The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-08
IMMIGRATION'S TIDE.

From out of the evil times that have come to the
people of the Scandinavian peninsula will ultimate
good for the suffering and immediate profit for the
United States, and the Northwest particular The eff
feet of the famine is already shown in the immense num-
Der of immigrants arriving the port of New York
many of whom of the desirable class of Scan
dinavans. Thousands of these now on their
way to the Northwest people the praires and make
the land productive.
Yesterday there the first large immigration move
this part of the country when 5000 persons were
distributed to the West from Chicago The seekers for
new homes IN new land practically all from the
north OF Europe of the upper ATTITUDES of the
Same type those who did much of the pioneer work
IN the development of the Northwest They will hardly
be strangers in strange land, for they will find their
klnsmen peOpng the prares and the forests and the
comfort even Opuence, of the surroundings of those
who preceded them will be tonic these toil-worn
ones who have been compelled leave the WORKOUT
soil of the fatherland to make homes It will
be given them know the hardshps that their prede
suffered in opening a new country They will
ind homes i'll country far less from society and
the civzng influences than those occupied by many of
them in the old country 1t is that they will not
have the wide choice of selection that the pioneers had
but they will have all the advantages of knowledge that
the first lacked. They will be intelgently di-
reced and it is unlikely that there will be any of
mistakes made that made by the pioneers They
will find Schools churches, the usual concomitants of
progress and civilization And they will have no diff
Guilty in securing lands, either free for nominal prices.
These people do come to the Northwest with the
idea of living in towns and they therefore the
welcome. Our urban population is evolved from the
raj districts should be- and the place for the mm
grant to locate he desires become identified with the
best possibilities of the country is the land There
possibilities in the land that exist the pave
ment. Opulent nature has endowed the Northwest
that yields easily and richly that he who
riches though his capital may be limited to his brawny
muscles alone And the immigrant of today who finds
home the prares of the Northwest will be the cap
italist of tomorrow-for history will go on repeating
itself
the peasant of Northern Europe needs exploitation
All that necessary is that the various communities al
ready settled shall make proper effort look after
That this will be done is evidenced by the
sharp competition between rival towns and settlements
1t is only necessary that this competition be intel
lgeny directed and during the present year $4,000 or
10000 people will be added to the rural population the
Northwest.
With addition of 5oooo-and the early arrivals
indicate that the figures exaggeraed-o the pop
uatiOn there practical that millions of acres
of land will find market. In elder times such move
nent might mean the founding of empire In these
spacious days it means tremendous development
in empire industrial and commercial vast in extent
and of unmeaSured resources
Let properly welcome the immigrants