Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-24
a county with an exclusive white
population or a normal degree Of effi-

county with an exclusive white
population or normal degree or EN-
cheney.
Whether or not the difference is as
much as I have indicated. certain II
is that the larger the proportion or
whites the higher the average OF efti-
cheney, the more prosperous Will be
our every industry, and the better IL
will be for every individual citizen
including the negroes themselves.
Now let us start right-not by
seeking immigration from southern
Europe, but by advertising our re-
sources to the thrifty, enterprising
and progressive farmers OF the north
and west-men Of our own stock who
now only need an invitation to make
them come. Emerson was right
when he said that "every man who
comes into a city with any purchas-
able talent or skill in him gives to
every mans labor in the city a new
WORTH" and If an ignorant negro slave
in the old days was worth $1,000, GER
tainly. we may assume that a thrifty
and intelligent white westerner,
bringing not only himself, but In most
cases substantial accumulations as
well, should be worth many times as
much as an asset to the state.
The last census year North Carolina
had only 100000 white people. 1t
should have 100000. South Caro-
lima had less than 100000 whites
when 1t should have 5000, ,0OO-and
would then be even with Its S00,0OO
negroes, only one-third as thickly
settled as Massachusetts,. Consider
for a moment how much more inf1u-
entail our papers would pc, no"
much more important every institu-
ton in the state would be, how much
more varied would be our industries,
how much easier 1t would be to get
good roads in counties In which the
white population Is now too small TO
maintain them, how easy 1t would De
to double the usefulness Of our pub
lie schools, how quickly we should
build railroads in sections which must
otherwise remain dormant and back
ward for long years, how important
our cities should become, and how
much more attractive would be lie
in our thickly settled communities,
and how much easier 1t would be to
get telephones and water works and
trolley lines and local libraries and
all the advantages Of twentieth CEN
tury rural life!
Let US take as our watchword ed
ucation and Immigration-Both OF the
Right Sort"
In the last census year 234,062 ma
tive sons and daughters OF South
Carolina were living In other states
(to say nothing Of the million sons
and daughters Of South Carolina emf
grants), while South Carolina had re-
ceived from other states and countries
only 60,744 settlers.
For hundred years now our Caro-
linians have been going west to build
up the new states Of that great en-
pire. Now let us welcome. back their
children and neighbors to help us
build two great, prosperous and
populous commonwealths, where the
masses Of the people trained to as
| high standards Of efficiency as any
where in the world, shall develop a
symmetrical and well-rounded civtli-
zation; a splendid and forceful democ-
racy Of trained, intelligent and thrifty
home owners from among whom shall
come not only a Jefferson and
Marshall, not only James ]. Hill and
Thomas A. Edison and a Seaman A.
Knapp, not only men whom all the
nation shall know as leaders In indus
try and in public affairs, but poets
and seers, sculptors and artists-if not
Titan at least a Reynolds or Mil
| let, II not a Michael Angelo at least
at st. Gaudens or Ward, II not a
Shakespeare at least at Browning or
a Tennyson, II not a Savonarola, at
least some great religious leader who
shall put the church into vital rela-
tions to modern thought and give 1t a
new baptism Of spiritual power-all
these until our long and tragic years
of war and struggle and rebuilding
shall find their fruitage in an outburst
Of achievement such as our fathers
Iyearned for, and 1t Is now our high
privilege to help bring about.