The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-09-20
LATIMER TALKS IMMIGRATION.
Not Fa7orably Impressed with Line
From Triest-Outlines the Plat
form on Which he will Run
for Senate.
News and Courier.

tor Latimar gave out his lrst inter-
view today since his return from Eu-
rope. The Senator favors restrict
ing immigration, says he will fight for
Federal aid to drain the swamp lands
in the lower part Of the state, and will
continue his advocacy of the national
good roads plan. He is candidate
for reelection.
Among others things he said
from what I saw Of the class Of peo-
ole We are drawing our immigrant
supply from in Europe I am satisfied
that we should not be making any ef-
fort to induce or stimulate any more
foreign people to come to America
than we are now getting. I am not
opposed to people coming here, pro-
vided they promise to make good citi-
zens, and to help build up our institu-
tions and benefit our country, rather
than prove a stumbling block and a
hindrance, as is now the case in some
Of the larger Northern cities. We do
not need the class that will come SIM
ply because their passage way is paid,
or because they are promised job
on this side Of the water.
"I am inclined to restrict immi gra-
ton, rather than foster it. I am op-
posed to the state or corporations fur
nishing money to pay the transporta-
ton of any immigrants into the Unit
ed States, but believe our best policy
is to be content with the natural
growth of population. Over population
in America will result in the same
conditions that now exist in Europe,
which are low wages and poverty on
the part Of the poor people.
"We had better let some of our
land lie idle and get thirteen or four
teen cents for cotton than to under
take to work all Of our lands and take
lower price for our products, and
I think our mills would be better off
in the long run to let a few Of the
spindles stand idle and sell their
goods at the high price they are now
getting in the United States than to
run all their spindles and take low
er price for the product.
"In other words, to sum up, l
think we ought to be content with the
prosperous conditions that we now
enjoy than to attempt to change that
condition by adding to OUR population
the undesirable immigrants from Eu-
rope who are now proving so unsatis-
factory in the cities and states where
the bulk Of them have been going
for the last few years.
Europe has more people to the
square mile than the United States.
but Europe is much poorer per capt.
ia. Over there, is a wealthy class
and a poverty-stricken class. Certain
ly We have no desire to bring about
such conditions here. Wages are low
er in Europe than in America and
work is harder to get. [ should like
to see our waste lands under eultiva-
tion, but I would not like to see the
world over-supplied with cotton and
our farmers. merchants and manufac-
tUrerS suffer because Of unsettled con-
ditionS bound to arise under such cir
cumstances.'
Tie Senator was asked what he
Thought about the steamship line from
T1iest to Charleston which Baron
Won Pills has promised shall be put
in operation within the next few
weeks.
He replied that while nothing would
please him better than to see the port
of Charleston in communication with
Europe through a steamship line, he
could not approve the line from
Triest, for he said tnat it would pri-
marily be an Immigrant carrying
line, there being but few products in
his estimation which would be shipped
from Triest to Charleston, and the
immigrants would be Of the most OBJ
iectionable class-the kind that South
Carolina does not need and that would
injure rather than build up the state.
' An Ohio judge has decided that "a
woman is as old as she looks.' This
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