The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1889-03-14

abroad would dement, tMe Farmers that
are maiive-born. contains an erroneous
idea, and j. calculated to do mischief
Il educate, In thc wrong direction.
Implying that the Southern farmer j.
not equal 10 the situation, il tells him
that. II be would succeed, be should
not rely on bis own arm and brain,
but look up to somebody else. Draw
ing his attention away from himself
and from his own capacities, il teach
q. him 10 lean in weakness and admi-
ration on men who hail from other
countries. II does not iucu lcate self
respect and sclf-reliance. but teaches
dependence and inferiority. The im-
migration argument tends 10 belitlle,
discourage and enfeeble the home
made farmer This Alliance is Of the
opinion that if the Southern farmers
would make genuine progress and
achieve substantial prosperity, they
themselves must strike the blow.
win the Legislature Of Alabama give
to the opposite idea currency aud sane
ton by aiding in the establishment of
Permanent Bureau Of Immigra-
ton =
4. If the farmers Of the South are
competent to develope their resources,
then they have no need Of a large in
/ nux ofimmigrants But the advocates
of immigration argue that, while the
Southern farmers are very clever men,
they somehow have not the energy,
the push, the get-up, the capital. or the
brain to develop the country. So
these immigrationists propose to bring
into the State sharp, shrewd men to
compete with those who are slow and
plodding; TO introduce men Of energy
to contend with men who are INCIDENT ;
to bring in man Of thrift and econo-
my to compete with one who is care
less and wasteful; to place the man
who has capital over against the man
who is without. In word, they pro-
pose to go to the North and TO Europe
and perhaps to Asia, and invite strong
men to come in and contend with
those who are weak For our sup
posed trouble, immigration is not the
best remeny. five are too slow, easy
aud extravagant, why not encourage
us to energy, economy, and self-rc-
liancca If we lack intelligence and
observation, then we need a wider
dissemination of agricultural journals
aud an increase in the number and eff
iieieney of experimental stations. II
we are limited in means, would it be
wise for us to sell, at the suggestion
Of the government, a great birthrighr
for mess Of pottage?
5. Southern farmers have been il
the habit OF raising wheat, corn, cot
/ ton, peas, potatoes, etc. As thes'
things seem adapted to our soil amt
climate, it is fair to suppose that othe
farmers, on immigrating here, woulC
cultivate the same. Last year thu
South made seven million bales Of cot
ton. If the number Of cotton produ
GERS were now to be doubled by immi
grafton (the new ones, too being
smarter than the old ones,) the mum
Der of bales would then amount up t,
/ fourteen millions. The demand re
f manning thesame, would not the price
run down from eight or ten cents pc
pound to four or five cents? And j
| our farmers wives find it barely prof
J liable to sell their butter and eggs a
: present prices, then they would feel NJ
pleasure in finding, when they went t,
: town, after the influx proposed, tina
! the wives of the immigrants had go
: ahead and glutted the market. A
) sustaining us in these views we not
: the action Of other classes of men il
! reference to themselves. The manu-
facturers of the United States, so ia
t from counting competition, run to th
t opposite extreme, and rigidly insis
: on keeping around the Unite,
e States tariff wall forty-sevel
! per cent high, for the expires
5 purpose of keeping competition out
: Why, then, should the government
r expect farmers to go out and brini
5 competition in?
: 8. We have no pressing need ofim
e migration. Alabama is not an unset
! tied territory. but State sevent
: wears old. Houses are not five or 81
) miles apart, and people are not com
planning of lonesomeness. We hav
7 no Indian marauders requiring
: large force of settlers TO overcome
/ Roads have been opened, schools an
. churches built and wise system c