The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-28
IMMIGRATION ITEMS.

Emigrants are arriving in Chicago at the
rate Of one thousand day.
A New York telegram SAYS over , 0oo
Germans and GOO Italians arrived to dav
and for the most part were soon on the way
West
st. Louis Republican.
/ The CLARION contains some sensible ad-
vice, which Mississippi authorities will do
well to need. immigration 10 any Southern
State must be sought for; il will not come
of itself when there Is - much Northern
competition. Two-thirds of the European
emigrantS do not even know there is such a
State as Mississippi, and the other third
are utterly ignorant of its advantages ana
the inducement il offers to permanent sci
| tiers not afraid 10 work Ii such efforts ..
THE CLARION suggests were systematically
made and continued, the population Of
Mississippi would increase twenty-five per.
cent. in the next five years, and the increase
would represent much larger figures IN
wealth and prosperity. The South must
/ wake up to the fact that unless she bids for
imm lgration she will never get it, and unle>,
she gets ii she must be content 10 occupv
the hindmost position in the national race
forever.
New York sun.
AT LifT
immigration we have ever known The
arrivals for the first quarter are far ahead Of
those for the corresponding period Of 1850
and yet the season when immigration i
most active Is only Just approaching The
indications are that the number landed at
Castle Garden for the whole year viii equal
halt a million. la Germany there never
before has been so ardent and widespread a
desire for emigration a. there is now, and
extra steamers have all their accommoda-
tions engaged far ahead.
Mobile Register
The Jackson CLARION is anxious for
white immigration To Mississippi, and speaks
TO the point when it says
There Is some sense in this. The same
remarks would be applicable also to Ala
bama. The time has passed for the do
nothing policy, for we live in an age Of
activity and enterprise; of competition
and continued effort If we wish white
immigrants for this State, then let us prove
that we do by letting the world know some
thing about Us. The awber-like policy
OF waiting for something to turn up will be
as slow of fruition with us as it was with
the creation of Dickens genius Provi-
dence helps those who help themselves, and
we certainly can help ourselves in the mat
ter Of encouraging white immigration.
Y azoo Herald.
1t is a jubject that should demand more
in the future than it has done in
the past, and our Legislature should bear
this well in mind. They should encourage
by all means in their power the flowing of
the tide of immigration toward this direc-
ton, and he who does the most in this re-
gard will best deserve the appreciation of
our people. Cur State Is unsurpassed for
the cheapness and fertility of It's lands its
climate is proyerbially salubrous, and it
has other advantages besides which if pro-
perly laid before the world would attract
thousands to its teeming soil where only
hundreds are influenced under the present
5lipshod order of things to make Mississip-
pi permanent abiding place for themselves
md families We hope to see a turn for
.he better as regards the matter under con-
lderatlon, and the sooner the turn takes
place the better.
st. Louis Republican
There iS only one thing that can compare
With the big boom in the grain trade which
st. Louis is luxuriating in just now, and that
) the immigration boom which is swelling {
he population of Missouri with a rapiditv
hat is absolutely without a parallel i'm a
State which has already got over two mil
ion of inhabitants. Yet this boom, like
hat in our grain trade, has hardly begun.
The intelligent and vigorous efforts which
ire to be made this year in Europe, 70 sealre
hat share Of the European, Immigration
which Alissouri's unequaled advantages de- y
erye that this State should receive, will {
'rove conclusiyely that nothing has hereto
ore prevented Missouri from receiving "A
arge portion of the European immigration
'ut the mere fact that nothing was done to
make known the wonderful resources of the
State.