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

Grernvillr, September 1S.--Sena-
tor l.atimrr gave out his first inter-
view today since his return from Eu
rope. The Sc .ator favors restrict
III" immiera'' IN, says he will fight for
Federal ai|' to drain the swamp lands
III The lower part of the state, and will
continue his advocacy Of the national
good roads plan. He is a candidate
for reelection.
Among others things he said ::
from what | saw Of the class Of pco-
nlc We are drawing our immigrant
; supply from in Europe am satisfied
that we should not be making any cf-
tort to induce or stimulate any more
foreign people to come to America
than we are now getting. l am not
opposed to people coming here, pro-
vlded they promise to make good citi-
zenS, and to help build up our institu-
tions and benefit our country, rather
than prove Il stumbling block and a
mndrance, 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 a lob
ON this side Of the water.
am inclined to restrict immiyra-
ton, rather than foster il. am op-
posed t" the state or corporations fur
nlShln% money TO pay the transporia-
| ti"n 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
III America will result in the same
conditions that now exist in Europe.
which are low wages and poverty on
the part OF tie poor people.
I'VE had better let some of our
land lie idle and gel 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
| think our mills would be better off
IN the long run TO LET Il few of the
splndlcS stand idle and sell their
goods at the high price they are now
getting in the United States than to
run all their spindlrs and take il low
er price for the product.
In other words. to sum up.
think we ought to be content with the
prosperous conditions that we now
ENJOY than 10 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 capi-
TIA. Over there, is a wealthy class
and a poverty-strickcn class. Certain.
~ We have no desire to bring about
such conditions here. Wages are low.
er IN Europe than in America and
work Is harder to gel. / should like
to see our waste lands under cultiva,
tion, but would not like to sec the
world ovrr-snpplicd with cotton and
; our farmers. merchants and manufac.
'Hr"r> suffer h"rnrl~r Of unset led CON.
d'ti"ns bound ~ arise under surh cir.
cum>IAncr>.
Ia" Senator was asked what l.,
lh"n"ht abort ihr steamship line from
Trl'$t to Charleston which Baron
Won Pills las promised shall he nui
in operation within the next few
weeks.
flc replied that while nothing would
please him better than to see the port
or Charleston in communication with
Europe through a steamship line, he
could not approve the line from
Triest, for he said that it would pri
marily be an immigrant carrying
line, there being but few products ir
his estimation which would be shippet
from Triest to Charleston, and tn.
immigrants would be of the most OBJ
lectionable class-the kind that Soutl
Carolina does not need and that woult
lnJurc rather than build up the state
I An Ohio judge has decided that g;
woman is as old as she looks.' Thi