Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-08
BELGIAN SETTLERS FOR GEORGIA
Savannah Morning News)

| Says the New York Evening Post
/ If as one of its vice consuls de
| clares the Belgian government wishe.
TO send to some favorable American
region $4,000 immigrants of the bet
ter classes every year, we should likt
! to urge the merits of Georgia as
prospective scene of settlement. TIL,
! vice consul assures us that the mel
who come will be a sturdy, self-sup
porting class, that will be an honor
to the country Therefore we sa,
again, Georgia by all meansr"
But, in recommending Georgia t.
! the Belgians, the New York Evenins
Post merely lays the foundation fol
one of it's nastiest and meanest Sian
ders against Southern section O.
the United States. For some inscrut.
| able reason the New York Evenine
Post harbors yenomous hatred against
the South and all of the white PEG.
pie who dwell therein. 1t makes nc
difference to the Post that the white
people of the South have achieved
most marvellous odds, during the past
forty years, and that they are looking
and working upward to high des-
tiny. That they are Southern, and
white, seems sufficient for any
condemnation that can be
visited upon them. Happily
however, the green venom and spleen
of the Post are very well under
stood, so that thinking people pay
very little attention to it's vicious on
slaughts. In its article about the
Belgians it launches into what ii
conceives to be very finely ironical
TRADE about lynchings and race pre-
JUDGE in Georgia, and how much in
telligent white people newly arrived
from Europe would enjoy being
thrown into association with Geor-
gians who practice hanging and
burning.
The New York Evening Post
knows, just as we'll as it knows it
is living, that Georgia is one of the
most fertile, safe and progressive
states in the Union, and that preju-
dices are not stronger here than they
are in Illinois, or New York, Georgia
has some lawless citizens, to be sure,
but SO have all of the other states !,
but shall the multitudes in Georgia be
indicted and held guilty because of
the sins of the few whis Northern
and Western states are exonerated
Notwithstanding a few of their citi-
zens commit terrible outrages? Life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
are safer in Georgia than in Hi
nois and Indiana, if some events
that might be mentioned are to be re-
garded as the measure of relative vir-
tues of the commonwealths
If the Belgian government desires
to send a number of immigrants of
desirable character to the United
States for settlement it can do no
better than note the Evening Posts
ironical recommendation of Georgia
and then start an investigation on its
own account to ascertain the facts,
disregarding the Posts gratuitous and
yenemous comments If the Bel
gians will only do that, Georgia will
be certain of her complete vindica-
ton. She has more to offer the right
sort of new coming white men than
about any other state in the union.
There are number of Belgian steam
ship aptains-Lanaars Sytor and
others-who have been trading in
Georgia ports for years; let the Bel
gian government ask them about.
Georgia and the Georgians.
Georgia has abundant room and a
cordial welcome for immigration of a
desirable kind, which she stands ready
to demonstrate.