The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-10
WHAT SOUTH CAROLINA MOST
NEEDS.


advancement and development of the
United States? To what. in one word,
IS 1t due that the almost illimitable
stretches OF North America have be-
come fields of abundance and gardens
OF Edenp
What word tells the story that
where there roamed but short while
back, as history counts time, few
tribes Of nomad savages, there now,
are in homes Of comfort and luxury,
over 100, O,Oo0,0 900 of the freest, happies t,
most energetic and most self-reliant
people on the face of the Globe?
To what is it due tAat a country, as
yet babe in the family of nations,
heads the procession Of earthly prog
ress? What irresistible force has
placed upon the brow of Uncle Sam
the crown Of international finance and
has made him the ruler of the manu-
featuring world? To what is it due
that ours, is veritably, the promised
land of plenty?-IMMIGRATION.
Has immigration done for the State
OF South Carolina proportionately
what it has done for the United
States as a whole? if not; why?
Has South Carolina studied with
sufficient care what it has done for
other States? Have we properly esti-
mated, what, through the instrument
tafit3 of immigration, may be ours?
The force of what immigration las
done for an individual State cannot be
more clearly shown than by using
Pennsylvania as an object lesson.
Pennsylvania is largely settled by
Dutch and German immigrants and
no where in this country or, perhaps
in the world, do evidences of
thoughtful labor, thrift and enter
prise more plainly and more generally
SSlannen the face Of nature
Like the squares upon an immense
checker board, for miles upon miles
radiating in all directions, lie farms of
from 90 to 200 acres These falms are
In the highest state of fertility and
cultivation, well fenced, nohedge rows,
briars nor weeds. On each farm there
Is substantial and cozy dwelling and
large barn. almost invariably paint
cd red. In the agricultural districts
OF Pennsylvania all must work; the
dignity of labor is everywhere respect
ed, and the social conditions are such |
that the idle and vagrant are forced |
to seek other environment.
What, irmigration has done for
Pennsylvania immigration can do for
South Carolina. Thousands upon
thousands of just such immigrants, as
have made a garden spot Of Pennsyl-
yania, have gone to the bleak and
cherries North West and, hundreds
OF these hardy and thrifty sons of toll.
all having more or less means, would
gladly come from the frozen North to
the Sunny South.
Convince these men that our crimi
nal laws are enforced, that life, limt
and property are safe in our midsr
and that here, thrift and hard work
,an win its just reward, and we will
'oon find our land In demand and cot
,on and corn waving over hundreds
If our acres not now under cultiya
ion.
Secure one or two of these men, as
pioneers, and steady stream of lust
uch as have made its wealth for
will follow.
A class OF immigrants are coming
nto this country by the tens of thou
ands, few of whom are desirable
NN'OpO 10 dO pICScnG jumping upon {
s a horde of social outcasts withoui
means or anything else t,
lake them worthy of American citi
enship. Undesirable everywhere but
articularly so here in the South al
sady handicapped by its negro prob
I'M.
Our House of Delegates wisely re-
used to entertain at its last session,
le peculiarly i'll advised efforts
hich from unknown reasons, were
ade to abolish our State Depart
ient Of Immigration.
Should ever the value of our De.
lrtment OF immigration be only in
le witchery OF its title or, should its a
ethods become perfupctory and
iritless, department OF immigra-
)n would not be any lesc yaI,,a