The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-13

VA, A. 0Scond.class MAuoT uaoss -. =.
Congress- of March = 1874
s'.ss SATURDAY. AUGUST 49, 1910.
COME SOUTH, YOUNG MAJ.
Come South, young man! There Is
no other region in the worl5 that can
be compared with it in opportunity
and achievement. 1t is filling UP with
people at an amazing rate, the figures
OF the recent census being such as to
make the Northern managers of our
National affairs take counsel together
fas to how they can prevent increased
representation for the South in Con-
3Fgress. 1t is not the South from the
political point OF view, however, that
I'VE wish to talk about now; but the
South OF Industrial achievement.
Richard Fl. Edmonds, OF the. Balti-
smore Manufacturers Record, has been
telling the people up In Boston about
4 the South, and the story, he told must
fhave excited their cupidity e 1t did
not compel their admiration. Last
y Saturday, the Boston Evening Tran
script. one Of the most influential jour-
= nails among people who really count,
printed an article, by this grentest
and most trustworthy Of all Southern;
tstatisticans. showing the tremendous
agricultural and industrial Develop
ment of the South which Is worth
Summarizing here for the information
tof our own folk, many of whom real
T. rof kpou, hot hau boon dana
IN these parts. Last year one rail-
road carried into Texas $4,000 settlers
sfrom the West and Northwest. On one
+ idAy that line took out of Kansas City,
Z kas the lUleway into Texas, over 5000
fsettlers. Careful estimates mako the
number OF new people locating in
Texas during the last year or two
have been very good people, too, as
the most Of them are said to have
travelled down to that big country In
pullman cars and to have had money
enough left to invest in Texas activi-
ties. A great many. of these i;nmi-
grants have gone into business" but
the majority of them have anchored
to the soil and have added their
strength to the productive forces of
the Lone Star State. the biggest thing
in the South in the way Of &unoccupied
territory.
The rush Of new people to the South
has not been confined to Texas. Grea
additions have been made to the other
States also. They have all done we'll,
movement that SO large percentage
of the people who have settled in the
South in recent years have coma from
the States and not from foreign lands.
This does not mean, Of course. that
there's not room and welcome here
for desirable foreign Immigrants. for
many such colonies have been placed
in the South with good results. Tho
Italians in Mississippi and Arkansas
have demonstrated their fitness for
the cultivation of the staple crop of
those States and in North Carolina
successful d: colonies Of Italians and
sGermans.. have been placed. There is
work and opportunity in the South for
all Industrious people. whatever their
nationality, although 1t is only natura
that especial interest should be taken
IN those who have tried their fortunes
IN other less promising parts of ths
country and are now moving down In
eyer-increasing numbers into this land
OF promise. One Of the;mos crafty
ing things about this shifting of popu-
1ation is that the Southern people are
4 coming back home.
Sot counting the $4,000 white
people who went to Texas and Ar
Kansas from the Central South from
Virginia to Mississippi between the
years 1856 and 1909 Mr.. Edmonds
told the Transcript tina about $500, O0O
ether Southern-born whites moved
Within this period to other parts OF
the country. NO other region In the
world could have stood such a drair
upon It's resources. for. after all. i,
is the people who make the country
THOSE left behind had to construc
governments, re-establish business
reorganize their labor system, while
sf burdened with Overwhelming debt.
and with poverty beyond anything
that could be realized by those who
did not pass through the war. ant
8 the days following" Those who were
left behind "ploughed on and, out Of
the wreck of their fortunes, have
built up the present rich and pow
erful industrial empire Of the South
During the last ten years the einlgra
tion from the South has ceased, ant
those who left the South ora"howers
~ beds OF ease. are coming back like
doves TO their cotes. We are glac
tot see them and to see those they ars
4 Bringing with them. There Is wei.
ss come and work for all Of them ane
Tor millions OF others.
Since 1900. as Mr.. Edmonds showed
the banking resources OF the soutl
I have Increased from s5l6,oo0.Ooo Il