The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-11-20
LABOR AND IMMIGRATION.
An Interesting transatlantic
letter to Hon. ii. X. Moore,
Of Franklin County.

Of Franklin County.
Horotio Il. Moore Esq, Hunts Station
franklin Co., Tennessee
Dear Sir:-Your favor OF September
29lh, is just at hand and contents noted
There is no difficulty in sending any
number Of able bodied men TO the farm
prs in Tennessee, if the passages ior
the men and families are prepaid by the
employer, The laboring classes OF
England receive moderate wages and
AS land is very high there is little or no
inaucemcnt to the laboring man to
save his earnings. AS consequence
the family cares and expenses increase
and he is actually unable TO pay his
passage across the ocean-:hat 49, the
class which your people would o
want, viz: the agricultural class.
II the mechanics. etc from the
are sent to your people they are neither
as useful or faithful servants US the az
ri"cultural or country classes, n IT IS
positively impossible for that class to
pay passages,
Another very important point Tor
your people to consider is the value OF
a fixed population, To secure this IT
is of the first Importance 10 bring JAM
lies to settle among you. Working
men with families coming to labor FOR
on will settle down, they are not likely
to rove about, and the question for
your farmers to consider is whether
they can afford to pay the passageo OF
, families. They must estimate an av
eragc of five passage tickets to a fami'
", which Col. Lamb at Norfolk, Vir-
sinia, would furnish you at S35 each,
or SlG5 TO a family. In most OF these
families the wife would assist in the
house and a portion of the children
would be able to work on the farm or
in the house Of the employer. Besides
this the children would he growing up
to be useful and would supply q con-
~.inualIy increasing amount Of labor.
Your friends must bear in mind that
they assume all tue risks from accident,
illness, DC. This risk is actually small,
but it should not be- disguised. Proba-
bly, in sending so families two or three
of the men would be indifferent SER
wants, after taking ali the pains pos,
sible.
Your letter does not intimate the
payment ol expenses by your people
and perhaps this is not anticipated.
We should be glad to send you men
who could pay their W passages but
that would De au impossibility.
If your people decide that it is for
their interest to send for farm laborers,
and their families, we will take pleas
tire in carrying out your intentions
and finding the laborcrs, and every
way give the matter Il careful atten-
ton, without charge to your people,
providing that a club is made up of ten
families Of upwards at one shipment.
We cannot afford to be at the trouble
of finding them aud seeing them on
board and attending to all the previous
details unless there is a party going al
NJ time,
Your people need run no risks 80 far
as losing the money is concerned from
putting it into unknown hands. No
money need be paid to US, the passage
arrangements can he made with Col.
William Lamb at Norfolk, Virginia,
who will no doubt allow you a CON-
mission on the passages. He would
also attend to the passengers on arri-
val at Norfolk and forward them to
you for which you could arrange with
the railway company and have the pas.
sengcrs brought at low rates.
We have frequently been approach
ed by parties in different portions Of
the United States 70 send lahorers to
farmers in different districts. 1t gen
orally results, after the club is formed,
in some one of the number wishing the
farmers to send them to Europe, pay
Ing expenses, etc, and the tinality is
that the club is either broken up, or ex.
penses are saddled upon the farmers
which are quite unnecessary, and some
one is sent to England who is q
stranger to the people and country,
and he takes back with him a number
Of people who have imposed upon him
and who are in reality good for moth.
ing.
Your people should understand that
hey might have the men and families
hey wish for without paying any one a
Jenny beyond a usual cost Of passage
unless for the expenses of some :
'erson to 60 to Norfolk and meet the 9
passengers on arrival. h
We do not think il is necessary n =,