Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-01-16
immigration.

The bringing Of settlers TO this section
TO cultivate our waste lands and to dc.
vclop a territory which for natural ad.
vantages has no equal on the globe, has
for many years past been subject Of
much thought and discussion, but nc
feasible plan appears yet to have been
suggested. Immigration societies have
been formed, the Changers in their days
II might and power talked over the mat
ter bill was before the Legislature Of
1888, looking TO the establishment of an
immigration bureau for the State, but
all shese Efforts proved fruitless, and
now comes the suggestion from the
Southern Interstate Conven ion recon
mending that each State appropriate the
sum of S25 600 to ensure complete
State exhibit at the Chicago Exposition,
aud thereby advertise TO tho world the
advantages OF each State as an agricul-
tnrsl country.
We are heartily in favor of immigrl-
ton and any practicable move in that d.
rection would receive our most earnest
endorsement, but the suggestions of the
70. -
only impractical, but nonsensical. An
exposition Of a national character, on
the order Of the proposed Chicago Expo
sitiou, serves as an elegln, advertise
meht Of the country as a nation. but will
not materially aid any particular section.
There is too much of it, and the study Of
the advantages Of any particular section
in comparison with another, would be lost
sight Of in the desire to take in all that
is to be seen AMI 10 keep pace with the
excitement Of such an occasion The
proposition apart from bcnefting the
State would do the people harm. 1t
would necessitate an increase in taxa
ton; becomes the medium through which
half dozen or more Of fat places
would be created, aad that many poll
ticians pcnsioned at the expense of the
people. and produce no practical re-
ssTts. 1t would be an easy birth for
some Of the favored few to spend a year
or more at Chirago in con fort and ease
at the expense Of the over-burdened tax.
payers.
II we are to increase our population
through immigration. it looks as though
it must be done through private enter
prise. The Farmers Alliance, if il
holds together and proves L success as a
private organization, is the enterprise
to take hold Of it The farmers under
stand the sut@ect better than all others;
they know TIE class of immigrants that
are wanted. have the lands to sell and by
reason Of their a9ocation are better suit
ed to give new corners the encourage
ment they should have when beating in a
nov country Why would it not do for
the four counties OF Southern Maryla I'd
to unite and organize an Immigration
Bureau at some accessible point convent
ent to the sectiun under the control and
management of the Farmers AllilHcc?
4 stock company with sufficient capital
TO begin the ent erprisc ,cull be formed,
and to sustain it let each county annu-
ally donate such sum of money as may
be necessary to pay the running expenses
OF the Bureau, to be Faised by tax upon
the taxable basis Of each county, upon
the same principle that taxes are levied
10 improve our public roads and other
public property. It is no new thing to
appropriate money for internal improve
meuts and money spent in such an en-
,erprise would be money well spent.