Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-05-31
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIALhIEE
Parliament to Consider Questions Relating to
the South's Welfare in Session

r In the South, the Governor said, the
negro is given every legal right ne Is
entitled to. Their children are edu-
Gated as are the white children; they
are given asylums for their deaf, dumb;
and blind. and are everywhere given
the merciful hand; "but, he said,
there is one distinction. one line we
draw, and that is the line of social
equality" That, he proclaimed, could
never be. The races were separated by
the laws of eternity, because, he said,
the white man never was intended to
he nut on a social. equality with the
negro. He appealed to every one pres
emf to make known the truth and thus
"cptrect any error and lie"
The Session "Wednesday.
Washington, Special-A discussion
of immigration and an address oy
Gustav II. Schwab, of New York, on
Foreign Commerce and Ocean Trans
portation" were the features OF wed
nesday's sessions of the Southern In
dustrial Parliament. The immigration
question was discussed by Senator
Simmons, of North Carolina, and Com
missioner General Frank P. Sergeant
of the Immigration Bureau. Perman.
ent organization was effected ny the
election Of Gov. Robert B. Glenn, Oh
North Carolina, as president, and otn-
er officers as follows DR.. w. G. Mur-
phy, of washington, secretary; y. r.
Thaxton, Of Columbia, S. c., treasurer.
Vice presidents: Alabama, VIM. Rlcn-
ards Huntsville: Georgia, w. 0. Nc
Gowan, Hoffman; Mississippi, Henry
Kernoghan, Jackson; North Carolina,
R. S. Reinhardt, Linoolnton; South
Carolina, E. j. Watson, Columbia;
Tennessee, Robert Gates, Nashville;
Texas, Thos. Schwartz, Corslcana;
Virginia, C. l.. Holland, Danville.
Executive committee: w. T. Brown,
Regland, Ca; P. ]. Holiday, Wash
ington, Ca; Miss ]. S. McCHthy,
Batesyille, S. c.; J. A. Brown, O1ad-
bourn, N. c.; Albert Akers, Nashville,
Tenn. E. c. Robinson, Houston, Tex;
J. S. Browning, Pocahontas, Va; II.
l.. Vest, District of Columbia.
In the absence of Governor Glenn,
w. o. MCGOWAN, of Georgia, presided.
Gustav II. Schwab, of New York, in
his address on the Subject of For
eign Commerce and Ocean Transporta-
tion,'' was the first speaker. He was
followed by Senator Simmons OF
North Carolina, who spoke on the sub
iect of immigration. He said as re-
suit of the agricultural and industrial
activity and expansion in the South,
there was demand for labor which
could not be supplied from Its own
people, and that in consequence the
South was struggling with labor ia
mine
Nearly every section of the country,
he said, had claimed and obtained
share of the enormous immigration to
the United States from abroad during
the last 25 years. The failure of the
South to get part of the new COM
ers not only accounted for the present
labor famine in that section, but in
man: other ways, he said, had been
disadvantageous to the United States.
The kind of labor the South needed,
he said, was debatable question. He
described the system of wages in the
South as being almost universally on
the share plan, and advised those &C
tually engage: in efforts to induce emi-
grafton to the South from other sec
tions or from foreign countries to pre-
sent that plan, and not be misled into
a comparison Of wage scales. If labor
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