The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-22
THE VERY HEST.
No State was ever blessed with


 No State was ever blessed with a
 better class of immigration than there has been to this. State, during the past year. New counties are
 always subject to asgreaterorless ex-
 tent, to an influx of penniless adycn- lures and cursed with class of male
 factors and refugees from justice from the older states, who seek q field for their lawless operations and where criininallaws arc not so rigid ly enforced. . But such is notsthe case so far. as our observation < extends,
 with those who have come and are coming to Arkansas for homes. During the past winter and spring, it was noticeable afeatnte@ among the thousands who came into. our State prospecting and purchasing, that they were generally representa- tiye-men from the countries and com munities from which they cane.a In
 manyinstances men of capitol, md
 large business experience, seeking a
 new field for the employment, of cap ital and the inauguration of enter prises which would grow and spread
 with the growth of the country; and
 many such have found fields od for operatlona A large majority le were men of moderate means inteligent, industrious, horny.handed men, who
 were weary of tho worn out and high bpriced lands of the east or driven to better cline bya theg inexorable winters of the north. Men brought up under the shadow of the school
 house and village church, and in To- calities where they could embrace the spiritsof all the enterprisesaand civilizingw influences of goldtsettled d
 tions, who were, ready to tran sfer
 their means to cheaper, lands,sa more
 generous soil and more genial eli.
 mate. Many arc mechanics and Ia
 borers who came seeking vTemploy-
 ment, when it could not be procured in their old homes, and filed with the hope of making for. themselves
 homes on our cheap lands and ob- taining empleymentin in some of the new enterprises of the state. ! Such men we need and want, and many
 have come . to stay. They came among us, and their influence IS be- ing felt. Their cottages and new farms are dotted all over the State. Schools and churches have been built where none before ever existed,
 and rarly do We hear of an adyentur-
 CT among us. The laws of the state
 are too riged to allow them long SO
 rourn. For the superior class of i'm
 migration, and the wonderfulfl i'm,
 proyemcnti in the social condition of
 much of the State by t, the country | is largely indebted to the wisdom
 and superior generalsl,ip of the Hon.
 Thos. Essex, Land Commissioner of the St. Louis,g Iron Mountain and
 Southern Railroad. When he took
 charge of the land department he re alized the fact that n widespread
 prejudice existed--unjust as it was against the state, and he at once commenced his labors to overcome it. In this he has, in q large, meas
 ure succeeded, and one means used,
 was and still is, to invite the right kind of immgrations The two hun
 dred agents of the land lodepartment have observed this same rule wher-
 ever immigration to this State is so- liclted, and good results have follow
 ed both at home and abroad, and n
 foundation is now laid in the settle
 ment of tho vacant land which twill
 be lasting as the State itself. Like
 every other state, we have more hon- producing, non laboring people now than we want. We hope to escape
 this curse that so generallysexists in
 new countries. We want people, and
 lots of them, but we want the right
 kind. There is room for several
 million more, and they are coming,
 but we are not in such q hurry, as to
 be willing to drum up the rapscal- lions and deadbeats of the entire
 Union, to do it. e We are satisfied
 with those who have come and those
 who are coming we now know of. We know we have good country
 and we want good people to fill it;
 yes, the very abest.--The Spirit of
 Arkansas q iaoda qa ig1 ytodIUa