Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-09-20
HOW WE MIGHT INCREASE IMMIGRATION.

The New York Tribune says the South
should encourage immigration by sys-
tematic advertising of her advantages.
The Lynchburg Tirginian endorses the
suggestion and illustrates its force and wis
dom by comparing the rapid growth of
the Northwest with the South. The for
mer, it says, is active and liberal i'm the
matter of sending broadcast pamphlets and
newspapers giving the price of lands, the
demands for labor and the advantages of
climate, &C., &c. All this work is done
there by cooperation. live public spirit
seconds individual enterprise, and by
combined effort, the great work is ac-
complished. On the other hand, it
says, the South is slow TO re-
sort to such enterprises. 1t leaves to in
dividual work what clearly belongs to
public effort, and gives the great bulk of
mankind to infer from it want of combined
action, what is really true of some sections
AN absolute hostility to immigration.
The Tribune and Virginidn are both right.
We have reason TO know that the men
who come South to prospect for homes,
have a strong counteracting influence con-
stantly before them, in the enterprise and
vim of the Western real estate agents and
companies advertising their advantages as
section. We know, too, that where, by
private effort, one newspaper or PAM
phlet from the South reaches Europe,
or the thickly populated Eastern
States, ten and twenty reach those places
from the West If one-third of the money
expended by the West in this respect was
judiciously used by the South in the same
way we would reap q richer reward in
population and capital.
The West has another great advantage
over us not alluded to by either of the
above papers. They show unmistaka-
bly, by their enterprise, legislation and
1COrhs, that they 1Cdnt immigration.
They exert themselves to attract it
and show by a generous welcome
that they mean what they say. The
West is not cursed with a class of men
who are afraid to invite competition.
They have no class of selfish creatures who
want to fasten themselves upon the public
by driving away all who are likely, by
their enterprise, to come in their way.
The people OF East Tennessee want immi-
grafton. They want capital and enter
prise, but there are some of theirpoliticians
and pretended leaders who want to reDel
all such help, for they know that with
prosperity and q healthier and more lib
eral public spirit, their day of ascendancy
is ended. They try to break down their
rivals in business, not by honorable COM
petition, but by arraying against them To-
cal and partisan preiudices. If new en-
terprise is inaugurated, and it conflicts
with their interests, they avail themselves
of mean passions to break it down, no mat
ter what the public suffer thereby. Such
spirits are easily marked, for you
hear them always bitterly denOunc-
ing new citizens as adventures, !
&c. What we want is to break down such |
selfish creatures, and by healthy public !
sentiment give the world to understand |
thatwe rant immigration and by our works !
show that we will protect and encourage |
the interest of all who come to make their
homes with us.
With such public sentiment and our |
many advantages rs section properly adj |
Vertised, we see no reason why we should |
not have rapid increase in population
and wealth.