The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-30
IMMIGR ANTS FOR THE SOUTH
 - Question to Bc Raised Tn Congress- THIS SECTION BoYcoT1nD Europeans Ticketed ThrdueIl to Far West.
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 Made te stsp tAe
 Practice.
THIS SECTION B0YcoITnD

Washington. Nov. 2s.--( (spociaf. )-- With nearly every State bo1c4 the Mason and Dixon line feeling the im- pulse of new financial and Industrial
 heard from n the Fifty-ninth Cons Party lines are to be drawn, less tightly. 1t fs believed. and the indica- tione are that there win be consider- able getting together before the ses~
 sion is over fpr the promotion of south~ ern interestss
 One of the most sfgnificant of tfess signs which Is believed to be q direct
 result of President Roosevelt's recent Southern trip 10 announcement that the Southern members and Senators are to
 be almost a unit for rate legislatfon. Representatives of nearly every sec-
 tiopl as they arrive in the Capital con-
 firm this statement. Rate regulation. the cry is, must be had to help tho growing interests Of the Southern States. i
 Prosperity in the south. The South IS reveling in q new pr0s-
 perity and her Representatives do not
 mean this winter to allow sectional or Of obtaining the beneficial ieRislation the new conditions demand.
 One of the interesting questions Southern Senator's are apt to ask is as to how 1t happens that immigrants from Europe are landed here practical- | ly irivoiced to points in the Far west. \ It Is claimed that 1t is the practice of the steamship companies to bring ina- migrants from European countries | whose destinations are fixed before
 they sail and they are all for the Wes- I tern States.
 | This practice. it Is alleged. isNin vio- lation Of the immigration law. ana the Na lS Ira ef may result in fsl inquiry into tho Knn- eral subject of practices m connection | with the bringing of ilnmigrarts Into ! this country. s
 The South wants lmmizrants Her I piaftAuops and mors eapecia.lx her I ests need new settlers Hut whom Southern agents go fo Ellis Island to
 show to immigrants the attractions of the Southern States as a place for sel- tling. they are unable to secure any. as they are already ticketed for the West. in most cases their tickets being
 bought and even routes selected before they land in this country.
 Their Destination Fsxed. During the past summer, several prominent Southerners have been abroad to learn why these conditions exist, and they have learned. they clam. that practically all over Eu-
 rope the agents of American railroads
 are energetically employed. not mere iy in securing immigrants for Ameri-i ca. but in absolutely fixing their des~ tfnation in points in the West One explanation made of this prac- | tice Is the tide of the immigration iS
 being turned by the steamship and l railroad agents toward settlement on | the vast lands owned by tho railroads | in the West and Northwest. Southern
 men claim also that 10 promote this l immigration to the Wsst practical
 boycott has been placed on the South. | The strongest reason for this boy-
 cott, they say. is that the maps of America are circulated by the railroad agents in Europe all have that portion of the United States below the Mason and Dixon line painted black
 | Prospective immigrants, they say. are told that the black belt is unfit for settlement by white people. They are | impressed with the idea that fin the Southern States social conditions are | such that the negro race makes 1t in- | pleasant for whites to live there.