The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29

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/ work WIN average 40c. per d;ty. with
| the exception of upper Hungary
! where a fam hand earns about SOC,
/ while the factory labor gets from As
! 10 soc per day. In East Prussia farm
| tabor Is paid from 80 to soc. per day,
/ but only about Zoe Is nald lii cash
while the rest is paid in farm pro-
| ducts, food. loding, ETC., in West
/ Prussia and Posen the farm and fac
! tory wages are Il per cent. lower
than in East Prussia.
The worst country for labor is
/ Gaicia where a farm hand does not
! get more than 25c. day during sum-
| mer, while in winter there Is no work
| at all to be had.
I'm Russia the wages for farm hands
vary from l ) to 3Jc. per day
j. would re Ginrult 80 state any
ere Darticu az sea- /. Wy these Tain.
LOCI har1-wcFkng people irom tie
! riaias hills ma Valleys Of Ge,many
! ani England ehJ61 I"a'c tilcr
! T2tiler' ands Their hmblc homes,
! thel9 friends. and tbs t:aliti'rs ~
their forefath"rs and scramble f1t an
| outgoing VeSSti - lnd for fhf-Ult.
strange country. Undoubtedly in some
! cases they leave because they love
peace and resent forced military ser
vice, though the depressed state of ar
1 fairs that now exist IS the main rea-
son. Again. others forsake their old
! homes imneHed by the love of free
dom, and by the sturdy independence
4 OF their nature they seek new home
! whose public institutions are more
congenial The vast majority go be-
cause our country is known to them
! as the land of promise. the land OF
| 81 portunites greater than any other
/ country can offer.
Hon. Henry w Diederich, consul.
Bremen, Germany, i'm his report rela-
| tive 10 the character of Immigrants
| that pass through his consular dis
| trict saws
"AS q whole the people passing
through here are largely field laborers,
as can be seen from their sunbuined
/ faces and their arms. which are
| Drowned un above their elbows.
| Everything about them shows that
| they lived in the oDen air and are
accustomed TO the simplest habits OF
| life and are enjoying crude physical
health that cCfncs from o1l-oi-dCor
! occupation and poverty. \ great
! nlany OF them come In families: and
! oven the women and girls that pass
4 along Tive li1c alone IMPRESS one rs
| being mora! and industrious country
! folks
Hon Hugh Pitcairn, consul, Ham.
( burg, Germany says:
'"rhe greatest portion OF emiErantS
/ from this consular district comes
from the agricultural sections, The
peoplr emigrating fron tho consular
! district nroper are all Germans from
| the low country: they have all had
school education. which Is compulsory
in Germany They are steady YORK
ers O. the best morals. conservative
I'm political respect and in every way
Il desirable class Of emi2rants,
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consular district who are married are
accompanied by thcir families or send
for them later.
"rhc wages they have leen accus-
/ toned to earn are far less than those
: they can earn in the United states.
They are accustomed TO good. suDsEip-
/ tial food and good clothing. are So
! Der and economical, aud undoubtedly
| may add 10 The general prosperity Of
I tia country 10 which they cnigrate.
4 There are no tabor organizations
] among them ana they arc therefore
/ not likely to establish organized COM
| petition with Americas laoor.
haze token the above quotations
to show the actual state OF affairs
| thaA exist and SO show what the
state can accomplish if il only will.
Great things can be accomplished by
| pursuing the procer course an1 The
to bloom as the rose.
The immigration bureau should be
! re-established BY the General Assem-
bly, for The benefit Of the people OF
the state. IT Is Just what is needed
TO aid or State in the expansion OF
her agricultural interests.
If the bureau g established immi-
/ grants win be secured much idle land
/ vii be brought under cultivation. and
/ the farmers can increase their crops
/ With II certainty Of being able to work,
| harvest and store them and 10 put
/ them on the market in letter condi-
ton
North Carolina is once more coming
4 10 the front, capital pouring IN, with
] ready markets. local and foreign opea
| to receive all produce at good prices
/ q now ora has commenced and good
reliable tenant hands and tenant
| farmers are ir great demand, and in
| fact are an absolute necessity 10 car
| ~ forward the wave OF progress now
! sweeping over the state. state
| which for climate, natural and social
| advantages and beauty cannot be eN-
| eelIcd by any other State in the
| Union.
| The great ocean steamship rate war
| which is now on between the steam
| >llip companies offers the state an ex-
| cellcni opportunity 1T this juncture
TO revive the Department Of Immigra-
ton. BY giving This matter carly at