The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-05-17
IMMIGRATION.
Bishop w. A. Gambler on the Moral
Aspects or Artifcially Stimulated
immigration.

Bishop w. n. Gambler in Atlanta
journal.
| have had somewhat to say in The
e.. Journal concerning the moral aspects
of artificially stimulated immigra
tlon, and the consequences to the
south Of such immigration. And al
have sai(l is strictly true.
A gentleman Of the highest char
acter wrote ME of conditions in Cen.
tral Illinois (not southern Illinois)
which is largely settled by Kentuck.
ians and Virginians and other Amer.
lean Gtocks) which have grown OF
what he speaks, and from my OWL
personal acquaintance with the con.
ditions in the region Of which he
writes I am prepared to confirm his
statements.
In further confirmation of what ]
have said, I take two paragraphs
from the Western Christian Advo,
cate, a religious paper published in
Cincinnati, O.
One is with reference to Evans.
vile, Ind, where foreign element
predominates and brcwcries abound
1t reads as follows:
Secretary NIogge, of the Evans
vile, Ind, Young Men s Christian as
soclation, has sent out watchers, and
from their labors has complied sta
tistics regarding the relative attend
ahce Of the churches and Sunday
theatres by the men and boys of his
city Of 10000 inhabitants. Counting
together the Sunday school, the morn
ing and evening services of twenty
five churches, the total attendance of
boys was 1886; of men, 1856; total,
4,O41. Against this he shows fo1
seven theatres--the matinee and even
ing performance-an attendance of
boys 1894; men, 1892; total, 6,2S6
And this ratter attendance on the
theatres is in the face Of statue in
Indiana prohibiting Sunday theatres
The other is rather more general
as to the location covered, but one
who is familiar with the settlements
in the Indiana valley, it is sufficient
ly definite to be conclusive on the
subject. It reads as follows:
"Spiritual destitution is not con-
fined to pagan lands. A correspond
ent writes us that, in the Indiana
valley where she lives, she found
during the recent floods-many fa-
miles who never saw the inside of
a church, and she talked with some
young men and women who said they
had never heard Of the Resurrection. -
The Western Christian Advocate
cannot be suspected of any sectional
bias against the regein in which it
is published. It is simply reporting
]amentable facts.
I have no bias against that section
of our common country. They have
great problems there for the right
solution Of which I am profoundly
and sympathetically concerned. And
the greatest problem in that part of
our country arises from it's foreign
colonies.
Nor am I concerned to show that
Georgia and the south are free from
defects and sins. They are not thus
free, and never were. But fortunate-
ly we have been free from the diff
cults of foreign colonies, who neith-
er speak the English language nor
sympathize with our social customs
and religious institutions, and wish
us to continue free from the diff
culties and perils which such colon
les create. We have problems enough
in the conditions that exist here now
without adding this peril Of foreign
colonies.
The coming of the foreigners among
us IN solid blocks, by the methods of
stimulating immigration which T have
called artificial" is the thing to
be feared. The coming of foreigners
IN natural, gradual, and individual
way is not to be deprecated. In this
way we have gotten some Of the best
citizens among us. They came, and
settled alongside neighbors Of native
American stock, acquired our langu-
age, fell in with our ways, adapted
themselves to our institutions, and,
in a word, were assismarel. But in
the northwest we see what has come
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