Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-05-16

be opposed by every representa-
tive from the south" " and further
along in the same editorial this
paper says: ''Instead of landing
these vast numbers where they are
wanted, and where owing to their
poverty they largely stay, let
them be landed at New Orleans,
within the reach of the cotton
states and from which they can
be carried by water to the middle
west. We have the power to say
where they shall be landed and
the New York steamship lines
can be becompelled to carry them to
New Orleans. No other change in
our immigration laws is needed,
southern members should see that
no other is made"
congressman of the south, what
say you to this plan for the degra-
dation of the south? After forty
years of struggle to maintain race
purity In the south and uphold
an American standard of citizen
ship, are you going to quietly but
effectively undo the work of all
these years newspaper at the
beck and bidding Of a railroad
coterie and this time-serving?
Then again, of all the cities of
the south which should have been
spared from this dire Gala
nifty, Birmingham is the one,
for already she has population
that is giving her thoughtful citi-
zens the gravest concern; already
large majority of her people 90
armed as matter of self-protec-
tion for it has not been many
months since the attorney for the
state. in seeking to convict red
handed murderer before jury IN
Birmingham made this declara-
ton: ''The cheapest thing in JEFF
ferson county is human life," and
yet given five years of those whom
the Age.Herald is thus inviting,
and not only Birmingham but
every southern town and city
would have problems and burdens
before which their pres Mt ones
would be as but a drop in the
ocean of crime and poverty that
would envelop them.
The opening of any southern
port means the taking, of the bad
with the good: it means another
race problem to which the south
is stranger it means the lowering
of our standad of citizenship; it
means conditions that would stop
the investment of capital and
bring development to a standstill, =,
and every other evil that attends
the reception of undesirable i'm
migrants.
Besides this, we don't have to
take the undesirable under pres
ent conditions, and firm stand
for only those who are :desir-
able will of itself bring the best
classes that are to be had. The
south has received and is now
receiving solid, subst n tt |
settlers throughout it's entire
domain; they are coming with
reasonable rapidity, but we
can safely provide for all who will
come as tillers of the soil for all
these the hands of The Tradesman u
are oustretched to the outmost !;
but these others will flood ou1
towns and cities, and, added to the
increased number of idle negroes
that such classes would cause,
there is much of danger in it that
no friend of the south should
openly invent it, but exert hi'
utmost effort to prevent it.
We had better consent to 60 a
! little slower, better accept the
ellis we have than fly to Others
we know not off, The Trades
man wants a disavowal from the
railroads of this position of the
Age-Herald. The Trade m a I
wants desirable immigrants, but
we want it clearly and unmistak
/ ably understood that we dom
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