The Forrest City times., 1913-10-31
NEW MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MIMI. GRAFTON ASSOCIATION STARTS
 BIG MOVEMENT.
ORGANIZED AT NEW ORLEANS
Men From Europe to Cultivate Idle Land.
Newspaper Union News Service.

tion to the South, the Mississippi Val ley Immigration Association was or ganized at an enthusiastic meeting held here
 Bring the landless man of Europe to the manless land of the South was the keynote of many of the addresses made al this meeting and is, in a way, the slogan Sf the new organization The association will bend it's efforts toward bringing in thrifty farmers to occupy the idle lands of the southern states. These farmers will be secured mainly from Europe and Canada but efforts will be made also to secure i'm migration from the northern states.
 Many government restrictions on i'm migration were challenged by the speakers. In several resolutions the gathering voiced its displeasure re garding many unreasonable measures concerning aliens, now pending at Washington. These resolutions are, in substance, as follows:
 All Southern States are urged to make bigger appropriations, and send state agents to Europe to exploit the states opportunities, and induce i'm migrants 10 come 10 this country.
 vigorous protest is entered against unreasonable restrictive immigration legislation, particularly the literacy test Congress is called upon to alter this legislation, so il will not be pre- judicial to the country's interests.
 To Develop Southern Ports.
 The government is asked to enact legislation to force more general tistribution of immigration through the gulf and South Atlantic ports. in stead of allowing the steamship com anies 10 dump 95 per cent of the aliens in Eastern ports.
 That the time for deporting unde- sirable aliens be extended from three 10 five years.
 That the south as whole. with the railroads and the corporate interests. establish more systematic means of promoting colonization from other parts of the states
 These resolutions were forw arded 70 all members of Congress. as well as. Q the Southern Commercial Congress 7t Mobile. If legislation at Washing .on is altered. speakers said. it would )pen the floodgates fer steady stream oi desirable white immigration into 'he idle lands Of the south
 Conspicuous among those who at tended the mcetne were Senator Jo- serh r Rausden. Governor Luther E. Hal, Gonerossman II. Garland Dupre, Of Louisiana, and others.
 Railroad Man Elected President
 George Y. smith. general passenger agente Of tho Queen and Cresce2t. who has been one Of tho prime leaders in the move. was elected president of the association NV. n. Younger. of Match ez, was made first vice president. and vice presidents were selected rom each of the states included ia the or ganization, as follows: Mississippi r. A. Camp. ArFansas, ]. Y. Page: Tennessee IT. F. Peek Alabama. Wil- liam C. Radcliffe. Kentucky. Commis sioner Newman, of the Bureau of Aeri- cul'U~ M. P. Trezevant. oi New Or leans. vas elected secretary treasurer. and the following directorate was named:
 r. C. Cannink louisiana: Leroy Forcv, Mississippi: C. C. Kirkparrick. Alliances Bruce Kennedy Alabama.
 Senator Baasdeu in an address be fore the convention. said:
 "The people of this lower valley must work together to pull immigrants away from New York We must he thorouchly organized under good lead ership to get results. We must guard against strict legislation. Our immi- grafton laws now are restrictive enough, The nation today i5 what it is because of i'e constant assimilation of new blood from abroad We have drawn our national ifcblood from ing injured by immigration from the old world
 Tariff legislation will not lower the cost of living fl can only be reduced by a great increase in the articles of consumption. Our great plantations should be split up and settled by Cau casians. Our great cotton plantations have been the curse of the Southland because no one has been able to mak, money out of them"