The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-08-17

part TO he paid when he takes
possession, and the balance at the
end Of three years, if he has been
in continuous occupation of the
land and improved it to a certain
extent. With this proviso that he
has no right in or title to this land
to dispose of il until be has been
in actual residence upon it for
three years.
Our Commissioner Of Immigra-
tion could easily have a descrip-
ton aud survey made of these
lands, and call special attention to
them in the pamphlet he is to
issue.
And again every immigrant pur-
chasing State land, or land from q
private individual, might by Legis-
lative enactment be exempt from
the payment Of taxes upon such
land for a period Of three years
provided such land does not ex-
ceed in value $4,000.
Again there are many parties
in the State owning large bodies
of land which they are ready TO
sell, and they find no purchasers.
If these parties would have their
lands surveyed and divided up into
smaller tracts and descriptions Of
them sent 10 the Commissioner Of
I'm migration, with an offer to sell
even alternate sections it would be
mutual benefit both TO the land
owner and to the immigrant, as in
the one case purchasers would be
found, and in the other wider
field secured for the immigrant to
make q selection from. And just
here l would say if we would reap
the full advantages of immigration
and retain within our borders all
who come to US, it is important 70
hold out to all some inducement
for securing home eventually.
If the immigrant comes merely as
a laborer, stranger speaking in a
strange language and unable TO
hold converse with those around
him, it is but natural sequence
that time Of dependency should
come; when his longings 60 back
to the Father-land when a feel
ing of dissatisfaction with his sur
roundings takes hold upon him !;
and a restless desire for change
will if he is laborer by the month
or day make him seek that change,
for he has nothing at stake, no.
thing to lose by the change. But
if, instead, he has anything in
vested in q home; if he has made
a contract that gives him some
interest in his home: be is inter
ested to that amount, and that
interest, be it ever so little, will
make him cast these repinings
behind his back and cling TO his
new home.
And if our farmers who take
these i'm migrants when they come
as laborers, unable to bly piece
of land, and will make contracts
with them for a period of years,
with the proviso that if the immi-
grant stays the time out, he will
own in fee simple his house and
say 5 or 10 acres; he would find
that this tenant wonld look upon
every month Of his stay as an in
vestment in that parcel of land,
and very soon would be be 10th
to leave q place in which he has
acquired au interest, greater CT
less according to the time spent
upon it. And the farmer would
feel assured that as soon as this
tenant comes into possession OF
bis land he will have a purchaser
for those acres lying contiguous
to it, and the Increased price at
which he could either sell or reEt
it to thrifty tenants would far
more than repay him for the few
acres he had originally settled his
tenant upon. And again with
such interested tenants around
him be would be in a measure
freed from that annual bugbear Of
the farmers life at present, the
securing Of hands at the COM
mencement of the year to work
his land.
Now there is another point
would like to call attention TO; it
is the benefits to be derived from
immigration The beneficial re-
suits Of immigration have been so
marked in the advance and i'm
provemcnt of many of the sections
Of the United States that it is in.