Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-12-30

tiers Who wouldfens g buy our many uu-
profitable acres.
That agricultural labor, and Of the most
desirable description, can be readily obtained
by those who have the money to send for it,
is clearly shown by our corresponding But
there are many farmers who are unable to
make the necessary advances, and still more
who are unwilling to pay until the laborers
have actually arrived and been seen and APP
proved By them. 1t was 10 view OF those
difficulties, and with the Information obtained
from our agents in Europe that any number
Of immigrants could be obtained if their traus-
portation was advanced, that we urged the
establishment Of State Immigration Fund OF
$4,000 some years ago. The Baltimore
Gazette, IN discussing the question, having
suggested an arrangement whereby the cost
Ut transportation should be borne by the State,
to be subsequently, reimbursed by the en-
ployers Of the Immigrants out Of their month";
~ wages, we took occasion, in a letter adj
dressed IL, that journal in July, 1868, to ex-
anime and advocate the plan as practicable,
and promising a certain and early supply OF
labor at the cost Of the iaborprs themselves.
In that letter we remarked,-"tcikhin a rerv
short time after the money ,cas adoanced by
The STATE, 1t scould begin to foU back 10 the
Immigration Fund in the monthly installments.
In this ray the sum of $50. 900 may IN a feU
years serce to bring orer many thousands of
laborers. If fund of $50. 900 ras found
sufficient, to scltdt better purpose than that OF
increasiag its productive labor could the State
loan 500. 900, or euen more, to a people ,oao
hare so suddenly been deprired Of millions :
The scheme seems icOrM q trial, and If found
not to cork ,cel, IL could be arrested at any
moment"
Now as we understand Col. Earle aud other
advocates Of State appropriation, it is de-
signed that any fund obtained shall be en-
pIoyed in this way. ltwould be used for the
accommodation Of the farmers. and would be
repaid to the State in monthly installments
out of the laborer's wages.
The Baltimore Convention has been rather
severely, and we think, unjustly censured in
some quarters; NIT SD much for what it did,
as for what it failed to d.. But the only plan
we have seen suggested by any Of the fault
finders, is the following which we cut from
the Sunday Telegram, and which we submit
to the consideration Of our readers. After all,
no comprehensive or practical scheme can be
carried out without the use Of rnoIley, and q
considerable amount Of it. The irst question
will be, can this money be obtained from our
impoverished farmers, through their vounta-
ry contributions to the Central Immigrant
Union aud its branches? That will very
soon be tested. Ii it fails, then it will be for
the next Legislature to consider whether the
interest oil. the State requires the appropra-
ton of fund to be used 10 aid Of immIg:a.
ton, in the manner suggested above. AS a
member of the Committee appointed by the
Convention to meDurialize the Legislature, we
certainly should not unite 10 asking for any
appropriation, unless the business was to be
80 guarded and managed as to preclude the
possibility of any serious loss to the State
The memorial and any law that may be pass
cd, should suggest; and prescribe the mode Of
expenditure. ~ = .as i @
(Ftom the Sunday Telegram Of Dee. 18th.
"Since the Gonvt ntfon remains in existence.
subject to the cail Of the. President, we would
suggest to the members plan which we believe
to be practical, and which their intelligence
may develop between this and the time deemed
prudent by their President for their reassem-
bling. Let the Convention resolve itself into
a Cooperative Immigrant or Land Improve
ment Company, with a nominal capital stock
of say five hundred thousand dollars, in shares
of one hundred dollars each, said shares to be
subscribed for by the members of the Conven-
ton, and whoever else muy see proper to enter
into the investment, and to be paid up in week
ly installments of fifty cents or one dollar per
share, ON the plan of our ordinary Building
Associations. A charter for such an institu-
ton can be obtained under the act of 1868 I'M
til the assembling of the Legislature, when the
Company could be Incorporated with larger
powers and more extensive privileges, if such
may be deemed necessary. If the State can be
induced to grant subsidy: so much the better
for the Company. But whether State subs-
dy is granted or not, the capital thus collected
could be used to advertise in foreign lands,
support agents abroad, ETC., and pay the pas
sage of .emigrants. The stockholders of this
Corporation, being scattered in every county
in the State, would be personally interested in
keeping the Board of Directors informed of the
Quantities and prices Of land for sale in their
respective counties. Upon the arrival of emf
grants consigned to the Company, should they
elect to start in the world as agricultursts and
landowners, the Company could advance the
price of the land they select, holding a mort
gage upon the property as security for the prin-
cipal and interest, which the settler is to pay
in annual installments, which installments
while they pay the interest on the sum advanc-
ed, at the same time pay moiety on the prin-
cipaI. Of course by the same easy payments
the immigrant repays the Company the cost of
his passage, and receives a start in the world
upon such easy terms that self-interest weds
him to the SOIL His thrift and industry, spur
red by the interest he has as part owner--and
in the near future the sole owner-of the soil
will soon increase the value of the Company s
security, as well as expand the taxable basis
and the material growth of the State. With
each animal payment, OF course, the settler pays
q part of the mortgage debt-and if he is pros
porous will in q year or two pay off the entire
mortgage and become the owner of the land
or with ordinary thrift and frugality he will
annually acquire more interest In the property
until the time for the expiration Of the mort
gage, when he will have paid the full value Of
the land in annual installments, and will pos
sess the property for himself and children
Thus if settler is but one year on the land he
will own sufficient interest in it to root him
there, and the great object OF bringing him
here will be attained. If, however, the emf
grant prefers employment an intelligence Of
fee NAV form part of the plan of the Company,
and small fee be exacted from the prospective
employer and the employed, in addition to the
cost of transportation. Z Sas 49,
"Such inducements rs these-the prospect of
immediate employment or the proffer of q loan
Of money to start the thrifty and enterprising
in the way to independence, if not af1uence-
would lend a new life as it lends new feature
to emigration, and would bring emigrants and
permanently locate them lin our State, to the
benefit and advancement of ourselves and them.
To the powers of such corporation might be
added in the charter those of FIRE and life iusur-
ance and mott only the new settlers, whose con-
fidence the Company would possess. but others