Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-01-22
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become SO obviously prerequisite
to the development and advancement
Of the industrial resources of til,
country, as to demand the mos
prominent attention. When we lool
around and see the vast quantities o
both arabic and wild lands in ou
vicinity and reflect upon the empir,
Of rich, eligible and uncultivated sol
contained within the limits of this
one State of ours. all lying waste
and so susceptible of being converted
into garden spots and places of thrift
and prosperity by the Aladdin wand
Of industry and enterprise, we marvel
at the comparatively meagre efforts
which have been put forth to induce
and encourage an energetic tide OF
immigration among us. There can
be no Disgusting the fact, that with
out SO vitalizing an element to inluse
new life and vigor into the land,
our people cannot hope to occupy
any other than a subordinate and
dependent position in all that per-
tains to their material as we'll as po-
litical influence and well-being before
the world
Viewed in it's every aspect. indeed,
the policy which paves the way to
the introduction Of labor, capital and
industry, is SO radiant With beneficial
results to society, and appeals with
such force to the wisdom and com
mon sense of all that our only as
constituent is, that it has not been
more practically and earnestly
pushed forward by every possible
organized, official or individual
agency.
The New York Stats Zeitung,
one of the able,t German Conserva,
tive papers published in this country.
in speaking of the effort being made
in this State to induce the settlement
Of foreign immigrants, says:
1t is just in proportion as State
has made liberal and generous laws
in regard to foreign immigration,
that the better part of those strangers
have been attracted to this territory,
and cast their lot among those who
showed themselves willing and anx,
ious to receive them. The Western
States, by their wise policy, have
thus increased in wealth and popu-
lation, and left other States less lib
eral Tar behind them.
Since 1890, when the first census
was taken, till now, over six millions
Of immigrants have landed upon our
shores. Each one brought with him
at the least calculation, one hundred
dollars in gold. amounting to the
snug sum of six hundred millions.
They also brought personal prop
erty. tools aud other useful articles,
worth at least as much. This large
monetary capital and their other
property have assisted in the last
seventy years to increase the wealth
If the country in an immense de-
gree.
But all this was the least part of
he material wealth brought into the
country by these strangers. What
Vas far more valuable was their
strong arms and hard bands-their
habits Of industry and energy, their
knowledge of agriculture and Euro
'ean arts and handicraft-all of
which We're increasingly used TO de-
'elop the then dormant wealth of
he Eastern and Western States, and
which has raised them to their pres,
mt condition of unparalleled pros {
erity. /
These six millions Of people, like
n immense human stream, have 3.
pread over the western part of our
reat republic. They tripled their
riginal number, and have peopled
tates and changed territories into
tates. They have cleared the for :,
st and civilized the wilderness, and
lade waste places bloom like rose !
ardens. They helped to build up
ur large cities from the Atlantic to -.
Re Pacific. 1t is a popular mistake .
} suppose that our white population j.,
esceDded either from the Puritans
r Cavaliers. Our unfailing statis-
cs will show us without the least