Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-10
Emigrunt Aid Company.

We are glad to find that some practical mea-
sures are In progress for assistance to the great
emigration westward, which takes place every
summer. There are many obvious reasons
why that emigration should not be left to the
difficulties and want of system, which cannot
be prevented in in the movements of indi-
viduals.
A petition is in circulation to the Legisla-
ture, for the incorporation of company
whose object is to facilitate emigration to the
distant territories of the Government At
the present moment, combined emigration
to the Valley of the Missouri and Kansas
Rivers, will be an object which seems espec-
tally desirable.
We have for many years expressed the wish
that some arrangement should be made to
protect, by the guarantee of responsible COM
pany, emigrants bound westward, from the
frauds of irresponsible ticket brokers in the
large cities. Never has movement SO large
as that from Europe to our Western States
been left so completely unprotected to the ra-
pacity of unprincipled men.
A letter from one of our most distinguished
merchants says
"The competition of the different railroads
to the West promises to destroy one giant
fraud upon the enigrant, viz: the impositions
of the various inland packet and forwarding
companies. For one item, it was estimated q
year or two since that the scGIperS, as they
were then called, realized 5000, 900 profit in
one year out of the emigrants who passed
through Buffalo,"
He then remarks, and very truly, as we con-
ceive, that neither law nor philanthropy can
contend with such rapacity. " 1t takes COM
merce to deal with evils like this. As anoth-
er letter from the same source has said to US
Benevolence may point the way, and law
help to regulate the abuses, but when you
are dealing with an emigration of 400, 900
people, you must make your scheme of be-
nevolence profitable one, or it will only go
mile while the enemy goes round the globe
10 prevent such abuses, in a business way,
and by business arrangements, is one of the
objects of the new company.
In providing proper arrangements for the
safe transfer of American and foreign emf
grants to the West, the Emigrant Aid Com
pany has another object in view. This is, to
induce such emigrants, in large numbers, to
settle III the new territory of Kansas, and to
secure its freedom forever. One of our cor
respondents says of this region, that ait is
the finest country out DOORS" and official ac-
counts confirm this statement. We learn,
however, that single families of emigrants
Poo' W L1O l1OlC hOILuSlA UlSbllGIS Vi
Nebraska, simply in fear that>it will become
Slave State This fear will be ended at once
and forever, by the establishment, together, of
a few thousand free settlers there this summer.
This, as We have before remarked, is per-
fectly easy process; 100000 persons and
more will pass from the East to the West this
summer. The Emigrant Aid Company will
offer facilities and inducements which will
turn quite enough of them to Kansas to settle
its fundamental institutions in the right way
before Congress has ended its deliberations.
We commend the companys petition for in
corporation to the Legislature for yet anothe-
reason. The establishment of a thriving
Western Colony, under Massachusetts, aus
pices, is another link between our markets
and factories and the West. If the operations
OF the company render necessary line of
packets to Germany,-as seems to us desira-
BILE, for Germany now furnishes more emgrants
even than Ireland, by so much is our foreign
and domestic commerce enlarged, the es-
Enlistment of such company negotiating
between the empty paradise of the West, and
the unemployed laborers of Germany must
be great commercial advantage to Massachu-
sets; while its efforts tend at the same time
to the success of the great principles of free
dom to which she has pledged herself from
the beginning. DAILY Adv.