Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-20
IMMIGRATION.
What Must be Done TO Secure
Immigrants.

Nature has, with q lavish hand, be-
slowed upon our State all the gifts which
are requisite for drawing to her and sup
porting 8 vast population. She has fur
nishsd the crude material for the work
man in every avenue Of industry and
trade. She has given Us a variety Of
soil, of climate, Of mineral and vegeta-
BILE wealth, not TO be eguslled IN any
similar area on our continent and sl
that Tennessee now wants to make her
great, is a population to make use of
these great gifts of nature.
Immigration alone can furnish this
population, in tine, at least, to keep
pace with the progress which marks
other sections of u country. b fact
has been appreciated by our people, and
many attempts hsvs been made, both
by communities and the State, to super
induce the much desired result and
bring population to our borders. But in
spite Of committees and commissioners,
the Immigrants have not come to
us, and continue TO go to less
favored parts Of the country.
A gentleman who Is connected with
one OF our principal Railroad lines, who
has studied tbs matter thoroughly, ard
who has just returned from an extended
trip nOrthWard in the interests OF immi-
grafton, thus explains the cause OF the
failure, and makes suggestions whereby
the evil must be remedied
"When [ went to Montreal" says he,
81 visited the docks and the points
where the emigrsnts dissmbark. l
found most OF the immigrants undecided
which way they would go, and when l
spoke to them Of Tennessee-depieting
her soil, her climate aud the facilities
for reaching there, they were all
veil satisfied, but when they would
ask me, What preparation have yOa
made there for us? Can we obtain little
farms? Are there houses that We Can
live in, for the time being, on these
farms - I could not answer them sat
isfeetorily [ was compelled to tell them
that they would have to take the chances
# all these things. This was enough.
European immigrants are not like our
own American pioneers, end cannot go
out and rough it without a roof to shell
ter them-aDd 50 they say that they pre-
fer going to some portion Of the country
where they are sure that they can buy
with the money which they bring with
them land almost all have more or less
Of il, 3 home-nO matter how rude or
little, but q place TO shelter them until,
with frugality and industry, they can
build q better one.
al visited Castle Garden in New York,
The immigrant stations In Philadelphia
and BaltimoFe-the very same questions
snd answers greeted me. In vain l told
them that the rates Of travel, for immi-
grants, had been reduced over the Great
Southern Mail Route to one cent per
mile making it cost less than twenty
dollars from Canada to TENNESSEE
in vain l e~xpstiated as / had done
heforS upon the riches Of the
soiI, and tnS beauties OF the climate
the answers were the same and you
must go TO work and remove tnese
obstacles, and furnish concise n CLEAR
information of their removal to the I'M
migrants or you never will get immlgra'
ton to turn h~itherwRrd."
In reply to the question es TO Whst
course or plan be would recommend,
friend said
"Let some man, or on company OF
men take, say only one thousand acres
ofiand and divide il up into twenty farms
OF fifty acres each build on each farm 3
cheap-hOuse, and dig q well OF water
and then let them put those farms at q
fair price, and l will guarantee to furnish
them, in one single day, twenty families
Of immigrants, who will pay the price
and move thither. This, and this only, is
the way that you will sueceed,n
This is a hint that IL thrown out, and
we recommend it to u immigration
societies and commissioners. Unless
some such step is taken, our lecturers on
i'm immigration may lecture to the wind;
our fields will lie fallow, u mines re-
main ~unworked, our water power will
be wasted, and we viii go forward in
natural increase. We will give a letter
from our friend Ia a few days, In which
he gives further, and most interesting in
formation on this subject.