Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-21
alistellanrous 3raaine.
BUILDING UP THE CAROLlNAS.
Editor Poe Gives the South Carolina
Editors Food For Thought.

Editor Poe Gives the South Carolina
Editors Food For Thought.
Greenville News, Friday.
Clarence H. Poe, editor of the Pro-
gressive Farmer, was one Of the inter-
esting speakers at the Press assoca-
ton meeting at Glenn Springs Tuesday
night of this week. Mr. Poe is one of
the best posted men in the south on
agricultural problems, and in talking
to the South Carolina editors he gave
them much to digest when their play
time should be over.
Both Carolinas need and must have
larger proportion of white people,"
declared Mr.. Poe. THE whole south,
in fact, is still too sparsely settled.
Our eleven southern states, excluding
Texas, support only 100000 people
Of both races, and only 100000 white
people, while the same area in Europe
supports over 160,0OO,OOO white people
And it must be remembered that up to
a certain point which we shall not
reach for centuries yet, and other
things being equal. prosperity depends
upon density of population. Popula-
tion makes wealth, provided that it is
normally intelligent and efficient.
"Of course we do not want the low
er class European immigration. If we
can get immigration from England,
Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Holland,
| Sweden, etc.,-the countries whose
blood has gone to make up our va
rious American stock-it would be of
great help to US. We are all Of us
such immigrants ourselves or descend
| ants of such immigrants. From some
countries of southern and eastern Eu-
rope, on the other hand, immigration is
Of decidedly lower order and objec-
| tionable because of low standard of
| intelligence and efficiency.
ION the very same principle. how
ever immigration of a normal or high
standard Of intelligence and efficiency
Is desirable. Such immigration can be
| had, and ought to be had-in some
measure perhaps from our English,
Scotch, Dutch and Irish kinsfolk across
the sea-but chiefly from our northern
| and western states. For years now
hundreds of thousands of the most en-
| terprising and progressive farmers in
the middle west have been going into
Canada with it's long hard winters and
bitter climate, not only giving up
American citizenship, but actually
land in that inhospitable region as land
Of 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, wide-awake,
and many Of them are Of southern an
cestry who should naturally come
| back home. Let's bring them back"
Giving his own good ideas as to how
to build up this section, Mr.. Poe de-
clared
There are just two great ways to
| build up the Carolinas. First and of
paramount Importance is education of
all our people; and should only sup
plement this by putting 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
education suited to the needs of a
great, awakening agricultural citizen
ship such as ours is and must be.
Now let us start right not by
seeking immigrants from southern Eu-
rope, but by advertising our resources
to the thrifty, enterprising and pro-
gressive farmers of the north and west
men Of our own stock who now only
need an invitation to make them come.
Emerson was right when he said that
every man who comes into city with
any purchasable talent or skill in him
gives to every mans labor in the city
new WORTH and if an ignorant negro
slave in the old days was worth $1,000,
certainly we may assume that thrifty
and intelligent white westerner, bring
ing not only himself, but in most cases
| substantial accumuations as well,
should be worth many times as much
as an asset to the state.
The last census year North Caro-
lima had only 100000 white people.
1t should have 100000. South Caro-
lima had less than 100000 whites
| when it should have 5000, ,00O-and
would then be even with it's 100000
| negroes. only one-third as thickly
settled as Massachusetts, Consider
for a moment how much more influen-
| tial our papers would be, how much
more important every institution in the
state would be, how much more varied
| would be our Industries, how much
| easier it would be to get good roads in
counties in which the white population
is now too small to maintain them.
| how easy it would be to double the
usefulness of our public schools, how
quickly we should build railroads in
the sections which must otherwise re-
main dormant and backward for long,
| long years, how important our cities
| SnOuld become, ana now mucn more
attractive would be country life in our
thickly settled communities. and how
much easier it would be to get tele-
| phones and water works and trolley
| lines and local libraries and all advan-
tages of twentieth century rural life!
Let us take as our watchwOrd
| Education and Immigration-Both Of
the Right Sort"
| Mr.. Poe when he tackles a problem
| goes to the root of it; and there is
nothing superficial about his reasoning.
He recognizes a condition as it exists,
and does not theOriZe even in his an
alysis or South Cardinals men and
women at home and abroad, he said:
"In the last census year 234,062 ma
tive sons and daughters of South Caro-
lima were living in other states Ito say
nothing of the million sons and daugh-
ters of South Carolina emigrants),
while South Carolina had received from