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A Letter on Immigration.
June 26, 1907.
Dear Sir: Unmistakable evidence
of the motives behind the abnormal
Immigration movement which is no.v
crowding our Southern Ports has re
cently come to my knowledge in a
professional way which prevents me
from exposing the whole affair.
Knowing you and your Civic integr
rity I do not hesitate to place you
in possession of the facts which J.
am sure will enable you to do your
loved Southland a service for which
they should remember you with eter
nal gratitude.
While employed by the Weslern
Union Telegraph Company in
during the fall of 1906, January and
February of 1907, I noticed many
telegrams passing between a party
of Gadsden, Ala., and the Legisla
tors, both state and nati nal, urging
favorable Immigration Laws. This
Gadsden party also sent hundreds of
messages to cotton mills and other
financial interests thro glieut the
Southern States requesting that they
urge their legislators to support cer
tain immigration laws.
Some time between the 15th of
April and the sth of May, I noticed
a telegram passing between an
“Agent” of Terrell, Texas, and a
Wall street, New York, cotton fac
tor, which stated in plain terms the
full intent of the immigration move
ment. The message staled that
“With the immigration movement
farmers are well supplied with la
bor and planting is being pushed as
much as possible. Fifty Russians
here with nothing to do except plant
cotton or starve. Will use even-y
available means to keep up the fight
until the 10th, and expect a twenty
million bale crop.” Sorry I did not
make a copy of the message for iden
tification, but failed to do so. How
ever, it is perfectly plain that the
cotton mills and financial interests
are behind the immigration move
ment in a determined effort to cheap
en the labor of the South and the
products of our farms.
The Gadsden, Ala., party, whose
name I am unable to rec ill, is chair
man of the Southern Immigration
Association, and identified with the
cotton mills of Gadsden. I feel safe
in saying that Governor Comer, of
Alabama, who is also president of
the Avondale Mills, has fa voted Im
migration along with the Sloss-
Sheffield Steel and* Iron Com
pany, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railway Co., of Birmingham, who
are themselves at present working
“scab” miners in their coal min s,
and fighting with teeth and toe-nails
organized labor, with state con vic's
and serfs, who, if not peons,-are lit
tle more.
I enclose a clipping from the Com
mercial Telegraphers’ Journal for
June which leads me to believe the
farmers of Georgia are getting wise
as to the intents of foreign immigra
tion.
Am agitating the suppression
immigration as much as I can ai d
trust that the information I give
you may be of service to you with
your noble work.
I am unable to purchase The Jef
fersonian in , but have asked a
WATSON'S WEBKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
dealer to order some. In this con
nection I will stale that I would be
only too glad to bring The Jeffer
sonian before the Trades Assembly
which represents five thousand union
people, if you can arrange with y u>
publisher to use the union label on
the magazine, but you appreciate the
predicament I would be placed in
should I undertake to do so until it
bears the printers’ union label. Mr.
Watson, small as this may seem, I
firmly believe if I could bring The
Jeffersonian before the union peo
ple of this city it would mean the
sale of hundreds of copies per
month.
I notice with the announcement of
the removal of the Farmers’ Union
from Dallas to Ft. Worth that you
are still their idol and that they ex
pect to have you with them soon. 1
trust that they will not be disap
pointed in this for I want to hear
once more the voice of the Southern
people. I am a nephew of ,of
Lithonia, Ga., and will not soon for
get you and the manner in which
you have sacrificed yourself in
search of truth.
As president of this local, I ex
tend to you a cordial invitation to
meet with and address us upon union
or political principles whenever your
opportunity will permit.
Yours fraternally, —.
(Note: Mr. Watson will conJment
on the foregoing in the next issue of
the Weekly. The letter is marked
Personal for obvious reasons, but
having omitted from it whatever
would tend to “give away” the
writer we publish it because of its
importance to the South.)
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