The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-26
5HEYWARD GOES
! TO EUROPE SOON
WORK ON BOAT LINE TO CHAR.
LESION TO BE CARRIED ON.
Sailing Of Wittekind to Baltimore
Has Nothing to Do With Final
Plans-Atlanta Interview.
The State.

The State.
The report yesterday that the Wit
teklnd had left Bremep for Baltimore
instead OF Charleston has not caused
the advocates Of the Charleston line
any uneasiness. When former Gov.
Heyward was seen about the rumor
ne said that the sailing of the boat
for Baltimore did not affect the Char
lesion situation. The company had
! other boats to be used for navigation
! to Charleston and the work of the
association was for a Southern port,
bringing and taking trade to and from
half dozen Southern States.
Gov. Hayward has made no defin-
ito plans yet, but will probably go to
Europe early in April, stopping in
Washington to confer with the auth
critics as to his power to act He has
wired Commissioner Watson to wait
at Bremen until he arrived or until
he heard further from this state. He
has received a great deal of encour
agement from other Southern States
and believes that finally he will be
able to work out the plans as origi-
nally mapped out by the association.
The decision Of Attorney General
Bonaparte published this morning in
The State will not affect his trip
abroad if he decided that it is ne
essary to go.
While in Atlanta a day or so ago
Gov. Hayward was interviewed by n
representative Of the Atlanta Con-
stltution and outlined the work now
being done. The interview said:
"Hon. D. C. Hayward, ex-governor
Of South Carolina, is in the city, and
has apartments at the Piedmont,
where he will remain a day or two.
During yesterday the ex-governor,
who is now president Of the South
ern Immigration and Industrial asso-
citation, called at the state house and
held a long conference with Gov. Ter
rell, immigration being the subject
of discussion between the two. In
the morning Gov. Hayward was join
ed at the Piedmont by j. R. McMul-
len of Gadsden, Ala, secretary Of
the same body. The Carolina ex-
governor is an enthusiast upon the
immigration question, and declared
that it was the only logical solution
of the so-called race problem.
Immigrants brought South, ,
said he at the Piedmont, will soon
mingle with the home whites in n
manner that the negro can, never do.
Being Of superior race, both intel
lectually and in energy, they will
soon assert themselves in manner
that will be productive of better con-
ditions generally. The shiftlessness
OF the negro race is we'll known, and
in many places the negro thinks the
white race in the south is dependent
upon him. The presence of the white
Immigrant vii lsettle that question
finally, and to the detriment of the
negro. The negro, too, is great
imitator, and after he has been con-
vinced that the south is not depend
ent upon him that same negro may
attempt to initiate the thrifty immi-
grant and thereby becomes a better
workman.
$50 far, of he 800 who have
been brought over,' continued Gov.
Hayward, .tevery one has been select
white labor. Only a few Of these
have remained in South Carolina, the
majority having gone to other South
ern states, where they went at once
to work. Now, Charleston doesn't
want all the glory there is attached
to this movement, neither does South
Carolina want all who are brought
over But, at present, South Carolina
is about the only South Atlantic
State that has an immigrant port
recognized by the national govern
ment. 1t was the first state in the
south to have a state department of
immigration, and the federal govern
ment, recognizing that fact, has ap-
propriatcd $4,000 to be used at the
port of Charleston. Just as soon as
Georgia has law of the same nature,
them Georgia ports will be recognized
by Commissioner Straus just as
Charleston has been. But in the
meantime it is to be hoped that the
other Southern States which have
not had the progress in the immigra-