The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-10-11


clmnio. ilo pf0dudIyonom N The
sMl, ond tho vat mineral wealth ~
Alabama, aud urging iho nccoHiiy Of
encouraging immigration. lie says
every Immigrant has at lcasia product
I've poser or ono thousand dollars, and
II wo can induce, rs wise expenditure
of ten thousand dOllais yerly, one
thousand immigrants 10 make their
homes ln our midst, we add enc hun
dred thousand dollars 10 the wealth. OF
the State
"Mr. Knapp, one Of the Commls-
sioucrs of Immigration OF the state 81
New York, who has given the subject
much consideration, assumes the aver
ace value To be one thousand one nun
tred and twenty-five dollars. AZ this
rate those who landed upon our shores
during the year just closed, added up
ward of three hundred and eighty-ilve
millions of dollars to our national
wealth, while during the last half cci,-
tury the increment from this source
has been six billion two hundred aud
forty-three million eight hundred thou
s.lnd dollars. II IL not to be supposed
that the nations of the Old World are
blind 10 the fact that this increase 10
our national wealth is made ut their
expense, and IL Is not with feelings OF
10Y that they see their people leaving
their old homes and crowuing To our
shores, and they are endcaVoring To
make il harder for them 10 go, and
are also trying to countcract the effects
of reports OF high wages, plenty OF
good food and comfortable homes TO
be had in America which reports are
continually finding their way across
The seas into the most distant row
inces.
While Prussia, to prevent immigra-
ton, has declared thar all immi-
gratis. who have hitherto been car
ried BIZ the railroad companies at re-
duced rates and baggage free, snail
pay full fare and price for baggage.
The newspapers of all natloiaI.ties
busy themselves in circulating detailed
accounts of horrible crimes, r0bheries
and murders, which, alas, I'll too large
a space in the columns of even our re-
spectahle newspapers. An Intelligent
gentleman said to us but Il few days
since, ~ don't want to go to America,
where ] could not speak my nina
without being shot down hy some one
who thought differently. Things have
come TO dreadful pass there, muir
tcrs in the streets and hotels Without
provocati0n. No, | don't want to 80
to America"
We have heard the same idea cH-
pressed by others, and we see That the
papers give little American news out
side of the crimes. Prlssia's action
did not have the desired effect for inn
migration increased instead ofdinin-
ished, but Tie more subtle plan Of wax
ing up their fears in regard to the land
of Liberty, for which they long, seems
to DC more eflcctual.
The immigration iiom Austria Is
not very considerable, the people not
being us generally well informed as
those OF North Germany, and also not
having many friends 10 send them
glowing accounts Of the advantages OF
living in good land.
The truth is that these people do
not need to 20 so far from nome for
the mere sake OF making money. Had
they the enterprise OF Americans
there is enough uncultivated land
right here to furnish them with
good homes and every comfort Hon
gary is country but little known and
thiily settled, AID much Of her land is
like our wild prairie, needing only TO
be "tickled with the hoep in order to
"laugli with n harvest
The attention of the educated classes