The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-06-30
FOR CAROLINAS

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Farmer and Gazette, Raleigh, N.
O., Before the South Carolina Press
Association, Glenn Springs, s. O.,
june IA. 1910.
Both Carolinas need and must have
. larger proportion of white people,
The whole South, in fact, is still too
sparsely settled. Our eleven South
ern States. excluding Texas, support
only 100000 people of both races.
and only 100000 white people.
!, while the same area in Europe sup
ports over 160,0OO,O00 white people.
And it must be remembered that up
to certain point which we shall not
reach for centuries yet, and other
things being equal, prosperity depends
upon density of population. Popula-
tloh makes wealth, provided that it
is normally intelligent and efficient.
The Sort Of immigration We Need.
OF course, we do not want the low
er-class European immigration. If we
can get immigration from England.
Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Holland,
Sweden, etc.,-the countries whose
blood has gone to make up our vigor-
Gus American stoek-it would be of
great help to us. We are all of us
such immigrants ourselves or deseen-
dants of such immigrants. From
some countries of Southern and
Eastern Europe, on the other hand,
immigration is of a decidedly lower
order an6 Objectionable because of
low standard of intelligence and eff
ciency.
On the very same principle, how
ever, immigration of normal or high
standard of intelligence and efficiency
Is desired. Such immigration can be
had, and ought to be had-in some
measure perhaps from our English,
Scotch, Dutch, and Irish kinsfolk
across the sea-but chiefly from our
Northern and Western States. For
years now hundreds of thousands of
the most enterprising and progressive
farmers in the Middle West have
been going into Canada with it's long
hard winters and bitter climate, not
only giving up American citizenship,
put actually paying two to three times
as much for land in that inhospitable
region as land of the same fertility
commands in the South. We ought
to have brought these men to the
South. They know our institutions,
our language, they are Industrious,
thrifty, wide-awake, and many Of
them ars of Southern ancestry who
should naturally come back home.
Let's bring them back.
immigration to Solve the Race
Problem.
II there were no other reason for
advocating such immigration from
the North and West, l should favor
Il our surest deliverance from our
rae problem. The proportion of ne
groes to whites is too large in every
Southern State, and my hope is that
ultimately the tides of migration and
immigration will equalize population
until the proportion of negroes in no
State will exceed 20 per cent. We
must train the negro-the more ignor-
ant he is the greater the burden on
the South-but at best the process
will be slow, and at present it would
probably not be too much to say that
III considering our whole population,
including our great constructive lead
ers and captains of industry, the
average negro in the Carolinas in
economic worth and efficiency is only
half as useful as the average white
man. In other words, in rating gen
eral average of efficiency we should
put the white man at 100 and the
negro at 80, so that a county half
white and half Negro would have an
average efficiency of rs, or a handi-
cap OF % per cent as compared with
county with an exclusive white
population of a normal. degree Of
efficiency.
Whether or not the difference is as
much as L have indicated, certain il
Is that the larger the proportion Of
whites, the higher the average Of ef-
nclency, the more prosperous will be
our every industry, and the better it
Will be for every individual citizen.
including the negroes themselves.
Two Ways to Build Up the Carolinas.
There are just two great ways to
build up the Carolinas. First and of
paramount Importance is Education
or all our people; and l should only
supplement this by putting more ear.
nest emphasis upon practical educa-
ton, education that trains for eff
cheney, not education suited to the
great urban centers of Europe and
the North, but education suited to the
needs OF great, awakening agricuI-
tural citizenship such as ours is and
must be.
And second only to Education, is
immigration.
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