Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
The State Immigration Society-Addresso Of
the Executive Committee.

| The State Immigration Society-Address of
the Executive Committee.
At meeting Of the Executive Committee
OF the State immigration Society, held at St.
| Louis on the 14th, the following address
was ordered published:
The State Immigration Convention has met
and adjourned. In itself the Convention was
great success-successful beyond the most
| sanguine expectations of its originatOrs. 1t
| was the largest body of representative Mis-
Sourians ever assembled. They came from
every section, from every county OF the state,
advantages of their respective localities. They
came TO prove that, whatever may have been
nov extans thn IN h tnes gono nea and ii
gave hearty, whole sOuled welcome to all
who wish to cast their lot among them, and
CORDIALLY invite foreign capital and labor to
come to their State and aid in the develop
ment OF its wonderful resources.
shown that our own people now fully realize
the Importance of encouraging immigrat on,
and that iaudable spirit of emulation has
Deen aroused in the different sections, each
striving to Oatdo the others in efforts to add
to the population and wealth of the State. 1t
mas demonstrate that however lagsard Mis-.
sour may have been in the past, she will, in
the future, keep step with the progress OF the
age With one accord her whole people have
risen up and come together to prove how
much they and their State have been misrep.
resented and misunderstood, and to repel
SANDERS which have turned the tide OF inlIni-
other less favored States. They have shown
that the heritage which God has given them
Is unequaled in its munificencc, and they
nave given assurance, which can not
be doubted. that they are not only willing but
anxious that the people of other climes should
come to enjoy that heritage with them.
The object and purposes of the Convention
and its extraordinary composition have been
widely published, and have been the
subject OF conversation and newspaper COM
ment, not alone in all parts of our own coun-
try, but IN those countries in Europe from
W Wine the stream OF emlgratlon hows;
spirit OF her people understood, to insure an
increase OF population and wealth unparal-
leied i'll history, and by TINS movement the
State has been advertised as never before.
Should our efforts stop here, the result
would probably be as favorable and impor-
tant to the state as any thing that has been
heretofore done for it. But our work Is not
half done. The proceedings of the Conven-
have been made more so to those present by
giving free rein to personal discussion and
debate. But the Convention was not called
Tor the mere entertainment OF its members,
hut for the enlightenment of the puoiic at
home and abroad. The object was to collect
facts and useful statistical Information in re-
gard to the State, which we could, with pride,
submit to the whole world. This object was
fully attained. More than fifty distinguished
citizens and experts prepared and presented
TO the Convention elaborate and exhaustive
articles on almost every subject material to
several I Counties 'n throaah their deIeaates,
presented reports living detailed descriptions
OF their respective counties. In these we
have an acquisition simply Invaluable. They
present an array of facts and show agricul-
tural, mineral and manufacturing capabili-
ties that will astonish our own best-inforIned
citizens.
We are now engaged in compiling these
very valuable papers and shall publish them
in the most attractive form. We hope and
expect to produce a work that will be as much
superior to any similar production published
by any other state as our materials are bet
ter. description of each county of the
State, setting forth every fact on which one in
search of home, for any purpose, would de-
sire Information, will be published with
carefully prepared map of the county
The preparation of this work has been in
trusted to Our Secretary, 4. G. Cabell, and his
eraI supervision of our Committee on Pubh-
cation, Thos. w. Fitch, Waldo p. johnson,
Thos. c. Fletcher, Chas. +. johnson, Richard
d. Lancaster and Z. G. Cabell.
Much time must necessarily elapse before
such a work, worthy of the subject and salts
factory to ourselves, can be completed. But
this delay will not be without some compen-
sating advantage. The taking of the United
States census is now in progress, and we shall
formation from this source to give the latest
and most correct report of the resources of
the State.
This work, completed in the manner and in
the style we propose, will be perhaps of
greater practical Importance to the State than
any heretofore published. We shall spare no
pains to make it valuable and attractive, and
shall take measures to insure for it wide
In concluding, we beg you to pardon brief
reference to ourselves. The Executive Com
mittee of the st. Louis Immigration Society,
having immediate charge of the affairs of the
association, are all citizens of st. Louis. None
or Us have any purpose to subserve except the
promotion of the public good. There is among
no element of political party bias, and this
was carefully excluded from the Convention.
But while we are all citizens of St. Louis, the
movement we inaugurated was for the special
and immediate benefit of the State at large.
We felt that the growth and prosperity of our
city depended onthe prosperity OF the country
ri n
State. To increase the population, to build
up interior cities and towns, to promote local
manufacturing enterprises, to open the mines
and otherwise to develop the country, will be
to build up st. Louis. We are therefore great
ly Interested in the material advancement of
every county in the State. If the counties
grow itch and prosper, so will our city in
town and country there is no conflict of inter-
est. One l. dependent on the other. Without
the country our city would not be- and every
faI mer in the State is interested in the growth
of st. Louis. 1t is destined to become the
great commercial capital of the Mississippi
Valley, and perhaps the largest city
distributing point for all the surrounding
country. But this can only be through the
prosperity of the country around us, and
hence oar efforts to add to the population and
in every way to secure the development of
the resources of the counties. That insured,
the grandest predictions of the future of st.
Louis will be realized.
We congratulate you on the success which
has thus far attended the movement. That
success justifie. the hope, that, by earnest
persistent unit ed effort, we may "place Mis-
souri, where she should be-first in rank
among the States OF this Western empire