Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-18

The German EmigratiOn---The why Of
Its Decrease---ErrOneous views---COr.
rect Principles.
TO the Editors Of the Manmesotiam:
In Thursday mornings issue of the Daily
rloheer and Democrat l read an article
headed "German Emigration"
ln this article the writer wants to show
the reasons why the n;gration from Ger
many to this country liz fallen off so, during
the present year and &. one of the reasons,
he states that t different Governments
were trying TO pu stop to the emigration
oy laying heavy xes On people that are
willing to emigratc; so that none but the
more wealthy PEG. lie could do so. This I
must say is true; but one principle reason
why people keep off from emigrating from
Germany to America is also the bad news
that come to them from here about the times
being SO hard, that scarcely any thing was to
be earned. Why should people emigrate to
a country where everything stops and where
universal crisis prevails over the whole
country. In Germany the times were hard
also, year ago; but this year there is an
abundance of everything. Factories, and all
branches of trade are fourishing, and high
wages are paid, especially, in those countries
from which the fux of emigration had drawn
OH great many young and industrious peo-
pie. The Pioneer says further that from the
sources of the Rhine till down to the Dutch
frontiers poverty was prevailing over the
country and the misery which people lived
m, could only be compared with the misery
in Ireland. He says further, that in the
Grand Duchy of Baden,-which country suf-
fered good deal from the Revolution in
lo49 but had recovered again-in this coun-
try, ne says, twenty-seven cents were paid
for days work and thinks that people could
hardly keep alive with such earnings. But
[ must tell the writer, that if man earns
u cents day in the Grand Dutchy of Ba-
den, that those q cents will carry him fur
ther and let him enjoy better living than
man can who earns $3.50 over here, AMI ev-
cry thing in proportion. The valley all
along the Maine and Rhine, is known through
out the world, as the paradise of the country,
and people do not live there in poverty, but
are, on the contrary, most all we'll off and
live as the people in a paradise. Of course
there are some poor to be found, especially
| on the river Mosele, which flows into the
| Rhine, as the people in that neighborhood
| depend in all, on the earnings from their vine
yards, and if there are some years in which
the crops of wine do not amount to anything,
then they live poorly, but if there is one
year favorable to the growing and ripening Of
the wine then they will have abundance for
some years to come
The editors of the Pioneer, would pray
not to write or take up matters in their paper
which they do not know anything about, or
one upon which they get a one sided, false
| and untrue Information. Any person who
has once seen the beautiful valleys of the
| Rhine and Maine, and has Looked around
| little amongst the inhabitants of the same,
will vouch for the correctness of my writing.
If l should state the the truth, why peo-
pie do not emigrate any more from Germany
to America in such big masses as heretofore,
[ would have to say, that firstly, the bad
| news about the times and secondly, the
news that their countrymen, although they
are industrious, Intelligent and honest people,
are treated badly, l might say mserably, as
| every person what comes from a for
| eign country, no matter where he comes from.
| are by selfish, and of themselves very proud,
but still very poorly educated class of
Americans. But for the honor of the Amer
leans, l have to say that this class or party
is losing more and more the ground, and it is
| to be hoped, that the time is soon to come,
when people from foreign countries will not
be looked at any more, as an ignorant and
degraded class of people, but will be esteem
ed according to their doings.
A RHINELANDER, @. |.
So we say-so the Republican party says
that not the accident of mans birth, nei-
Their his country nor his condition physically,
shall measure his estimation socially, but
solely his intelligence, his capacity, his worth
as a man among men, shall b. the guage of
his position. Ed. Mimnesotian.