Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-06-15


8. M 1Rs8 the Northern newspapers are forced
ES5l8SIh to admit that tho South certainly
=TfERS%IR offers many attractive inducements
SS9G9Y YE5E-lC to the capitalist and home seeker.
The New York Sun is Of opinion
that aside from the material advantages which the
South would derive from desirable class Of immi-
grants from the North and Northwest, there is
another great advantage which the South will enjoy
from such movement. Says the San:
From such immigration the South would gain
more than merely material advantages For its pol
tical and intellectual welfare it needs the discussion
which opposing opinions produce. AT present there
is at the South 4 political mOnOtOny which is un-
fortunate for the best development bat in the nature
OF things it can not long continue when once emigra
tiOn OF Northern farmers on the large scale begins to
pour in for the utilization OF its agricultural pOssbil
tiles and cOincidently large volume of foreign i'm
migration tends thither.
Before the Civil War political discussion at the
South was a. high level, and the leaders in Ameri-
can politics for long period we're largely Southern
Now, when the South is politically solid as a fore
gone conclusion these states have lost their
leading political n n they had
then. The great strength of the democratic party is
in the South, and logically the South should be the
leader In shaping its policy yet for the very
that the Southern electoral votes be relied on
whatever is the democratic policy, the South occu-
pies a subordinate place. 1t leads no longer but is
expected to follow.
There is no doubt that as soon as it becomes gem
orally known among the Northern and Northwest
farmers how many opportunities the South offers
these people, there will he great movement OF i'm
migration Southwark But the Sun evidently does
not understand the Southern people and Southern
conditions in their political aspects Northern and
Northwestern people have been coming South for
years. There are thousands and hundreds of thOus-
ands Of them in the South. AS q rule, however,
they have had practically no influence in changing
the political atmosphere. To commence with, quite
number OF them are democrats when they come
South. The others sOOnhave their eyes opened They
recognize that the Southern people Of the demo-
cratic faith because their interests lie ia this direc
tiOn. There are local questions which are OF more
more Importance to the South than the majority Of
the national issues for the that these local
questions come home to the individuals and are fac
tors in their everyday life. These facts have
powerful influence upen the Northern and West
ern immigrants They realize that it is to their own
interests to cast Their POLITICAL fortunes with the
Southern people as we'll as their financial future,
and hence they are rapidly absorbed by the demo-
cratic praty.
/ Texas paper says there are in that state A17B
600 citizens born in the border and Northern states
and yet these have made not the slightest change
10 the political complexion OF the state" Arkansas
has more than 5000 citizens, native Of border
and Northern states, and here in Mississippi, as
we'll as in Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas.
there are large numbers OF Northern citizens the
majority OF whom vote the democratic ticket with
regularity. The South will continue to be solidlv
democratic for many years yet, and 80 long as the
Southern people are confronted with local questions
that have vide influence in shaping political cOndi-
tiOns