The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

ORGANIZED EM1GRATION.-It does not
need to be proved that our present i'm.
mense national expenditures must be paid
out of the proceeds of our industry. All
that the most skillful fnanciering can do is
to put off the day Of payment and distri.
butte the burden over series Of years, and
as far as possible equalize its pressure
upon the different classes of society. If the
government can manage to maintain
own credit and keep its currency sound
and thus prevent a monetary crisis, the
people will find no difficulty in carrying
the debt and paying it within a reasonable
period. To stimulate production, to de-
velOp the immense latent resources of the
continent is evidentlyth true way to get
the means ofpaying the national debt.
The products of our industry are now
much diminished by lack oflaborers. The
million or more men in our armies and d.
rectly engaged in furnishing implements
and means Of war is a large abstraction
from the productive force of the. county,
and it is felt in many branches IF business
It will be felt still more, and especially in
our agriculture during the next season, for
the new recruits come largely from the re-
serves Of our farming population. The
organized efforts to promote emigration
from Europe are therefore wise and timely.
Hundreds of thousands of fereign laboren
would readily be absorbed by the present
demand, if they could be had, and when
spring opens there will be abundant en-.
ployment and liberal wages for other hun
dreds Of thousands throughout the farm
ing regions of the West.
Nothing but large importation oflabol'
ers from abroad can prevent our suffering
another year from limited agricultural pro
duction. Already we have hundreds Of
thousands of victims Of the rebellion to feed
in the reclaimed districts Of the South, ard
these numbers will be increased as we ex.
tend our lines southwark. To conquer the
rebels, and then feed them is our inevitable
work. The whole South is close upon star
walton, and before another harvest can Be
gathered the government will be Obliged
to feed southern paupers nearly or quite
equal in number to its own soldiers. Be-
sides, there is no prospect that the South
can be subjugated and Quoted liz time fef
another harvest, and it is hardly possible
that there should not be great destitution
there to be relieved for some time to come.
We shall thus need largely increased crop
Of breadstuffs and provisions next veal,
and it can only be made by adding largely
to our agricultural force. The British will
say we are enticing away their able bodied
workmen to make soldiers of them. But
we cannot help that. We want their WORK
and can nav them twice as well as they are
paid at home, and give them q permanent
interest in the soil. It is our advantage thai
we have yet millions Of acres Of fertile land
to be reclaimed by the hard handed, hard
worked and i'll fed peasantry Of Europe,i
they can but get across the ocean; and y
is perfectly legitimate to make nown these
inducements. This is what the organized
movements to promote emigration are nov
attempting. and their success will he ma
tional benefit, as well as benefit to the en-
igrants. -iSpringtfeld Republican,.