The comet., 1880-04-17
CONDUCTED BY S, II, STA CRH0 USE.
A Feasible Plan 10 Induce Immi-
grafton.

We have received several circulars iron
Mai. Il. G. Wall, Commissioner Of lmmi
grafton and Agriculture, which holds on
great inducements to immigrants. One o
the circulars contains an Act of incorpora
ton and bylaws, by which plan is sci
forth to organize an immigration Ald
Association in every county in the state
The idea of cooperation is good one ano
presents the only etlectual method of prop
erly working up the immigration move
ment. The plan also proposes to bring
immigrants to our State in colonies. This
will be a great inducement to immigrants,
as those lehving their homes of course
would prefer to be thrown among people
of their own nationality, where they can
form associations of their own, and build
up churches and schools among themselves.
BY this means they naturally become better
satisfied. They form citizenship and be-
come interested in building up the country.
Also tracts of land containing eighty
acres or more, is proposed to be sold
them in eight payments-paying each
year small interest on the money. This
enables them to buy places at reasonable
figures on time, which is another great
inducemCnt.
The plan is good one, and we think will
meet with general approbation
This is Il most favorable time to procure
immigrants. We saw few days since n
private letter from Norway, which says
nearly every one is speaking of coming to
America, on account of the financial distress
there. Mr.. A. f. Andre, of this place,
originally of sweden, says owing to the
success of few Swedcs who were brought
over few weeks ago, thinks that there
will be Il considerable immigration to this
country during the present year Expects
his brother during the present year, who
will be accompanied by others. But says
that when they land in New Orleans or any
other port, they must be treated kindly,
and provided with lodging, and when
brought up on the cars properly cared for.
Mr.. Andre says most of the people in that
country, believe Louisiana and Mississippi
to be dismal swamps-breeding nothing
but pestilence and disease, and says that
the friends of the few persons who left
Sweden only Il few weeks since, begged
and entreated them not to stop in the
malarial districts of the South, but go
North. These people from Sweden have
found here, contrary to their expectations,
most healthy country, and the favorable
reports sent back will do much towards
correcting the wrong ideas which have
gone out to the world about the condition
of our Southern country.
Mr.. Nickerson who owns large planta-
ton near Dry Grove, and originally from
Scotland, says the letters received from
that country from persons of means. indi
cate a wish to immigrate here. if they can
only better their condition, as they speak of
nothing but hard times there.
We only bring forward these instances
which have come under our own observa-
tion, to show that there is large immigra-
ton across the waters who would gladly |
leave their own cOuntry-sO financially |
crippled-and come here if they only had
proper accounts of the real condition of
our country.
Even some of the most influential |
journals at the North do what they can to
turn the tide of immigration from the
South, while they have no idea what we
want.
The New York Herald thus speaks about
immigration to the South.
A large number of Southern writers and
journalists appear to have very indistinct
ideas in regard to immigrants, or that class
of our population who annually leave the
Eastern States to seek homes in the West.
III discussing the advantages possessed by
the South and the attractOns--WhiCha are,
no doubt, very great-it offers to immi-
grants, ourcontemporeS are astOnished that
and thousands do not rush South
to fill the places of the negroes who have
gone to Kansas and Indiana. Here is
where our contemporaries make their
great mistake. The wide-awake, thrifty,
and intelligent classes in the
East who 60 West do 50 for the purpose of
bettering their condition They have not
the most remote idea of becoming field
hands. Their aim is to become the owners
Of property, to work for themselves instead
of for Others, and the fertile fields of the
W est show how abundantly they succeed.
90 South as long a. no better position than
hat of field hands is offered to them. :
We don't care about their regular field
with money is what we want, {
md to such class the South opens up an {
field to amass wealth and pros
)erity. !
The South makes very little cXcrtion r
with that made by the North to |
procure immigration. The citizens Relief c
Committee of Philadelphia have recently {
lrged congress to set aside 100000 acres Of !
Western Lands, for the Irish who are now J
tarying in Ireland, in order that they may
etter their condition. |
If the South would only exert itself in /
he same proportion as the North, Il vast n
niluX Of Industrious workers would flock Il
0 our waste places and build them up Il
.ands would be enhance in value, pros t
Gritty would take the place of adversely, C
nd the South would once more become e
reat and rich country. :
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