Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-01-31
SALISBURY, N. c.. JAN. 81, 1905.
AGAINST IMMIGRATION.

effort being made to get some
movement on foot to obtain for
North Carolina a great influx of
laborers. 1t seems the main point
is to secure what some are pleased
to call a ''good Glass; of foreign
immigrants. and for which various
inducements are to be offerd. one
n of which we note is ten acres
of land to be given under certain
conditions. just why it is deslr-
able to foster any class of immi-
grants we are unable to say, but
there are a number of reasons that
suggest themselves. The first is
cash. This can be gained IN
severnl ways: by transportation
to-day and hereafter. by the sale
of land and lots, not to the poor
devil to be thus used as a tool,
but to the capitalist who will be
told that laborers ire plentiful
and wages low, thus the wages
low" will be used to catch the in
vestor and reduce the wage.earning
of those who are here. Cash,
therefore, is, we believe, the II
tire game. North Carolina is not
suffering for development, if it
takes 10000 years to bring it up
equal to Connecticut. there would
be no harm done. 1t is true we
have plenty of developing to do,
but it is also true we have plenty
of time in which to do it. Hap
piness and contentment is worth
far more than most of the So
called progress that is grinding
the lives out of thousands and
thousands of the laboring class
every day. The statistics in this
line are appalling. Show many
railroad presidents, bondholders,
ship-owners. coal mine owners,
captain Of industry, men who use
the laborer for a cats paw and get
the money, do you hear of being
caughtl1n mine explosions, rail-
road wrecks, and various other
accidents? Does any one suppose
they want immigrants to sit a.
round and look pretty? Some
may want them for company, as
the ink is hardly dry on the
naturalization papers of some of
the would-be s'benefactors."
AS stated above, North Carolina
is not suffering for development.
The natives of the State owe it
to themselves and their p%osterity,
TO see to it that the wheel of pro-
yress should not roll any faster
than they r able to utilize her
aatural advantages and raw ma
Nevr mind what other
are doing or how fast they
Ire burning their little candles,
The hotter and bigger the fire the
more it will consume and the
will the end be reached.
The idea Of giving some immi-
zrant ten acres of land when there
IRE thousands of our native people
who do not own a foot, is prepos-
,erous. Gould a more effective
,ffort be made to degrade and
crowd out so many of our own
people9 How a patriotic son OF
North Carolina can be induced to
propose or endorse such an idea is
. puzzle of peculiar character
sites. But woe, when the beasts
ret a. taste of blood, the lambs will
surely suffer.
However much one may regret
The circumstances this is truly an
age of materialism. and, like a
balance, the higher it goes with
tickle fancies and tn heartless rage
:or dollars and dimes, the lower
will go the value of man, and
especially the individual who Ia
,ors for his daily bread.
This so-called progress. this
naterialistic development, is but
he craze of money-huntlng IN
which none but the Tlch or FORUM
tie can take part. Of what value
i such development, such pro-
irass when the happiness and con-
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