St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-11
BRITISH HEGIRA TO BRAZIL.
What an Englishman Has 10 Say
Concerning the Climate, Etc.

What an Englishman Has TO Say
Concerning the Climate, Etc.
London Times.
Referring in the last report on Brazil
to emigration to that country from the
British islands, the secretary to the
British legation at Rio de Janeiro says
that, as there is some possibility of per-
sons from the United Kingdom being
attracted by free passage to Brazil, it is
we'll to state most positively that it
would be suicide for them to choose or
consent to emigrate into provinces
north of Rio de Janeiro. No
doubt British merchants and clerks
live and thrive fairly well in. GER
tain parts of these provinces. and there
may be machinists and employees of diff
ferent railways and factories, but agri-
cultural labor in those provinces would
quickly kill off persons from the United
Kingdom. AS for the provinces south
of Rio de JaneirO. there is room for a
different opinion. In the Argentine
Confederation, which has the same eli
mate as the southermost Brazilian
provinces, a large number of Irish i'm
migrants were introduced about 1850,
and they or their children are now
uIOOuly buU UllOl1 OA-
traordinary prosperity may be attrib-
uted chiefly to their leader, governor
and adviser, the late Father Fahy, and
under his Sagacious conduct they would
doubtless have succeeded anywhere.
Up till now the failure of British immi-
grafton in Brazil has been appalling.
Cananea had at one time $50 British
colonists, whose survivors left in de-
Spair in 1878. There are now only three
British families there in the forest with
out any road in any direction. Assun-
guy, which is only sixty miles from
Curitiba, the capital of Parana, has only
about 100 British colOniStS out Of nearly
1000, who were planted there some
twenty years ago, the remainder
having all died. or, like those at
Cananea, have had to be trans
ported back to England and Ireland
at the public expense and in the
utmost misery and degradation. Even
to-day no sort of road for carts has been
made to Assunguy from anywhere, al
though the Woodworking Central Immi-
grafton society made a special request
nists at Assunguy as lately as May,
1883. At present, these few remaining
coloniStS produce plenty of food. and
desire to send the surplus to market.
In the same neighborhood 1000 Russian
immigrants from the Volga, made three
unsuccessful attempts to raise crop,
and left for Russia in February, 1879.
Although Italians are supposed to with
stand the climate better, there has, says
Mr.. Cough, been perfect hecatomb of
Italian immigrant children during
1883 in the province of Sau Paulo.
1t is represented, on the one
hand, that this arises from the
change of climate and diet; on the
other, from the want of care on the
part of the parents, who have, no
doubt, a good deal to think of Oh first
arrival, but as far as change of diet is
concerned British immigrants have
hitherto suffered and complained more
than others. Often enough, indeed,
British immigrants are most unreason-
able in this respect, and scorn to eat
dishes which their more educated
countrymen find excellent. There is,
no doubt, something in the fact of their
having been enticed to come by agents,
which gifes them a feeling of having
done a favor to the country in coming
to it, feeling encouraged by their pas
sages being paid, whereas. if voluntary
adventures, they would not have any
one but themselves to blame for any
difference between what they expect to
find and what they actually do find,