The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1905-09-27
INTER STATE
CONVENTION.
GOVERNOR VARDAMAN JOINS THE
CALL FOR MEETING.
Quarantines, immigration and Other
Topics Of Vital Importance viii
be Discussed at Chattanooga.

Governor Vardaman has joined
in the call for a quarantine and
industrial convention of the
Southern States to be held at
Chattanooga on the 9th of Novem-
Der, and at the proper time he
will name a list of delegates to
represent this State at the gather
ing.
The convention will undoubted-
ly be one Of the greatest ever held
in the South. Subjects of the
most vital importance to the vel
fare of this section are to be dis
cussed, and the objects are fully
set forth in the following call
signed by the governors of twelve
States:
I'm the attempt that has been
made by various cities, towns and
communities in the South to pro-
tect themselves from the dread
ravages of yellow fever, the most
strenuous and at times the most
unreasonable, unnecessary and
burdensome measures have been
adopted, measures that not only
tended to cripple and destroy bus
mess and commerce, but which re-
6ected on the very instincts of
our common humanity, and be-
came a reproach to civilization it.
self. 1t is evident, therefore, that
some uniform system of quaran
tine should be adopted that will
allay the apprehensions of the
people and minimize the dangers
resulting from an outbreak of this
disease. This is necessary if we
should save our land from the de-
moraIizing and brutalizing ten
denotes of a panic-inspired quar-.
antine.
again, there are coming into
the United States at the present
time a larger number of foreign
immigrants than ever before in our
conntry's history. Among these
are great masses who are wholly
undesirable and whom it will be
impossible to assimllate with our
institutions. There is apparently
a desire or tendency to bring
many of these undesirable lmmi-
grants to Southern ports and also
to distribute them from Northern
centers into the South.
"The South will welcome de-
sirable immigrants from any and
all lands, but it has already racial
problems of such gravity that no
others should be invited until
proper safeguards are provided in
advance of their coming.
"For the foregoing reasons,
therefore, the undersigned, hav-
ing only the interests and welfare
of the South at heart, hereby is
sue this, our call, for a Southern
conference on immigration and
quarantine, to be held in the city
of Chattanooga, Tenn, on Nov. 8
and 10, 1905; and we designate
the following persons as those ex-.
pected to compose and participate
in this conference: Governors of
the Southern States, members of
congress, commissioners of agri-
culture, mayors of cities, one rep
resentative from national, State,
county OF. city boards of health,
one representative from each rail
road system, preferably the gen
eral immigration agent; the edi-
tor, publisher or proprietor of
newspapers, and not more than
five representatives from each
commercial organization in the
South. All parties thus designat-
ed may consider themselves fully
authorized under this call to aid
in furthering its objects, and are
requested to cooperate with us in
making the same what it should
be-"