The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-30

an interview, published in the Fergus Falls
Journal, William Hoehing says: | am sat-
isfed that the right kind of man could, by
making trip to Northern Germany, induce
good many families with small means to
come here and build themselv. pleasant
homes. We have some farmers hat class
now living I in the towns nort u.s. that
doing nicely. l am informed Giat lot Of
men with means were in this region last
fall to take up some land, They came from
southern Iowa, now th!Esly settled, to find
homes for their sons and daughters. They,
/ am told, were well pleased with the coun-
try, but found no encouragement The city's
main interest lies in good, healthy far
mer's trade, and we must strive to encour-
age and enlarge it, What is needed is sys.
tematic encouragement. That can be best
accorded through properly-organized i'm
migration bureau, under practical, wide
awake, well-informed business man, thor
Oughly acquainted with the state. Had
such bureau been in operation the past
four or five years, it would have been pos
sible to have secured for this state a large
portion of the substantial immigration
which poured into Washington to enrich
and develop that state. These immigrants
passed through our own state, where they
would have obtained frst-cass farming
lands accessible to markets and at reason
able prices. These opportunities must not
be neglected. The present is the best time
always, in which to do thing. The en-
couragement of immigration is equally ben
ehcial TO farmers, to mechanics, to business
men. That is the recorded experience of
this nation"
Vermont has spilled her milk of the
kind over which the Earth is crying,
and for which the Minnesota people are,
clamoring. The Journals exhortations
and the Earth'S tears, with the Boston
Herdld'S statement of a disagreeable
fact, are instructive ard fit matters for
reflection. "The reactionary opposi-
ton of few country newspapers in
Minnesota is standing in the way of
wise movement for the advancement of
the states material interests, as it has
done in Vermont. In Minnesota " the
main interest of her cities lies in good,
healthy farmers trade" That is the
case in Vermont. Minnesota is moving
to establish bureau of immigration,
and TO do precisely what Commissioner
Valentine had begun to do for Vermont.
She will unquestionably succeed, as
Vermont would have succeeded with
the systematic encouragement" which
the Journal bespeaks for the Minnesota
movement. Every movement for the
betterment of Vermont has been i'm
peded or destroyed either by the iniu-
ence mentioned by the Journal, or by
that the Herald'S correspondent sets
forth, or by both together. An editorial
paragraph quoted from the Brottleboro
Rg0rmer last week contained the
pointed remark, 1t is not a pretty
thing to do when men are trying to do
something for the upbuilding of Ver-
mont, to pursue them with carping crit
icism." This is true, and this q" carp
ing CRITICISM" this reactionary oppo-
sition," these neighbors about the
abandoned farms, are worse enemies to
Vermont than long winters and rock
ribbed mountain ranges combined. The
state is small and sparsely settled; the
influence of few malcontents-misn-
formed or ignorant or evil-minded peo-
ple-is more directly felt, and is the
more injurious; and the greater the
necessity for unity of action, for abjur-
ing cavil and consciousness.