They brought over two shiploads of them. as I recollect. and I was talking to the distinguished Senator from South Carolina who hadcharge of this bill in the Senate and managed it in a way that did him great honor. and he told me that there are not a dozen of them in the State of South Carolina today. Here Is what Mr. Gompers says abojit it: South Carolina five years ago established a State bureau of Immigration. appropriated considerable money to It. and with a fund raised among cottonmill owners. real estate dealers. and others pecuniarily interested. Its commissioners went abroad and brought two shiploads of immigrants from Belgium and distributed them. to the number of 762. to various places. but In two years few. If any. of these induced Immigrants were to be found in the State. Consequently. March 4. 1909. a law was passed forbidding a State official to attempt. directly or indirectly. to bring immigrants into the State of South Carolina. Virginia and North Carolina. which for a time had been taken in with South Carolina on the distribution scheme. after a brief experience refused to appropriate any more funds for that purpose. That. Mr. Speaker. Is a quotation from an article entitled "The scheme to distribute immigrants." by Samuel Gompers. Not only that. but the Senate amendment does not stop merely with excepting them from the illiteracy test. The greater part of the Belgians can escape that test. because the greater part of those over 14 years of age are able to read their own language.
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