The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-02-02

climate and soil conditions not widely
different from those of their nativs
countries. They also would feel ar
independence and encouragement to.
ward useful citizenship that in the
very nature of things cannot be giver
them in the great cities. The prop.
osition is one that merits the fulles,
encouragement.
The Philadelphia Ledger is equally
emphatic in its views, and announces
that it will support any legislation
necessary to bring before the newly
arrived immigrants the advantages OF
the South for their settlement. The
Ledger says:
"The department of Commerce and
Labor at Washington has undertaken a
work, under the direction of Frank P.
Sargent, Commissioner Of labor, for
the distribution Of immigrants through
the South, which promises the most
beneficial results to the immigrants
and the whole country. Commissioner
Sargent, at the meeting held the other
day to discuss the project with the pas
senger agents of the various Southern
railroads, outlined plan which re-
quires an enactment by Congress Great
ing an information bureau at the chief
port Of Gentry, or several bureaus at
the important ports. The officials of
these bureaus are to collect all posi-
BILE information about the various
sections Of the South which offer op.
portunities in agriculture and other
industries for enterprising workers.
These bureaus, working in co-opera-
tion with the railroads, with the EN-.
ployers of labor and with boards of
trade and State immigration societies,
are to attempt by moral suasion to
distribute worthy immigrants in the
parts Of the country where their laDor
IS needed, and thus prevent them
from remaining in the great cities,
where they gravitate into the slums
and haunts of crime, or at least over
burden the labor market. +"
The movement, the Ledger declares
is not only an industrial undertaking,
but probably the most valuable of all
charity endeavors of recent years,
for it promises to correct the present
evil conditions in city life, due to the
congestion of population in the slums
The Providence Journal, speaking
for. New England, promises equal
support to any legislation that may
be necessary to carry this project into
effect ''There is real scarcity of
labor in the South,' says the Journal,
mot only on the plantations but in
the manufacturing towns, and it is a
scarcity that can never be fully and
satisfactory supplied by the negroes
If the thousands of aliens who now
huddle in poverty in the cities of the
North and East can be diverted
thither very desirable economic results
can be attained. Experiments on a
small scale have already shown that
Italian farmers, for example, are ex-
exceedingly we'll adapted for work in
the cotton fields; other aliens could
doubtless be employed with equal
success in other Southern industries,
to their own advantage, to the better
development of Southern resources and
to the ultimate increase of the nat
ional wealth. -
1t may be reasonably expected, there
fore, that a considerable proportion
of the foreign immigrants landing
upon our shores will in future be
turned towards the South, assuring
better supply of labor and leaving
us no longer SO largely dependent on
unreliable negro labor. It is prob
able that the South and Southwest
will receive the full quantum of white
immigration promised by the railroads
last year, but which did not wholly
materialize.
At the same time, however, that we
are bidding for this white immigration
from Europe, let as not lose sight of
similar immigration from the North
and West. There could be no more
valuable addition to our population
than the thousands Of Northern and
Western farmers who would like to
move South because of it's climate
and the cheaper lands this section
offers them.
DIED. This community was made
sad by the death of Frank Martin at