Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-07-11


Left Vacant by Western Migration.
An Exodus of Observation-Disclosures
In immigration.
Two remarkable human ~migrations
movements taking thousands Of people
every month from the states constitut-
ing the great middle west to those of
thenfar west, especially the northwest,
as recently told in the New York Even
ing Post, while the other is bringing
into the country made poorer through
the exodus a new set Of people. 1mmi-
grants from the northern parts Of Eu-
rope-Finland, Norway, Sweden and
Russia-come to make their new HON
on lands which the tide of emigration
has left ~unoccupied or at least availa-
BILE for a new set of tillerS. From the
beginning b movement of the human
race has been to the westward, due Ell
Their to political or religious oppression
or to economic conditions. Those of the
middle west who are seeking the Pa
cific coast have, it appears, little ex-
cuse for their migration because of adj
verse conditions, but have been over
persuaded by land and railway agents.
The tide from the old world that has
set in so strongly toward Michigan and
other states of late is typical, however,
and born of the universal desire to own
a bit Of the earth on which to rear a
home and make a living. But if one
thinks it an easy matter to induce the
people of the northern part of Europe
to break up their homes and come to
the United States to settle he will find
himself Of a different mind after a talk
with IN immigration agent. DESTROYS
as these hardy northern people may be
to better their condition and enjoy a
less rigorous climate and desirable as
they are as agents in the building up of
the west, the change is made with diff
Guilty. principally perhaps because they
are so unimaginative and phlegmatic
and thus far beyond the wiles of the
ordinary emigration agent.
And SO it is that a New York compa-
ny which obtained control of several
hundred thousand acres of land in
Michigan for b express purpose of
colonizing it with these people made
slow progress until they abandoned
certain outworn methods of inducing
immigration. GLOW do you secure i'm
migrants" q land agent was asked re-
Gently.
"WelL 1t is not done by spreading
abroad pamphlets telling what q fine
new Ell Dorado we have for them. oh,
no. They have been fooled by hat de-
vice too many times. 1t is now wolf
with them. We have colonies Of Films
and Danes, Swedes and Norwegians,
n I .ora~ NFiohSoon or6 4hor q no oil no.
markably prosperous. When we have
acquired new lands for settlement, gen
orally territory that has been cleared of
timber by the lumbermen and is there
fore virgin soil, we select some unusu-
ally prosperous member of a colony and
propose to him that he go back to his
DID home on a six months visit. OF
course he says he can't afford it, and
Their we offer to pay his expenses both
ways and so much a day besides if he
will spend most of his time in telling
how successful he has been in the new
world. Then we tell hin that for every
countryman of his he induces to come
over and buy our land we will deed
him an additional acre. In nearly every
case the man accepts b offer and goes
vigorously to work. No doubt he makes
of himself an awful bore among his
kinfolk and friends by tales of his sue
cess in the land of the free, but the
plan works well for him and for us.
"Finns, as a rule. are the best class OF
people for farming in the west. Al
home they till the soil under adverse
conditions, and life generally is along
hard lines. Politically, too, they arc
oppressed and are compelled to do mill
tary service for the cZar outside theil
own small country. Living close to the
soil and being unusually clannish, thi:
is the last straw for them, and once
they can be persuaded that freedom
and prosperity lie over h sea they are
ready to come.
MANY of our best settlers are Dun
kards whom we have secured from
Pennsylvania. They are very religious
as you know, almost fanatical on tn,
subject, but they are .as sturdy ant
thrifty as the Firms and make fully al
good farmers. In getting these Dun
kards westward the railroads hay'
done a great deal by fitting up specia
cars, advertising the advantages of Ger
tain parts Of tho west and sending then
in charge of a glib agent for exhibition
at places where these people are hold
ing religious gatherings.
During the last year the most note
worthy increase in immigration ha
been fPcm the AustPo-Hungarian coun
tries, Italy. Sweden, Russia, Finlan,
and Ireland. but the Italians and tn
Irish will not go west if they can pos
sibly obtain a foothold in the east. Fo
abe year 1900 114.S47 Austro-Hungari
ans came TO this country, an increas
of $4,000 over the preceding veal
from Russia and Finland came 90, 78i
an increase of 10000; from Sweden IS
$50, an increase of 5000; from Marwa