The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-25
INDUSTRIAL
 PARLIAMENT SOuthcrnerS Are at Work
 in Washington. THE OFFICERS ELECTED Governor Glenn Of North
 Carolina President. William Richards of Huntsville vIce- President from Alabama-Ad- dresses are Made by schwab,
 Sargent and Others

Washington. May 24.-A discussion of immigration and an address by Gus tav H. Schwab Of New York on For eign Commerce and Ocean Transporta- tion, were the features of today's ses- sions' of the Southern Industrial Par l liament. The immigration question | was discussed by Senator Simmons of | North Carolina and Commissioner-Gen- eral Frank F. Sargent of the Immi- grafton Bureau. Permanent organiza- ton was effected by the election of Governor Robert Glenn of North Caro- lima as President and other officers in- cluding a Vice-President for each os the States represented.
 Commissioner Sargent recited the dif- faculties involved in the handling of countless thousands Of foreigners ans nually coming to the United States. No 1 one, he said, would deny the absolute necessity of rigidly enforcing the i'm.
 migration laws if it was desired to
 maintain the high standard of civiliza..
 ton of which this country boasts, but I in enforcing those laws. he saids lhv policy of the Government hnd been td | do so in humane way, because un 1 less kindness was shown to the stran l ger first coming to the United States,
 he could not be expected at the outset to have good impression of the couh- i try
 BtHt utCldTtu ludt oA PbI OtHL of all the immigration to America came
 Into the State of New York. the great 1 bulk of the aliens remaining in New York City. They do not before coming here, he said, look up the geographical situation. simply going to where their friends have preceded them. All they know is, he continued, that there Is aE old Castle Garden, a Battery" in New
 York City and a great New York to them constitutes the world. What was needed is to offer advantages to aliens coming to the United States whereby they can gather some knowledge of the country outside the great centers of population. It would be good thing, not only to say to the alien, You may land" but also furnish him information
 regarding the opportunities in various sections of the country
 Information for Immigrants. He urged the delegates to use their influence with Congress to enact a law establishing at Ellis Island a bureau of information for immigrants There are thousands, he said, who would be glad to be directed to the open country where there Is sunshine and plenty Of room and where 1t would be an advant- age to the country to have them locate. The way to get immigration started
 was to get people located. He ex- pressed his desire to see some arrange
 ment made whereby aliens coming to America would steer clear of New York
 "I wish" he said. they would never see New York until they live hero long enough to accumulate some money. Many and many an alien. he de- l clared, comes to America who, if steer
 ed out of New York into the open | country, would become good Ameri- can citizen.
 practical Settlement of Italian Emi- l !, . hA nP n paper by Bishop B. F. Frederick. who l advocated .he distribution of emigrants
 by private enterprise as solution of
 the problem.
 pr. Charles R. Borzilleri of Buffalo. | N Y, talked on The Italian Emigrant | as A Farmer" His remarks had spe-
 cial reference to the colony at Ere
 donia, N. Y.
 Tn hls address. Mir schwab said, in
 We business men of the North can
 not fail to recognize the enormous 1 strides made throughout the South in l the material development of her in- l ternaI resources during the last twen- | ty years, a development that has set | the wheels of industry humming and has opened the hidden treasures of the l earth to the miner. The internal trade | of the great South has wonderfully
 grown and has reached proportions full 1 of promise for the future, but you nc ! doubt realize that the fullest develop 1 ment and enlargement of It's foreign | trade is necessary.
 | Tt has ever been an incontest-
 able fact, although dscried by some | political leaders, that we cannot for ! ever continue to trade among ourselves | and that the fullest utilization of ouI | resources demands an exchange of ouI 1 commodities with those produced by other nations of the world. Short oi | such an exchange our trade will remain one-sided and our development incom- plete-
 A BenIGhted Theory. q cannot believe that the intelligent 1 farmer, merchant and manufacturer ot l the South will endorse the benighted
 theory advanced, by some in high nIaces that after adding cubit after cu- l hit to the height of the Chinese wall
 of nrotection, with which we have rem | dered our fortress impregnable and
 unapproachable, we should calmly slt
 down behind that wall, should invite 1 the nations Of the world to trade with
 us and should proclaim that we are | perfectly willing to sell to anyone who
 will pay us our price. International
 trade In the last analysis Is interna- | tIonal barter, as everyone knows or l sbould know, and If while inviting peo- l, nle to trade with us we slam the door | in their faces and tell them to climb ! the wall if they want to have anx com.