The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-11
ORGANIZED EMIGRATION.
From the NJ Y. Times.

dant, but of organized emigration, with its
manifold advantages, economic and social,
there is little or none. Several of the West
ern States have long employed active agents
to make heirresources and advantages known !
abroad; California has been added to the
number; and since their reconstruction, two
or three of the Southern States have tried to
turn the example to their own account.
Whether these endeavors have greatly aug
mented the volume of emigration, we are
unable to decide; but that they have con-
tributed to the rapid settlement of Wisconsin,
Minnesota, and other portions of the North
west, there can be no reasonable doubt.
Equally effective have been the plans of the
older of the land-grant railroad companies,
the multiplication of which pro misses yet
greater activity in this direction.
The time is propitious for measures in
tended to promote and facilitate emigration.
In England, especially, the subject attracts
unusual attention. Demands are made upon
the Government for aid to enable multitudes
of artisans to escape from the struggle which
seems each succeeding year to consign the
working classes of that country to deeper
and more hopeless poverty. The interven-
tion of the House of Commons has been in
voked, but to no purpose. The leave-alone
principle is omnipotent in the policy of the
British Government whenever the contest
between capital and labor is concerned. Mr..
legged sutferings of poverty are more imagi-
nary than real; that the working people of
England are well off; and that the trouble
arises from their inability to appreciate the
fact. So the Gladstone Government folds
its hands, and leaves emigration movements
to take their course. Beyond sending few
hundreds in troop-ships to Canada, it does
nothing. Philanthropic societies have been
formed here and there to assist emigration
to the colonies; but all that is accomplished
in this way is as a mere drop in the vast
human stream which ceaselessly flows from
the old countries of Europe to the New
World
The great mass of Independent emigration
finds its way hither. We speak of the self
reliant classes, who, though sorely pressed,
are able to seek new homes without the aid
of Government or benevolent associations.
The small farmer, tired of a tenancy which
yields little beside living-the mechanic,
whose thrift has enabled him to lay aside
small provision for a rainy day, but who
sees no future for his children amidst COM
petition that is intense and merciless
turn their thoughts to the United States.
They go to the Western States, and after a
season of trial ordinarily attain independ-
ence and comparative prosperity. They are
deferred awhile by the absence of systematic
arrangements for their mutual benefit: the
expense and discomfort of the voyage, and
of the inland journey, are heightened by the
same circumstances and the same cause
operates to their loss and discouragement
after they reach the State they have selected.
| The help which the States or the railroad
companies render ends abruptly Just where
| organization should begin.
Voluntary, self-reliant organization has in
many instances proved most beneficial
Scattered over Wisconsin and Iowa are we'll
to-do settlements, whose foundations were
laid in some European association. There
are settlements formed by societies, whose
members-mechanics in the old land, farmers
in the new-testify to the value of the CO.
operative principle as applied to emigration.
Kansas is now reaping profit from the same
source. These movements have for the most
part been crude; imperfect, considering the
| scanty resources that are available, they must
almost necessarily be. But they serve to in
dicate the desire on the part of large bodies
of intending emigrants to avail themselves of
methods of mutual help, and at the same
time to show how those ON this side who
would promote immigration may usefully en-
large and amend their plans.
Organization is the one thing needful.
Hundreds of thousands will come, as hitherto,
without it. Stateswi grow and corporations
will derive gain from their lands, whether
there be organized emigration or not. But
it remains yet to be recognized how much
growth and settlement might be accelerated,
and the introduction of most desirable classes
secured, by the adoption of measures that
would confer on emigrants all the benefits of
associated effort up to their arrival at their
destination, and thereafter secure to them
| comforts and facilities for which, under other
circumstances they must wait long period.
The transfer of family from a far-of home
to new land in the West is not triaing
enterprise even to those most favorably
situated. To the mass of emigrants it is a
task involving more trials and hardships than
most of us are able to comprehend. Many of
these trials nothing can avert. But the
greater number might be lessened, if not ex-
tinguished, by judicious organization. The
wonder is, that principle admitted to be SO
valuable in other matters has been so gene
rally negle cted in this.
THE WORK INGMEN AND THE CHINESE.
From the ~ Y. SUM-
| AS usual a certain number of writers for
the press are misunderstanding and misrepre-
senting the attitude of American working
men towards the wholesale importation of
Chinese laborers, of which Messrs. Sampson,
of North Adams, and Koopmanschap Il Co.,
of San Francisco, have recently given us ex-
amples. One class who sit in their offices
and Libraries and deal with the problems of
life as if their fe1low-men were only elements
of an algebraic equation, treat the question
whether or not some millions of barbarous
Asiatics shall be suddenly brought and placed
alongside as many intelligent Americans as if
it were purely calculation of dollars and
cents If A, b, and G will do so much work
for SO much money, and E, f, and G will do
the same amount of work for less money,
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