The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-16
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| ton business the poorest sections were visited,
| but could do nothing The people were either
| Indifferent or apathetic They are not content
with what they have, but they lack energy to
move. went over the Cincinnati, Washington
e Baltimore railroad four five times in the
interest of Kansas emigration. In no place did
] find any material success except in the good
/ country about Cnillicothe. In the rich counties,
one mpelled by the motive of providing for his
children will sell out his small holdings at 500
per acre, and move West to secure larger tracts
of land for the same money"
s'Are not many of these emigrants former
rentersl'
eyes; large part of them. They have worked
| hard, saved and secured small surplus, but not
sufficiently large to buy land here. At the same
| time they have encountered drawback to their
to pay Sc to $40 per acre rental they find their
| surplus decreasing instead of increasing. They
| can't stand it, and seek other fields"
This suggests the bringing of land-ownership
into narrow limits. Is this class of renters in
creasing through the aggregation Of land in the
| hands of q few2"
II cannot speak accurately on that point rela-
| tive TO details, but there are not wanting EVIL
| dences of such aggregation taking place, a
| noticeable one being that the majority of emf
| grants of whom speak are good renters, men
| of thrift and energy the rest, with few excep-
| tons, being small holders. Now take this class
with the influence each family through kinship
or neighborly intimacy exerts in others, and
tion"
How far does immediate foreign emigration
contribute to this special movements"
NOT at all. Only In rare instances can be
found an Americanized German. With this
exception the movers are Americans of English
origin several generations back. In our country
along the Santa Fe railroad are two or three
small Mennonite settlements, and about the
same number of Catholic colonies Of. like extent
Outside of a few Hungarians and Italians, who
go to the mines none of the emigrant tide
through Castle Garden goes to Kansas Nine
tenths of the population of that State are Ameri-
cam This accounts for the strong prohibition
sentiment there"
HAS prohibition anything to do with the
favor Kansas is receiving as place for new
homes?"
"Yes You will remember when that qucs-
ton was being agtated there the anti-prohibi-
tionsts said the adoption of such measures
would ruin immigration. l can best illustrate
the effect OF this by telling you of an East Ten
nesseean from about cambridge, in the French
Broad valley. A few years ago he went to Kan
sas prospecting. Well off with all the comforts
he desired, he the drink influence of the vii
lage and neighborhood endangerng his sons.
He sought Kansas, purchased two large farms,
and put them in care of his sons, who have
greatly enlarged his original investment. From
that individual movement about two hundred
East Tennesseeans have come to Kansas and
settled"
DO you have much emigration from the
South"
mo; with this exception and few families
from western North Carolina, our emigrants
are mostly from Indiana and Ohio. the move
ment this year being particularly from northern
parts of those States
EXTENT OF EMIGRATION.
'Can you give any idea as to the extent of
this emigraton?"
"Not definitely; but last August six hund red
and forty -seven round-trip tickets were sold to
Kansas prospectors They came from within
limit of one hundred miles from Indianapolis.
Fully a third of these ticket-purchasers finally
settle in the West I already observe an in
crease this year over last years sales. During
March this year ninety tickets were sold at
Terre Haute by the various routes. fair
monthly average of these tickets is one hundred
and fifty more. Families that go there to
settle take with them anywhere from a few dol
lars to $40, 00) or $12 00O The latter ones are
rare but you can average the amount at s., 900
or So, 900 per each family"
Il have memorandum of fifteen good
ties in Indiana in which this emigration fever
prevails You say you are taking away the best
citizens, the substantial farm renters the thrifty
small holders, and that each family carries with
it considerable amount of money. If five fam
lilies go from each county, and have on an aver
age So 900 each, there is quarter of million
dollars to benefit Kansas, at the expense of Indi-
ana One can safely fix the money thus drawn
out of the State at $500, 900 yearly, with no re-
turn. What takes the place Of these vacated
farms and restores the money!
''The FARMS said the promoter of emigra-
ton, 60 into the hands of succeeding tide of
emigration from the East, principally from
western New York and New England. What
the renter and small owner could not do with
land in Indiana and Ohio, the New Yorker and
New Highlander can especially tho latter. This
class naturally seeks improved localities and
easier conditions for farming. For years the
| New Highlander has worked to make his granite
Scared lands yield their best He is up in the
minutia of making comparatively poor farm
| give all it can With this knowledge and ex-
| perience he takes the vacated lands, turns and
cultivates them to more profitable returns than
| he who has gone West The farmers in the East
| can sell out at high rate and purchase larger
| farm here for the same money"
| But does this sustain the balance of loss sus
| tanned by Indiana and Ohio, which for each of
| the past two or three years amounts to hundreds
! of families and hundreds of thousands Of
dollars?'
Perhaps not altogether, but it is made up in
| other ways, and do not see that the old States
| suffer very much"
| POLITICAL PHASE.
II have warned our people about going West
! before the election" said an enthusiastic Repub-
| lican editor last fall. Here we are on the eve
| of deciding a very holly contested campaign,
and know of a score of Republicans who have
gone to Kansas to live. and fully as many more
ready to go before their ballots are cast.
For two years we have lost majority in this
county by emigration.
sDoes every Republican 60 to Kansas" asked
| the one addressed.
Not every Republican, of course, but during
| the time have mentioned enough have gone
from this county to give our opponents very
easy victory
A few days ago, a prominent gentleman. once
a candidate for Congress said: by this tide OF
| interstate emigration l lost fifty votes in one
county" In this there is an inference amounting
to fact that Democracy is not inclined to emf
| grafton. It's adherents stick to old landmarks.
| and advocate new order of things only when il
rebounds to the interest of Democratic MAORI
ties 1t would seem Democrat never emf
| e. T.. Il,