The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-30
|HEYWARD ON IMMIGRATION South Caro1inian Ad- dresses Legislature. URGES SPECIAL DEPARTMENT Says It Would Hep Upbuad the
 State. l Former Executive Talks of Conditions In This section--says More White Labor Would Be Beneficial.

Former Governor Duncan c. Hey ward. of south Carolina. made a stir ring and eloquent address of nearly an hour to joint session Of the two Houses of the Legislature yesterday upon the subject of Immigration" having come to Montgomery from his home in the Palmetto State in response to an invitation from the two Houses ten days ago to speak 10 the lawmakers upon that subject.
 Governor Hayward has been very prominent in the movement to bring European immigrants to the South. and a year ago was chosen president Of the Southern conference dealing with the subject, which met at Nashville. He was largely instrumental in securing the passage of an immigration depart ment law through the Legislature of his own State, and was the executive head of the State during the period in which that law received it's most criti- cal test
 The speaker did not indulge in ora torical flights, but addressed himself directly to the legislators and the other members of his audience, who com pletely filled both the floor and the dhASiJ OA IeSPe AAio address was practical, but 1t was made intensely interesting by the man. ner in which 1t was treated.
 Governor Hayward was assorted to the Speakers desk at 12;15 o'clock by a joint committee of the two Houses and was introduced to the audience by Speaker Martin.
 He expressed his appreciation of the invitation to address the legislators. and paid a compliment to the ladies present. He expressed the wish that the ladies of his State would more often look down upon the legislators. believing 1t would help on the work of Legislation.
 1T expressed the wish the other day." he said" that a monument would be erected to the memory of the women of the Confederacy (applause), and that it should be erected in the very center of the Confederacy, here at the old State House--in Montgomery. (Ap- plause). And I would have it made of the purest, whitest marble. emblematic of the purity of those noble women of the Confederacy.' tApplause.)
 Necessary for LabOrers.
 Turning to the subject of immigra- ton, Governor Hayward first referred to the necessity that exists in all parts 
 settlers of the better class. He read statistics of the South, showing the position the South holds In cotton rais- ing and other industries and revealing the wonderful growth and progress rf , the past few years.
 Governor Hayward paid a tribute to the poor people of the South, and said in South Carolina no steps were taken to secure immigration until they were assured the coming of new laborers would not 6isplace single worker in the cotton mills.
 The negroes, he said. had not proven a success in the industrial field as a working class without competition. Of other classes of labor there was a dearth. The emigration from the South had been much more in the last forty years than the immigration into this section.
 He illustrated the need of more la borers by his own experience. Sixteen years ago, when he started planting rice, there were more laborers tha e could be employed. Now the conditions were reversed, and 1t was hard to secure negroes to do the work.
 If the vagrancy laws of the South ern States were enforced in the cities, ern States were enforced In the cities" he said impressively. there would be plenty of laborers for the farm work in the country" The statement was greeted with applause.
 The speaker emphasized the small foreign-born population of the South, reading figures to prove that all the vast territory South of Mason and Dix on's line, east of the Mississippi River,