The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

EFFTSGHAM. III. ApriI Is. 1870.

frAN On LII, n KtfA o. low.
Until the rush to the West for new
class of laborers and settlers was made
by our planters in january last, they
seemed not to have realized the existence
of sources for recruiting the producing
force of the State, as inexhaustible as the
waters of the ocean.
1t is unnecessary to discuss the causes
of the long delay in understanding this
fact, nor TO depict the consequences of the
haste which was made in many instances
to perform in day what should have
been the work of months. The readers
of this correspondence viii perhaps re-
member that in letter written in Janu-
ary, the writer foretold that in the hurry
to secure laborers for the present year,
many worthless and improbable charac-
tiers would be introduced into the State
under the name of ''emigrants" through
the instrumentality of Labor Brokers
who had nc other motive but to secure
their fee of so much per head upon every
person furnished to the planter. He had
been a witness of these abuses, and had
seen planters take their departure with
cargos of "laborers" from the great city
of the West, many of whom they had
not even seen before they were put aboard
the trains, much less examined as to their
occupations, their habits, and adaptable
| ity TO the places designed for them. 1t
was explained that be the planter, or
agent ever so careful, in conducting the
business of securing immigrants, impo-
sitiOns were unavoidable; and it was
said how much more certainly will they
occur when due care was not taken to
discriminate between laborers and loafers,
honest men and rogues.
But notwithstanding these drawbacks
resulting from the necessity of haste in
consequence of the long postponement of
| a work which ought to have been COM
menced earlier, a great thing has been
accomplished for the restoration of the
prosperity of our State: Many valuable
| additions have been made to its popula-
ton; and the eyes Of her people have
been opened to the fact that
here III the great West and far
away across the ocean are tens
and hundreds of thousands who will
gladly come to join them in the good
work of bringing their idle lands once
more TO a profitable cultivation and of
acquiring permanent interest in a soil
which presents advantages and attractions
not properly appreciated by those who
are enjoying them. The chat will soon
be winnowed from the graiE. The dead
beats and free-lunch FOUNDERS who have
imposed themselves upon conGding plan
tiers, or agents, will not long remain, and
the substantial workers who have come
TO stay will find in the fertility of our soil,
and the salubrity of our climate, and the
generosity of our people the realization of
their highest hopes. And these immi-
grants themselves will become the most
| efficient agents of immigration.
/
For the purposes of the present crop,
the demand for farm hands has necessa-
rily ceased. But there is another class
to whom invitations should be constantly
| extended, those who have means to invest
in our lands with view to settlement
and cultivation. They are the capitalists
who are most needed. The State has
abundant wealth in her uncultivated lands
which her philosophical citizens should
spare no trouble to utilize at the earliest
day
For the employment of laboners the
next year, our planters have learned the
wisdom of beginning in time No farmer
need be deprived ola suAiciency of ''help'''.
the next year. A correspondent displays
a wise forecaste who writes that he wishes
even. now to engage the services ola fami-
ly for wages to be employed in repairing
portion of his lands the remainder of
the year with the privilege of cultivating
them on liberal terms the next season.
Taking time by the forelock, he will Sc
cure not only laborers but permanent
settlers who will help to lay the founda-
tons, deep and strong, upon which the
superstructure of the future prosperity
of the State, will rest Z. b.