Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-01-15

at once are cared for in hotel two
miles long and half mile wide. There
everyone gets room by himself, silk
coverlets, all he can eat, and the privi-
lege of staying as long as he wishes to
do so. Brazil is the place for all good,
consistent believers, runs another
Jerusalem is but ten miles distant, and,
when the Pope has services in Rome,
BraZilians can hear the bells ring.
Thus the peasants have been con-
WINGED that land tull OF prayer and
plenty, where suffering and crime are
unknown, and good things may be has
for the asking or taking, Is within Their
reach. Most of them are SO anxious To
taste the sweets Of the transatlantic
paradise that they willingly sell their
small possessions for anything they will
bring. One peasant proprietor recently
lei his little farm of ten acres, few
sheep. and his instruments ofcultiyatlOn
go for S75. Another gave up his thirty
acres Of carefully cultivated ground for
$500. All who realize enough money
to pay their expenses to Brazil must
give about S:;5 each for their passage
tickets. Many who cannot pay are sent
for nothing BY the agents on the con-
dition that they will write TO their
friends OF the delights of their South
American home. The letters written in
consequence of such arrangements are
reviewed by the Brazilian colleagues Of
the European agents, and therefore
arrive in Poland with a wealth of details
of the unalloyed pleasures OF life IN the
adopted country.
All efforts of the large landowners, the
manufacturers, and government officials
to stop the progress Of these decisions
and the results Of them have been vain.
The landowners and manufacturers have
only q selfish interest, the peasants and
laborers say, III preventing the emu
grafton. These great men are afraid
merely, the impression is, that they
will be deprived Of workingmen for
their enterprises. The warnings of the
newspapers are also. disregarded, for all
the newspapers are supposed by the
peasants to have been bought up by the
capitalists. Even the priests and the
bishops can do nothing to stem the tide,
for they too, are suspected OF having
been bribed by the rich. They only
wish us to lose the sixty acres of land,
free Of taxes, that the Queen of Brazil
has for each Of US, objected peasant in
West Russian Poland recently to the
advice of a man from Warsaw who had
tried to enlighten him,
The government officials have made
and are making constant efforts to pre-
vent the flight of migratory peasants
without passes over the border into
Germany, whence they wish to take
steamships to South America. AS this
way of escape from Russian territory is
easiest, the vast majority of emisrants
have taken it, Only 1000, in fact, have
left Russian Poland in the lawfully pre-
scribed wav. An illustration Of the
tricks to which resort is made IN this
helter-skelter exodus is afforded in
recent incident near Vloclavek. The
police remarked that not single cab
awaited the arrival there one day OF
the 1915 T. NJ. train. Inquiry led to the
discovery that ali the cabs had been
driven to a little station some miles dis
tant. A watch was set and at midnight
five cabs drove Up crowded with peas
ants, fifty in all, who had struck bar
gain with the cabmen to drive them
over the boundary. Just how many
Polish peasants and labOrers nave gone
to find the Brazilian paradise can, OF
course, be neither known nor approx
mately guessed. The extent Of the
emigration is only apparent after a
glance at the half-emptied factories and
many abandoned fields Of Western Pol
and in Russia. In whose interests the
agents in Poland are working Is also
problem, although it is suspected that
q great company with SO, O00,O0 capt.
tai recently organized III Brazil with the
purpose OF cOlOniHing the country, may
be indirectly connected with the move
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