The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-06-01
P'HERN INDUSTRIAL MEET
kment to Consider Questions Relating to
a the South's Welfare in Session

In the South, the GONeEHOE Sdiu, lue
negro is given every legal right he 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 10
be nut on a social equality with the
negro. He appealed to every one pres
ent to make known the truth and thus
correct any error and lle.'
The Session Wednesday.
Washington. Special.-A discussion
of immigration and an address py
Gustav H. 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'
ept organization was effected by the
election of Gov. Robert B. Glenn, OF
North Carolina, as president, ana ON
er officers as follows DR.. w. Z. Nur
phy. of Washington, secretary; 1. r.
Thaxton, of Columbia. S. c.. treasurer.
Vice presidents: Alabama, VIM. Rlch.
ards. Huntsville; Georgia. W. y. NC
Gowan, Hoffman; Mississippi, Henry
Kernoghan, Jackson; North sarohna'
R. S. Reinhardt, Lincolnton; South
Carolina, E. J. Watson, Columbia;
Tennessee, Robert Gates, Nashville;
Texas. Thos. Schwartz, Corsicana;
Virginia, C. L. Holland. Danville.
Executive committee: w. T. Brown.
Regland. Ca; P. ]. Holiday. Wash
ington, Ga; Miss ]. S. Mccarthy.
Batesyille, S. c.; ]. A. Brown, Chad
bourn, n. c.; Albert Akers, Nashville
Tenn; E. C. Robinson. Houston, Tex;
]. S. Browning, Pocahontas. Va; n.
L.. Vest, District Of Columbia.
In the absence Of Governor Glenn
w. o. MCGOWAN, Of Georgia. presided.
Gustav H. 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 SUD-
ject of immigration. He said as re-
suit of the agricultural and Industrial
activity and expansion in the SOUTH
there was a 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 a
share Of the enormous immigration to
the United States from abroad during
the last 25 years. The failure OF the
South to get a part of the new COM
ers not only accounted for the present
labor famine in that section, but In
many other ways, he said, had been
to the United States.
The kind Of labor the South needed
he said, was a debatable question. he
described the system Of wages In the
South as being almost universally on
the share plan, and advised those &C
tually engaged in efforts to induce emil
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
ers for the present could not be gotte;.
from this country, 1t was certain, ne
said. that with proper effort the right
kind of men could be obtained abroad.
Mr.. Sergeant declared that 81 per
cent. of all the immigration to Aher-
lea came into the State Of New YORK,
the great bulk Of the aliens remaining
in New York city. They do not, before
coming here, he said. look up the geo
graphical situation, simply going to
where their friends have preceded
them. What was needed was to offer
advantages to aliens coming to the
United States whereby they may gath
er some knowledge Of the country out
side the great centers of population.
II would be a good thing not only to
say TO the alien, You may land" but
also TO furnish him information re-
garding the opportunities in various
sections of the country.