Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-06-17
Mead For lmmiurants.


our people are of one mind on the sub
ject, there Is no doubt of the fact that
the desire for intelligent energetic i'm
migrants is daily becoming more wide
spread and that eventually we will
reach the point where we will be will
ing to use the means necessary tc
supply this unquestionable need.
We have a great country. There Is
no doubt about that fact, for our people
have already given abundant proof OF
it. They took charge Of it originally
as a wilderness and in less than one
hundred years made it the equal OF
almost any other agricultural section
of like size in America. Then after
most of what the first settlers had done
had been wiped out Of existence by
four years of war and ten years OF
plundering misrule, the succeeding
generation has in less than thirty
years brought about even greater
prosperity than ever existed before.
But this country is nothing to what
it is capable of becoming. All Of us
are able to see that. We have only tc
compare what has been done with what
Is now appearing before us. That we
can work out the various problems
presented ourselves there is no reason
to doubt. A people who have been able
to accomplish what the people Of this
section have accomplished, are equa
to almost any task however great
But to wait does not seem best, and
it is clear that it will be well for us
to get more help.
The necessity for more help is ap-
parent in the light Of the fact that
the people who have been doing much
of the heavy work-the negroes-are
getting tired and moving out of the
country. Taken altogether they have
been doing their part very we'll, and II
is not fair to deprive them of proper
credit But their relations and attach.
ment to the country, even the best OF
them, have been artificial rather thar
natural. AS these artificial relations
dissolve, the negro drifts away, and
the process must necessarily continue
in an increasing rate, because the es-
tablishment Of natural relations is moi
only undesirable but manifestly i'm.
possible.
Unless We succeed in getting more
people, more labor and more brain, oul
progress must necessarily become
slower. The few cannot do the work
that has been done by the many. But
to supply the demand for more labor
more help is not a difficult problem
There are plenty of people Of the right
kind not only in Europe but in Amer
lea, and to bring them here to York
county, we have only to agree first
that they will be welcome, and second
that we are willing to offer such rea-
sonable inducements as may be neces-
sary.
Hundreds and thousands Of people
have been induced to settle barrer
prairies of the northwest, in climates
that carry winter from five to six
months of the year by means or judi
cious advertising of the advantages
and attractions of the more favorable
seasons. Many of these people found
conditions that were so much better
than they were accustomed to thai
they remained, while others moved
away so soon as they began to appre-
ciate the superiority of other localities
To properly advertise this section II
is not necessary to cover up or ignore
any drawbacks. We have only to tel
the plain truth, and point to what has
been and is being accomplished as
guarantee of what may be expected
We have the finest country on earth
and we have only to let that fact be
known to be assured of the choice OF
the most desirable immigrants to be
had.