The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-03
Addresses Delivered Be-
fore Joint Committees.
ACTION is DEFERRED
Commissioner Watson OF South Caro-.
lima to Speak in Favor Of the
Moore Bill at the Next Meeting
OF the Committees Next
Wednesday.

The House and Senate committees
on Immigration held a two hours ses-
sion last night but again deferred
action or the Moore bin providing for
the establishments Of Bureau of Im-
migration and the appointment Of u
commissioner.
several wen Informed gentlemen
spoke on the bill. and ut the conclus-
ION Of the speeches the joint commit
tee adjourned 20 meet again mex,
Wednesday evening, when it will hear
Commissioners Watson. of the South
Carolina Immigration Bureau. aud a
number of interested men from this
state.
Mr. j.. A. Brown. of Chadbourn. \.
g.. was the first to speak in favor OF
the bill Chadbourn is a colony ana
Is the basis of the strawberry inuustfy
in the state, and is the largest ship
ping point of berries in the world
Senator Moore, author of the hill.
introduced Mr.. Brown and said ne hau
solved The immigration problem III q
practical way ana asked him 10 adj
dress the committee.
MIR. Brown said North Carolina
needs more people. but the State does
not want any considerable amount o.
the foreign element and he beiieEeC
the people of the West and the North
west should be induced To come mere
there are Gcd-fearing people, people
who will have good homes. mofais tnt
~, education. Immigration success.
fully worked can be of great benefit
To The state But it cannot be made a
success upop one or two thousand dol
Dcintcd commissioner with Il salary OF
twenty-five hundred or three thousano
dollars We have in North Carolina
many thousand acres of land lying
loosely and useless In every part o.
the State manufacturing enterprises
are needed, and an immigration pu'
reau can accomplish this end. The
,t.tire West was settled almost abso-
lutely by immigration bureaus. We
can get thousands of good, honest
families from the North and North
y est and in the M.ddlewest. There
arc hundreds of families of indus
trious pcoplc who would be glad tt
go II Il place whcrr there are III
educational facilities. But if this bu-
reau Is established the character OF
migrants brought here should be
those having capital and hard working
people who viii eventually constitute
the intelligent citizenry. This buica.
cannot be made a success for lessthal
then the bureau should not be estab-
lisheG. The State should not buy
and and sell it, but supplement tht
work of private individuals. But IN
entire success of the bureau viii lie
mend unon the man at the head Of II
and he must be a mar thoroughly &C
quainted with the State and man o.
the strictest integrity.
Mr.. j. w. White, general industrlai
agent of the Seaboard Air Line. was
present by special invitation, ana
spoke I'm part as follows:
Not until recent years have any
Improbable efforts been made 20 de-
velop the resources of the South. The
railroads were the pioneers in TIT
work creating departments having as
their object the investigation of The
territory traversed. that the SPECIFIC
opportunities existing could be pre-.
scented to capitalists for inspection and
with view to development.
with the cities, towns and COM
munities lending their energies toward
advancement q spirited rivalry be-
tween them naturally ensued, and &c
these agencies 4 large share OF credl'
for the South'S wonderful grown
should be given.
'"rhc first display of interest by the
States was that shown by Georgia II
the organization of the Greater Geof-
gin Association. This movement
while in n measure satisfactory, woulo
have been eminently successful had il
been pres ded over by Il commissioner
South Carolina followed suit prose
cutting tho work upon 4 line that has
been. even Turing It's short tfe. pro
ductive OF results. i would like TO see
North Carolina follow the example OF
her sister State-creating an industrial
department and appointing Comm s
sioner whose duties shall be to en-
courage Immigration. endeavor to To-
cate manufacturing establishments