Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-07-01

l O0l1eV9 that CnOS0 VINO come mere
from other lands from other parts OF
our land will catch the spirit of our
people and contribute to the advance
ment of our state to an even higher
level Of prosperity"
Addresses were delivered by 8. II.
Lowenberg, president of the Natckez
Chamber OF Commerce, on the boil
weevil and it's effects ON immigration
Edward Hines, president of the Ed
ward Hines Lumber Company, Of Chr
cagO, and president of the National
Lumber Manufacturers Association,
on corporations of the state and lum-
Der men in promoting the agricultural
settlement of cutover lands. H. B..
Gurler of Noxubee county, originally
from Illinois, presented some views
man in Mississippi.
Gov. Noel presented as the first
speaker Of the day Capt. j. F. Merry,
general immigration agent of the Hi
nois Central, who. as much, if not
more, than n individual man outside
of the state, was responsible for the
u~pbuilding and development OF a
greater Mississippi.
Capt. Merry was received with every
manifestation of appreciation and
~pleasurable anticipation, as he is
known as the personifcation Of opti-
mism, and any one who looks to the
bright side of everything, even though
the attainment of the ends favored
ear hard, earnest and ceaseless
work. He did not know of a more ap-
propriate theme or effective slogan
han that expressive term, "a Greater
Mississippi" and as a step in the right
direction he desired to compliment the
state of Mississippi upon the fact that
its leaders in the development process
which is now under way have taken
such an advance step in the direction
of success. The speaker reviewed in
terse, vigorous terms the conditions
that exist in regard to the 100000
acres of un~developed lands within the
state which only await some system
attic plan of exploitation and colonial
ton in order to be placed on a parity
with h best that a be GUN in any
other state in the union.
He cited individual instances which
prove hat what is accompanied by in
CS1A1SChL LII OCOAO1A4CdI ShOI III IOWA.
Illinois, Nebraska and Indiana in the
way Of agricultural advancement and
progress can be not only met, but sur
passed in Mississippi. He referred to
statistics obtained from the director O:
the Holly Springs experimental sta
ton in the line of dairying, taking
twenty cows the milking from which
netted the sum of $3.50 to $71 from the
same number on his own little 280-
acre farm in Iowa. And the excess as
shown, he asserted, was obtained on
land which the director had reported
as cut up and washed out and on which
farming was improbable. If such re-
suits can be secured from the poor
lands, he wanted to know what would
be the possibilities of the intelligent
adaptation of the really fertile lands
of which there is such a great album
dance, and which, compared with
Iowa, are SO infinitely cheaper.
Capt. Merry closed with the sugges-
ton that a state bureau of education
and information, with an annual ap-
preparation of not less than $4,000,
would be the best investment for the
future that Mississippi could make
for exploitation purposes, and so put
an end to this prOfigate and unjustii-
able waste of our talents and re-
sources, which are God-given.
H. H. Ahrens, of the New Orleans
Picayune, a gentleman who has had
ample opportunity to study the great
subject of immigration, next addressed
the convention. Mr.. Ahrens' subject
was THE Economic Value of Immigra-
ton"
Resolutions Presented.
Chairman R. H. Henry of the COM
mittee on resolutions, presented the
report of that committee, which was
terse and to the point, as follows:
Whereas, the people of Mississippi,
in convention assembled, represented
by men Of every profession and calling
for the purpose of maturely consider
ing an effective cooperative plan for
inviting a desirable class of immi-
grants to come and reside among US;
therefore, be it
Resolved, first, That all mdustri>
Gus, ~law-abiding and progressive imm1-
grants, and none others, are cordially
invited to the citizenship Of our state,
and, especially, do we invite such
from other sister states of the United
States. We know also that capital is
necessary in the development Of the
country, as well as labor, for for eacn
necessarily do their part. Therefore,
we invite capital and pledge our state
to its fair treatment, 1t is not our
purpose in this resolution to enumer.
ate the many advantages Of Missis.
sippi, for they are too numerous. This
will be a part Of the work Of the per