NORTH CAROLINA NEEDS IMMI
GRATION.
Extracts From Address of Clarence
Poe, Editor of The Progressive Far
mer and Gazette, 'iefore the
North Carolina Press Association,
WHghtsviMe, N. C., June 9, 1910.
North Carolina uceds and must
have a larger proportion of white
people. The whole South, tn fact. Is
?it111 too sparsely settled. Our elev
en Southern States, including Texas,
support only 16.000.000 people of both
races, and only 10,000,000 white peo
ple, while the same area in Kurope
supports over 160,000,000 white peo
ple.. 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.
If you owned the continent of
North America, but lived on it alone,
or if a hundred or a thousand men
?owned the continent and lived on it
alone, it would be worth practically
nothing to them. Population makes
wealth, provided that it is normally
Intelligent and efficient.
The Sort of Immmigrants We Need.
Of course, we do not want the low
er-class Kuropcan immigration. It
we can get immigration from Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, |
Holland, Sweden, etc.,?the countries
whose blood has gone to make up our
vigorous American stock?it would
be of great help to us. We are all
of us such immigrants. From some
?countries of Southern and Eastern
Europe, on the other hand, immigra
tion Is of a decidedly lower order and
objectionable because of a low stan
dard of Intelligence and efficiency.
On the very same principle, how
?ever, immigration of a normal or,
tilgh standard of Intelligence and ef-'
Ticiency is desirable. Such immlgra-i
tton can be had, and ought to be had i
?In some measure perhaps from our|
English, Scotch, Dutch, and Irish
kinsfolk Hcross the sea?but chiefly,
from our Northern and Western'
*tates. Kor years now hundreds of
thousands of the most enterprising
ind progressive farmers of the Mld-j
<11e West have been going Into ("an
lda with its long hard winters and
Mtter climate, not only giving up Am
? >rlcan citizenship, but actually pa.v-(
ing two or three times as much for<
land in that inhospitable region as
land of the same fertility commands
<n the South. We ought to have
^brought these men to the South.
They know our Institutions, our lan
guage, they are Industrious, thrifty,
wide-awake, and many of them are of,
'?Southern ancestry who should natur
ally come back home. Let's bring
thein back.
Immigration to Solve the Race Prob
lem.
If there were no other reason fori
advocating such immigration from the
North and West, I should favor it
as our surest deliverance from our
race problem. The proportion of ne
groes to whites is too large in ev
ery Southern State, and my hope is
that ultimately the tides of migration
and immigration will equalise popula
tion until the proportion of negroes
in no State will exceed 20 per cent.
We must train the negro?the more
ignorant he is the greater the bur
den on the South?but at best the
process will be slow, and at present
it would probably not be too much to
say that in considering our whole
population, including our great con
structive leaders and captains of In
?ilustry, the average negro in North
Carolina in economic worth and ef-j
flclency is only half as useful as the
average white man. Iir other words.!
in rating general average of efficien-.
ey we should put the white man at
100 and the negro at GO, so that a
<ounty half white and half negro
would have an average efficiency of j<
75, or a handicap of 25 per cent as i
compared with a county with an ex-;
elusive white population of a normal i
degree of efficiency. |;
Whether or not the difference is 1
as much as I have indicated, certain >
it is that the larger the proportion of i
whites, the higher the average of ef- ^ I
ficiency, the more prosperous will be I
our every industry, and the better it l
will be for every individual citizen, I
including the negroes themselves. I
Two Ways to Build Up North Caro- 1
, ? , Una. 1
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There are just two great ways to ^ \
build up North Carolina. First and .
of paramount importance is the way |
which Governor Aycock emphasized
unceasingly in his administration?the
Education of all our people;and I
should only supplement this by put-',
ling more earnest emphasis upon1;
practical education, education that41
?rains for efficiency, not education'
xulted to the great urban centers of {,
Europe and the North, but education
suited to the needs of a great, awak- |
ening agricultural Commonwealth
.such as ours is and must be.
And second only to education wnich'
?Governor Aycock emphasized, is Im-'i
emigration which Governor Glenn set1'
out to further, but to which the State
? did not respond because it was not ;
made clear that the immigration was
to be of the right sort.
4,000,000 Instead of 1,200,000 White
People.
Now let us start right?not by
seeking immigrants from Southern
Europe, but by advertising our re
sources to the thrifty, epterrvislng
and progressive farmers of the North
and West?men of our own stock
who now only need an invitation to
make them come. Kmerson was right
when he said that "every man who
romes into a city with any purchas
able talent or skill in him gives to
every man's labor in the city a new
worth," and If an ignorant negro
slave In the old days was worth |1,
000, certainly we may assume that a
Thrifty and intelligent white Western
er, bringing not only himself, but in
most cases substantial accumulations
;is well, should be worth many times
as much as an asset to the State.
The last census year North Caroli
na had only 1,200,000 white people. It
r.hould have 4,000,000. Consider for a
moment how much more important
every institution in the State would
be, how much more would be our In
dustries, how much better would be
our schools and roads and railroads,
how much more attractive would be
country life In our thickly settled
communities and how much easier it
would be to get telephones and wa
ter-works and trolley lines and local
libraries and all the advantages of
twentieth century life!
Let us take as our watchword "Ed
ucation and Immigration?Both of
the Right Sort."
A Dream of North Carolina's Future.
For seventy years now North Caro
linians have been going West to build
up the new States of that great em
pire. Now let us welcome back their
children and neighbors to help us
build here a great, prosperous and
populous Commonwealth, where the
masses of the people trained to as
high standards of efficiency as any
where In the world, shall develop a
symmetrical and wellrounded civili
zation: a splendid and forceful dem
ocracy and trained, Intelligent and
thrifty homeowners from among whom
shall come not only a Jefferson and a
Marshall, not only a James J. Hill
and a Thomas A. Edison and a Sea
man A. Knapp, not only men whom
all the nation shall know as leaders
in industry and in public affairs, but
poets and seers, sculptors and ar
tists?if not a Titian at least a Rey
nolds or a Millet, if not a Michael
Angelo at least a St. Gaudens or a
Ward, if not a Shakespeare at least
a Browning or a Tennyson, if not a
Savonarola, at least some great re
ligious leader who shall put the
church into vital relations to modern
thought and give it a new baptism
spiritual power?all these until North
Carolina shall stand forth as having
developed the best-rounded civiliza
tion of which any American State
can boast.
Better Medical Education.
If the agent of the Carnegie Foun
dation finds much to complain of
In medical education now, what would
he have said of the medlca) education
mnarted thirty or forty years ago?
The Medical Practice act of Illinois
w;(s enacted only about thirty years
ago, and at that . time one medical
college in Chicago was graduating
students after a single course of lec
tures, occupying only a part of a
year, and another more enterprising
institution was graduating two class
es i' year.
The two high class and thoroughly
orthodox medical colleges had but n
single course of lectures each, and
the two years' study consisted in tak
ing the same course of lectures twice.
The first year in the imaginary three
years' course consisted of occasional
contact between the aspirant for a
degree and a medical practitioner.
When one of these two institutions
graded its course so that the second
year should not be a duplicate of the
first, and insisted on a good high
school education as a condition of
pntrar.ee, it was regarded as revolu-j
lionary. In one town in Northern Illi
r.ris a little earlier than this nine
men were practicing medicine, only
:wo of whom had any degree at all;
the if ft picked up medicine In drug
stores and army hospitals. The Med
ic al Practice act drove fifteen hun
dred doctors out of Illinois to prac
tice in other States or get a profes
sional education.
All that is changed now every
where.?Philadelphia Record.
If you are not satisfied after using ]
according to directions two-thirds of
a bottle of Chamberlain's Stomach'
and Liver Tablets, you can have'
your money back. The tablets'
cleanse and Invigorate the stomach,1
Improve the digestion, regulate the
bowels. Give them a trial and get
well. Sold by Hood Bros.
"You look worried dear. What's the
matter??" "My husband Is ill." "Too:
bad! Is his condition critical?"!
"Worse?it's abusive."?Cleveland
Leader. J
The Eduactional Bond Issue.
The proposition for a bond lstue to
fully equip the State Schools was
sprung upon^lhe last Legislature, as
our readers will remember, but In
view of the strong feeling against the
movement it was speedily withdrawn.
Rut Its advocates have not been
asleep. They never sleep, and never
surrender. The other day at the al
umni banquet at the I'nlverslty, Gov.
Kltchln boldly advocated a bond Issue
for the purpose indicated. The Gov
ernor's favor, however, does not
change the complexion of the mea
sures in the least; It only put* be
hind It the power and Influence of the
administration, and thus calls for
redoubled energy on the part of those
who do not think It Just. Not con
tent with ready access to the treas
ury from which an ever widening
stream of annual appropriations is
flowing into the coffers of State
schools, the advocates of this amaz
ing proposition would saddle upon the
tax-payers of coming ages the bur
den of furnishing luxurious appoint
ments at the various and sundry
State colleges, that will be of not the
least practical benefit to five per
cent of their children. Already these
schools are being fed out of a silver
spoon. They get what they ask for
and they always ask for a plenty. The
tax-payers of the State have been for
years providing these institutions wltt
a cudgel to crack the heads of their
sister schools which furnish instruc
tion as thorough as that in any State
college and without asking for or re
ceiving one dollar from the public
funds. All In the world these denom
inational and private schools ask for
is a chance to live; and North Caro
lina denies them even that poor boon.
These denominational schools were
built by the very men who furnish the
money to the State schools which en
ables them to enter the field with
free tuition in their hands and other
advantages which ample resources al
lo<v them. This is bad enough, but
to bleed the tax-payers of the pres
ent and burden those of the future
for the benefit of twenty per cent of
the jyoung men and women who pa
tronize our various colleges is mon
strous to us. These college lobbyists
are shrewd and strong. They know
exactly how to frighten the timid,
flatter the vain and dazzle the am
bitious. The only hope for the over
throw of this bold demand is that the
people will send enough strong, ear
nest and patriotic statesmen *o Ral
eigh to guard their rights and save
the public money from the clutches of
the most avaricious and Insatiate mo
nopoly that has ever flourished in
our State.?Charity and Children.
I
When Mark Twain Became Editor.
The late Mark Twain spent two
years of his life in Buffalo, includ
ing the "honeymoon" period, for it
was while he was editor of the Buf
falo Express (1869-1870) that he
married Miss Olivia Langdon of El
mlra, N. Y.
On assuming the editorship of the
Express on August 21, 1869, the man
who was afterwards to become one of
the world's greatest humorists, said
editorially:
"I only wish to assure parties hav
ing a friendly Interest in the prosper
ity of this journal that I am not go
ing to hurt the paper deliberately and
intentionally, at any time. I am not
going to introduce any startling re
form or in any way attempt to make
trouble. I am simply going to do
my plain, unpretending duty?when I
cannot get out of it. I shall work
diligently and honestly and faithfully
at all times and upon all occasions,
when privation and want shall com
pel me to do so. In writing I shall
always confine myself strictly to the
truth, except when it is attended
with inconvenience. I shall wither
ingly rebuke all forms of crime and
misconduct, except when committed
by the party inhabiting my own
vest. I shall not make any use of j
slang or vulgarity upon any occasion \
or in any circumstances, and shall
never use profanity except in dis
cussing house rent and taxes. In-*
deed, upon second thought, I will not
even then, for It is Inelegant, un
christian and degrading. I shall not'
often meddle with politics, because
we have a political editor who Is al
ready excellent and only needs a
term In the penitentiary to be per
fect. I shall not write any poetry,
unless I conceive a spite against the
subscribers."
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is
sold on a guarantee that if you
are not satisfied after using two
thirds of a bottle according to direc
tions, your money will be refunded.
It is up to you to try. Sold by Hood
Bros.
Chicago is to have a thirty-story
hotel, which will contain more bath
tubs than may be found anywhere
else beneath one roof.
New Tork has discovered that it
pays $100,000 a year for the wooden
skewers in the meat.
The Blind Alley of Protection. |
As Congress draws to Its close the
Congressional Kecord comes freighted
with more and more speeches, deliv
ered ai d undelivered, having for their
object to provide materials for the
coming campaign. This is the cus
tom with both parties, and it has de
generated into a grave abuse. A Mich
igan member for example, the other
day exhibited an array of doctored
statistics to prove that the priro of
nearly all commodities are higher on
the other side of the St. Lawrence
than in Detroit. It was nothing to
him that he Is flatly contradicted by
the dally market reports as well as
bj the experience of any one who
visits the Canada side of the river.
If he and his fellow-Protectionists
were asked why they are so vehe
mently opposed, then, to free trade
with Canada they would say that
the duties are needed for revenue, or
they would resort to some other sub
terfuge.
It pleases the reactionaries In Con
gress Just now to fill their speech
es with laudations of the Payne-Ald
rich tariff, as in former years the
system of which this is the latest, and
last, edition was held up to the ad
mi: ing people as the source of na
tional and individual prosperity. But
as is observed, the method has whol
ly changed with the occasion. For
merly the Protectionist war cry
was that the wonder-working tariff
caused high prices, and with high
pi ices high wages for American work
ingmen. Now statistics must be dis
torted and garbled to support the
as3trtion that the tariff has nothing
to do with the exorbitant advances in
prices all along the line. Then it
was said with a sneer by one of the
pandits of protection that "a cheap
coat implies a cheap man" under the
coat. Now the breath of the react
ionaries is exhausted In assertions
j that the tariff has no share In the
high coat ana shouairying or tnc
clothing of the American people.
Thus the reactionary champions of
the Payne-Aldrich act. find them
selves driven Into a blind alley on
tlie very threshold of the Congression- ?
al campaign. When they assert on
the stump that the tariff has nothing
to do with the high prices of the ne !
??c carles and comforts of living or.
which it is imposed they will be ask
ed wherein lies the protection to,
American industries which the tariff
is assumed to secure.. What answer,
if it be true that, after all, the tariff
affords no protection, and that prices
of commodities are wholly free from
its influence?
Coming down to the concrete is- 1
sues, the authors of the Payne-Ald
rich act will be asked why they left
untouched the brutal schedule of du
ties on wool and woolens. President
Taft has furnished the answer in the
combination of Eastern manufactur- '
ers and Rocky Mountain sheep grow
ers. Was this to maintain prices, or
has the tariff nothing to do with the
cost of the clothing and blankets of
the American people? Why did Sena
tor Oliver have inserted in the tariff
the sneaking provision which increas
es the protective duty on building
materials of steel if this way not to
enable the Trust to ward off foreign
competition and maintain prices? Fin
ally, for what else did the senior
statesman of Pennsylvania labor to
maintain prices of gloves and hos
iery, not to mention his zealous ef
forts in favor of high protective du
ties on Myrobolan plum trees, brier
rose bushes and umbrella sticks?
Why, gentte shepherds of protection?
Tell us why.?Philadelphia Record.
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