The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-19
IMMIGRATION SETTING SOUTHWARK

Along with the speculations evoked by the census
bulletins the report of the arrival of 00 900 foreign
immigrants in the last fiscal year. and the of
returning American settlers from Canada, comes the
interesting prophecy in Washington Associated Press
dispatch of unusual migratian from the Northwest
to the South and Southeast A similar movement oc-
Cured in October last year from the central States
especially Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska but this bids
fair to surpass its predecessor The Cleveland Plain
Dealer reports that great tracts in Florida Georgia.
and southern Alabama are being opened to colonial
tion," and has found colony of Slovaks, both
miners from Pennsylvania and new immigrants, in
southern Alabama. The Washington Post has found
entire community in Georgia composed of entrants
from the middle west The Houston Post says that the
Northern firms are purchasing lands in southern Geor
gia southern Alabama and Florida for development,
and other papers find that Northern farmers buy
ing lands in Virginia the Carolinas northern Alabama
Georgia and Tennessee.
The Southern press are united in hailing the move
ment with joy, and many localities advertising
special inducements and planning boosting tours
through Northern States. Of especial interest in this
connection the recent Mississippi State Immigra-
ton Convention The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
emphasizes Governors Noes speech at this conven-
ton as presenting the need of the whole South The
Governor declares:
To-day is vitality important that we should make
businesslke effort TO part of this immigra
ton We face to face with industrial and agri-
cultural revolution. We getting away from the
onecrop idea, and realizing the Importance of more
home products. The Mexican boil weevl hiss invaded
state and is steadily marching eastward and north
ward We must have dversification of crops and inn
proved methods of farming, agriculture as pur-
suit must be abandoned.
In the years gone by we have been farming with
cheap unskled Negro labor which seemed to be suf-
cient for the cotton CROP but which is sufficient
for modern conditions We need, in the adoption of
diversified and intensified farming, skill,
capital intelligence, and want to get it from
all parts of the Unon.'
The Richmond Journal finds the prospect of added po-
tica representation especially pleasing An increas-
ed immigration to the South it believs
''Will by increasing the Souths population and
therefore it's representation in Congress and the cleo
tora college give the South the standing in the coun-
ellis of the nation which it deserves We cannot help
but think that those who have been calling upon the
South forsake the Democratic party and become Re-
publicans on the ground that by doing so the South
wond exert it's proper influence at the national capital
had the fear in their minds that the marvellous growth
of the South would give it that influence in great
length of time anyway"
The Atlanta Constitution expects "inestimable re-
suits for prosperity from this southwark movement
and the New York Journal of Commerce thinks that
there is no promising sign for the Southern
States and for the country whole THE Literary
Digest.