The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-24

luS the DOHHelS usually WORN ny TIE
Quakers, and the men wearing broad
brimmed hats, and for the most part
long boards, with clean shaven upper
lips. ,1..a!!t.
They have always sheen noted for
their thrift and industry and peaceful
dispositions. They hook after their own
poor, and for the most part engage in
agriculture. AS rule they have no
paid ministers, but sprdain elders, who
support themselves very largely by
farming, and who preach and perform
the other functions of their office with
out compensation. s. They are by no
means an illiterahe people, having
seven or eight colleges iof their own,
as well as a wellAcondhcted weekly
newspaper, the Gospel dMessenger, a
Foreign MissionarytIsocety, and other
forms of Christian activity.
First CSIonits.
Their first COLONIES in9i this country
located in Pennsylvania and the VAL
ley Of Virginia. When these sections
became too congested, "a movement
was made westward into Ohio, In
diana and Illinois. Later other colo
MES have gone into Iowa, Nebraska and
Missouri. OF course members of this
denomination are to befound in the far
western states, and are becoming quite
numerous in parts of Idaho and Wash
ington, but these western colonies may
be said to be in their infancy. OF
late the bulk of the movement has been
towards North Dakota, and about 5000
people have located there within the
last six or seven years.
The first colonies in North Dakota
| We're all along the line of the Great
Northern railway, in the vicinity of
Cando and Devils lake. AS soon, how
| ever, as Col. c. W. Mott was appointed
general emigration agent of the North
| ern Pacific, he determined that peo-
pie so desirable as settlers might just
| as we'll be located along the road
| which he represented as go exclusively
| to other parts of the state and the
congested districts of the east certainly
afforded ample room for both COM
panieS to work in
His knowledge of the conditions of
| the eastern states, gained by his TWEEN
| ty years experience as travelling sales
man, credit man and superintendent
| or agencies for a large agricultural
| implement manufacturing concern, en-
| abled him to know where the most de-
sirable bodies of these people were to
| be found. and which of them could be
| most easily induced to move to such
state as North Dakota. He according
ly bent his energies to diverting a part
! of this stream of emigration furthe.
| south, along the line of the Northern
Pacific selecting Foster. Wells and
Eddy counties as the district in which
/ to locate the people. and Darlington
| in Foster county. as the central point
around which to crystaliZe the move
/ ment
| During the winter of 1856 commit
| tees of Influential Dunkards were tax
en- up to Carrinston, ard were so we'll
pleased with the country, notwith
| standing the fact that it was winter
| that some of them purchased land
themselves. and they all unhesitatingly
recommended it to their brethren. One
of the inducements held out to them
| was, that if a certain number of famil-
les would locate there, the company
! would aid them literally in erecting a
! place of worship.
In the spring of 1896 the first North
ern Pacific excursion was run, and
probably 100 people went up at that
| time These were followed, all through
the summer. by parties who drove
through from Iowa, Missouri and Ne
braska, and in the early fall, just after
the close of the GA. r. encampment
in ST. Paul. the church which had been
erected was dedicated, being the first
| house of worship which these people
had built in the northwestern states
Opening Exercises.
| o6NGTdl OIL their ISdQ1nS ministers at
tended and took part in the opening
exercises, among 2 them Elder j. H.
| Moore, the editor of the Gospel Mes
senger, and his wife, and the sermons
in connection with the dedication and
| subsequent love feast were taken down
and published in the form of little
pamphlet, together with a report which
Elder Moore wrote out for his paper.
in regard to his trip, and reports made
for other papers by other members
who were present. This book was sent
| into pretty nearly every Dunkard home
| in the United States, and served to
convince all who were interested that
| they could place reliance upon tbs
| Northern Pacific. and upon Mr.. Mott,
it's general emigration agent, who was
the father of the movement. A volume
of sermons is certainly somewhat out
of the ordinary line. of emigration
| literature, but as one gentleman re-
marked as he looked itzover, he noticed
that the Northern Pacific and it's lane
department were pretty well interwOv-
en- with the sermons all the way
| through , ~
Following the publication of these
sermons, the WORLDS Fair Product Car,
which the land department of the
Northern Pacific had had on the road
practically ever since Mr.. Motifs con-
nection with thei7emigration depart
| ment, was sent last winter through the
| states from which most emigra tioi,
was expected and created considerab bic
! interest, as a result of which last
spring saw about 500 sof these people
| brought up with sthe Northern Pacific
excursion, while the Great Northern
took up probably twice that number.
During last summer others have fol-
lowed steadily, until the whole aspect
| of that part of North Dakota has I'M
dergone a change, and now the move
ment has again commenced the North
| ern Pacific excursion this year being
| the first. bringing 500 people and 100
cars of household goods. More will fol-
| parties will go right through to Wash
| ington, but the vast majority of them
will stop in North Dakota.
Confidence Secured.
A person seeing these people in the
| depot, travelling in celonist cars right
through from their old homes to their
! new destination, without change or
worry, can form but little idea Of the
amount of work and foresight which
| Is necessary to secure a party of this
sort. 1t is a serious matter to per-
son who has been brought up In one
part Of the country, and who has never
perhaps been thirty miles away from
home, to undertake a Journey Of from
900 to 1000 miles, to go to a climate al
together different from that to which
he has been accustomed, to conditions