The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-13
STATE NEEDS IMMIGRANTS
DIFFERENT METHODS TO SECURE
THEM SHOULD BE ADOPTED.
The Labor Question is Becoming
Quite Gus and VI. Defeats
GuilfOrd-SaIOon Men Dazed at
Election Result.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., October 9Th,

1S<A4OASNs ~ ~ OAh.
Commissioner of Agriculture Patter-
son was asked today what he thought
Of the prospects of securing immigra-
ton to North Carolina, white immi-
grafton from Europe and from the
north and west. He said that the state
would have to adopt very different
methods in order to secure immigrants
and would have to spend much more
money than it ever had expended; that
It would be necessary TO end agents
TO Europe to work up the matter,
then to arrange with the steamboat
lines; to meet the immigrants at Cas-
tie Garden, n. Y, and bring them
here, and then of course. arrangements
would have to be made for locating
them. Then again, an important
matter would be the selection of the
persons thus to be brought here. as
unless there is such selection. he does
not know whether it IS a good plan
TO bring people here from abroad. He
knows very we'll how great the scar
city of labor is in the state. He is
now commissioner of immigration. the
allowance being only $3.50 annually for
that position. A great deal of matter
has been sent out yer the north and
west and some to Europe. notably Il
translation into German of che book
about the of North Carolina.
But these things do not bring he i'm
migrants. With the exception of two
or three people from abroad he Toes
not know of any direct results. 1t
is true that people have been coming
to the state from the north and west,
but they are not labOrerS. they are
investors and that class. Mr.. Patter-
son doubts greatly whether immi-
grants would come here enter in
to competition with the negroes. This
then, is one of the prOblems-what to
do With them after they come here.
They are difficult TO get. they would
be difficult to keep. He does not ap-
pear to think hat laborerS can be OBJ
tanned from the north and west even
If the state was organized to get
them.
h supreme court today took up
Sixth district appeals. The only state
case on the docket was argued. the
attorney general appearing for the
state, this being the case in which
Charles c.. Mcdonald, of Raleigh. was
sentenced in the court below to tL.ae
years at hard labor on the public
roads for embezzlements of funds be-
longing to he knights of Honor. The
only attorneys from other counties
present this week are w. c. Munroe
and Frank Daniels, of GoldsbOro.
h Agricultural and Mechanical
College foot ball team had a very easy
victory over that of GuilfOrd College
yesterday afternoon. The score being
so to 0. Several players were pretty
badly hurt. the knee or one being dis
located n another being unconscious
quite a while.
The latest arrivals at the peniten-
t1ary are three %cOnvfctS from Pitt
county, one to serve a year for man.
slaughter and the others short terms
for larceny.
1t is very certain hat the gentle
men who desire to lease the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad will press
that proposition n will also
strengthen it by December 10th, when
the matter is to be considered.
Not a few persons believe tina the
Haywood trial may be prolonged for
another week. A great deal of new
evidence it seems, is to be brought in.
All sorts of gueSses are made as to
the result of this trial, and not a few
persons are heard to say daily that
they believe there will be 2 mistrial.
Some of the saloon keepers here are
almost daZed by the knockout they got
yesterday in the sweeping victory of
the advocates of the dispensary. One
bar keeper voted for a d~iSpenSary.
he best informed among them e~
pected the result, and weeks ago. as
1ar back as June. said no diStilleries
! would try to come to Raleigh because
1t was expected that the saloons would
be run out and that. of course. no
dlstlllery would stand any chance at
all OF securing license. It is said that
TWO or three leading barkeepers will
go to Baltimore and go in business.