, 1877-08-12

mass of these unemployed laborers are moi
able to migrate to or go upon land we
have referred to this objection repeatedly
What is first wanted is desire on the part
Of these persons to reach the land where
they can earn their living and establish Per
manent homes which they can call their own.
It is not easy, perhaps, for man with
family to abandon even the squatter homo
he has in the city and 60 out into the coun-
try, and, without means, begin new Life.
But that which one or two men cannot 90
may be accomplished by m organized effort
America was colonized, and has since been
recruited, by immigration. There are an
nually many groups of immigrants who, be-
fore leaving home, had organized, had con-
centrated their means, and in body had
left for their new homes selected by them
before leaving. The New World has been
filed up largely by colonies, or organizations
of families, groups Of people from particular
towns, all migrating in body, and settling
in a common neighborhood. Virginia,
Maryland, and Pennsylvania were originally
settled in this way. All over Illinois, OHIO,
and Wisconsin are towns, counties, md dis
tricts originally peopled by large colonies Of
families, who were by organization able to
reach new homes, which acting singiy would
have been impossible. The Western States
have been also largely peopled by organized
migration from the Eastern States. Kansas
was settled and gwen population emitting
her to admission as a State through the
efforts Of the Kansas Aid Society,"" organ
lied in Massachusetts, aud sustained by all
New England So have large bodies OF fam
lies left Virginia, North Carolina, and Ten
nessee, and have settled counties aud districts
in Missouri, Arkansas, md even in far-oH
Texas. If whole colonies can be organized
of working people of small means in Ger
many, and moved and planted prosper
ous]y in Texas, certainly way
can be found for the moving and
planting on the fertile lands in Mime
sofa, Dakota, Nebraska, pnrts Of Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, of
the distressed surplus populations OF the
Northern cities who are from want OF en-
ployment degenerating into pauperisn, or
becoming the dupes and victims of CON-
munism. In all these States there is strong
and urgent demand for this class of popula-
ton. II seventy-fve or a hundred faml
lies in Chicago, embracing the parents with
their growing sons and daughters, can or
ganize and express their willingness to mi
CRATE, with their little possessions but stout
hearts and strong purpose to work, they can
find by proper efforts communities not only
willing to receive them, give them present
labor and homes, but arrange for their oc-
cupation and ownership of all the lind they
can operate. This is not in the
wilderness, but in districts, where schools
and churches are already established,
and where there is only scarcity Of willing
labor. Nor will these people 60 empty
handed So soon as there is shown will
ingness to leave the corruptions, temptations,
poverty, and crime Of the large cities, remove
the growing children from the streets where
CRIME stalks worse than pestlence among
the victims Of want, there will be found all
the mid and the help needed to forward them
TO THEIR QeSt1nnt1OH, Auu W pEUs1ua 1ol LueH
comfort whom there.
This is the true measure of providing re-
lief. When any number Of the families OF
the unemployed, to whom employment is
in tho cities, voluntarily ask for
aid to move to where there is labor to be had
On land, and where it is remunerated with in
and with comfortable homes, free
from want and suffering, there will follow
effort not only to make this migra-
lion possible, but to promote it by liberal aid.
The movement must originate among the un-
employed men themselves. When they are
resolved to 60 to other homes where they
may enjoy plenty, and where they can be the
owncrs of the soil they cultivate, then the
means will be found to did them. The States
we have named are fertile, arc within easy
access, are thinly populated, and have lands
to be had at little cost, capable Of supporting
millions moro people. They can absorb all
the unemployed laborers Of the cities and their
families, and give them all homes and
dependent only on their own in
dustry and frugality, and where they can
raise their families free of the corrupting
wees and allurements Of the large cities.