The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-25
IMMIGRATION.
Address By the State Immigration
 Society.

society
 Birmingham. Ala, Aug. 25, 1905.
 To the Public:--
 i It is the intent of this address to set forth the purposes and aims of the AL | abama State Immigration Society. The Society was formed as result of a Conference, to which an invitation was extended to all interested in the sub ject of immigration by President F. M.
 Jackson of the Commercial Club of Bir- | mingham, Alabama. This call had
 been suggested by several representa- | tive Alabamians from various parts
 of the State, who recognize that a cri-
 sis has arisen in. our State development and that unless tide of immigration is turned toward this State. further progress will be materially retarded
 If not etfectually ended. The Confer | ence held fin the city of Birmingham. June 13 was attended by representa- tives from all sections of Alabama. At that meeting 6 committee of fifteen met
 and perfected an organization as fol- l lows:--F. M Jackson, President, Bir- mingham; R. A. Mitchell, Vice-Presi-
 dent, Alabama City; Joseph B. Babb, Secretary, Birmingham. The Exeeu-, tive Committee is as follows: F. Nj. Jackson, F. Y. Anderson, Frank Nelson,
 c. L. Stickney, Birmingham; F. H. La-
 throp, Riverside; R. A. Mitchell, Ala
 bama City; w. T. Brown, Ragiand; A.
 A. Ericsson, Selma; Ben P. Hunt. Hunts vile: ]. E. Knox, Anniston; John Craft, W. L. Henderson, Mobile; T. s. Kyle. Gadsden; Frank P. Glass, Montgomery; J. H. Cranford, Jasper; J. A. Edwards, 1 Talladega; Samuel Friedman, Tuscaloo-
 sa Sol D. Bloch. Camden; E. Ashcraft. Florence; Hiram Hawkins, Hawkins
 vile; Howard Douglass. Mcintosh; T.
 M. Hobbs, Athens.
 The following plan was mapped out. That an address should be Issued by this Committee, and each member see ! that 1t be published in all the papers in the district. This address should ex-
 plain the purpose for which this Com
 mittee was organized. It should invite
 all persons or corporations who need
 labor of any kind to address this com- mittee. Should call on all farmers
 or owners of lands to furnish the Com mittee with the numbers. description and price of any lands they may have for sale, stating whether improved or
 not, so that this committed could fur
 nish immigrants full description of the land and location, price. etc.
 Second.--Options should be procured in favor of the Committee. on all tracts
 of land, and if necessary, these tracts should be surveyed and cut up into one
 hundred acre lots and sold to the better
 class of immigrants. (at actual cost and expense as the Society Is not deal- ing in lands for proflt,l who wish to lo-
 cate and farm thereon, for reasonably
 small cash payment and the balapce on long time.
 Third--This Committee should em-
 ploy an agent to go to Chicago, New
 York, and other places and make ar-
 engagements to have different classes of immigrants as demand requires, shipped to points to be named in this State. where another agent of this Committee should meet and distribute them according to order; provided that great care should be exercised in the selection of such immigrants. and fur ther that no charge other than actual cost be made by this society for any services rendered.
 The Alabama State Immigration So- ciety will thus be seen is not a money making institution. It was not orga- niZed. and will not be conducted in the interest of any particular section or industry It is not now opposed nor will 1t assume a position Of hostility or jealousy towards any other fmmigra- tion society already organized or which rsay hereafter be organised It was not organized because these societies and organizations already in existence were not covering the field or because any branch of our State Government was not doing valuable work in it's line. but it's purpose was and is to eo-operafs