The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-26


Of immigration and an address Ey
Gustav H. Schwab of New York on
Foreign Commerce and Ocean Trans
portation" were the features of today 5
sessions of the Southern Industrial
Parliament. The subject of immigra-
ton was discussed by Senator Simmons
Of North Carolina and Commissioner
General Frank 2. Sargent, of the I'M
migration Bureau Permanent organ
iatiOn was effected by the election of
Governor Robert Glenn, of North
Carolina, as President and other Off
GERS as follows:
w. C. Murphy, Washington, D. c.,
Secretary.
J. P. Thaxton, Columbia, S. G.,
Treasurer
Vice Presidents: Alabama, William
Richards, Huntsvxille Georgia, w. o.
McGowin, Hoffman. Mississippi, Han
ry Kernoghan, Jackson. North Car
,olina, r. S. Eheinhart Lincolnton.
South Carolina, E. ]. Watson, Colun
bia Tennessee. Robert Gates, Nash
vile. Texas, Joseph Schwarts, Cor
-sicana. Virginia>,C. l.. Holland, Dan
vile.
Executive Committee: W. T. Brown,
Ragland, Ga; F. j. Holiday, Wash
ington, Ca; Mississippi, J. G. McCar-
thy, Batesville, S c.; J. A. Brown,
Chadbourn, N. c.; Albert Akers,
Nashville, Tenn: E. G. Robinson,
Houston, Texas: J. S. Browning, Poca-
hontas, Va; H. L. West, District of
Columbia.
In the absence of Governor Glenn
W. O. McGowin, of Georgia, presided.
At tOdays session Gustav H. Schwab,
of New York, spoke nthe subject of
Foreign Commerce and Ocean Trans
pOrtation."
Senator Simmons, of North Carolina,
spoke on the subject of immigration
He said that as a result of the agri-
cultural, commercial and industrial &C
tivity and expansion in the south, there
was a demand for labor which could
not be supplied from it's own popula-
ton and that in consequence the south
was struggling with a labor famine.
Nearly every other section Of the
country, he said, had claimed and OBJ
tanned a share of the enormous imml-
grafton to the \United States IRON
abroad during the last twenty-five
years. The failure of the south to get
a part of the new comerS not only ac-
counted for the present labor famine
in that section but in many other ways,
he said, had been disadvantageous to
the United States The kind OF labor
the south needed ne said was deDat-
able question. He described the sHs-
tenn of wages in the south as being
almost universally on the share plan,
and advised those actually engaged III
efforts to induce emigration to the
south from other sections or from for
eign countries 20 present that plan,
and not be misled into a comparison
of wage scales. If laborers for the
present could not be gotten from this
country, it was certain he said that
with proper effort the right kind OF
men could be obtained abroad
Mr.. Sargent declared that thirty-Jwo
per cent. of all the immigration TO
America came into the state of New
York, the great bulk of the aliens re-
naming in New York city. They dol
not, before coming here, look up the
geographical situation, simply going
to where their friends have preceded
them What was needed was to offer
advantages to aliens coming to theI
United States, whereby they might
gather some knowledge of the country
outside the great eenters of popula-
ton. 1t would be a good thing not only
to say to the alien "You may land.
Sbut also furnish him information rel
Igarding the opportunities in various
sections of the country. He urged the
delegates to use their influence with
Congress to enact law establishing at
Ellis Island a bureau of information
for immigrants. There are Thousands
he said who would be glad to be di-
rected to the open country, where they
is sunshine and plenty of room and
where it would be an advantage to the