New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-29

In Texas. all efor. is being made TO organize joint
sook eompany 10 be chartered with exclusive priyi-
leges and subsidies. and to be protected by legislation
IN monopoly Of the labor importation trade to the
ports Of that State An agent has been sent to En-
e,nd who reports that any number of laborers house
.errants. mechanics, skilled operatives clerks sales
ga, teachers, &C., would gladly come out and en-
cage themselves on fair terms If the means and 'he
pay were made clear to them.
hundred on,and or moro To- farm laborers, to WORK on
the plan proposed Tor an interest IN a. s,p a9 "
oi years, can BE- procured, proper course IS pSu'
lie advises thai steps should be taken to discourage
the organization Of other companies and the senG,
IF other agents all that would be unnecessary, and
would produce injurious effects lie says
All competition of this kind would have bad effect ana
bi Is even now being felt from the separate agencies o.
Southern States now In Europe bidding as II were as'
When state that met with mechanics and even mere
abOrers in Scotland Who doubling the statements IaS
them Of the demand for labor rates OF wages results % my
questioned close they had been lawyers hn
N the witnessbo The bearing Of their
20 SATISFY rs 10 %nad ' pd 10 offer such induce
menis i will be seen that prudence m M bearas are
thorough KNOWLEDGE o. the subject ~ 10 inapence eb
people to emigrlte to new countries
Possibly this Texas agent may succeed in persuad
nc the oanny scotehman to immirate to his State,
ander the auspices Of company that is now pressing
upon the Legislature the enactment of such laws
will make contracts entered into in other countries
uot only binding but the breach of them matter too
serious in its results to be willingly rsked without good
cause
But it is not likely that, so long the Northwest
offers homesteads unincumbered by embarrassing
contracts the Utopian schemes of these joint stock
spectators will meet with much favor. If the State
Of Texas has "bonus of fifty acres of land to pay
for every able-bodied white laborer" that shall be
imported, it will be infinitely better both for the
State and the laborer, that the land should be given
to the man who will improve it by tillage rather
than to a corporate monopoly for mere purposes Of
speculation. And still better, let the Legislature
offer similar bonus to each and every labOrer now in
the State who will settle upon, improve and cultivate
fifty acres That is, do justice to the aborers al
ready there, willing and anxious to work for
any man who will pay honest wages and accord civil
treatment This done, chartering mOnopolies with
subsidies Of land and sending agents abroad to induce
immigration, will be unnecessary. Labor goes where
rewarded respected and protected, just naturally
and certainly as water flows to the sea; and natu-
rally and perstently refuses to 60 where It'll despsed
abused aud defrauded.
Every intelligent labOrer in this country and in
Europe knows that the South has to-day more labor
than it can employ, because Of its want of capital
and disposition to make of its natural advantages
What is emnenty needed is capital to buy provisions
VITA which to feed the men who are struggling to
make crops of wheat corn and cotton; capital to pay
wages to those who are already at work. and capital
to secure employment and pay to those who are idle
because no man hath hired them. Not legislation
corporations subsidies and capital to import but to
EMPLOY labor is what the South most needs