Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08

ing into Canada with it's long hard
winters and bitter climate, not only
giving up American citizenship, but
actually paying two to three times as
much for land In that inhospitable re-
gion 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 langu-
age. They are Industrious, thrifty,
wide-awake and many of them are Of
southern ancestry, who should natur-
ally come back home. Let's bring
them back.
One Strong Reason.
IF there were no other reason for
advocating such immigration from the
north and west, / should favor 1t as
our surest deliVerance from our race
|, problem, as Senator Tillman himself
has so strongly argued. The proper
| ton OF negroes in no state will exceed
twenty per cent. We must train the
negro-the more ignorant he is the
greater the burden on the south. But
at best the process will be slow, and
at present 1t would probably not be too
much to say that In considering our
whole population, including our great
constructive leaders and captains of
industry, the average negro in the
cheney 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 fifty, so that q com
ty half white and half negro would
have an average efficiency Of seventy
five, or handicap Of twenty-five per
cent as compared with a county with
an exclusive white population of a
normal degree of efficiency.
whether or not the difference Is
as much as 1 have indicated, certain
1t Is that the larger the proportion of
whites, the higher the average Of ef-
ficiency, the more prosperous will be
our every industry, and the better 1t
will be for every individual citizen, in
Guiding the negroes themselves.
Nov let us start right-not by
seeking immigration from southern
Europe. but by advertising our re-
sources to the thrifty, enterprisng and
progressive 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 la
Dor in the city a new WORTH and If an
was worth $1,000, certainly we may
assume that a thrifty and intelligent
white westerner, bringing not only
himself, but In most cases, substantial
accumulations as well, should be
worth many times as much an asset to
the state.
"And the truth is, South Carolina
needs more people.
''In the last census year, 234,062
native sons and daughters of South
Carolina were living in other states
(to say nothing of the million sons
and daughters of South Carolina emf
grants) while South Carolina had re-
ceived from other states and countries
only 6O,744 settlers.
THE rest Of the United States gain
ed in population 1900-1910 over fifty
per cent faster than you did, and no
other cotton belt state except Ten
nessee, which Is only partially In the
cotton belt anyhow, made such a low
per centage in gain of population.
While the figures showing the popula-
ton by races have not been given out,
fair estimate would be that South
Carolina now has $4,000 white peo-
pie. 1t should have 100000 more
and even then, with its $4,000 ne
groes, would only be one-third as
thickly settled as Massachusetts,.
What 1t Means.
"And with twice or thrice it's present
white population, consider for a mo-
ment what a mighty forward move
ment we should see at once in every
conceivable phase Of South Carolina
progress, how much more important
every institution in the state would
become, 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
1t would be to double the usefulness Of
your public schools, how quickly we
should build railroads in sections
which must otherwise remain dormant
and backward for long, long years,
how important our cities should be-
come, and how much more attractive
would be life in the thickly settled
communities we should have, and how
much easier 1t would be to get tele-
phones and waterworks and. trolley
lines and local libraries and all the ad-
vantages of twentieth century rural
lifeI
Let us take as our watchword
Education, Cooperation and Immi-
gration-Each of the Right Sort ="