St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-05
NEED MORE PEOPLE.
Senator Lienau Would Aid in the
Development of the State.


Development of the State.
Senator Lienau believes that Mime.
sofa needs more good, sturdy citizens to
develop her great natural resources, and
takes no stock in the absurd hue and
cry being raised against immigration.
He believes that the interests of this
state can be promoted by the attraction
of good, industrious people from other
states as we'll as foreign lands, and that
the worlds fair will afford great OPP
portunity for the state to reach a great
many people. For the purpose of de-
viSing Il way of accomplishing this Mr..
Lienau has secured the adoption OF the
following resolution in the senate:
Whereas, The increase of population
in the United States now apprOXimateS
1900, 900 per annum, the ualincreaSe
therefore being just about equal to the
entire population OF the state OF Mime
sofa; and
Whereas, The increase is greatest
where populations are already the
densest, and where there is the least OPP
pOrtunity for them to remain; and
Whereas. They must go somewhere
else and are going elsewhere continu-
ally, it is a matter of the utmost i'm
portance to the people of Minnesota as
10 where they are going. Are they go
ing to the South to develop her mines,
convert her forests into useful mer-
chautable lumber, recuperate the old
Plantations, increase her productions of
every kind and build her railroads? Or
are they going to the Southwest to con-
vert the boundleSS prairieS of Texas,
Kansas and Nebraska into fruit fields?
Or to the far West to develop the in
conceivable resources of Montana Ore
gon and Washington? In other words.
is Minnesota getting her fair share OF
these desirable, sturdy home seekers?
What Are We Doing
new energy ana new capital to the vast
sources of our state?
1t must be admitted that while other
states in the South and West have been
putting forth every effort TO direct these
tides of yeomanry from the Eastern and
Middle states to their respective Sec
tons, we in Minnesota have done moth
Ing whatever Is this good policy ? Ii
must be remembered that the vast ma
jority of these people go where they
are invited and welcomed, and do not
thrust themselves upon Indifferent or
unwilling communities.
1t may safely be affirmed that not
more than one-Seventh OF the natural
resources of the state of Minnesota has
yet been developed and made product
i've. The other SiXSeyenthS might as
we'll be in the moon, for all we are get
ting out of it at the present time.
In former years the land grant rail
road companies made extraordinary
efforts to turn the tide of home-seekers
hitherWard, but DIS their acreage has
decreased. their efforts to bring people
here have correspondingly decreased,
and they have turned their attention
and their efforts To other states. For
many years we had a commissioner OF
immigration. but many years ago that
Office was abolished. and today we have
no organization or agency TO set before
the people of the Middle and Eastern
states the great advantages aud OpDOr-
tunitieS that are today lying dormant i'll
this state, OF 10 use to us or to them.
Hence it is that during these years they
have been going i'll
Vast Numbers to the South,
the Southwest and the far West, anJ
have applied their capital and labor TO
the development of these sections. Tie
most OF them would today have been
petter off had they come tv Minnesota,
ana we should have been better off. too.
With the worlds fair at Chicago next
year. the time is ripe to make a con-
eeried effort To attract the attention OF
the overcrOWded states east oil us. To our
multiplied millions ot untitled acreS, u