Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-08-05
Immigration.

We again beg to call the attention to all
friends of progress in cur midst to the
great importance Of organizing for the
purpose of inducing immigration to our
county. An exchange of views with citi-
zens from different sections of the county
convinces US that there is sentiment very
favorable to the enterprise existing thrs'-
out the county. All that is needed is to
effect an organization, through which an
aggregation of views and concert of &C
ton may be effected. A steady current of
foreign immigration is still pouring
through our State, seeking agricultural
homes in this country. While many of
these immigrants have already negotiated
homes through the foreign agencies OF the
agricultural bureaus of the different States,
The greater portion came to this country
for the purpose of prospecting for them
selves. Large numbers Of this latter class
are being daily diverted TO other Southern
States through the enterprise of their i'm
migration agencies, while here, within a
hundred miles of their point of landing,
we have country more desirable in al
most every respect than that to which
these desirable immigrants are induced to
60. Thus through the superior enterprise
of our sister States of the South is their
country being built up, and their wealth
and material interests advanced and in
creased, while we, on account of our OWN
inertness and lack of energy, are failing
to grasp the present most favorable OPP
portunity to put the wheels of progress in
motion in our midst.
1t needs no argument to convince any
one of intelligence that well regulated
immigration is the only measure of re-
lieying our county of the terrible blight
cast upon it by the civil war twenty years
ago. Every discriminating stranger that
comes into this section Of the State con-
ours in opinion that it furnishes far,
more desirable field for agricultural set
tiers than many portions of the West to
which Immigrants from the old world are
now Aocking.
Almost every other Southern State has
a we'll organized bureau of immigration.
Our State at present has not. though pro-
vision was made for such public service
in our constitution. The history of the
organization OF these departments of pub
lie service in the other States shows that
the measures always originated by pre-
liminary movement in those sections of
the States in which the need of immigra-
grafton was most keenly felt. When our
county shall have once taken the initia-
tive, and organized movement of the
kind, there is little doubt that the coop
Grafton of the State government could be
secured In our judgement, the adoption
of measures looking to this end is OF
greater and mere vital importance at THE
time than any other public considerations
that engage the attention of our people,
and, as we said before, we believe the
more active sentiment among the people
of the county is fully awake to its impor-
lance. We are informed that a number of
gentlemen favorable to the movement will
meet in this village on Tuesday next, for
a discussion of the matter, and we are au-
thorized to extend an invitation all who
may feel interested. We do earnestly
hope that some active measures in this be-
half will now be taken