The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-03
immigration 10 the south.
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Baltimore sun.
The significance of the visit of Mr.. Thomas
Hughes, and his connection with an immigra'
ton company proposing to occupy, develop
and improve southern lands, is not lost upon
our contemporaries north of Mason and
Dixon's line. They see the possibilities of
Mr.. Haghes plan and its indefinite extension.
Mr.. Hughes simply took the charter granted
by the Massachusetts, general court to a
Boston company in the dark days Of ls76'7,
that company proposing to buy cheap land
in the south and settle on it Massachusetts
families out of work. The plan was. only a
paper one, but Mr.. Hughes company bought
with the charter the land which the Boston
company only looked at, and is going to set
tie it, not with destitute operatives and their
families, but with English farmers and their
families, who have money enough to I'M
prove their holdings and bring them into
prompt cultivation, These lands, in Nor
gan, Scott, Overton and Fentress counties,
Tennessee, are said to be free from malaria
and very inviting to new settlers. A fair
chance for increasing the population and la
Dor resources of the south is afforded by
English immigrants. These are steady and
acknowledging, and they do not like the severe
climate of the northwest. If they once be-
gin going into the south and buying cheap
improved lands, they will probably create
current which cannot again De arrested. 1t
is already the fact that, in spite Of the COM
psrativeiy large English immigration to
Canada and Australia, the English emigrants
to the United States now number as many as
those from Ireland. In 1872, 1875 and the
four wears lS7679 England sent more men
to this country than Ireland. Last year
(lS79) there were $4,000 English immigrants
to 10000 Irish, and the greater part of these
English are of the agricultural classes. But
the immigration to the south is not exclus-
lively from the British isles. There is con-
siderable flow of Italians from Piedmont to
Sicily, into the southern ports, such as Gal
weston and New Orleans, Pensacola and Mo-
bile and Savannah. These people already
control the fruit trade and the
local fisheries, besides many another
small trade and are notably thrifty and in
dustrious. In Georgia, where there Is a state
of immigration, who IS iull OF
ZEAL but very inadequately supplied with
funds, a very promising influx OF iaborious
Germans has begun. The commissioner re-
Gently took q colony of one hundred OF these
to Polk county to work in iron works there,
and he has enlisted the sympathy and CO.
operation of some leading Germans in his
objects. He has printed and sent to Scotland
and England some thousands of copies OF a
book and circulars on the capabilities OF
Georgia to support and encourage immigra- |
ton, and this book is to be largely distrie-
ltod throughout Germany rs soon as it cal
be- translated. As soon as 500 German fami-
les will contract to come in body the com
missioner will send an agent to Germany and
,rlng them in direct, by way oil Savannah
n Charleston, the cheapest route, and one
where they will not be nterfered with by i'm
Migrant agents and turned to other direc-
ions. Everything tends to encourage the
Delieft that these small but significant openings
re the beginning Of a great and permanent
movement, which will continually grow MS
he advantages which the south offers to
lew and enterprsing population are widely
enough known. The south has free labor,
with all the range of industrial potentialties
which the word calls up. 1t has very great
resources for manufacturing, mining and for
sstry, and the fact that these are "undevel- |
oped' means that they are fresh and not half
worked out like the same resources in the
north. The soil is rich and capable of the
most widely diversified scale of products.
These are the possessions which the south
must bring the old world to a knowledge of
in order to encourage immigration. But, as
a contemporary says: "a demonstration is
needed not only of the material resources of
the land, but of the spirit and integrity of the
people. Let them put their shoulders to all
the wheels of industry, frown into silence
every whisper of Reputation, and show an
example Of selfreliance and self-help."