The Springfield herald., 1907-09-27

| scheme, l believe comprehensive and
successful plan can be formulated
which will so far towards solving the
problem.
First-European consuls in this
| country should be asked to make re-
ports to their home governments de-
failing the opportunities of the West
to intending emigrants. in order thai
they may be fully and carefully and
Systematically, and, above all, truth
fully advised.
Second-Syndicates of Holland
American and German-American, and
| Swedish h-American, and other foreign
and American capitalists should be or
| SaniZed to purchase large tracts of re-
claimed lands and settle them with
immigrants from the respective coun-
tries forming the syndicate
Third-A systematic plan should be
put in force for furnishing prospective
immigrants, from Germany. for exam
pie. with descriptive literature setting
forth the advantages of our irrigated
lands. | know this will meet with op-
position from some because emigrant
methods are restricted in all the Eu-
ropean countries except England. They
are not, however, prohibited. as some
| would have us believe, and there Is
| method which can be employed and
which will not be obnoxious to any
| European country. That is to say, for
mer residents of Germany, for instance.
now residing in this country, can
write to their friends and relatives in
Germany setting forth the advantages
of this country as a place of domicile,
and so legitimately work up such an
interest that they will eventually en-
bark for America and the West. Print
ed matter should be placed in the
| hands of every German resident in the
| West for transmission to their friends
across the water. setting forth the ad-
vantages of this country, without draw
| ing invidious comparisons with respect
| to the lower wages earned in Germany
| than in America or the lesser capacity
of production in Germany than in
America. Agents should be employed
to travel through the thinly populated
| settlements in our own country and
| induce them to write to their friends
in the "Old Country" setting forth the
advantages of this new world. Names
and addresses in Europe should be OBJ
tanned from those already here and to
| them mail literature of mild nature,
| such as the government of Germany
| could not take exception to. What is
| true of Germany is also true of the
Scandinavian peninsula and other
| parts of Europe.
Would Send Out Lecturers.
Fourth: Paid lecturers should be
sent to England. for there we are per-
| fectly free to distribute any literature
| and go among the peasants and try to
get them to emigrate. This is the
system pursued by the Canadian gov
| ernment in Great Britain Paid lectur-
ers travel over the country during the
winter season and give stereopticon
views with practical illustrations OF
| the results of farming, etc. Exhibits
of products of our lands should be al
ways on hand for the purpose OF ad-
vertising our production. In fact a
most thorough plan should be carried
out in order to induce the English
farmer to emigrate to America.
Fifth: | would now direct your at
tention to what in my judgment would
be the most effective and wholesome
method of carrying on this great and
highly important work.
1t is well known that the Mormon
Church in selecting its recruits. send
their missionaries to northern and
western Europe; that is to say, to
England. Germany, the Scandinavian
| Peninsula, etc, and in this wise seec-
ton of their field of operations they
| have been enabled to people their ag-
| ricultural sections with an exception
ally Industrious and law abiding class
of citizens. In this respect permit me
| to quote an extract from an address
which | had the honor of delivering
before the Denver Chamber of Com
merce in March, 1906:
Same System as Mormons Use.
| nf 81 tI,@ hos
employed by the Mormon church in re.
cruiting its ranks from foreign coun-
tries. Its missionaries work mostly
among the peasant class and from that
| class 1t draws in large numbers, 50
| that the thrift and forehandedness CT
| the Mormon people has become almost
proverbial. Their agricultural popu
lation is composed mainly of the in
dustrious, Woodworking economical
and thrifty immigrants from the agri-
cultural sections of the old world and
it is this element of strength which
is making of Utah and adjoining sec
ions of neighboring states the bulwark
of their rural greatness, and while 1t
may be true that we can not subscribe
to their religious tenets, We must ad-
mire their system of securing settlers
for their agricultural sections.
'In October, 1906. seventeen Nor
mon elders left Salt Lake for Europe in
the interest of their missionary duties
and they are bringing their recruits
into this country very rapidly, select
ing them. as have said, from the peas
ant or agricultural class of northern
Europe. One of our great railroad sys
tens has recognized the Importance
and value of this plan and has recently
established offices in Europe for the
purpose of interesting prospective emil
grants to stttle along its lines. One of
the main objects of the establishment
of their agencies in Europe is to bring
the right kind of immigrants into this
| country.
Wants immigration Bureau.
But this work should be supple
mented by some great national body
working in the interest of the whole
West. The National Irrigation Con
gress should, in my Judgment, estab-
lish a bureau of immigration. and Il
special class of literature adapted to
the needs of intending settlers and
also to the requirements of foreign
governments should be published and