Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-03-08

Let the foreigners " no crowd our Atlantic
seaports come tothe West-the chosen dwell
ling place of hops, where labor commands its
reward. Here they will have a fair field to
fight the battle of life. If they cannot come,
let them be sent. This is grand opportunity
for philanthropic and patriotic effort. -
Governor Slade has distributed his Yankee
girls over the Union; and wherever one OF
them has taken up her abode, it has been
better for society than the planting of rose
bush for garden 1t was done by organized
effort. Let the plan of distribution which has
been SO happily applied to the higher world
of intellect and refinement, be adopted for
the lower and coarser, but yet most necessary,
department of manual labor
Not one of those Yankee flowers was born
to blush unseen. Nature neverintended them
ia waste their sweetness in the barrens of
New England. Neither should the stalwart
| frames and stout hearts of the German and
Irish emigrants be suffered to dwindle and
pine in the noisome atmosphere of our large
cities 80 '-,.D -i'- - ~
In many Of the richest counties of this
State, agricultural laborers are very much
wanted at this moment We write what We
know. Rails remain unsplt, land uncleared,
for which tie farmers have the money in
hand to pay. The harvest is plenteous, but
the laborers are few. Holi9lioltli sal ha
In this connection we slibjoin the following
judiciors remark from the philadelphia Ledg-
err: s..4
81 How TO RELIEVE WAnT.--It is very evil
dent that the plan of relief generally adopted
in large cities, instead of removing the evil
of poverty, only helps to increase it. Instead
of finding people employment by which they
may be able to support themselves, we are
finding them food only, and keeping them in
a condition to always need such kind of re-
lief There are now great demands for labo-
rers in the country the only trouble is to get
the laborers there Instead of expanding all
the money contributed by the charitable for
soup for persons, many of whom will not
work, and mmy do not require such aid,
why not appropriate portion of it to paying
the passage of laborers to the places where
work may be obtained We see'the Emigra-
ton Society in New York are sending persons
to Schuylxill county, where laborers are want
ed. Why could not a committee of the City
Council, or of the citizens now engaged in re-
lieying the wants of the unemployed, take
down the names and residences of those in
this city who are unemployed and willing to
work-anhounce the fact to farmers and rail-
road companies through the newspapers Of
the country, that they have unemployed per-
rsods whom they could send to any place
needing their labor-tell the farmers where to
apply, and when they have applied, pay the
laborsr's passage to the place where he can get
work By this plan we shall get relieved of
the necessity disappearing people in idleness,
and prevent pauperism from becoming per-
manent feature of our social system. To feed
the distressed without endeayoring to remove
the cause, is to extend the evil indefinitely,
for no one can know when business viii re-
turn to its ordinary channels Let us try some
better system than that now in operation, un-
der which, a great amount Of money is con-
tributed for charity, but the wants of poverty
are not in the least diminished. While there
is demand for TABOR in any part of the coun-
try, no person should be allowed to subsist on
charity. f.. r...I rT