The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-15
Rem. Ransdell Deplores Fact that
Many Citizens are Going
to Canada
OVERLOOK GOOD INDUCEMENTS
eoutb offers Homes For Many, and
Good Living is Assured. Diversi-
fed Crops Raised. Negro
Question No Trouble.

co,th Young Men and immigrants.
:, his keynote, Representative Rams
dcu. Of Louisiana. today addressed the
uousa as a sort OF advance agent for
thc Southland In general, and Louis
lana in particular.
He based his remarks OH the exodus
of many OF our best citizens into the
pritish possessions north of the
United states. and the rapid conges-
,ion or our cities caused by the grow
inc unpopuiarity of life on the farm.
and by the large Influx of foreign I'M
migrants, many OF whom settle In
cities" AS remedy for all those
nroblems, ne suggested to the House
that the persons concerned should be
induced to come to the South.
'In my Judgment" said the Louis
lana statesman, in discussing the drift
or neople from the farms to the cities,
this is one Of the fruitful causes or
the high price of living. All FOOD
products-nnd the food we eat is our
heaviest item of expense-comes from
the ground or the sea, and when the
number or consumers who dwell in
cities disproportionately exceeds the
producers In the country, 1t naturally
results I'm high prices.
IF the relative growth OF popula-
ton IN city and country remains the
same for the next decade, and produc-
ton or food he not materially In
creased In some very unlocked for
way | see not reason why the price of
edibIcs should decrease, but rather ex-
pcct an increase" he predicted.
In this connection, Representative
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 3l2G14 citizens, carrying
with them material wealth in money
and property valued at over $3l2Ooo'
OOO TO say nothing of the immense
potential value OF each of these splen-
did people" emigrated from the United
States into Canada. He commented
at length upon the concentration oi
aliens in the cities OF the United
States.
South OHerS f1omeS.
THE Southern states would giadiS
furnish homes to every one of our OWL
citizens" said he, ''who have gone t'
Canada or contemplate such move
and would welcome all the boys an'
girls who have left or expect to ieaV'
the hardshlps or northern farms t'
seek unfamiliar work I'm congestee
cities. Moreover. we can supply
farms to a great many of the foreign
ers who seek our shores, and we ar
really anxious TO receive all good I'm
migrants of the Teutonic, Scahdlha
Wan. British and French races
Then he entered into descriptlo'
of what the South offered
A few years ago, ne remarked III
Southerners were nearly all armer'
and the one crop was colt = u
scopter was seized some time ago
King Corn and Is now firmly heiu u
that monarch" he added.
But corn and cotton are ho' ~
only crops grown In the South q"
Ransdcn gave tho House 10 unue'
stand He told OF a great chahge '"'
had come over II, and the presei
nracttce or diycrsifcation of crops
With this diversity OF crops VI
congressman painted the SCUM as
fine place for domestic animals
grew real enthusiastic over 'he a'
vantagcs of my own Louisiana ~
the lowly porker."
The farms were not the only th'ne
the South had to offer, MIR. Ransde
informed the House. He sugsos''
that an inspection of mining, mercai
tile and manufacturing statistics wou
show that
He challenged the statements ,h
the South was not a healthy sec.io
The whites. he said, were just
healthy as whites In any other po
tion of the country. "The negro ra
is not healthy" he admitted Tor re
sons which the scope OF this spec
prevents me from discussing"
Whites and Blacks in Harmony
Speaking of the negroes, the co
gresham had something interesting
say about the race question.
oVilt Onc dShS abVuN
question In the South" said Mr. Raf
dell, whether the Caucasian and
negro can dwell together l unne
tatingly answer that they can ana
live In the most perfect amity, ea
race pursuing Its own methods
working out its own destiny In frier
ly cooperation and competition
without social commingling. The
gro question Is settling itself, ana
der the guidance or a wise Provider
the negroes not only of the South
throughout the entire Union, are q
uned to hll their places and DO u
part in kindly friendship with u
white brethren. In many localities
the South there are very few negr'
ana prospective immigrants can re