The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-30

Could Manufacture Own Cotton.
 If we had plenty of labor in the South" he said. "there Is no reason why we should not manufacture the great cotton crop into goods, and make the world come to us for it,
 Cheap living could be secured only by securing new settlers for the farm lands of the South. md 1t was. he said. the only manner in which the South could maintain its industrial supre- macy. E
 Another reason" he said, .'why we need immigration Is that 1t would not only solve the labor question, but would solve the negro problem. We have heard much about the transplanting of the negro. but the fact remains that he is going to stay with us for many generations to come The negro don't want to go, and the white man don't man him to go. (Applause)
 We hear.S too. of the repeal of the fifteenth amendment. But say to you that until the negro question becomes much more acute In the North than it is now: until it becomes '~,ore critical, as 1t Is in the Sou |, the fifteenth amendment will stand as a~part bf the organic law of the land.
 Tt Is. therefore. a condition that we face, and we mieht just as well face it squarely. The negro is going to be with us and we should recognize that fact"
 One advantage of the immigrant, he said, was that he wou. bring diversi- fled industries into the South. The ne- gro Is a one-crop man. The coming of the immigrant would relegate the negro to his rightful position In the cotton field He did not mean by thls that any injustice was to be d-le the negro.
 Give Negro Place.
 "The people of the South have made up their minds to solve the negro problem in their own way" said Gov ernor Hayward, but Tn doing so they have also made up their minds to secure him his rightful place and his rights as man."
 The coming of imr ants would not i, injure the white labor of the South. thought Governor Heyward, either or ganizer or unorganlzed. The immi- grant would not work for the wages paid negroes, and he could not see where more people would hurt any class of people.
 He said he did believe in in- discriminate immigration, but only the bringing of desirable immigrants to the South. He realized that in the South there was the purest Anglo Saxon blood existing anywhere except in old England; there was in the South the best train of Americanism that could be found anywhere in the coun- try. and he did not propose to change conditions by undesirable immigration. The great problem in connection with immigration, he said, was how to get the desirable class of immigrants to hA IYo of accomplishing the desired end was to establish departments of immigration in each of the Southern States. and by arranging for the establishment of steamship lines running direct to Southern ports from Europe.
 He detailed what was being done in diversified indutries, truck forming, etc.. by the South Carolina immigra- tion department, and outlineds the pro- visions of the law establishing the department in his State.
 Helps Upbuild the state,
 Such a department, he said was to State what a chamber of commerce is to a city. I helps to upbuild the State, and lets the State decide what class of immigrants should be brought fin. They could be brought from any country or any portion, of Europe de- sired. In that way 1t protected the South from undesirable immigrants The railroads have tried to secure l immigrants in years past. but have 1 failed. These attempts have necessari- | iy been among the aliens, arriving al Ellis Island New York. who were, from | all he could learn, as a whole an un. desirable class
 l He recounted the many advantages | to all classe of citizens and industries AE fbo A0N NT sat.w to Southern ports, and poitned out the necessity of all the South Atlantic States helping to make the present Charleston line of steamers from North Europe success. as 1t Is the initial line of such steamers. and 1t means muhch to the entire South to have 1t prove successful.
 He expressed the utmost interest fin the State of Alabama and In its fu- ture, and wished the greatest success to the present Legislature and to the Conner administration. He referred In a feeling manner to the many historic occasions where South Carolina and Alabama had stood together to make the United States republic, how the two States were leaders In the move ment to stand for their constitutions rights, and said South Carolina couId never forget that 1t was on the portjco or the capital that Jefferson Davis took his vow as a leader of the South. his VOW that made him a martyr. Both States were now willing to let the dead past busy It's past. while neither was willing to forget that past.
 The Governor closed his address with brilliant perosation, in which he paid beautiful tribute to his beloved South. where the people. by being good southerners, were made better Amer leans.