlzed agent Of such an international
! charity association to receive the settler,
sell or hire to him necessary building
| material. farming or mechanics tools and
stock with which to begin an independent
I livelihood. / would advocate the plan of
I a. b. Stickney president OF the Chicago
and Great Western Railroad Company
| OF St. Paul. MINI, that a central point
| called in country districts the corners
be made the community's social center,
| ests which is the foundation of all would
be municipalities. Electric railways af-
| fording speedy market connections and
other improvements will follow.
These suggestions" continued Mr..
| Appleton, apply only to those worth