The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-06-23
COMMENT.
NEEDOF IMMIGRATION.

opportunities offered hOme-Seek-
ers by the South, Mr.. Ransdell,
of Louisiana, stated that during
the last five years more than
300, 600 people have moved to
Canada from the northern part
Of the middleWest. Well-direct-
ed advertising is what caused
those people-most Of them, no
doubt, valuable additions to the
citizenship of any country to
decide to 60 to Canada, and many
others will be induced to go in
the same way. When a move
ment of people is started in a GER
tain direction an endless chain is
formed. Thousands more from
the same and other sections will
seek homes where better oppor-
tunities are offered within the
next five years. The South Of
fers as good opportunities as any
section on earth and it's advan-
tages are increased every time a
desirable family of immigrants
settles within it's borders. The
more thickly settled a section is
the more valuable land and every
thing else becomes. Better roads,
better schools and more ready
command of all modern conven-
fences FOLLOW naturally as desira-
BILE people are added to the pop
ulation of a section. And North
Carolina can bring into her bor-
ders many thousands of desirable
immigrants by the right sort of
advertising. A home-seeker is
not going to a section that he
knows nothing about when there
is placed before him glowing &C.
counts about the opportunities
offered in Canada, or some other
country. If North Carolina will
let the world know what oppor-
tunities are offered here for home
seekers there will be no lack of
desirable immigrants.
In his excellent address before
the North CarolinaPress Associa-
ton at Whightsville Beach re-
Gently, Mr.. Clarence Poe, editor
of The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette, said, among other good
things:
North Carolina needs and
must have a larger proportion of
white people. The whole South,
in fact, is still too sparsely settled.
Our eleven Southern States, ex-
Guiding Texas, support only 49,
600, 600 people of both races, and
only 100000 white people,
while the same area in Europe
supports over 100, 100000 white
people. And it must be remem-
bered that up to a certain point
which we shall not reach for GEN.
turies yet, and other things be-
ing equal, prosperity depends up
on density Of population. If you
owned the continent of North
America. but lived on it alone, or
if a hundred or thousand men
owned the continent and lived on
it alone, it would be worth prac-
tically nothing to them. Popu-
lation makes wealth, provided
that it is normally intelligent and
Efficient
Let us take as our watch
word" said MIR. Pee, Education
and Immigation-Both of the
Right Sort, - and he concluded
his address as follows, a dream
of North Cardinals future moi
impossible of realization if the
right sort of immigrants are in
duced to come:
; For seventy years now NORTH
Carolinians have been goingWes
to build up the new States O:
2 that great empire. Now let u.
: welcome back their children ant
! neighbors to help us build her,
5 a great, prosperous and populou
Z Commonwealth, where the mass
t es of the people. trained to as higl
r standards of efficiency as any
: where in the world, shall develo]
: a symmetrical and well-roundet
n civilization: a splendid and force
full democracy Of trained, intelli
gentand thrifty homeowners fror