The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-07-01
Attracting Immigrants to the South.
From the baltimore sun.

FROM the bAALltANsr sun
The Railway World notes sppreciatively
the combined efforts Of the Southern railways
and other Southern organizations TO attract
immigrants TO the South and gives facts show
ing the great success Of these efforts. The
West. it Is known, was built up and settled By
the railways 50 OF 80 years ahead OF time.
Not oay were the Western railways COZ
structed into a wilderness, 10 advance OF pay.
ing traffic but the Western States Nere PEG
pied rapidly BY the activity OF agents OF the
railways 10 melting and guiding Europe's
emigration movement. The South's turn Is
now coming. What with State immigration
bureaus and the concerted work OF the South
ern Railway, the Seaboard Air Lane, the hi
nos Central, the St. Louis and San Francis
co. the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville
and Nashville. the South Is nov gaming
yearly by the influx OF n useful class OF eIii-
zens The Louisville and Nashville, says the
World, in 1904 settled l.l50 families Of
4.ll0 persons upon s., 524 acres Of land which
they purchased. This distribution of immi
grants was as follows; Ia Alabama, 704
families of 2. 1914 persons, who purchased 81,
773 acres OF land; in Tennessee; 2l3 families
Of $50 persons who purchased %. l42 acres Of
land; Ia Florida, 1872 families of 5l2 persons,
who purchased lT,74S acres; in Mississippi.
So families Of 292 persons, who purchased
$50 acres Of land; in Kentucky, 10 families OF
~ persons, who purchased l. lilo acres, aud at
points in other States on the Louisville and
Nashville, 3 families OF IA persons, who pur-
chased $50 acres of land. The other South
ern railways have like facts TO exhibit as the
result of their efforts TO stimulate immigration.
Upon the railways OF the South, the World
thinks, more than upon any other single
agency must the South depend for the success
Of the plans for directing immigration into
that seciionn One of the results OF the new
movement is the locating of \ large number
of new industries along the railway lines.
The record of the Louisville and Nashville,
for example, shows for 1904 8 total OF 2oo
industries, with a capital OF $50, 4sl 800, loeat
ed along its lines the past year through the
efforts Of the industrial agents OF that road.
Some l22 of these industries, with total
capital of S., 452, 100, we're located along Its
lines in Alabama; 90 industries, with a capital
of $I.776, 700, in Tennessee; so industries,
with Il capital of 81. 767, coo, in Kentucky; IN
Florida, Is industries, with capital of SOLO,
/ 600; in Virginia, 6 industries, with a capital
$685., 900; in Mississippi, 8 industries. capital
Sis, 200, in Louisiana, industries, capital
| $285. 900. In recent speech the Governor
! of Southern State called attention TO the
! failure of the population of the South to keep
pace with the growth and expansion OF its
| commercial agricultural and industrial IN
| terests, aud on this account urged the neces
sity for immigration. North Carolina, among
! other Southern States, finds that its manu-
! featuring establishments-whiehh have increas-
ed immensely in number in the last two de,
! cades-have drawn their supply of labor
chiefly from the home market, very little hav
ing come from outside. The effect is scarcity
| of labor on the farms. Manufacturers and
planters compete for labor, with the result
that wages have risen inordinately. Immi'
grafton is recommended, accordingly, as a
means of solving the pressing labor problem
of the South. As respects the source of the
present movement, Southwark it is gratifying
to observe that very large percentage of the
! immigrants are from the West and North.