The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-05-02
A PLEA FOR IMMIGRATION.

objects of the late mining and immigra-
ton. held in Helena on the 10th and
18th of March, an assessment OF $3.50
has been levied by the executive COM
mittee.
A general business committee, con-
sisting of one member from each u
ty, was elected to gather necessary in
formation as to the of their
respective localities. and to assist in
raising funds for the proper arrange
ment and distribution of this informa-
ton with a view to inducing a desira-
BILE class of migrants to seek homes in
Montana.
In order to obtain the best results it
is necessary, first to convince u own
people of the advantage Of a greatly in
creased population, and next to place
before the people of the densely popu-
lated eastern states, full and correct in
formation of the superior advantages
Montana offers t. those seeking new
homes.
No reasonable person a dispute the
fact that Montana needs and can sup
port a vastly increased population. We
need more cultivated farms; more fac
tories; more developed and operated
mines; more roads; more schools; more
churches; more society; more of all
that makes ''life worth living" and to
secure these, we must have more peo-
pie. We must convince those, whom
we induce to come among us, that the
advantages between them and us are
mutual. We do not want to induce
people TO come and buy us out that we
may move away, but we wish more peo-
pie and more homes, so that u own
homes may be made more pleasant and
more valuable.
No part OF the United States presents
better opportunities, for the honest, in
dustrious home-seeker. than Montana.
In no part Of the country are the peo-
pie mere prosperous. In no part of the
country have the people suffered so lit
tie from the business depression and fl
nancial troubles of the past three years.
Among our industrious and able-bodied
citizens, absolute pinching poverty is
unknown. In all that pertains to the
substantial comforts of life, this is a
land of lavish abundance.
That we need a great population is
fully attested by the fact that we have
for the past Is years imported into the
state, more than sixty millions of dol
lars worth of products, every particle
of which could have been produced
within our borders.
Think Of it! We are, and have been
for fifteen years, paying to the citizens
OF other states more than four millions
of dollars a year for products, a better
quality of which, in most cases, can be
produced from our wv soil. This six
ty millions of products, if furnished
by residents of Montana from Mon.
tana's fertile, but idle acres, as it
could and should have been, would
mean six thousand additional homes
worth ten thousand dollars a piece. II
will, Of course, be said, that some PEG.
pie prefer to buy outside of the state,
This is rue only to a very limited ex.
tent. The fact is that Montana has
furnished a ready market for all he,
own products. except those Of hel
mines and ranges. These sixty mil.
lions have been imported simply be-
cause they were not to be had in the
home market. We have the soil anG
the climate, but they are not utilized
to a sufficient extent to supply on,
wants because the people are not here
to do the work. No country can raise
healthier hogs, o produce finer bacon,
hams, and lard, and yet for these alone
we spend a million a year in foreign
markets. No country has finer past
ureage 0 u healthier cattle. We have
all the facilities for successful dairy
ing and yet we import more than fifty
per cent. Of Ii butter and nearly al
our cheese. a very large per cent. o
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