The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-24
BELLE F0URCHE Smell TING & REFINING COMPANY

little money that they had received for
starting they would become a burden
OF the older settlers and detriment
to the advancement of the section.
Along this line Mr.. Motifs knowledge
of the conditions prevailing in the East
has been Of inestimable value to the
company for which he is working, as
it has enabled him to know where de-
SRA BILE settlers could be found, and also
to figure, with reasonable certainty, as
to the part of the Northwestern states
fer which they were best adapted.
Narrow View.
The denizeDs of the Twin Cities, as
we'll as Of Minnesota and North Da-
kota in general, are apt to criticlse any
efforts made by railway companies to
people the states west of their own
immediate territory, feeling sometimes
as though they were being robbed Of
settlement which ought to come to
them in order to build up other parts
of the country, but this is a narrow
way of looking at the matter and like
all narrow ideas, only embraces half
the truth. The quickest and most sat
isfactory way Of settling any state is
to bring into it parties who can prosper
there, as every contented settler be-
comes himself an immigration agent
among his former neighbOrs and
friends.
On the other hand, if you take to
such states as Minnesota and North
Dakota people whose former habits and
environments have rendered them al
together unsuited for a bracing rigor-
Gus climate such as is found in these
states, or people who have been used
to living in distinctly fruit country,
they are almost certain to be disap-
pointed with their new home, and send
back reports about 1t which will deter,
others from following their example,
and thus harm, instead Of good, will
result to the states.
But there are thousands of families
in the East now living on rented land.
which is broken and hard to cultivate.
SO poor that their bill for fertilizers
every year amounts to more than the
installments on the purchase price of
a farm In the newer country, who, if
they could once be persuaded to inves-
tigate such states as Minnesota and
North Dakota. would at once go there
and prosper there, and induce others
to follow them.
To settle up a new country today,
therefore, requires something more
than an oily tongue and an abnormal
amount of gall, which used to be con-
sidered the chief requisites Of an immi-
grafton agent. 1t requires, in addition
to knowledge of the country an ac-
quaintance with the class of people in
habiting the various sections and suf-
ficient breadth Of intelligence to know
towards which of the Western states
to direct persons who are thinking Of
moving, SO as to secure the best ulti-
mate results, and right here we are
brought face to face with one of the
most important phases Of immigration
work, and that is, how best to reach
these people and turn their thoughts
towards a new country.
To attempt to make a personal can
vass is manifestly impossible. The only
way to get at them, in the first in
stance, Is to arouse their interest in
the Western states In setting HIM
self to this task, Mr.. Mott has realized
the fact that in immigration work, as
in other lines Of business, advertising
is one of the most important elements.
With this end in view, he sent out the
worlds fair product car, through those
parts of the middle and Eastern states
where there was the most prospect of
securing settlers for the Northwestern
country, and thus afforded ocular dem
OnstratiOn Of what can be raised, and