Speech #490017926

Here before me sits one of the most enterprising and active of the business men of what is known as the Empire State of the South. Georgia. He has had occasion in the exercise of his business of managing railroads and of manufacturing iron and so on to put forth advertisements. prospectuses. representations in regard to the resources of that great State. showing how inviting it was for immigration. how the laboring -man was wanted there and how the capitalist was wanted there and everybody else was wanted there in order that he might make money and get great returns from having gone there. I think he would not have added to one ofhis advertisements to the people of the North or to the people of the Old Country "we are all right here. except that if you come you must understand we have not money enough to educate your children." Will any immigration bureau under the auspices of anyState put forth a statement of that kind? On the contrary. are not the newspapers and all the public prints filled with statements exactly the opposite? The South is not representing today its inability to carry on a system of education which will be broad enough and extensive enough and useful enough to embrace every single child of school age within its limits.