The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-09
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introduced does not state that as I fact.
 Tt states it only conditionally. It says that if these conditions exist they should l be corrected and I believe that this association ought to go on record in favor of that proposition"
 Wanted No Political Controversy.
 MT. Forbes in reply. said that the com mittee on resolution deprecated doing anything that would involve the asso- ciation in a political controversy and especially at this time when two candi- dates were running for governor on the same platform. He added that no matter who was elected governor the question of freight would. he believed, be rightly settled. He said that when the Mitchell resolution was considered in the com mittee his attention was drawn to the fact that several years ago the legislature had passed a special act which permitted railroads to grant specially low rates to iron and steel industries established with in the state. This act had been passed in order to foster home and state indus tries. In many communities, he added, | such Inducements as free sites and ex- emption from taxation were held out to manufacturing plants.
 1 He said that MT. Mitchells argument and resolution sprang from personal l grievance and that MT. Mitchell had no | more right to complain of the low rate which the legislature had permitted the railways to grant to iron and steel in- dustries than a householder had to pro- test against exemption from taxation which the law in many communities granted to manufacturers of cotton. 1 F. J. Thompson of Huntsville agreed with MT. Mitchell, saying that Hunts l vile suffered from discrimination in | freight rates.
 Mir Mitchells resolution was defeated overwhelmingly, only six of the thirty five delegates present voting in favor of 1t.
 Position Regarding Immigration. 1 Second only in importance to the att- tude of the association toward railway regulation and rate reform was it's posi- tion regarding immigration. The speech I made yesterday by representative Wiley | in favor of modifying the Chinese exclu- | sion law so as to admit of coolie labor into the United States met with virile and | at times virulent opposition.
 1 Representative Richardson of Hunts vile and Representative Burnett of Gadsden differed sharply with their co- 1 league in congress. MT. Wiley, both of them saying that they would resist to the l last ditch any effort to admit Chinese cooe labor into the United States and especially into Alabama. Both believed that to do so would be to lower the level of civilization which the American people ~have trodden for 400 years and each said that he would vote in the future | as he had in the past against what both called so monstrous proposition.
 Wiley and Burnett Have Colloquy. Colonel Wiley, who left on the 1 o'clock train for Chattanooga, did not hear his l colleagues speeches. but he knew that they differed with him on the subject. He and MT. Burnett met this morning in the lobby of the hotel and this colloquy took place:
 Mir. Burnett-"I don't agree with you, colonel, on this coole labor business"
 Colonel Wiley-"The trouble with you Burnett, Is that you don't know d-n thing about the subject"s.
 MT. Burnett-"That mab bdArue in a measure. I haven't been to the Orient with the secretary of war and the pres ident's daughter, and of course l don't bring to the discussion of the subject the intimate information that you possess, but l know that this Is a white mans country and I am in favor of putting up the bars against every one who is not a Caucasian. The Pacific coast knows the coolle and the people out there are against him. Down here in the south we know the negro. I defer to California on the Chinese question, and I expect the Californian to defer to Alabama on the negro question:
 Thereupon Colonel Wiley picked up his grip and made for the l o'clock train
 Burnett EIaborates Views.
 Later in the day MT. Burnett elaborated his views in a speech, saying that he could never consent to have the Christian Bible supplanted by the Koran, the phi losophy of Jesus by that of Confucus the church and the synagogue by the josh-house and the Caucasian laborer by the Mongolian."
 "The distinguished speaker yesterday told you" said MT. Burnett, that the coolie did not settle here, but that he returned to China as soon as he got what money he wanted and there spent his last days and his fortune We don't want such immigrants. We want only those who will come to obey the law preserve peace and aid in the general development We want men and women like the indus trious, honest and thrifty Germans who have settled in Cullman county and made of that county one of the most prosper ous and intelligent and law abiding sec- tions of the state" -.
 Judge William Richardson of Huntsville was as outspoken as MT. Burnett against the Introduction of coolie labor and his remarks, like those of Burnett, were loudly applauded.
 Boston Man Speaks.
 James H. Patten of Boston assistant secretary of the Immigration Restriction league, in most intensely interesting ad- dress on "The South and the Immigra- ton Problem" favored restriction. He sketched the history of immigration, pointing out how different in character and attachments were the immigrants of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and those of today. Then they were the pick. now they are the scum of Europe, said he. He discussed the political and economic phases of the problem, saying that the body polite and the body social are already imperiled by reason of lax Immigration laws He quoted the late Francis Walker. who said that our immi- grants nowadays have no history behind them to encourage them. They are beaten men from beaten races.
 What the south most needs and wants today" said the speaker. Ifs not the new l " arrived. ignorant and penniess alien, but the settler with means of purchase, preferably one who has already resided In the United States for some years and who Is familiar with American customs. or else the intelligent immigrant with some money, coming from northern Flu rope, skilled in diversified farming or in some trade, who can depend on his own exertions. The newer farms throughout the south have been purchased very large ly by farmers from the west and north west. either native Americans who have sold their old farms or foreigners who have lived in the country for a good many years, predigested immigrants as one of my correspondents has called them. Thousands of immigrants of these most