Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-06-08
CORRESPONDENTS.
A Friend to Farm Reform and the
South
SYKEsvILLE, MD, June 3, 1895.

south.
SYKEsvILLE, MD, June 3, 1895.
To the MINING JOURNAL
Farm Reform and the South, alike.
have something to graciously acknowl-
edge when from a State like Massa-
chusetts comes strong endorsement
and encouragement toward Southern
immigration. Massachusetts is par
ticularly a State loaded down with fac
tories and schools. The old homesteads
of the fol efathers have long ago been
abandoned for sedentary pursuits.
Her extreme antipathy to the South
we all remember. The contrast is the
more refreshing.
The Worcester Spy has published
my Farm Reform and i-education
views prominently, and has, moreover,
come out with its own views in a
manner thoroughly according with nv
most ultra ideas on the subject.
Every paper of the South, that has the
interests of its own section at heart
should gladly give publication to the
views of the Spy and earnestly endorse
them, because they not only aid in the
philanthropy of Farm Reform, but
they are actually intended to build up
the waste places of the South with
Northern capital and Northern work
ers. The Spy could as easily have
directed It's Northern capital toward
the West, and with the food of adver-
tlsing of that section circulating in
the North, it only shows the Spy's dis
erection in disregarding it and in point
ing TO cline in every respect more
advantageous. In the following
quotation from the Spy | take the
liberty of italicizing little by way of
emphasizing features particularly
allied to my own ideas:
There is no way in which transfers of pop
ulation from overcrowded cities can be
forced. All movements of this kind must be
oot,nto'Y. But there can be- If the people so
will, an aided interstate immigration that
will benefit all concerned, and this may be
done on business principles and by business
methods. The great, sparsely-settled sections
OF the South afford opportunities for such
movements, and the desire for increased pop
ulation, which most of those States are man
itesting, insure the cooperation of their
people What are needed are land immigra-
ton companies, organized by northern cap
adt, to purchase suitable areas in the South,
lay them out in small farms, and sell them
to settlers on the instrument plan !; then select
desirable settlers from among the moythy and
industrious po0' families of our large cities
and all them to establish themselves in their
new homes. One fifth the money morse than
~dsted on miscalled charities every hard win
ter in great cities, il employed in such prac-
teal philanthropies as these suggested cor
poratlons would be, would do much to relieve
communities of their burdens, while enabling
thousands of worthy families that, unaided,
cannot escape the bondage of their environ
ment to become owners of their gum homes
and independent, self.re$pecting qpg pr1sperQus
citizens.
Much of the miscalled charity of the day
increases pduperim. Immigration, promoted
in the manner suggested, would tend greatiy
10 It's decredse. A gift Of small farm might
or might not benefit its recipient but the
family that has been given the opportupitv
to purchase the homestead with the fruits of
Its labors and savings will be Ddluable ad
daton TO the community. One hundred thous-
and such families, settled in small colonies in
the South, would add very desirable element
to its population. The thoughtful men of
are generally prepared to cooperate with
every legitimate effort to promote this class
OF immigration.
With such endorsements of Farm
Reform by influential papers, with
thogsands going to farms, and with
Washington. inapgnrating Farm Re-
form, have my hands tut, in watch
ing the good work which g,es valiant
ly on. AT this time in last year where
would we have found a paper giving
niterance to such patriotism? 1t
must be called patriotism, for it is the
salvation of the country,
OF course, answers to the eogaries of