Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-09

IS,
if no change takes place in the sun, we will
have an early spring and hot summer.
j. X. Ell.
That Shall he Done for Immigration:
To the Editor Of The GLOBE:
The question, whether or not all Intelligent
public will recognize and endorse it's Legis-
lature in its endeavors to carefully consider
and enact proper means for the purposes of
supervising and fostering immigrant settlers
on the public lands in Minnesota, can best
be answered by another question; whether OF
not immigration to Minnesota is desired. and
whether settlers on its vacant and undevel-
ioped lands are synonymous to the interest of
our State, to humanity and to the special
as well as to the general welfare ana inter
est to our commonwealth. While the gen
eral government has provided 16O acres on
the public domain, as a homestead for i'm
migrant settlers, it should be remembered
that our State has made no provisions to as
sist the honest pioneer-settler in their laud-
able endeavors to subdue the wilderness and
promote the cultivation of it's prolifcssoil
10 anticipate well-to-do people OF owners
of means to become pioneer settlers under
the homestead grant of 1GO acres of land in
the wilderness, seems delusive, and few, if
any OF such can be found to establish them
selves on homestead lands in the wilderness.
1t requires men of limited means, with in
dominable courage to endure frontier life.
to avail himself of the benefits of homestead
grants on our frontier settlements, and
these without any other means than that of
his labor, is often doomed to disappointment
1t therefore becomes the duty of our State
government to exercise its paternal care, as
sistance and superintendent to actual set
tiers on uncultivated lands within it's juris-
diction, and there can be no doubt that the
efforts Of the State in this direction will not
emily promote settlement of immigrants, ele-
vate and promote the welfare of settlers but
be enrolling and beneficial to our State.
The question then simply to be solved is.
what kind of aid should the State give the
sitter and how to be Unidentified? Certainly
not by the publication of pamphlets, telling
tales, requiring large appropriation for the
benefits of other and not for immigrant set
tiers; norby immigrant agents to induce i'm
migrants to go to Minnesota and settle on
the public domain or on railroad, school and
| university lands without any means required
for development but their labor.
| If it be apparent that the uncultivated vir-
gin soil within our State can be made pro-
ductive by developments and labor, for the
benefit of the laborer who may be induced to
come to Minnesota and establish himself a
home, why not provide him with some means
by which to make his labors productive, and
if the settler prosper thereby the State has
done its duty and will also derive it's bene-
fits. Suppose that our Legislature now in
session enact that the Governor shall ap-
C4o%o
constitute state board of colonization for
immigrant settlers and authorize
said board to render to actual
settler on lands one hundred dollars annual
| ly of State certificate of indebtedness at 4
per cent per annum; the capital payable
i within IL years after issue, and the interest
payable annually by the State Treasurer, and
that said State certificate of indebtedness
shall only be granted to any settler in order
to promote actual Improvements on his land.
2. That the settler having received such State
certificates of Indebtedness, shall make re-
turn payments to the State of said loan in
five annual instalments, after the expiration
of the sixth year, with interest thereon pay
able annually. B. That the State should
have first and preferred lien on the settlers
land, and all his Improvements thereon, for
the faithful performance of his duty, to
which he agreed. 4. That the settler should
annually break and cultivate at least five to
ten acres of his land-would the State feel
any real embarrassment thereby; would it
not benefit the State as well as the settler
, and would not such State certificate of in
debtedness, if issued in nomination of SIS OF
$1O"-circulate as mediums of exchange
amongst the frontier Settlers and fill a
vacuum of specie or national currency, now
made so scarce?
If the combined wisdom of our legislators
who heretofore have SO amply rewarded rail
road corporations with immunities of lan0
grants free from taxations. would now retail
ate to labor the loan of assistance, ir
developing the soil of their homesteads
< inaugurate a system of immigration
equally honorable to our State, as beneficial
to onr frontier settlers on the public domain
properly guarded under the supervisors anc
regulations of State board of equalization
for immigrants then, and only thereby
f will they encourage, facilitate and promote
immigration of actual settlers-not specu
r lators-to establish themselves on homestead
! lands within the State, and mutual benefits
be fostered to the State as we'll as to the
, actual settler. B. A. FRo1sETH.
Mr.. Nightengale's Next Friend" Tells u
: Who Mr.. Nightengale Is.
o To the Editor of the DAILY GLOBE.
: LAKE VIEW, Ills, Feb. 2, 1S78.-Youl
Q caustic article on "Quackenbos VS.. Burt il
: your issue of January %, has incidental.
come to my notice. You presume to ask il
h behalf of an inquisitive public, sWho is Prof
t, Nightingale, of Lake View, Illinois, that b
: should be held up as a model of judgmen
q in educational affairs?'' He is classica
: graduate of the Wesleyan University, Middle
e town, Conn. In the State of Nebraska
IS where he was superintendent of the school
Is of Omaha president of the State Teachers
y association and also of the State Sabbat
@ School association; in Iowa, where he occu