North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-04-29

The worn-out countries Of Europe, with
her great wars, and consequent local dis
ruptions, are driving laborers to America.
With labor comes cash capital also. 1t
must not be supposed that all the emf
grants who reach our shores, are without
means. Their dresses, Of male or of fc.
male, may not be to our taste nor sieir
language such IS we use, but these out.
ward signs, are no indication of want Of
energy, Of means, of mental force and of
general usefulness. Family associations,
desire for political force, wish to plan,
their children near themselves for life,
ambition to see their little folks grow up
the equals Of all others instead of submit.
ting to social serfdom-these are the in.
ducemonts for parents to leave Irland, Ger
many and the Scandinavian countries of
Europe for the rich lands and the de-
mocratic level Of the United States. Be-
low is an appeal to Scandinavian people in
America for relief to those of their coun-
trymen who are expected to emigrate this
spring and summer. No better addition
to the west can b, made than these. Pa
tlent, toiling, honest AMI healthy, they
commence at the foundation and work
themselves up to the highest grade of bu-
siness life and social Importance 1t isa
universal admission that "foreigners' are
the injective element of American success;
without them our country would depopu-
late and Improvement come to a stop.
Then let these people come and nee Us
We need them in every way.
Read this appeal from the Chicago com
mittee of emigration and correspond with
the chairman Oft Learn your duty and
make haste to doit. Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin are the States to suit the people
of Northern and of central Europe.
Owning to famine and wide spread ca
lamitles aud distress of every kind and ma
ture, the number of immigrants from the
Scandinavian countries will this year pro-
bably exceed by far that of any previous
year; and, during the past year, the num-
ber that passed through Chicago could not
who come are poor, and a large proportion
are entirely destitute All Of them need
counsel, aud Il very large number of them
must have material aid or perish.
The Scandinavian Immigrant Aid Socie.
ty is composed Of members of all of the
three branches of the Scandinavian people.
If has been in existence for about two
years, and during that time, by the gener-
ri nf af
all nationalties. but especially by Scandi-
navians singly and by collections taken up
in their several settlements and religious
bodies throughout the Northwestern
States, it has been enabled to employ an
agent during the two summers last past,
to look after the wants of the imm grants,
and to aid them by all the means in his
power pecuniarly and otherwise and it
my be asserted without egotism that
very great deal of good has been done in
this way. The season is again approach
ing when the immigrants will begin to AT
rive. The funds of the Society are exhaust
ed, and it is imperatively necessary, in
addition to what has already been done, to
provide place under the control of the
society, where the immigrants can find
shelter, and be secure from runners, and
those who take advantage of their helpless
condition to impose upon them. A COM
mittee has been appointed by the society
to call upon the charitably disposed to aid
us in our work, and we do urgently ask
our fellow citizens to aid US. We make
this appeal with the confidence inspired by
q wort y cause, and we point with equal
confidence to the well-earned general repu-
tation of our people in this country as IAN
indication that the man who is poor i'm
migrant to-day will hereafter amply repay
to the community any assistance rendered
him in his present helpless condition, by
becoming and industrious, law-abiding and
exemplary citizen.
a. JAcoBsoS, President.
JoSAs ENGBERG, Secretary.