The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18

Committee on Immigration. reported that the Committee hao held a meet ing at which an interesting address was delivered by S. H. Hardwick- Passenger Trafic Manager of the Southern Railway.
 The Committee, he said, also had under consideration . plan to bring white servants to Montgomery. He called attention to the fact that negro house servants cared little for their employment and 1t was never certain that a man would not have to build his own fires and his wife do other house drudgery.
 President Forbes then introduced Governor Cunningham as the speaker of the evening. He was peculiarly complimentary In his introduction rec ferring to the acting executive as 'the greatest man in Alabama"
 Governor Cunningham said that he was going to speak on the basic and fundamental principles, the controil- ing factors of immigration, rather than the immediate and practical factors Migration, he said, has always been universal and races distinct. Man iE a Trinity. of mind. body and soul. The industrial development of a communt- ty depends on the power of the body and the development of the mind of the individual member of the commun- ity. The morality of the community depends on its spiritual ideals Wheth- CT the pre- -eminence of the Caucasian race is the result of evolution of this race or the degeneration of the other races. is a matter largely theoretical and does not concern the matter ip question.
 Caucasian is Pre-eminent.
 C,,N fa fhA want on, that the Caucasian race is pre-. eminent. The natural resources of continent, a nat1on, state. county. or a community primarily determine the industrial occupations, the success and the wealth of the community On the other hand, the success attained under any natural circumstances de- pends on the character of the men who develop these resources.
 In the beginnig of the making of the America the Governor continued, there was little difference in the potency of the immigrant to the United States, The difference in the successes of the different sections have been resultant OF subsequent influence. Natural con- ditions are modified by the men who develop them. Alabama has greater natural resources. better natural en- vironment than the State of Massachu- setts but Massachusetts Is more veal thy than Alabama or any other South- ern State. The difference is due to the people. Take @ white man in any sphere and he will outstrip man of any other race. Then why is 1t that that Southern States don't stand in the rank as far as wealth and culture is concerned with the Eastern States7 It is because fifty per cent of the pop ulation are negroes and ono white man Is worth two negroes. The pow CT of the unit of the population is smaller. Then the problem of the Southern States is to find method to increase the potency of the unit. Governor Has q Remedy. This must be done said the speaker in two ways, bring white people to the State from other States and edu- cate the white people who are already here.
 Get rid of the delusion that the negro is necessary.
 Get rid of the prejudice against for- 1 eigners.
 Governor Cunningham spoke at length on the necessity of keeping a unity of race and the danger of breeding mongrefs.
 He then turned to the practical side | of the question. In natural resour- ces. Alabama. in the diversity of na- tural resources, is greater than any other State in the union, he said. But the only two-fifths of It's cleared lands are in cultivation and yet the farmers of Alabama make forty-five per cent on their acreage while the farmers of Illinois only make thirteen per cent. The mining section of Alabama will take care of itself. It is controlled | by corporations, which, are controlled by men of business.
 Bring the people to Alabama who can raise other crops than cotton and the cotton situation will be relieved he declared.
 He spoke of the necessity of the State establishing a Department of Immigration in connection with the Executive Department and closed in an eloquent plea for immediate ac- l ton.
 Alex Rice moved that the speech be printed and that copies be distributed to Northern and Western farmers The motion was referred to the Board of Directors.
 c. c. Abercrombie spoke on the Cane Growers Association meeting. He read letter from Captain Purse. president of the association stating that prob ably 500 delegates would be in atten. dance at the Montgomery meeting.
 The association then adjourned.