Evening journal., 1893-04-04


living which the Nazarene made and
which the growing light of 1000 years
has found to be so perfect as to call 10
divine, we shall find indeed, for every
turn Of human conduct the corrective
that will pug it Of its baseness and as
similate 10 with that which makes for
righteousness. To give credit for purity
Of motive, to think no evil, nothing
could do more TO make life wholesome.
Increase ia Southern Population.
Richmond Dispatch.
Governor Mckinley hardly took a
hopeful enough view OF the immigration
question Ina his letter TO Governor Fish
back. It is true that no brilliant sue
cess has attended the efforts made In be-
halt Of immigration by our state author
ities, yet those efforts have not been
wholly unaveiling European laborers
do not care to come into competition
with negro labOrers, and for that reason
the South can never hope TO attract such
immigrants I'm large numbers. This may
be taken as settled fact The land.
buying immigrants is really the only
immigrant that we are likely to get, and he
is the only one we badly need. Including
u
able mum Der Of these newcomers
who have bought agricultural lands and
settle upon them and gone to
work with heartiness which is
influential for good throughout
the neighborhoods in which they
reside So, too, ia the cities we have
many Of these newcomers. Here in
Richmond we are constantly adding
them TO our resident population, and
those who are satisfied with Richmond
as O home are soon followed hither by
relatives and friends We have ia mind
one brother who led the way to Virginia.
who found profitable employment and
wrote for his younger brothers, who
came on, and in turn wrote FOR other
membel of the family, who also came,
until now, what with those Of them who
have found wives here and their progeny,
we haYe scores of good, thrifty, desirable
people as the result of the satisfactory
settlement Of the first conner. Too often
the immigrant becomes a victim Some
times it is the fault of the immigrant:
sometimes of the land seller The immi
grant often imagines that he Is wiser
than he is the land-sellcr is not always
q thoroughly scrupulous person.
Hence many immigrants have been dis
appointed In their expectations and
have gone away from the state dissatis-
fed, and have kept others vay Sup
pose that all OF them had had their Just
expect .tions realized and had STAYED
here, and had induced their brothers and
cousins to come, why we should have in
creased in population several hundred
thousand in the past two decades A
thoroughly practical, honest, frank man
ia every county TO act as the agent of
Virginia aud as the mutual friend Of the
buyer and seller, would benefit both the
laud owner and the Immigrant. He
could disabuse the Immigrants mind Of
fOoli n expectations; he could arrange
the best possible terms Of purchase and
sale. IL Is 20 the interest of q community
for the desirable settler to be made com
Portable In his new home, and
this cannot be II he finds out
that be has paid greatly too much for
his lend and that it's productive.
ness has been exaggerated. IL we could
have state agent, or agents, who would
see the new conner happily settled in our
midst, one of the most discouragug
phases of the immigration question would
have been settled We must not aban
don our efforts to secure immigration
We must end out where and what the
trouble has been and remedy IL. We
should make a new and better start and
in this we can be greatly aided by the ex-
perience, counsel, aud active aid of new
comers who are now happy and contented
citizens of Virginia When the Governors
of the South meet here in Convention on
April ?, let them set apart one day for
the reception of suggestions as to immi.
grafton from the Northern born or for
eign born people who are now citizens Of
the South; interested in her welfare,
jealous OF her honor, and hopeful of her
future.