The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-11-03
letter from = GERMAN Immigrant.
Walden. Mss, Oct. p, 1881.

down in Carroll county, MISS, as y UtFulah
immigrant have read with much interest
the article over immigration Tin No. 42,1 OF
Hon. J. J. Williams, of Grenada, aud
must declare that generally it contains the
truth. We can't induce European laborers
to come here, for we have not bread and
meat to feed them, nor money to pay them.
The fault lies in the false and ruinous
system of farming, and in neglecting to
produce other articles, easier raised and
better paying, than cotton. | mean such
productions as the climate and soil OF
Mississippi are capable of growing and these
are all the staple articles of Southern Ea-
rope and China, as Wine, Pecans and
Madeira-Wallnut, Mulberry trees for Silk,
the Olive for oil, the Japan Persimmon,
Sugar and Tea.
am Northern German, but had the
opportunity to travel in France and Italy
when l was young. At forty-two years old
I came to the Northern United States, and
not well pleased there by dreary never
ending winter, l turned South, hoping to
find better climate and all the magnificent
! blessings of it. found the climate, but not
the blessings of it. King Cotton was the
idol worshiped by the planters exclusively.
/ Ask the merchants how many thousands
acres Of land they own as compensation for
| credits, how many thousands of dollars
they have in notes, secured by mortgages,
! l. IL. e Il =!
! in their books? Aud how many millions
of dollars the cotton factors nave advanced
| to the merchants? Look at the immense
worn out, quilted hill lands. Now this
system of farming and cropping out the
| land will go on as long as an acre Of rich
woodland can be had for $5 and cleared and
fenced in for the other s. by the negro.
Now, says the cotton planter, you should
plant vines, nut trees and olive trees on
your hill land and make pea crop between
| the rows until they have grown up; in five
years the vines and olive trees and the nut
trees will pay you a nice income. Then he
says that takes too long time. want
rather to sell out and go to Texas. But he
| has said the same words ten years ago and
could find nobody to buy his place. And
| Texas? Look in the statistics of the crops
| in all the States of the Union, carefully
given in the Report of the Department of
| Agriculture of Washington from 1879:
| Texas produced thirteen bushels of corn
per acre in average, and Mississippi sixteen
| bushels!
Now, which is better, to stay here and
make improvements, or to sell out your
place, which you cannot sell, and go to
Texas? And if you had invested only ten
dollars in scuppernongs ten years ago. for
one hundred vines, had raised more vines
every year and built up vineyard IN
winter time, you would not think of selling
your place, you would be proud of it. And
if you add siIk-raising, by the mulberry,
this would be a nice occupation for your
ladies, who are very willing TO work and
help to support the family. After this you
will plant pecans and walnuts and olive
trees and the tea bushes, and the negroes
may make cotton, corn and molasses. The
resources of Mississippi are great and
manifold, if we do justice to soil and eli
mate What shall be done to change our
farming system to the better and to convince
the cotton planter? The Agricultural De-
partment in Washington has tried all the
above named plants on its ground and
recommend them to the Southern planter,
so read in the Reports from 1878 TO 1873.
But as the grounds in Washington are very
limited and the climate not favorable to
raise these Southern plants, it would be
the best way if our legislators would ap-
propriate a certain sum, it must not cost SO
very much, perhaps 81 900 year, to make
our Agricultural College in Starkville a
trial orexperimental or station for these plants
and trees by planting nurseries of them and
groves and distribute the plants at a low
/ price to the hOmeward going students and
other farmers, who apply for them. This
would help to pay the keeping up OF the
' COLLEGE. the students would learn how &c
: make wine, olive oil, soap, silk and tea
r bring home Pecan and Madeira Walnut
? Trees, Japan Persimmons, etc.
r And this can be done without any immi
J grafton, if our population increases as much
D ia the future as it did according to the cen
= sus In the last 10 years, by 100000 souls
, | But as immigration of good, sober, homes
e and intelligent people, would help to buIit
g up the waste places quicker, and enhance th'
e value of land, let US see where they are
0 and how we can get them without spendIn:
9 a:uch money The State should offer
e small sula foE the best essay upon the re
i sources and advantages which the State o
n Mississippi offers to sober, honest and indus
J. trious immigrants, possessing some mean
k to enter State lands or to buy other lands
$ as they may deem proper. The best essa.
Y should be printed in English, French, Ger
It man, italian, Swedish and Danish and dis
" tributed in the Northern States and b.
e American consols in the different countrle
. | and seaporss of Europe 30 SPECIAL tavei
. ing agents are needed. From France, ltal
o and Spain we can scarcely expect immi
is grants as the population there has not in
e creased for a long time, but although the
l. would have a better understanding of th
II above named plants, we don't need to regre
IF this At first the lower classes there ar
r, very ignorant, immoral and vicious. Fa
If preferable is the Teutonic race possessing
close relationship with the Anglo Saxton
l. | mean the Germans, Danish, Sweeds, No.
ir yegians and the German Menonities {
l. Russia, the most industrious and peaceful
~ people in the world. The climate of Mi
lie sissippi is only wearisome for norther
e man the first summer, where ne will sune
" a little, but this will cause him no NOR
" trouble in Mississippi than in does 1t MI
N souri, or Illinois.
to In conclusion, want to say that We haS
le TO invite immigrants with some means,
N will say with 800 and upward, and whe
be they are settled down and need laborers
to their own race, then they may write
Sc Castle Garden in New York and let the
Id come And another thing of importane
y, At every railroad station should be roo
ut with fireplace for immigrants, where the
Y, can cook their meals, to save the high hll
ne of the hotels during their stay, TO look !.
Ill their new home places. Now, 4essrs. Ed
ep tors, if you deem it proper to give pla,
ID to nv suggestions in your paper, | won
IS be wen rewarded, and more rewarded
ne other papers would copy it.
ms With much respect for you and with q
le- hone of the best future for the beloved Sta
q of Mississippi,
en- / am yours,
lp, E. KoLBERG,
i'll vA1DEs, Carroll Co, Miss.
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