St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-03
DAKOTA,S FUTURE.

It is now apparent that there Will be an
unusually large immigration to the North
west during the coming summer. Never
before has the immigration boom COM
menced so early in the season as this year.
The railroads are already doing a large
business transporting immigrants. and ar
engagements have been made ahead for the
largest business in this line during the sum-
mer that has been done by the railroads for
many a year. This immigration is princi-
paly from the New England states-Con-
nectcut and New Hampshire furnishing
the largest proportion of it. The Eastern
states find it necessary to seek an outlet for
their overcrowded population. No section
offers such tempting inducements to the
hardy sons of New England as the North
west. nor is there any section from which
the Northwest could obtain a more desir-
able immigrant population than from New
England. The New Englander brings with
him his habits Of industry and frugality, his
social refinement and excellent moral train
ing. So that taking it altogether there is
DO class of people in the world better
suited to laying the foundation of a new
society than the New EnglanderS. The
Northwest is fortunate in not only the
promise Of a large increase of immigration
this year. but also in the character of its
new settlers.
A good portion of this immigration will
come to Minnesota, but the bulk of it is
destined for Dakota. The discussion in
congress over the question of Dakota's adj
mission has resulted in giving the territory
a magnificent advertisement. 1t has called
the attention OF the country to the wonder
full resources of this future empire. In the
minds of the majority of the American peo-
pie the territory of Dakota was nothing
more than a stretch of land in the PARKWAY
Northwest, a part of the arid waste marked
down on the map fifteen years ago as the
Great American Desert, until the illusion
was dispelled by the controversy in con-
gress over the proposition to admit the ter
ritory as q state in the Union. Now all the
world knows that Dakota is vast area of
fertile land, already occupying the position
of Importance to the great Northwest that
Texas does to the Southwest and destined
within few years to place of power and
wealth second to none of the siSterhood of
states. Although an act of injustice is done to
both Dakota and the federal Union by
keeping the territory out of the Union,
still so far as Dakota's development and
material interests are concerned it could
very well afford to have congress fight over
its admission for several years to come.
The advertising the territory receives will
more than compensate, in a material sense
for the delay in performing an act of jus
tice.
Now that the prospect for rapid in
crease of DakOta's population and the de-
velopment of its resources is brighter than
at any previous time. it behooyes the people
of the territory to wisely improve the splen-
did opportunity which is presented to them.
In the first place they want to discourage
the spirit of reckless speculation which is
so apt to follow in the wake of boom.
They want to hold the immigration which
is now coming within their borders and
not allow it to be driven away by the meth.
DDS of a reckless and INSCRIPTIONS class of
wildcats who always pop up in new coun-
tries to fleece the settlers. They want to
interest themselves in a movement to give
security to their system of land titles. The
suSplclOu HIS gone dOIOdu JlldJ Owing 10 q
systematic practice of land swndling
there are but few good titles to
lands in the territories. However unjust
this suspicion may be, the fact
remains that it exists. So far, then, as
Dakota is concerned, the people of that
territory want to relieve themselves of any
suspicion which may attach to them in
common with the people of the other terri
tories by forming organizations among
themselves to crush out the land swindler.
wherever they put in an appearance. Let
each settler consider himself detective to
aid the government in ferreting out and
exposing land frauds. When it is once
published to the world that this spirit pre-.
walls among the people of the territory,
there will be no difficulty in inducing inn
migrants to come among them to make per-
manent homes, and they will be desirable
class of immigrants, too. The people OF
Dakota should realize that they are now
laying the foundation of what a generation
or two hence is to be the empire state OF
the West, and the work should be wei
done.