The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-03-05
GERMANS ARE
GOOD CITIZENS
FLORIDA SHOULD MAKE EFFORT
TO PROFIT BY ESTABLISH
MENT OF NEW GERMAN
LINE TO SOUTH
ERN PORTS.
(Tampa Times.)


advocate of systematic work along the
line of encouraging immigration, and
evnts that have transpired in the
south within the past few years have
only added additional earnestneSs to
its pleas.
The south is in the transition stage.
It is building faster than any other
section OF the country 1t is offering
greater inducements than any other
section to the arrivals from the old
countries of Europe. Like many an
other good thing, however, this fact
is not appreciated, and as a result,
thousands starve in New York tene-
ments, when plenty would be theirs in
the south.
Golfers Weekly in its current issue
has the following interesting para
graph in regard to the institution of
new steamship line that is to defect
tourists travel from the pOpulous north
to portions of the south:
"The North German Lloyd Steam
ship company has decided to establish
new emigrant line between Bremen
and Galveston, with a view to dividing
the stream of immigration that is now
congesting New York and Chicago.
This is in accordance with the views
of CommissiOner-Genera Sargent, who
has urged that every effort should be
made to distribute the European ar
rivals over the country. Texas alone
has room for more than the entire pop
ulation of Germany. The attractions
of the south are beginning to be ap-
preciated by American homes eekers
as well. One line of railroad took
487 of them from Chicago to a single
county in Alabama within six weeks.
More new settlers are entering Texas,
now than for years past, and Oklaho-
ma, Mississippi and Alabama are re-
ceiving substantial additions to their
population. The railroad agents ih
the northeastern states report that the
| migration from that region 10 the
British possessions has subsidized, and
that the stream is running toward the
southwest. During the statehood de-
| bate in the senate it was asserted that
| Oklahoma and the Indian territory
which had 790,3S1 inhabitants in 1900,
had grown since the census to nearly
1,500, 900"
Here is a proposition that Tampa
and all Florida should not be slow
| TO grasp. Vessels rounding the Flor
| ida peninsula and sailing to Galveston
| would not be materially delayed by
stopping at a point like Tampa, which
| is almost on the direct route north 20
| Galveston. If proper inducements
were held out, if proper energetic ac-
ton were taken, an alternate steamer
! on the line, at least, might be induced
/ to stop at this port for the accommo-
/ dation of emigrants bound to this city.
The man who comes from Germany
/ furnish the best of citizens. They
/ are thrifty, frugal, home-loving and
/ home making. They understand that
/ the dollar is to be made by honest toll
7 and they are educated in various
/ trades to make this dollar honestly.
The advent of strong German i'm
migration to Tampa, to south Florida
and to the entire state, in fact, would
| mean the starting up of many new in
| dustTies. These immigrants have &C.
quired their trade learning in a cou.-
| try where an apprenticeship is more
| than a name, and their skill would
mean the commencement of many va
ried industries now impossible.
! From the time that this line is put
| in operation, thousands of immigrants
will be literally pouring by our doors.
to be landed in Texas and other Sec
\ tons, where conditions are no better,
and frequently not as good for their
welfare as they would be in Florida.
1 To take no action looking to the de-
flecting of a portion of this stream to
Tampa would be short-sighted in the
i extreme
AS good return cargoes could be Sc
l cured here as in Galveston even though
I the bulk is not as great, and the mar
ket for European commodities would
be as heavy in proportion to our pop
i ulation.
There is no reason why, with a Ed
ropean steamer line stopping at this
4 port, that the local wholesale houses
4 should not become the main distribu,-
| ing points for European commodities
i throughout the entire south.
/ The proposition will bear looking
into from every standpoint, and it
would not be inadvisablc TO consider
it seriously, chimerical th0dgh it may
4 appear to some at first sight.