The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-02-11
GOVERNMENT AID TO BE GIVEN
IN FURNISHING LABoRERs
NEGROES REFUSE TO WORK
Foreigners VIII Be Brought Into
South Instead Of Being Colo.
nized in Big cities Of the
North-South Active.


AIumoTelle special.
Washington, Feb. ll.-lmmigration
to the Southern States is to be en-.
couraged by the government in every
possible and proper way The South
land needs labor Of an industrious
and dependable kind. The develop.
mcnt Of its great resources practi.
cally, absolutely, Is dependent ON the
ability Of its people to obtain labor
ers who will work and who may be
relied upon to do what they agree to
do.
It is not a question of wages, for
the wage offered the negroes and
paid them when they work generally,
is considered fair. The difficulty Is
that majority of the negro laborers
will work only when the spirit moves
them and, ordinarily it does not
move them until they are pressed for
the absolute uccossarics of life once
they get a few dollars ahead. many
of them stop working as If they had
been shot at and nothing will induce
them 10 return TO their labors until
their money is exhausted.
Southern men. i'm and out of Con-
grcss, maintain that the South can
not reach its highest state Of develop
ment so long as it is dependent upon
that kind Of labor and it is their idea
that immigration of good class
should be encouraged by every posi-
bic means t1 locate in the South.
It ne intention of Secretary
Strauss Of the Department Of Com
merce and Labor, to do all he proper
ly can to induce European immi-
grants to locate in the Southern
States instead OF aggregating them
selves into colonies in Northen cities.
To this end every facility is to be
afforded, not only the Southern
states, themselves, but the immi-
grant to take passage directly from
their European homes to Southern
ports of the United States. In other
words, 1t is proposed to divert some
of the immigration which now comes
to Ellis Island, ~ Y, Boston and
Philadelphia, to ports on the South
ern coast There the Immigrants
particularly those who have any sort
of knowledge of agriculturc-may be
located at good wages without diff
Guilty.
Following the example of South
Carolina, several Southern states
have indicated an intention Of oncour-
aging European immigration and, in
short time, it is expected that lines
of steamers will run direct between
various ports Of embarkation of inn
migrants in Europe to ports on the
South coast Of this country
Following recommendation Of
Commissioner Sargent Of the lmmi.
grafton Bureau, bill has been intro
duced in Congress to provide an i'm
migration station in New Orleans.
The measure has received the cor
dial approval of Secretary Straus, as
New Orleans is regarded as an excel
lent distributing point for immigrants
who desire to locate anywhere in the
South or Southwest. Secretary
Suaus believes that the tide of immi.
grafton to this country should not be
checked, but he is of the opinion that
the immigrants should be distributed
over the country rs to avoid the con
gestion in the great cities of the
North. The carrying out of such a
/ plan for the distribution of immi-
grants would be good, iJ is maintain
/ ed, not only for the immigrants,
themselves, but for the country
1t is scarcely likely that the meas,
uro providing for an immigration sta.
tion at New Orleans will be enacted
at the present session, but it Is
thought to be almost certain of en-
actment in the next Congress. The
establishment of an adequate and
suitable station at New Orleans will
be followed, it is assured, by the
landing there of immigrants from at
least three lines Of steamships In
times these will furnish all the labor
that is so much needed throughout
the Southwest and South.