The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-11-04
HOW TO BUILD. UP THE SOUTH.
PRACTICAL AND SENSIBLE TALK.

nah Meas, writes the following letter to that
journal.
1t is matter Of surprise that Southern
people, in 30 many favorable localities,
while they invite aud are ANXIOUS to secure
imm migration as means of populatlDg and
increasing the wealth of the country, seem
blind to one of the surest and most practi-
cal methods of attaining that end. They
Issue pamphlets setting forth the advan-
tages of the country, hold meetings and
organize societies and urge upon every
editor the duty of ''pufdug" the town and
section, and then cit down expecting to
grow rich upon the influx of population.
Every one who owns surplus lands, every
one who owns houses for rent, every one
who keeps a shop, store, hotel, stables or
market stall, is quite sure, from the noise
made at home over the matter, that the
time is at hand when tho town ia to spring
suddenly into the proportions OF a city, the
surrounding country as suddenly NIL to
ove1flowing with hard handed white labor
ers and thrifty farmers and tradesmen,
while the lucky proprietors of the ssil will
have but to sit at the receipt of custom and
enjoy the profits of their cheap enterprise.
Now we say it is a matter of surprise
that people pretending to wealth, enter-
prise and Intelligence are so blind, or else
80 timidly penurious that they do not see
the fallacy of such hopes and abandon 80
infeasible method of growing rich without
labor or expenditure. That epirit of enter
prise is very poor indeed which shrinks
from every risk and only Sounds it's own
praise in the hope of deceiving and inducing
somebody else to take the rlsk. Suppose,
as they wish, immigrants should flock in
by the thousands, what would such entsr-
prising people do to aid themf Wealthy
people do not emigrate. Those who are
under the necessity of seeking a new home
are generally poor or at least not more than
oh Ia To of
moderate price. Have you any lands to
share with them at moderate pricss9 Have
you few bushels of corn, pess, potatoes,
a spare cow or coop of fowls to start them
on the road to populate aud enrich your
countryf If not, talk 40 more about ina
migrants. Plod on in the old way assured
that you have all you deserve and leave
true enterprise to be directe d by those who
are wise, active and comprehensive, both in
miud and purse.
Because the "Great West" grew pros
porous and rich by immigration it is not
conclusive that the South must do the same
at this late day. There has been a great
change since those days, both in our own
and In those foreign governments which
furnished most of the emigrauts to the
Northwest.
Ireland has expended most of her force
upon us, France never emigrated much,
| and Germany is growing republican. The
| "Northern hive" Is done swarming for the
| season, and the decimating war in Southern
| Europe, even if it exteDds no further, ii
| destined to furnish new homes for thou
| eauds who might otherwise have sailed fol
America. But the greatest impetus giver
to the rapid settlement of the Northwest IL
to be traced to the capital of the North anG
the lavish expenditure Of the pubiic landt
by the government. Lands were 6 Vel
away by the million by the governmen
to moneyed corporations, who were thu!
| hlaA tn q railroad tn
! county site in the new States and immi
a grants were not only invited, but endowe'
Q with a home on the condition of permanen
: settlement. Is such thing at this tim
practicable in the South Lands, W
n know, are abundant and cheap in som
q localities, and railroad facilities fair ale
t in some places, but where are the emigrant
@ to come FRONT Time and experience hav
q pretty fairly proven that men of cold eli
i. mate are not apt to emigrate in larg
a bodies to a warm climate. 1t is folly
d therefore, for the South longer to expect
!. flood tide of immigration to build up he
n waste places, and it is time we should ope
t our eyes to the situation and set sbou
O repairing our own house. We have popU
d lation enough for all practical purpose
n and one hundred years hence our grand
"a children will wonder why we were G
d crazy about immigrants, when our ow
It increase was amply sufficient to food th
|. country and occupy the land in that time
,s II, however, a more rapid increase
o population is desirable, we have discovere
is a method infallible of attaining that end.
rs is simply this: Build manufactures; pr
,r out your money; utilize your resources
y forest, field and stream shake off yor
sr timid lethargy, your fear that yOu will lot
D. something and become poor. Iti unmanl
1T to be afraid of poverty-be its master if 20
ID call yourself a man, and if you have tt
10 patriotism to do your country servic
ot loose your purse strings and set the poor
Q, work that is all they ask of your capita
of and the country will move forward ont
n more on the road to prosperity. Whe
i'd there is work there will be workmen.
70, where there are workmen there will
I'd tradesmen, and where there are tradesmt
IN there will be customers. This will pop
es late your country, increase your wealth al
be add political power and influence.
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i'd HOOPS NEW BR1aADE.-Au old soldie
i'd of the army of Northern Virginia will T
&C. member Hoods old brigade. Well, he h
re started in to raise q new one. A geDtlem
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