The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1911-05-27

stepped IN vice ana mOral aDanuonAcnss
degenerate and therefore devoid OF all
civic pride.
| No greater curse could ever befall
community or people than to be mixed
in their social ties. 1t would be like
drinking glass of water with one-half
from clear spring and the other nalf
polluted.
May God forgive the contempt and
loathing that we have reserved for sucn
emigrants, and may We be spared their
coming. Therefore, | have not at
tempted to argue matter that con-
tend is entirely irrelevant. The emil
grant that is welcomed in the South is
the man who labors by the sweat OF his
| brow, not the schemer and promoter
of watered stock, nor the strictly vicious
and ignorant. But we want the bone
and sinew of the country, to take out
the wealth of the land and properly
utilize it for the benefit of mankind;
but not as speculation by the idle
rich at the expense of his poor brethren.
We have homes and alluring ire
sides that await the man with the axe
in the oak; the ash; the hickory; the
gum.
Rapid emigration into the South in
considerable numbers is a certainty.
The virgin land, the fertility of our soil,
the great variety of crops that can be
| raised at small expense in one sea-
son, and the railroad, steamboat, lug
gar and barge facilities for handling
the same, make the influx of the emi-
grant inevitable.
Our meadows and our prairie lands
are unequalled for the grazing of cattle
| and their breeding. Our woods abound
| in a variety of bird and game that
made the poets sing of the wild In
dams happiness. Our bayous and
streams abound in all kinds of fish.
We have firewood in abundance, and by
means of rivulets, creeks and bayous,
coal, which is transported down the
great Mississippi and through her ter
ritories, is placed at our very door. Our
oil fields furnish the gas, and the light,
and the drawing power. Our copper,
iron and steel are shipped to all parts
of the earth. The central factory, SUI
gar system, enables the farmer to raise
cane by the ton, and the emigrant OF
| Welsch, Jennings and Crowley, La,
can speak. for the rice industry of
those sections and favorably to all
others interested. SaWmills dot the
shores of our streams throughout the
southern states, where, in close con-
nection, timber is cut for daily con-
sumption.
Emigration into the south? Why,
should say SO! Where the break OF
day is a scene of loveliness and beauty,
and the sun goes down in sea OF
glory. Where and how do you make
any comparison between the climate,
health, educational and financial re-
sources or Mississippi and her sister
states, except to admit that for less
money and more of it at your COM
mand you will soon share alike the
common blessings of united and con-
tented people.
Wild ducks are seen migrating to
the warm winters of the south in the
early fall, and our lakes, lagoons and
streams are full of them, inviting to
|
simmons, wild grapes, nuts and berries
grow all over our woods, and the scent
of the violet and the jasmine is COM
mon to the forest. Negro melodies
and songs of "Dat Watermelon Patch"
are still heard. The great states of the
south NAV be likened to an immense
department store where the cultivated
taste of the applicant-emigrant-can
find what he wants. 1t all resolves it
self into a solid question of their bene-
fit and our benefit and what constitutes
level-headed change for the emigrant
from one section of the country to the
other. It is, first, health, which comes
from good sanitary laws, such as pure
water, good drainage, schools, churches
and, from the economic side, fertile
lands; raising consecutive crops, cheap
for cash or on easy terms; taxation
reasonable; shipping and receiving ia
cihties at hand, and everything that
tends to the moral and educational vel
fare of our people can be found by the
!, emigrant if he settles here in the
"Sunny South.
The wild bee gathers your honey free
of charge in our wild woods, while the
humming bird supplies the fragrance to
the honeysuckle that climbs upon your
porch.
An immigration station is being
erected at New Orleans, La, and ar
"Immigration League" is formed there.
Of late, branch, the primary object oi
which is to obtain desirable emigrants
particularly for the south and south
west; to have criminals, paupers and
persons having contagious diseases ex-
cluded from this country; to provide fol
the proper and expeditions distribution
of emigrants, and, in short, to induce
and foster the coming of the desirable
emigrants to this country and section,
and to properly place and assist them
after they come.
COAST NORMAL.