The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-14
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three times big affair theirs What Charleston and South
Carolina have done and why they did it is thus described and IN the
description there much and something value
The Southern press still talking about the gala day in Charles
November the good ship Wttend sailing into
harbor Bremen Belgian immigrants To
resident of New York where immigrants the OF
day the would have been strange Such
welcome seldom if given cargo OF immigrants says
paper The population OF the crowded the whaves Federal
State and CITY officials were there to greet the newcomers the Young
OF Charleston served them with appetzng luncheon, and
the railroads special trains carry them their homes
From many cities of the Southeast saws the Atlanta Constitution
"heads OF families their representatives
when the immigrants dsembarked ready with attractive inducements
good wages and accommodations good homes the
girls equipped for this class of work" The Sun papers are urging
the pepe display their traditional hospitality toward these
ers Twenty of the immigrants returned to Charleston from the
land whittier they the Charleston Post fears
they homeck Everything possible must be done, says, ito
DAYS among us comfortable and to relieve their
illness and sustain their spirit The Savannah News, similarly
thinks would be nadvisabe send the immigrants p
toong community" for fear they might be frightened away
The OF all this enthusiasm and cargo mm
grants that New York would to notice the fact that
many cargoes expects
problem and its problem The proposed Atlanta Exposition Of
has been given up read partly the scarcity
labor and representative Of the Baltimore Manufacturers Record
that in trip of ten miles through region where at
least pcker ought have been work. only
The wengh unanimous testimony of the Southern press is that the
negroes will not work. and the employers child labor the South
mills say they get adults White immigration expected
10 remedy all this The Southern States have tried to divert the
South of the immigrants arriving New York,
migrants have destinations in before they home
mas proved maccab SO the plan now to bring them direct
Southern The New Orleans Democrat urges Lou
ana to initiate South Carolina and the Louisville Courier
urges Kentucky to do the same GoVernorect oke Smith, of Geo
ga according the Columbia State is those
which he thinks could
De OBTAINED ne thereby expects to get information that he be
able effective when he becomes begin
work on his plans to bring immigrants into Georgia"
The Charleston Post quoted above of the SouhCarona
immigration scheme:
This great undertaking been so admirably carried
through The thing the South needs develop magnificent
increase of its white population The people
section wonderfully developing their rich country but there need
" more hands at the pillow and more fingers at the spindle and there
in the crowded countries of the Old World many thousands
could hnd here employment for their industry and fortune their
" heretofore they have come IN vast numbers through the
Northern ports OF the and have the great West which
has been developed enormously by the energy aliens quickly
inflated into American life Practically have to
the South which has been marked off section avoided
reason OF the Injurious tales that have been told of nhopab
lay the of things before the foreign lands
and to fer the opportunities that teeming here people whom
to live and work with and great heritage
The complete which has bringing of the
That the Whtteknds is but the first of many sangs FROM
Europe for this of homeekers who will help great
OF building up the South"
But there is Earring note in the midst Of all this rejoicing South
Carolina commissioner his zeal immigrants OVERSIGHT
said the limits of the United which declares that 1T
shall be unlawful for company partnership corpora
on in any manner whatever to the transportation any
whatever assist encourage immigration nv alien into
the United States in Of any Offer solicitation promise
etc So the 42o immigrants stand danger depoa
ton and the als OF South Carolina says writer twill all be
ed with Planters owners and other philosophical citizens who
way around will be discovered William Curtis says in dispatch
rom Washington to the Chicago Record-Herad:
The immigration officials and the officers the Department of
Justice having this matter in hand very much They
noW how important and how popular this in South
violation of the law and they don't they ought to do about it.
1T direct result of the missionary Work Of e
OF immigration who has been going the South dev-
g lectures and making speeches conventions boards of
ad and other organizations urging the people 70 see The
snare OF immigrants He has urged them persuade legislatures
Oh their States to appropriate agents Europe
and give information wages and the cost of v
S about land and labor and to lay before the induce
ens and advantages offered in the That exactly what Mr.
Watson did If he had sop there been all right but h
went he farther in his enthusiasm and violated State
territory or the District of Columbia lawfully advertise the
inducements they offer for immigrants of the law of March
1908 allows that but neither cities counties can law