Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-03
IMMIGRATION.

All the signs and tokens, many Of them
amounting even to proofs, concur in the
promise of the largest immigration move
ment during the coming Spring and Sum-
mer which the United States has ever
known. The old steamship lines, as well
as those more recently established, are
constantly adding to their facilities for
the transportation of immigrants from
Europe to these shores, and their prepar-
ations are amply justified by the pros
pects in view. The railroad companies
are widely adopting a similar policy in
the expectation of an enormous immigra-
ton business, and the great railway cor
porations of the West justly look forward
to the occupation of vast areas of their
lands during the current year, the CON-
panies having wisely determined on offer
ing every possible inducement to attract
settlers to their properties. This is sound
policy on the part of the Immigrant lines.
Every settler from abroad beholds great
encouragement in being placed in posses
sionof farm land on low terms, no matter
what disadvantages he may have to over
come in other directions, for he has been
so little used to being literally dealt with
in that particular that he has come to re-
gard it as by far the most important Of
all !; and to this consideration must be
added the fact that the prices obtainable
for lands, so long as they are sufficient
to cover any mortgages that may have
been raised on them, are of really slight
Importance to a railroad company com
pared with the increase to its traffic
which the extensive and rapid occupancy
of the lands along its routes would insure
The condition of affairs in Europe is
well calculated to turn the eyes of vast
numbers Of the industrial classes to our
country for relief, rest and prosperity,
those populations from which we have
heretofore drawn the great bulk of our
immigrant toilers. Whether Or not the
British Government will eventually &C.
cord such measures as will thoroughly
content the toilers of the soil in Ireland
AN event, by the way, which, if at all
likely, is yet by no means near at hand
it is certain that the repressive action,
which is very much closer ahead, will be-
come unbearable to thousands OF the
peasantry, each Of whom, having adopted
the Land League programme, will quietly
determine to come to America, out of
the Storm" and buy, clear out, a prairie
farm for himself with the last year or
two's arrears of rent, which his worthy
landlord will sorely miss. Every day
the German Empire is becoming more
and more Of a military camp, with its
great army of consumers eating up the
substance of the MISUNDERSTANDING
number of producers. This state of af-
fairs, Of course, will continue to tempt
the thrifty German people to seek free
dom and prosperity in the only field
where they can readily find them, and
where no millions of armed idlers stand
ready to swallow the fruits of the toiler's
industry. In Russia no better-but far
worse, indeed-conditions obtain, and
our working population is likely to be
be largely recruited by the peaceful Men
MONTE and the vigorous Muscovite next
year. Among the adventurous though
sweet-tempered S~candinavians, to whom
the unexampled progress of u great
Northwestern section is SO largely due,
the cry is, "Still they come )" while So
cial and political matters in Sunny Italy
are Of q nature to furnish us with fewer
organ-grinders and more honest workers
from that immigrant element that lately
became SO available to our railroad build
era. In England and Scotland the agri-
cultural and mechanical classes are scarce
ly less ground down than they are in Ire
land. Moreover, they have just been &C.
quiring a dangerously clear comprehension
Of that fact, and from among them we
may count upon a most desirable contri-
button to our emigration statistics in the
near future. They will all be welcome.
The space that awaits them is boundless;
the resources at their disposal are mex
haustible ; the soil they till will be their
own, ito have and to hold forever" and
the blessings Of free educations are pro-
vided for their children in a land where
freedom of thought, speech and action is
the u~ndisputed inheritance Of all who
come-and, "come to stay"