The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-30
SOUTH CAROLINA
SENATOR WOULD
LET IN ALIENS
Dial Declares Italian Labor
ers Woul Save Situation
in the South
SCORED BY NEWSPAPER
Labor, Trade Union Publication,
Says Workers Will See That
He Is Defeated
tBureau Of Publseation and Edueat,on,

fBureau OF Pubiication and Edueation)
WASHINGTON. d. c., May 26.--
Senator Dial, of South Carolina, cot
ton mill owner, violent "open shop
per-" and reactionary Democrat, is a
queer makeup in the senate. He
wanted the immigration barriers re-
moved in order that an army of Ital-
ian agricultural workers may be
brought to this countary. This is the
only way, So he says, that the south
ern agricultural situation may be
saved, because the southern negroes
are focking to the north, attracted
by the comparatively high wages paid
in the industrial establishments of
that section.
The Minute man, published at
Charleston, calls attention to the fact
that Senator Diaps reply to the let
ter sent him asking his support for
an educational bill was very disap-
pointing. Another letter was ad-
dressed him and the answer to it was
conclude that Senator Dial was
aligned with the Romanists in their
desperate efforts to wreck our public
school system. And now he wants to
import more Of the scum of Europe
in order to save the southern agri-
cultural situation
Only One Per Cent Alien
In previous issue of The Minute
Man we quoted at length from Bal
timore trade paper as to the danger
of foreign born immigration. In that
article statistics were given as to the
number of foreign-born in the vari-
Gus states of the union, and thanked
God that South Carolina had only one
per cent of foreign-born within her
borders, but now comes Senator Dial
with a proposal to throw down the
bars and increase our foreign-born
population, by the addition of per-
haps thousands of ignorant Italian
laborers to save the situation"
2 His attention is then. called to the
facf that South Carolina has enough
of pure, unadulterated Anglo-Saxon
stock to Save the agricultural stu
ation," or any other situation, for
that matter.
A labor paper called Labor, pub
lished in Washington, d. G., had this
to say of Senator Dial: Like most
reactionaries, the senator lacks vi
sion. American agriculture is in a
bad way, but 1t cannot be saved
through the importation Of cheap la
Dor. Italians would not be likely to
accept conditions which are salts
factory to southern negroes. The
same economic urge which causes
the negroes to 60 north would induce
the Italians to follow in their foot
steps. If American agriculture is to
be saved, our statesmen must dis
play the wisdom and courage re-
quired to bring about certain fun
damentai changes.
Farmer Must Own Land
I'VE must do away with absentee
iandlordism. The American farmer
must own the land he cultivates.
State and federal governments must
assist him in setting up a system OF
cooperative buying and selling which
will enable him to escape the avarice
of the middle men.
"In order to do this it will not be
necessary to increase the price paid
by the ultimate consumer for the
products of the farm. We must new
er overlook the fact that out of every
Qottdr pdiQ ny the COiiSuiiiCi oliiy ~
cents finds its way to the pocket sf
the farmer. In Denmark 80 cents
out of the consumers dollar goes to
the farmer. That tells the story, and
until that condition is changed and
the middle man is compelled to get
off the farmers back, agriculture
cannot be saved.
Senator Dial's term expires in
1924. The farmers and industrial
workers of South Carolina may see to
it that he is returned to his cotton
mill to stay"
Another Protest
The Carolina Citizen, in speaking
of Senator Dia's mistake, said: "Sen-
ator Dial seems to have been bitten
by the immigration bug. Not long
ago He gave out an interview suggest
ing Italian world war veterans to
take the places Of southern negroes
who have been migrating to the
north, and more lately he has been
advocating the bringing of Scandi-
navians. He would do well to forget
the whole business. An immigration
movement will not be popular In
South Carolina.
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