The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-15
GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN.
In His Address to the House Speak
ing of the Rapid Congestion Of
Cities in the North He Suggests
the South is Field of Promise.

dell of Louisiana, toiay addressed
the house. as a sort of advance
agent for the Southland in general,
and Louisiana in particular.
He based his remarks ON the eX-
odus of many of our best citizens
into the British possessions north
of the United States, and the rapid
congestion Of our cities caused o.
the growing popularity of life on
| the farm, and by the large influx OF
! foreign immigrants, many of whom
settle in cities AS remedy for
all these problems, he suggested to
the house that the persons con
cerned should be induced to come
to the South.
In my judgment" said the Lou
! isiana statesman, in discussing the
/ drift Of people from the farms to
the cities, this is one of the fruit
| full causes of the high price of
! living. All food products-and the
food we eat is our heaviest iten
of expense-comes from the ground
or the set, and when The number of
consumers Who dwell in cities dis
/ proportionately exceeds the produc-
ers in the country, it naturally re
suits in high prices.
IF the relative growth Of popu-
81, ion in CITY and country remains
the same for the rex. decade, ard
production Of food be not materially
Increased - some Nely unlocked
70 LAY, | see n reason why The
price of edibles should decrease, but
rather expect an increase" he pre-
dictet.
In this connection. Represent
ative Ransdell said that what is
happening to us is also happening
to the nations of Europe"
He also showed that during the
last five years 312,614 citizens, car
rying with them material wealth in
/
1872, 100000, ito say nothing of the
immense potential value of each of
these splendid people emigrated
from the United States into Canada
He commented at length upon the
concentration of aliens in the cities
of the United States.
The southern states would glad
ly furnish homes to every one
of our own citizens" said he, who
plate such a move, and would vel.
come all the boys and girls who
have left or expect to leave the
hardships of nortern farms to seek
unfamiliar work in congested cities
moreover, we can supply farms to a
great many of the foreigners who
seek our shores, and We are
really anxious to receive all good
immigrants of the Teutonic, Scan
dinavian, British and French races"
Then he entered into a descrip-
| tion Of what the South offered
A few years ago, he remarked.
the Southerners were nearly dll
| farmers, and the one crop was cot |
ton. Its scepter was seized some
| time ago by King Corn and is now
firmly held by that monarch" he
added.
But corn and cotton are not the |
only crops grown in the South, Mr.
Ransdell gave the house to under !
stand. He told of a great charge
that had come over it, and the
present practice of diyersification |
Of crops.
With this diversity of crops, the |
congressman painted the south IS
a fine place for domestic animals.
He grew real enthusiastic over the
advantages Of my own Louisiana
for the lowly porker"
The farms were not the only things
the south had 10 offer, Mr.. Ransdell
informed the house. suggested that
an inspection of mining. mercantile
and manufacturing statistics would 1
show that.
He challenged the statements that
the south was not a healthy sec II
tion. The whites, he said. were just
as healthy as whites in any other
portion of the country. The negro Il
race is not healthy" he admitted.
for reasons which the scope of
this speech prevents me from dis
cussing."