The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-05-03
IMMIGRATION.

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the immigrants could be obtained
we doubt very seriously that it
would benefit the country. For
our part, we want no immigration
to Mississippi from foreign lands,
and none from the sister states
of this Union, except such as
are willing to come among us,
without any inducement other than
our fertile soil, genial climate and
hearty welcome held out to those
seeking new homes. A colony Of
foreigners settled in Mississippi
might in time increase the revenue
of the State, but they would have
their own schools, teach their ma
tive language, patronize their own
merchants, edit their own newspa-
pers and would be as separate and
distinct from our home population
as if they had remained on the
other side of the Atlantic. The
lands they would at first buy might
and doubtless would be enhanced in
value, but that adjoining the colony
would be deprecated in an equal
proportion, because nobody would
care to live adjacent to a commu-
nifty speaking a different language,
strange or unsocial in their Gus
toms and exclusive in their habits.
We want English speaking people,
familiar with our form of govern
ment, who would settle here and
there and fraternize with the peo-
Pile "to the manor born" and would
join hands with us in the work ofa
genuine progress and develop
ment. the results of which would
be beneficial to them and us alike.
If the growth and prosperity so
much sought by the visionary pro-
gressiomsts of the present day
must result, as it will, If their
schemes are carried into practical
operation, in change Of popula,
tion, why should the average citi.
zen desire a development which
develops him and his posterity
out ofthsir little homes and send
them adrift in the world? And
why should he care TO have the
land on which he has lived and
raised his family valued at SlOC
per acre, instead Of $40, when il
will produce no more, or when the
increase must accrue to the benefit
Of some one else ?
These are called old fogy ideas
we know, but when we see a lot o.
religionists, politicians, pap-suck
ersand corporation hoodlums boom
ing immigration, making big prom
ises aud asking extraordinary con
cessions, we cannot avoid reflcc
tions such as we have here giver
utteranee to. We would rejoice L
sec Mississippi checkered with
railroads like a mosaic pavement
I but we want the gentry who owr
the roads when they are built, tC
use their own money in their con
struction. We hope the day may
not be distant, when the smoke o
a mandatory may be seen curling
over every village and hamlet il
the State, but we would require
owners ofsueh property to pay tax
es in the same proportion as theii
employees. II We cannot hav,
this progress and development
without furnishing the money t
build the railroads for somebody
else to own and operate, or with
out exempting the owners Of th,
factories from taxation, while tn
hard worked and poorly paid Ia
borers therein are compelled Il
bear the burdens Of government
we would prefer to remain as VI
are. Mississippi IS she is, offers
more desirable home to an honest
industrious people, than ifshe wer
owned BY Jay Goulds and Oil Trus
Companies. And we would ralhe
maintain our present status, thai
to have al the advanced civilizi