The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-21

IMaIGRAT1oE.-A writer in the Augusta
(Ga.} Chronicle advances some i:ie4s upon
the subject of 9; Immigration" which have
about them the favor of saving common
sense. He regards the expensive schemes
for, promoting immigration which have from
time to time been organized In the southern
States las. OF little practical use, and thinks
that nothing can be done except to create and
maintain. the conditions which will induce
the filling up of the country by natural
processes without the aid of special
agencies. The men who manage the
immigration associations are always sus-
pected Of having some personal in
terest In the work over and above that
which concerns them, as good 'citizeps en-.
gagged in promoting the common welfare.
The agents who 60 abroad get large salaries,
and sometimes are paid per capita premium
on the able-bodied men whom they induce
| to locate in q particular State or county. The
recruits which they add to the lsboring popu-
lation are often selected with view Of get
ting the bounty offered by confdiug agri-
cultural communities rather than desire to
increase the number of useful citizens.
This leve-headed Georgian has but little
faith in the home and foreign immigration
bureaus which have undertaken to bring
labor and capital TO the South. he thinks
that the reports of geological surveys and
the hand-books setting forth the peculiar
attractions of the region that wants immi-
grants that are scattered broadcast over Eu-
rope make but little impression on the pea.
santry of Germany, Sweden, England, Ire
land, and Scotland, for whose benefit these
advertisements have been gotten up without
regard to expense. Neither does he look
with favor upon the propositions which have
often been made to the landowners
OF the South to glue away por-
ton of their estates to the end that the
remainder may become more valuable.
No private citizen will give away his lands
to be worked by another, whether he be
negro, Swede, or a German. The great
mass Of the immigrants who come to this
country are not farmers. If the majority of
them were furnished with hundred acres
of land free of cost they could not make
living by tilling the soil. They nearly all
remain in the cities and become tradesmen,
laborers, coachmen, and walters. Such Of
them as are skilled mechanics have but little
difficulty in finding employment. TO talk
of bringing over colony OF Immigrants and
turning them into farmers by the ample pro-
cess of giving them piece of-land and
few agricultural implements is absurd.
The writer referred to submits the follow.
ing as his recipe fer making the South pros
porous:
81. Let each farmer raise and educate his
children, when not ut school, to work on
farm.
"2. Teach them that they are not sent to
college to learn how to dodge eoork, but to
learn how to do 1t more. sk7Jully and sue
cessfully.
"3. Teach them that they cannot all be
lawyers, doctors, preachers, clerks, and civil
engineers, but that somebody must be farm.
ers, and that farmer should have as good
an education as any one else. -.
GA. Encourage the negroes to remain in
the State by fair treatment and prompt and
faithful fulfilment of contracts made with
them. -s
as. To that end the Legislature should
provide some compulsory mode of arbltra-
ton in summary way Of all disputes about
the division Of the crops between the land.
lord and the tenant or laborer, so that both
parties could obtain speedy justice" Balt'-
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