The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-02

sure the Radical admins tration installed /
In power by violence and fraud will levy
enormous taxes ON their property and
industry to pamper carpet-bag adventu-
rers and their scaIawag abettors. They |
may expect that the public revenue, the |
product Of their sweat and blood, viii flow
like water that their Mongrel rulers may
reveI in their ill-gotten gains.
They may expect that in this wholesale
game ofpubIc plumber these adventures
viii levy force loans ON the Insurance
Companies which tens of thousands of
them have constituted the instrumental
ties by which their wives and children
are to be protected from starvation when
their natural protectors are away. They
may expect that offices without number
viii be multiplied to reward partizan
fayorites and to crafty the vampires that
have collected like birds of prey to feed
upon the vitals of the commonwealth.
Hundreds of thousands for these vile
uses Not one cent for the public good.
Therefore the Executive message dis
couraging foreign immigration to recruit
the producing force of the State, which
every intelligent man knows to be the
greatest of all her needs since the over
throw of her labor system-will take no
one by surprise. This delectable docu-
ment- will be found in another column.
1t will be seen that the motive which has
prompted very many of our citizens to
encourage immigration is attributed to
the unworthy impulse of political
passion" The person who becomes the
occupant of the Executive Office of the
State by the agencies which the military
satrap employed to give victory to the
Radicals, is not to be expected to have a
very refined idea of the proprieties of his
place in referring to the acts of the great
body of the people who were thus out
ragged and at whose cost he owes his eleva-
ton but there are some things to which
even he might refrain from condescend-
ing.
To the imperious wants of our State
to the immense reduction of her agricul-
tural productions since the war-to her
wide tracts of wasting fields which once
teemed with crops that added their year
ly contributions of millions to the re-
sources of the State-to the umexampled
fall in the value of these lands in conse-
quence of the absence of labor to cultivate
them-we need only point to vindicate the
efforts of our people to promote immigra-'
ton and their invitation to the unpaid
laborer abroad to come here and cultivate
these lands, and prosper upon them and
make them their homes and the homes Of
their descendants forever.
The public are notified through this
Executive paper that foreigners have al
ready had the 'schoolmaster" among
them, and that they do not need to be in
formed of the advantages of the soil and
climate of the South, and the peculiarly
and value of her productions, and her
railroad and market facilities; and that
the only use we have for Commissioner
Of immigration is to sit him down quiet
ly at home on the emoluments of his
office and assign him to such ''simple
'tduties as may assist in the direction of
Immigration from Europe achen 1t shall
''cOme among as" What kind of a SER
vice that is, God who is all-wise, may know;
but we don't believe the author of the
suggestion does. What the necessities
of the State require Is the creation of 1sJ1at-
ences auhich aeiU operate on the European
mind and bring immigration here.
From this Executive ukase our people
will now learn that the office of Commits
sioner of immigration" provided by the
Constitution is a mere sinecure and
that to secure laborers and permanent
settlers from abroad who will assimilate
with the white population of the State
they must rely upon their own individual
and cooperative efforts We have be-
lieved it all along. The evidence is now
furnished. The aid of the State govern
ment is not to be brought to bear in favor
of bringing European emigrants here.
The people must do the work themselves.
If they would speed the day when their
ears will be greeted by the tramp of tens
of thousands coming from the Old World
with means and muscle to occupy and
cultivate their waste places and to make
their deserts blossom as the rose,
they must themselves be up and doing.