Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-06-23
From the Galveston News
Texas Land, Labor and lmml.
grafton Company.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS,

Committee of tho Texas Land, La.
Dor and Immigration Company, held
in Galveston ON the 3lst of May j.
| s Sellers, Esq, was elected Chair
man, and G, r, Hughes, Esq, Secre'
tary.
Mr.. ]. Frederick having declined
TO serve on the committee. DIR. ). U.
Massie was elected TO fill the vacan'
cy, snd accepted. .,
Adjourned to Saturday, June "a
The Committee met pursuant to
adjournment. and the following ad-
dress and form Tor the subscription
lists were adopted, and the agents
named in continuation appointed 10
procure subscriptions to the capital
stock of tho Company.
C.R. HUGHES, Se'y. Ex- Com.
GALVESTON, June 4th, 1866.
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS.
The Executive Committee, to pro-
mote the formation of the Texas
Land, Labor and Immigration Com
pany, in assuming the arduous and
responsible duties assigned to them,
and asking for your support and as
sistance in their conscientious dis
charge, desire to submit to your con-
sideration the views which will form
the guiding motives in their action.
In the transition state through
which our community is now pass
inp, it is evident to all that we need
a great addition to the element OF
free white labor. However great
this necessity, however powerful and
we'll directed may be private efforts
to fill the measure of the public
need, it is our conviction that these
can produce put partial and unsatis.
factory results. unless countenanced
and supported by the State, and by
the public authorities.
In addressing ourselves to the
task of bringing to our ports a por-
tion Of the present tide of emigra-
ton from other communities, we
will necessarily compete with an al.
ready widely organized system OF
agencies and influences, and results
can be produced only to q limited
extent.
| If the means can be found to ex-
tend an offer of transportation to
our shores and temporary support
and protection here, to the large
class of worthy but poor persons
willing to come, but now prevented
by the pressure of poverty, we be-
lieve that large results can be OBJ
tanned, satisfactory at once to our
own people and to those who seek
new homes among us. 10 attain
this, aid from the State will be nee
essary. In our opinion this can best
be given in some form that will as
sist in lessening the cost of passage
to the immigrants, and providing
sustenance for them during limit
] ed period until they can make labor
engagements. By extending the aid
of the State in this way to all i'm
migrants alike, we believe that il
will have the effect of bringing here
a portion of the large numbers now
using their own means to 60 TO the
Northern ports.
An ordinance Of our last State
Convention provides for the orea
ton of a Commissioner of Statistics
for the promotion of immigration
If the duties of this office be wisely
organized and directed, through il
the protection of the State may b'
extended to the immigrants unit
they shall have found employment
and individual assistance in theil
new scenes Of labor.
Intimately connected with thi'
portion of the great question of i'm
migration, is that of affording, by
wise and moderate laws, protection
to labor contracts. There are no
wanting in every community per
sons who will seek for their own sci
fish ends, to induce claborers to breal
contracts with employers, and EN-
ployers who will seek to defrau'
iaborers, and this conviction mus
necessarily have a prejudicial efiec
upon all combinations addressed 7
the bringing hither of immigrant
unable to defray the cost of thei
own transportation. Therefore
while the laborer should be protect
ed in his claim upon the product 9
his labor for remuneration for hi
services, the employer should like
wise be protected from the wiles :
unscrupulous persons, who woui
endeavor to entice away from hi
employment persons whom he ma
have assisted to immigrate, and t
whose continuous labor for stipu
lated period the employer looks fc
a return of his outlay. 1t is belie'
ed that laws, just alike to the en-
ployer and the employed, should |
enacted by the legislature; and th'
II this is done it will secure the al
piication Of private means, in col
junction with State aid, to enab
large numbers of persons to come
our State, who are now preclude
from so doing by their unmerit'
poverty. , =,
1t is not for us TO stipulate Il
terms under which the aid al
}. countenance of the State should
extended to immigration, and Z
protection of contracts. We subn
these views for the public consid
ration, in the hope that their discu
sion viii prepare the public NIL
for early action thereon by the lie
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