Daily globe., 1883-05-04
MINNESOTA IMMIGRATION
Bishop Ireland's Talk with a Chicago
Reporter.-Fitzger AIDS Boom for Ne

Bishop Ireland's Talk with a Chicago
Reporter.-FItzger AIDS Boom for Ne
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Chicago Tribune, May 2.
Tribune representative called on
Bishop Ireland, of st. Paul, last evening at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, to ascertain his
views on the various questions with which
he has been SO prominently connected.
He said he was here to attend the session
of the Irish Colonization Society, of which
ne was one of the Directors. With the
wo=k done by this associetion he was great
ly pleased. All the colonlsts had done re-
markably we'll, and were thoroughly well
satisfied. The lands owned by the asso-
citation in MINI esota had been all, or near
ly all, taken up by settlers, but the associa-
ton had large tracts of unoccupied land
yet III Nebraska and Arkansas. He him
self was interested in colonization schemes
other than those with headquarters i'll
Chicago. The Minnesota Catholic Coloni-
cation Society, for instance. All had done
good work. There was not so much to be
done in the future.
ASSISTED EMIGRATION.
With regard to the assisted Irish emf
grafton system, Bishop Ireland said he had
great faith in the honesty of the Tuke and
We're Foster movements; both the men at the
head of the affairs were strictly honest men
and philanthropists. They would only as
sist emigrants from the congested districts
of Donegal and Connemara; they would
not take any from the other districts, or
from tho congested districts only on rec
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estant minister of the district. Through
the cooperation of some benevolent Quak-
ers Of Philadelphia and other Eastern
cities the emigrants sent out by Messrs.
luke and Foster obtained employment in
Pittsburg and other manufacturing towns
Immediately on laundlg. Bishop Ireland
thought it was unfortunate these men we're
not sent West, but at any rate they were
better of than they were at home. Tuke
and Foster meant well; whether they acted
wisely or not he was not prepared to
say.
NO FAITH.
The British Governments emigration
scheme Bishop Ireland had no faith in. It
was undertaken for a dishonest purpose,
that of depopulating Ireland-that was the
only motive.
''What are the chances for an immigrant
without money in Minnesota?"
They are good if he is industrious and
sober. l doh't care where yeQ drop hard
working, sober man in America he can get
along. He may have to struggle at first,
but he will triumph. Some of the COM
planning Connemaras of three years ago
are now among the most prosperous of our
colonists. There is plenty of work and
fair wages ale paid to all who come to the
West. think that if dozen immigrants
stop at any considerable settlement in
Minnesota they will be able to find work in
few days"
1.-THE changed system of farming" he
added, " is in favor of the new settler.
Formerly it was all wheat, and if the sea-
son was not favorable to wheat it went
hard with the farmer or settler. Now Min
nesota is studded with dairies and cheese
factories, and the farmer can readily dis
pose of his milk and cream at cash prices
The Minnesota farmers have also taken
| to stock-raising. The prairie-grr of Min
nesota is succulent, and cattle turned out
in May will be fatted by September. The
European markets are open, and Ameri-
| can beef and butter will always command a
price satisfactory to our farmers. This
change from all wheat to part wheat and
some stock has worked a revolution with
Us. This is in the interest of the immil
grant. He will not need so much capita
to start on. A little capital is servicea-
BILE, Of course. I may say that we have
room for very many more in the West"
HIGH LICENSE.
son the question of high license?
"Oh, we have done very we'll in that di-
rection. We elected high-license ticket
| in Minneapolis. The election is progress
ing to-day in st. Paul. In the small towns
high license is the rule, and, as you know,
think it is great benefit to the temper
! ance cause"
Bishop Ireland refused to indicate what
would be done at the meeting to-day. 1t
would not be fair for him to do SO, but he
had no hesitation in saying that it would
be largely business meeting.
ME-. KLUPP.
Mr.. Klupp, Pole, and member of the
Illinois Legislature, who was present dur
ing the interview, said he was managing a
Polish colony in Lincoln County, Minne-
sofa, which had now ffty-nine families,
and which he expected would have fully
400 families by September. 1t appeared
from Mr.. Klupp's remarks, and something
said by clergyman who was also in the
room, that the Catholic colonization
scheme is not confined to Irish Catholics.
that Poles, Belgians, French, Hollanders,
| and German Catholic colonists are also
| taken care of.
JOHN FITZGERALD.
The reporter subsequently met Mr.. John
| Fitzgerald, of Lincoln, Neb., who is one of
the most extensive farmers in the West.
Fe is also a railroad contractor. bank
President and a merchant. Indeed, it
would be difficult to guess any money
making business in which Mr.. Fitzgerald
is not concerned. He was most enthusiast
tic about Nebraska. That was the State
for immigration in his opinion; there were
millions of acres of fertile land, which but