The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1907-01-04
INOiSCRIMiNATE INNING RATION
NOT WANTED.

Give us people" says the Ocala
Banner. and ne can make a paradise
of Florida"
The Banner wants people. young
people, old people. white people and
yellow. franchised and DISTINGUISHED.
raarried and single naturalized and
alien. anarchist and nihilist-anything
so they are anarOmiCally constructed
10 wear the bifurcared and can be
called people.
The Banner i wrong.
Tho editor OF This paper was i'm
pressed during a recent visit TO New
York. where he saw great many peO-
pie. This was not because the editor
Of the Banner had not been accustOm-
ed 10 looking az people. II is said
I that there are such in Marion COun-
/ ~. and good ones. TOO. But the Ban
ner's editor thinks that people are re-
;, ensible for the stupenduous wealth
ma fest on every hand in the nations
metropolis.
Bring en- 10 the south. shouts
the editor of the Banner. of course.
one class of immigrants is more de
sirable than another but all are de-
sirable in the south. II is many times
better 10 have ten thousand people
! with ten thousand dollars than TO
Lave one or two individuals with
many times more than ten thousand
collars. because the ten thousand peO-
pie must all be fed and must all wear
clothes and must live in houses and
add in hundred ways in the develop
raent and helpfulness OF the coun-
try"
The need Of the south for more peo-
pie is apparent but INDISCRIMI
NATE immigration is NOT DESIRA-
BILE.
There is a constant and steady
stream of immigration TO the south
from the north and northwest which
Is desirable. and there are classes Of
foreign immigrants desirable. But
from an indiscriminate influx from
foreign lands
May the Lord deliver the south.
New York is crowded with vaga-
bonds. The peOnage cases prosecuted
in Florida recently afforded examples
Of men of this class who work very
assidiously 10 keep from working.
This kind Is NOT WANTED IN
. FLORIDA.
The Florida East Coast railway
brought more than four thousand men
from New York and Philadelphia last
winter to work on the extension OF
that road TO Key West. The wages
were generous and the accommida-
| tons good. Yet but few Of the orig
/ inal number are on the Keys now.
They quit work and drifted from city
TO city. Jacksonville and Savannah
paid the transportation of many 10
! keep them going. They were vaga
/ bombs and. having no inclination or in
tention 10 earn an honest living, they
were dangerous to the community.
! Did the editor OF the Banner see the
bread line" Did he walk in the
parks and look on the hundreds of I'M
washed and inept and adept dodgers
or work? Did he go to the public
! schools and see the teachers struggl-
ing with mass of motley little Da-
! goes who don't know word of Unit
/ ed States and pollute the atmosphere
with gibberish and garlic?
If any southern man is discontinued
with this section let him go TO New
York and see the people that the
editor OF the Banner saw. But let
New York KEEP ITS CONGLOMER-
+ ATE PEOPLE THERE-we don't
want them.
Until some certain way is studied
ont for inducing desirable immigrants
10 come while operating 10 keep the
undesirable kind away il is better 10
depend for growth upon the natural
Influx of people.
When people come unbidden from
the farms OF the west and north
west they come 70 make homes
THESE ARE DESIRABLE INNI-
GRANTS.
7tey are seeking The south where
the climate doesn't freeze the ambitions
ard whore lands may be bought al
r1asDnf BILE prices.
This is the class now engaged in de-
coping he Canadian country. II is
taS mos desirable class 70 be had.
AMI our people would do better TO
make an effort 70 get this kind than
to bring raw recruits from abroad
Tallahassee Sun.
4 Attorney General Young. OF Mime
sofa, fled yesterday his suit 10 pre-
vent the proposed $50. e00. 600 issue of
new stock by Tho C~aa- No--L~.-, -,:s