The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-15
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1905.
Aw IMPORTANT MEETING.

Tn the current issue of The Manufactur- CTS Record MT. s. A. Hughes, Of St. T,ot,is who is the Immigration Agent of one of the large railroad systems of the West. speaks of the fine openings in the Southwest for home-seekers, and among other things he says: ''It should be inn pressed upon the people of Pennsylvania and the New England States that in this section there is a home for thousands of persons who are now toiling in the mines and in the factories. many of them barely earning a scant living for themselves and families, and those who are in position to accumulate a little money not having the opportunities to invest it. As ger mane to MT. Hughes's remarks we copy this from The Mobile Register:
 The special meeting of the Alabama In- dustriai and Commercial Association to Se held in Birmingham next Monday Is for the purpose of help1nsa pora on FsIF she ia Ma- SSlais CSommercial Club should send a large and working delegation to this meet ing.
 What Mir. Hughes says, speaking of the Southwest, applies with equal force to Alabana, and what The Register urges for Mobile applies to Montgomery and other cities of Alabama. It is well attested tact that the working population of the Eastern and Northeastern States is becoming more and more congested, and that the struggle for existence Is daily and annually becoming a more difficult problem. Thousands of good and indus trious citizens are making bare sub aistence. Those who have saved a little money have no opportunity to invest it in homes because of the high price Of land, and the difficulty of finding suitable loca- tions.
 It is this class of people who would make desirable citizens for Alabama, and the St. Louis Exposition offers the best means of advertising our advantages and bringing them to the attention of home seekers that has yet presented itself. People who leave the overcrowded regions of the older States go to the great West, partly for climatic reasons, partly from social prejudices and largely because they are offered induce rnents to go there. Many of them seem to have an idea that Alabama is in the torrid zone and that New Englander cannot live here. There are others who apparently regard the South as an un- 2 civilized aggregation of barbarians, where we lynch negroes as pastime and where negroes murder and outrage the whites at will
 The various commercial and industrial organizations of Alabama should get to work to counteract these false and in furious impressions, and to let all the world know that here we can give them cheap homes, ample employment and as safe and law-abiding communities as they have in their present locations. There are plenty of opportunities for the farm CTS and the fruit and vegetable growers to secure homes at a reasonable price and under much more favorable condi- lions than they can do in the East. There is work in the mills, the mines, the factories and the shops for those who prefer 1t, and almost every town and city and village in the State has room and opportunity for business men with large or small capital. In one of the popular songs of the old days 1t was claimed that "Uucle sam IS rlch enough 10 give us all a farm" and Alabama has room and welcome for thousands of good settlers.
 The proposed meeting at Birmingham is a highly important one and we hope it will be well attended by men who mear business and know how to advance Ala bama's interests. The time to work f. short and what can yet be done should be done intelligently and thoroughly.
 Our exchange table Is to be brighteneC and enlivened for some time by the breezl Congressional Record, and then we vii aoa lack for choice jokes and quips