Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-09-06
InAigrutAea.


The immigration Society of the South
Nd the idle lands of our country.
In many instances, orr immigration So
eieties send over their live labor agents as
o postscript to the pamphlets and thus they
have induced many foreign mechanic and
farmer to settle in the smiling fields and
fsesile valleys of the South.
One of these live labor agents, a promi-
nent gentleman from Mississippi, has sue
ceeded in sending over from Europe, during
several years past, over 500 active farmers
who have settled In the northern portion
of our sister State, and are at present max
ing handsome livings on the farms which
they have entered and are working.
The secret of the success of this one man
that he took over bona fide letters from the
immigrant farmers themselves, which of
ten, though ungrafnmatical and unyhetori-
cal, contained the state of things as they
were seen from from the poor mans stand
point Theefrst 6w of these immigrants
were treated very or extra literally as a
policy and in consequence they urged
through letters, in q square, plain way}
that their'relativcs and friends should come
over and join them.
The gentleman thus employed In helping
on the interests of his State is confdent
that in two or three years he will be able
to send out several thousand emigrants
from Europe who will settle in the Solling
cotton lands of Northern Mississippi.
The emigrants who are working their
work with sort Of brotherly spirit with
reference to those poor and recently arrived.
They take care of these, support them for
while, until after they set their foreign
brothers and friends on their legs, they
are able to get footing on the soil and go
ahead
We have had the pleasure of interview
inx some of our foreign-born tradesmen. as
to the possibility of their exercising this
spirit toward needy immigraets who may
come into our State induced by the ac-
counts'of the fertility ofour delta lands and
prairies.
Those thus interviewed stated that under
certain conditions they could get their for
eign kinsfolks and friends to come over to
Louisiana by thousands; but to open up
our agricultural interests properly under
the auspices of the labor Of foreign immi-
grants, we must first increase and extend
the manufacturing interests of the State, so
that the thousands of foreign-born trades
men who are already here will be able to
obtain constant and remunerative employ
ment. These then would be willing, through
cooperative workingmen's and tradesmens
associations, to support the laborers in the
agricultural field with money loaned ut
small interest. In the present state of our
manufacturing industries this would almost
he impracticable, as the jobbing work so
far done here in our workshops and facto
ries of differ ,nt kinds does not afford all of
our home mechanics steady employment,
and thus they are only enabled to make
living.
These foreign born tradesmcn all state
that at any time they Gould induce any of
their friends and people of like station in
the fatherlands to come over here, if they
thought under the presers state state of
things II ,~~vuid be advisable for them to do
u.
Tins if the capitalists who form them
selves into immigration societies would de-
vote their entire energies, or those thus
wasted, to extending the manufacturing |
interests Of the State and enable the coun- |
try to avail herself of the enormous profits, |
10 he realized from these pursuits, then the |
foreign born tradesman will take carethat |
The immigration tide will touch our shores. !
Agriculture, manufactures and commerce |
Setan tn bs nervously congenial triplets
which advance together and Together re !
1-ogradc. Let the capitalists push our
onward, and the other inter |
,sts will be also adyanc.d.-lN. q. Pioa- |
y.Hc.