Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-11-23

tdhO company. WIFI n capitai OF a
bout a million dollars, to buy lands
in the cotton States and sell them
out TO home-seefing immigrants on
the ten years installment plan. The
annual payments would thus consti-
tute no more than the annual rents
with interest on deferred payments
OF six per cent. This would be not
merely a work OF patriotism, bat e
could be made 30 work profit as
Well. because the constant reinvest
ment of the money in other lands
and their sale would amount 20 COM
4 pounding the interest. and would
4 result i'm good dividends. would
bring these men in, if I could. first
I from the Southern border States
p Kentucky, Missouri. Virginia Mary
land and Delaware-where the peo-
I PIE understand our ideas Of the race
I issue.
;! I would then bring them in from
the border States of the NOrth-Ill-
nois. Indiana. Ohio. Iowa-where
! they are beginning to understand &C..
! Then I would bring them from New
I England and the Middle States.
Whose people are not sympathetic
with our views. but would become
1 sympathetic after q few years OF.
residence among MS. Nor, last.
would L neglect foreigners Of the
| right types. Resort would have TO
DE had TO them very largely because
of the fact that our own country
icould not furnish immigrants I'm suf-I
,hcient numbers. NJ we accelerated
! the natural tendency which Is now
going ON. there viii not be in thirty
years a State I'm the South that viii
|r. D.. H.a er..
migration combined. twO-thirds white
In its population, and whose pros
Iperity viii not be increased a hum
dredfold.
Mr. Williams speaks of handling
Traces with the same facility that al
general handles armies. lie forgets
that tine one is organized and the 9TH
er disorganized. He becomes a day
dreamer OF the most pronounced
TYPE He should know that immi-
\ grafton sets in to only favored spots
and that the man from the Northern
state must know that he can make
two blades of grass grow. where one
came up before or else he viii re-
main whore he is.
The Immigrant does not so South
because he has better inducements
offered him West Labor gravitates
to that point where it is best paid. /
AN things else being equal. This
is an economic fact that hardly ad-
mits of discussion. Speaking along
/ this line. the Atlanta. Georgia Cot
ton Journal which publication ranks
among the ablest I'm the South and
holds the financial prosperity of this
section above AN else in it's issue of
October 81. 1907 said.
THE rapidity with which industrial
and agricultural development is forg-
/ ing ahead in the United States along
I AN lines. has caused many people tol
warmly advocate the wholesale inn
/ portation OF foreign immigration in
TO this country for the prime and
lsingle purpose OF relieving the heavy
/ demand FOR labor, and TO increase
/ the output of farms factories and
lother enterprises. But there is much
l t0 Doe considered ia connection with
I grants into this country aside from
/ the mere surface standpoint of labor.
THE most serious question tol
/ consider is whether. from the stand
point of Americans. and the proper
appreciation of the value of our coun
try, its government, social relations
and form OF religion, 10 is best TO
open the doors OF the United States
90 am nations. or whether we had
not best call "a halt and be content
With what we have. The idea Of
many who are striving 20 develop
I the whole country IN one generation
as means 20 Increase the opportun-
/ tiles for commercial greed and IN
| dlvidual wealth is not only wrong
/ in principle. but &c IS unjust to ru-l
| ture generations of Americans yet
unborn.
THE United States is the young
est of all civilized countries, and
! from its present population. Is in-I
creasiug by leaps and bounds. as nc
other country in che world is doing.
Taking the countries OF Europe and
Asia. with their present dense pop
ulations. we find everywhere thous-
ands upon thousands of human be-
ings who are either paupers upon the
charity of the people. or who can
scarcely earn enough bread each day
to keep them alive. Knowing these
facts 20 be true, the government and
the people OF the United States
should endeavor to keep that cOndi-e
ton of affairs of into the future, so
far as this country is concerned. as
far as possible.
And yet. II the United States IS
TO become the dumping ground for
every nation OF the world to dis
charge their surplus and congested
populations, the time Will not be
many years distant until America
will be in practically the same posi-
ton as the Old World, and with a
population OF as many races as all
the balance of the world conf
bined."
And again:
1T may not be generally known
as a fact that only u per cent. OF
the present births In the city of New
York are native born the balance
being foreign. In other words, Outl
Of each one hundred thousand bal
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