The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-05-07

think, IN one company, but not nee
essarliy so. # such a company can
be organized within Il reasonable time
on proper lines and with sufficient
capital. believe it will ultimately
work ont the salvetion Of the south
so far as the labor question is con-
cerned, and is, I believe, the only
practical method of accomplishing
that end"
The Evening Post comments Com
prehensively and intelligently upon
Mr.. GadSdcn's report and we copy
from its editorial:
"No better programme could be
formulated. we believe, for an intel
li%cnt movement to promote immi-
grafton I" the south and alon" the
llneS suggested effort should be d.
rccted at once. It will take great
deal of work and it will require hear
ty cooperation. The effort should
not be confined to any one state
South Carolina has led the way and
developed important information by
investigation and experiment and is
in the best position, no doubt, to
start the new undertaking, but it
should be a southern movement and
every state interested in the increase
of its industrial population should
join heartily in it. We have already
available the framework for such q
colonization plan as is suggested by
Mr.. Gadsden, in Southern TmmiGra-
ton and industrial Association, of
which Governor Hayward, of this
state, who has given very close at
tention and study to the immigration
question, is the president. Gov. Hey
ward is peculiarly fitted for the
work of promoting the effort
and it offers an inviting
field for his labor. Let us get
about TIE work at once, the work of
preparing the way in the south for
the establishment of immigrants.
When the conditions have been made
suitable the immigrants will come
and they will stay after they have
come and it is the staying that is
important, not the cominG.'
We make no doubt that the plan
proposed by Mr.. Gadsden is founded
upon good judgment; that it is, per-
haps, the only practicable program
under which desirable immigrants
would come to us and, after coming,
would be satisfied and stick, for, Of
course, = thew were not satisfied.
they "'"uld not stay; but it involves
an ''aborate system of preparation,
in"'"ding the education Of our own
r""rle in the reception, treatment
r"' raving Of wages to immigrants,
a"' with it all weary waiting. An
o,h"" question from the Post.
"Thc truth is that the movement
to ing immigrants to South Carroll
ma wHS started at the wrong end. The
cXcrlinns that were made in Europe
to induce the people to come to this
sta'r should have been made in
SH;'lh Carolina to prepare conditions
fer the possible coming of Europeans.
1t was inevitable that there should
b" dissatisfaction among lot Of peo-
pie brought in indiscriminately and
without careful preparation Of the
ground for their reception.
"But it does not follow that be-
cause wrong beginning was made
tho whole movement is to come to
nan"ht. There is full time to make
new and more comprehensive start.
The south must have more white pco-
pie and they can be brought most
readily from Europe, but the south
must prepare for their establish
mcnt.'
Above is clear admission that the
i"mi"rants recently brought into
s nth Carolina arc disSat iSficd. The
Observer has heard that many Of
them have scattered into other states
and that some. perhaps, have gone
back across the sea.
It is no use to blink the facts. The
above situations from reports and
editorial are distinctly discouraging.
Our Charleston contemporary says
truly that ",the south must have
more white people," but until we get
them--and we are not getting them
very fast-it would be very unwisc
of us to needlessly lynch all our Mig
gers.