New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-12
TEF coWwERcB OF IMMIGRATION.

/ We have often considered the importa-
ton Of people as a means Of adding to the
industrial revenues Of a State and enhanc-
ing its taxable values. We must now treat
this sacred element Of republican liberty
! as commercial quantity, and show how
! indispensable is the consequences Of pas.
sengers and fares to the prosperity Of 3
commercial city like our own.
The trade of New Orleans, except the
expectation Of cotton, had dwindled to the
receipt and distribution Of plantation sup
plies. The vast commerce between the
West and Europe has been conducted
overland. The natural advantages Of our
position, sustained by judicious com
bination Of internal and ocean Transports
ton, has recovered part Of the bulk
grain export and certain amendments in
the system Of bonded imports has added
materially to our imported values. Still
| the balance Of this trade is greatly against
| US. Thus our foreign exports last year
may have amounted to one hundred mil
lion dollars. Our imports did not exceed
twenty millions. Here, then, must be an
immense tonnage entered in ballast, and
the loss on an empty vessel added to our
river and port charges on sail vessels will
account for the higher rate Of outright
from New Orleans than from the Northern
Atlantic ports. We need to supplement
this foreign import business. How may
it be done? We answer boldly by i'm
porting in our empty tonnage and send
ing into the interior by our river craft
this European immigration due to the
Mississippi Valley and the upper North
west
In order to show how this is to be done,
and how much it is worth commercially
when effected, we propose to examine the
immigration system elsewhere. Prompt to
perceive the immense political and COM
mercial value Of imported people, the
merchants and statesmen Of the Eastern
States constructed canals turnpikes and
railroads into the interior West. To this
they added the gift Of the public domain,
not only for homesteads for the INDECENT
MILL pms Of Europe, but for the endow-
ment of schools, colleges and other useful
institutions attractive to those seeking
new home. No attention was paid by the
South to this agency until it was per
populous States and Territories to the
Union; this increased production and in
fuence in peace or war was added to the
section which had imported and protected
it. 1t is not useless commentary upon
the view now taken that many Of these i'm
migrants before the war were brought in
by ships taking out cotton, which staple
was thus made to minister to the creation
Of power antagonistic to those who pro |
duced it. But an infinitely more impor-
tant result Of this system was that the
whole Northwestern States have been thus
built UP, and their whole production and
CONSUMPTION now goes TO the credit Of |
these Eastern States and cities, whose |
colonies they in fact are. The importation
of immigrants now goes on through the |
Easte m ports. and especially through that
Of New Work, ia the most systematic man
ner. 70 q commission Of respectable citi-
xens il added the Mayors OF New York |
ana Brooklyn, with the presidents Of the
North and German Immigration sid So. |
cietie$. The sole and suficien? fund for
the VASE establishment conducted by This
is head tax Of 81 - o. each |
immigrant. From this tx vas last year
537?,328.
Every one 2as read Of Tie immigrant |
bureau az Castle Garden; how j: is ! vast
into which immigrants Of al!
are received. with separate
how the three principal
,ailroads Of Pennsylvania and New York
nave there their offices, with an express
service ready to store or transport the eff
ects Of the stranger, as he may order, and
generally, how the immigrant is protected
nd provided for There are some things,
however, which nothing but personal in
pection can realize. l. That men of
lonorand sagacity superintend the system.
Tot for any gain they could make by in
idental jobbing Of salary or contracts
ut for the consideration that in making
0 many thousands happy and prosperous,
hey contribute to the wealth Of their own
ity and country, and Of themselves as
itizens and property holders. This in
Olives the administration BY kindly and
onest officials, the defense Of the helpless
ranger from the. "water pirates who
.arye and stife him by sea, and the Gland
irates" who steal his baggage, sell him
ogus railroad tickets, and despoil him
it'll worse than Arab rascahty. It also
lcludes prosecutions at law made BY these
against the miscreants who
ave practiced these frauds upon the i'm.
ligrant. It is with this protective pur- !
ose that tug boards the immigrant ship :
al brings every passenger to the depot.
d under guard, but undey protection. !,
hey are assigned appropriate apartments ..
TO nationality. There they are :,
gistegei. The sick are sent to the hos. :,
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