Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-04
If1HGRATION

The following, which we copy from
an exchange, is very suggestive of SEN
sible abOr in the right direction:
Hon. James Ross, Secretary Of the Wis
consin State Board of Immigration, re-
ports the arrival at Milwaukee, for the
week ending May Dist, 1871 immigrants.
Ofthese CAS- were Germans; 623 were Sean
d~inavians; Is were English; 6 Irish and 9
Welsh. There remained of these in Wis
cOnsin 479 Germans; 1893 Scandinavians;
is English; 8 Welsh and 6 Irish. There
went to Minnesota LEG Germans and $50
S~candinavians. There went to Iowa 20
S~candinayians.
This shows how thoroughly immi-
grafton is attracted to the Western
States. They have agents in Europe
who make known the advantages of
their States, their provision for educa-
ton and moral training, their rates of
taxation, their laws, their railroad i'm
provements, the character Of their
soil and products and their gen.
eraI improvement and progress;
all of which being endorsed by Euro
pean settlers already enjoying their
advantages, these agents are able to
arrange with the immigrant to whom
they furnish cheap transportation, TO
a r -already located for him by men
who, while they are keenly alive to
the advantages of the dollar, know
that there are as sure, and in the end,
safer ways of winning it than by
charging three prices for their lands.
In States like Wisconsin, every man,
from the Governor down, is an immi-
grafton agent, and all of them
deem it the part Of wisdom
to assist their European agents
and their New York agents by realiz-
ing for the immigrant, even to the
letter, all the promises such agents |
may make to him. The European
agent attends to his embarkation upon
a safe vessel, under the command of a
humane Captain, who turns him over
to the agent at New York, who, in
turn supplies him with cheap trans
%portatiOn, a cheap guide book in his
own language, and all necessary infOr-
nation to enable him to reach his des-
tination; arrived at which he is taken
in hand by men who feel THAT only his
energies are necessary to increase the
Oftheir property beyond any pre-
sent computation. They feel and
know that his labor and skill viii in
a few years make the waste places
blossom as the rose, and advance by a
hundred per cent. per annum what
they reserve to themselves of lands.
This is the system, and the only one
under which Immigration to the South
will ever increase to the proportions
our Impotence for prosperity de
mands. There is a market, and a de-
nand for men and women i'm the West.
The demand exists with US, and
market, but neither have yet l
been made known in the right :
way by proper agents, skilled in 1
IN employment that requires the high t
st degree of intelligence, knowledge
# mankind and the adaptiveness of
peculiar races to our soil and climate. l
have agencies and companies in |
abundance, but no system fostered i
md supported by the State that can I
compete with an organization 7
ike this of Wisconsin that reports in 7
me week the settlement of 1871 i'm a
migrants. Until we do have, it is all "
nut useless to expect results that will Il
ONE near satisfying the public ex- !
'ectancy as to immigration. u