The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
Former Immigration Connis- siOnGf Sounds Praise of Land
 of Eminent Possibilities
DESERVES ONLY THE BEST
 AND IS SURE TO GET II
Every Visitor Who Goes Over the outhland These Days Becomes
 Walking Adve rtisement for This Favored Section.

Washington, July 9.-(speeial)-'rhe man who travelled through the south ton years ago and contempates making an- other visit to that favored land has 4 great surprise in store for him. He will find the vines and flowers that once grew wild and uncultivated. climbing the sides of homes, workshops and factories that have pushed their walls upward, In all parts of the south, during the past few years. These indicate what the future has in store for that part of our coun- try" T. N. Powderly. former commis- sloner of immigration, made this state ment today
 "Those who strive to turn the tide of immigration southward would do well to pause awhile and consider the future. The south needs not only muscle and brain but money as well and to head a class of immigrants toward the south that brings no women or children and no money to invest. mad who drift else where when few dollars are acquired, would not be desirable. The south needs men and women it is true, but there are hundreds and thousands of families In New England. the middle states and the central west who need the south and who would go there If they but knew of its superior advantages
 Suffer From Northern Climate.
 "The home-seeking immigrants of the past have gone to tie west and north- west. While not all of them have pros- pered nearly all, particularly those who went to the northwest suffered great deal from the climate There is only one reason why a man will bring his family to a place where he must shovel snow all winter and live in cyclone cellar all summer, and that Is lack of knowledge of better place. The hon- est industrious immigrant who brings hls family with him can be turned south ward The northern or eastern man who has grown discouraged with conditions or who cannot endure the rigorous cli- mate can be directed to the south, and both of these classes need the south as much as the south needs them.
 "It may sound improbable, but $2 will go as far in the south three in the north. One may construct a home for i from third to one-half less than in the north, for the expense incident to pro- lection to zero weather is not necessary, while the building material Is all at hand. One don't need the quantity of clothing or clothing so expensive weather proof | out buildings are not required. Stock may be cared for at less expenses than Tn | the north and losses through exposure, indictment weather and bIzzards are un- known.
 Covered With Railroads.
 Tn the matter of facilities to get there | you have only to study the map sRow- ing the ramifcations of three of the great est system of railways in the world. | Each one traverses a vast territory and together they bind empire in honGs of steel. Enterprising, accommodating, | up-to-date, courteous in management. these great trunk lines of the south have become the marvel of the age. Factory sites, home sites plantations and farms for millions. on the best of land, may be seen from the car window and there is | now no part of the new south far re- moved from a railroad that A tap line may not be run to 1t at slight trouble | and expense.
 "Is not the climate of the south ener- vating, you ask?
 South Is Not Enervating. '1t Is a mistake to hold that the cll- | mate of the south Is enervating. It cam | not be because of the heat that that idea took root for the south is no hotter than 1t is here: the warm weather lasts longer. | that is all. The nights are always cool and as for the heat why there Is no hot ger place than blast furnace of a roll i ing mill ,and those who work in such | places are always healthy. There was | time when people, in ignorance of the laws of health, used for drinking water the surface drainage that contained de- 1 ataH nd fever breeding subs stance. Men who knelt by staguant pool, blew the green scum away and drank of the water be- heath, acquired fever and ague and be- came enervated but it was not the ci- mate that did 1t. All this is necessary to retain good health and energy, and | 1t Is as easy to do it In the south as eswhere Is to pay a decent regard to the | laws of sanitation and hygelne. Every 1 child that has learned to read under. 1 stands how to guard against climatic and | dietary troubles now. But you only | read of the bad effects of the southern | climate. you never feel 1t, see 1t or come l in contact with it. If you have doubts l about the native southerner being encr- eetic and husting just bump up against an ex-union soldier who faced him in the brother Johnnie kept him travelling some This talk of enervating cli- mate Is all nonsense, its like the Jersey mosquito. worse in the papers than in | Jersey No one stays away from Jersey because of the mosquito. Artesian wells, | up-to- date water departments and the latest system of circulating pure water are everywhere through the south now. 1