Speech #590161914

If there is anything lacking to complete it. I will be glad to add it. At the time when the Senator from Massachusetts asked me to yield to him I was reading from the editorials of leading newspapers in Georgia. for the purpose of showing the importance which was attached by those representative newspapers to the ruling of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor sustaining the legitimacy of the action which has been taken thereunder by South Carolina. and the evident pleasure with which these representative newspapers recognized the opportunity to supply a great need in the State. a crying need in the State. for the best class of immigration from the countries of Europe with which the people of this country are most in sympathy and nearest in blood. and in the discussion of the matter showing the emphasis which had been given by these representative journals to the effect of the great need of this labor in the South. where. as was stated yesterday. there is such a dearth of labor that 20 per cent of the spindles of the South are idle because there are no hands to keep them in motion. and where a condition exists in which the scarcity of labor is not confined to cotton manufactory. but extends to all departments of labor. all departments of industry. on the farm. in the factory. in the lumbering districts. in the mining districts. in the proper carrying on of the railroad industry. in the domestic necessities of the people. Through them all there is a most distressing condition of affairs w hich by reason of the peculiar conditions in the South can not be met in the ordinary course of the migration of peoples voluntarily.