The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-07-05
WHAT WE need.
New 10 Build Up North and South Caro-
lima Permanently.
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EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS
OF Clarence Poe, Editor of the Pro-
eressive Farmer and Gazette, Raj
eieh, n. c., Before the South Car. ".
olina Press Association, Glenn
5.i Springs, S. c., June II, 1910.
Roth Carolinas need and must
! have larger proportion Of white
people. The whole South. in fact
is still too sparcely settled. Our i
Southern States, excluding Texas,
support only 16:O00.oDo people OF
both races, and only 10,00O,O00
) white people, while:th same area in
Europe supports over 160,00O'Ooo
white people And it must be re-
mem bered that up to a certain polat
which we, shall: not reach for cen
turies yet, and other things BENG
: equal, prosperity depends upon def
sity of population. Population makes
wealth, provided that 1t fis'. pormaily
intelligent and efficient
2 OF course, we, do not want the
lowest class European Immigration:
II we can get immigration from Eng
! land. Scotland, : ireland, Germany,
Holland, Sweden. etc-tle countries
whose blood has gone to make up
our vigorous American stock
would be OF great help to us. we
are all of US such immigrants our
selves or descendants Of such 5mml72
grants. From some countc'es Oh
southern and Eastern Europe. on the
other hand, immigration is of de-
cidedly lower order and objectiona nie
I because of low standard OF 1ntelE-'
gence and efficiency. 4
On the very same principle, how-
ever, immigration Of a normal or
high standard of Intelligence and
efficiency is desirable. s'Sueh -imml-
grafton can be had, and ought to be
.had-in some measure, perhaps our
English, Dutch and Irish Rinsfolk
across the sea-but chiefly from our
Northern and Western States For
years now hundreds of thousands OF
the, most enterprising and progres-.
siye farmers in the Middle West
have sbeenia going into Canada with
it's long hard winters and bitter eli:
mate, not only giving up american
citizenship, but actually paying two
to three times as much for land IN
that inhospitable region as land or
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. wideaWake
and many Of them are OF southern = !:
ancestry who should naturally come
back; home. Let's bring them BACK.
a3If there were no other reason for
advocating such immigration from
the North and West I should. favor
it as surest dehverance from our
race problem. The proportion OF
negroes to whites is too large in ev-
cry Southern State, and my hope IS
that ultimately the tides Of mfgra-
tion and immigration will equallze
population until the proportion or
negroes in no State will exceed ~
per cent. We must train the negro
the more ignorant he Is the great
or 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 in considering
our whole population, including our
great constructive leaders and cap
tains 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 general average OF
efficiency we should put the white
man at 100 and the negro at oo' SO
that a county half white and half
negro would have an average eftlcl-
ency of IS, or a handicap OF % per
cent, as compared with a county
with an exclusive white population
of a normal degree of efficiency.
Whether or not the digerence IS
as much as I have indicated, certain
it Is that the larger the proportion
Of whites, the higher the average OF
efficiency, the more prosperous will
be. our, every industry, and the bet
ter 1t will be for every individual
citizen, including the negroes them
selves. There are just two great
WAYS to build up the Carolinas First
and Of paramount Importance is ed
ucation of all our peo:.'e., and l
should only supplement this by put
ting more earnest emphasis upon
practical education, education that
trains for efficiency. not education
suited to the great urban centers OF
Europe and the North, but educa-
ton suited to the needs Of great
awakening agricultural citizenship
such as ours is and must be.
And second only to education, is
immigration.
Now let us start right-not by