The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-18
WHAT THE GULF
COAST MOST
NEEDS
Tide of immigration that is Flood
Ing East Should Be Turned
in this Direction.
The last issue of The Cult Coast

The last issue of The Cult Coast
Record says:
What the Cult Coast most needs is
that the tide of immigration which is
now flooding the already overcrowded
cities Of the East to be diverted in this
direction. The railroads have come;
prosperity has come; wealth is pour
ing in upon US, but the crying need
to-day is for labor. more labor. In
telligent. competent Cbut not neces-
sarily skilled labor. The capitalists
of the world have found us out at last
and are now waiting only for the labor
that is to develop the wonderful re-
sources of the Guilt Coast. Friedrich
Won Pills, ranking as one of the
worlds experts on the subject of i'm
migration, and a director Of the North
German Lloyd SIS. Co., SAYS: CT am
making plans with other lines to have
immigrants sent direct to the districts
they will settle in. without stopping
at the Eastern cities. We have start
ed line to Galveston, Tex, an6 all
immigrants intending to settle in
Texas will be landed there. / shall
also recommend that a line be estab-
hshed to New Orleans" This author
ity predicts an era of great prosperity
for the South. Throughout the Cont.
lUent of Europe" he says. 'the word
has been spread broadcast that the
large Eastern cities of the United
States are overlooking and the best
lands of the North and Northwest
have already been taken ND. while the
South and Southwest are as vet un.
touched. The next food of emmi-
grants will come from Germany.
Southern Russia ana Hungary, and
they will be the kind of people
America ought to welcome. These
people will be a boon to the South.
They are naturally hard workers and
many Of them are farmers. They will
start new race. And twenty years
from now America will be glad that
she pointed the way to the cotton
helds.' Statistics point to the coming
into the United States this year of
-,25O,O00 people. The Gulf Coast
wants its share Of these people. 1T
reeds building up and these peopleI
will be the builders. Here, there is no
over crowding. but bread and work.
for all. Where the Gulf and Shin
Island Railroad has clearer its path
way through the forests it has left
clearings for ten thousand homes. It's
terminus, the new port" Gulfport
Miss. Is waiting to welcome shiploads
OF hOmebuilders. Ali over the world.
muscle and brain are waiting: this
new country is calling for both. The
saw mills and the cotton fields and
the vessels at anchor in the docks. to
be loaded wz,h the product of both are
calling. The waste places are plead
ing to the hOmsless every where to-
come and build up for themselves
ZONES in this land of plenty. We 90
rot want the offscourings of Europe
the big Eastern cities may have such
and welcome, but We do want what
some writer has called "the great al
led armies of useful occupation which
sail into our ports on a peaceful mis-
sion Of construction" And we want
the Record to carry into every hamlet
Of Europe the message that on the
shores OF the Mexican Gulf the door
stands open and a welcome is await |
ing all members of that army who
will come into our ports.