The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-01-11
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i the situation. When this had been
done, the department accepted, under
the terms of law, assistance from those
so sorely in need of hclp-assistance
given without restriction or stipula-
tion-and it must be said that this
assistance enabled your department
to accomplish results which have at
tracted the attention of the economic
world.
Extreme conservatism in all mat
ters relating to this undertaking has
marked, and is marking, the course Of
your department. Just rs you are as
Scmbling, the second ship of the pro-
posed new transatlantic service is
preparing to sail, bringing additional
new citizens to us. We are now in
the crucial period which will deter
! mine whether or not our success in
this great undertaking is to be perma-
nent, and whether we are to reap the
commercial benefits for which we
have longed, for century, to call our
own.
The scmblancc of lack of support
III this critical stage, when the depart
ment has the confidence Of the best
influences in Europe, would almost
certainly jeopardizc the success of
the undertaking and possibly lose for
us the opportunity now open. Once al
lowed to pass, this opportunity will be
probably beyond our power to regain
in half century.
This entire undertaking, the execu-
ton of which has occupied less than
six months, has called for tremen-
dous amount of work, far beyond the
Office force and the resources of the
department. The work is developing
at so rapid a rate that, For a period
at least, it will be absolutely neces-
sary to furnish some relief.
1t is scarcely necessary for me to
rccapitulatc the facts in reference to.
the chnracter. of immigrants landed
in Charleston last November, upon
whom such high encomium was pro-
nounccd by the Federal examining
officers. Nor is it necessary to re-
methods employed abroad--thc sell
crtivr methodist have always advocat-
ed >and insisted upon. do not con-
| slider IT necessary to repeat state
mcnt Of the conditions that render
/ white immigration so vital to the de-
| vclopmcnt Of our State upon agricul-
tural, commercial and industrial lines.
| do wish, however, to direct your at
| tcntion especially to the magnificent
/! opportunity that awaits us as an agri-
cultural, cotton producin" and
manufacturing State. in the success
FIJI establishment and maintenance OF
q permanent trans Atlantic freight
and passenger line between the Paci-
iir trans-shippin" port Of Europe AMI
our leading seaport at Charleston,
with lis harbor unmatched for acccSsi-
bility and its distributivc qualities by
| any port on the eastern shores of the
North American continent.
in the maintenance Of such a line,
W h"vc alrcady secured the active,
' "''"' ! support Of Director Won
Pills, OF one of the greatest steamship
corporations in the world, and 7 have
reason to know that he is a loyal
friends Of the South and Of Southern
commercial development. What the
establishment Of this line means to us
in little difficult yet for any of us
to understand. When 7 tell you that
nearly $94, 100000 worth of Southern
cotton alone goes into the foreign
port where we are establishing a con-
ncction that nearly $2,000,0OO worth
Of our cotton seed meal reaches that
same port, and that it is within our
power to direct far more of these
products through this port to their
consignors; and when 7 add that on
the shipment Of these, and many 9TH
cr of our products, through the port
of Charleston, it is in our power to
save many thousands Of dollars to
shippers and producers Of these ar-
ticlcs by reason of the proposed line
You may then realize what this un-
dertaking means, not alone to the peo-
pie in general, but to the cotton far
mer direct. 1t is within our grasp, by
rallying now, to save to our producers,
to the buyer and the shipper, hand