Speech #590091558

I read some statistics showing that the number of immigrants who came to this country last year was 1.026.000. Of that number 618 came to Kentucky. aid less than a thousand went to South Carolina. Florida. and Tennessee.: I think we should do all that can be done to Induce desirable immigrants to come to the Southern States. There has been a great change In the labor of the South In the last twenty years. In 1885 white labor produced only 10 per cent of the cotton. and there were about 8.000.000 bales produced in that year. Last year white labor produced 40 per cent of the cotton. and there were nearly 14.000.000 bales of cotton produced.