National Republican., 1886-12-30
Tho Thirty.Ntnth pnralIel.

The Department of State will soon issue
au interesting volume OF consular reports
concerning emigration, and we hope some
Of them will call the attention Of the gov
eminent to the remarkable means employed
by American societies in soliciting immIgra-
tion. If the reports fearlessly expose the
contemplate tricks sometimes used by
these organizations to gain their ends they
will accomplish patriotic work. Almost
every American consulate in Europe has
been, and is now, therecipient Of documents
from various immigration societies accom-.
panied by a written request that the consul
should place them where they will DO the
most good. Upon pcrusal Of some of them
every patriotic representative naturally
turns to the waste basket as the place where
they can do the least harm to our country.
If the pamphlet is issued by an organiza-
ton interested in northwestern immlgra-
ton, it usually announces that all Of the
region north Of the thirty-uinth parallel
and west of the Ohio river is the garden
spot of the new world and the paradise of
the immigrant, where man has only to
stretch forth his hand and receive. 1t has
more lakes and rivers, aud they are deeper,
broader, and contain more fish than can be
found in any other portion of the western
hemisphere. Its transportation facilities
are more complete, the railroad officials are
more polite and disinterested, and the cost
Of placing the various products upon the
eastern markets is cheaper than can be
found in any other part Of our national do
main.
After finishing this attractive word pic
ture the solicitor of immigration for the
northwest takes the would-be emlgrant
into his confidence by informing him that,
from feeling Of national pride, he will
mention only few Of the evils which are
sure to beset the emigrant who unwisely
goes to the southwest for a home. There
the summers are insuiTerably hot; the eli
mate SO eneryating that a strong man,
used to the moderate temperature Of middle
Europe, gradually becomes incapacitated
for work; malaria, malignant and merci-
less, stalks abroad In the land; the con.
stituent parts Of yellow fever enter the
lungs at every inhalation; the unwhole-
some water superinduces dysentery, aud
the droughts are sometimes Of such long
duration that the best Of COWS refuse to
give milk.
Then comes a document from society
interested in advancing the welfare Of the
southern and southwestern states. The
picture is reversed. Another poGketbook
is interested, and patriotism is again
ignored. In this print the emigrant is in
formed that the great south and southwest
was especially created for him. Its climate
is milder and more salubrlous than any
other which enjoys the presence of man
kind. Its rivers and lakes are SO deep and
clear that one would think, by careful OBJ
serVation, the movements Of our copper
colored antlT odes might be seen, and the
soil yields so generously to the touch of the
husbandman that even the small farmers
are compelled to build granarles four stories
high.
Having timorously depicted the attrac-
tive qualities Of his section of the great re-
public, the south Of the thirty-nirth paral-
lei man modestly calls the attention OF the
would-be emigrant to that broad extent Of
territory located, by the goodness Of God,
north OF the thirty-nnth parallel, which,
during seven months OF the year, Is one
vast field Of ice, dotted with enormous
snow banks, while In summer time forest
Gres rage with such savage intensity as to