Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-07
TO SCATTER IMMIGRANTS.
uncle Sam to HIVE Distributing Sys.
tenn After July 1.

uncle Sam to HIVE Distributing Sys.
TEN After July 1.
Inc government is preparing to intro
luce some sort OF system in the distribu-
non Oh the immigrants who weekly come
20 our ports by thousands and to prevent
Inc concentration of these people in dis
ease-oreedlns, crime-generating colonies
N the larger cities. This is an outgrowth
Of the legislation of the last session Of
congress with respect to immigration and
us utility will be quickly discerned. The
immigration problem is not so much of
4 problem if rightly handled. The trou-
ole mas been that immigrants have been
aerued together in the eastern cities in
helpless, almost hopeless masses. not
knowing where to turn to better them
serves and reproving themselves for ever
having left the old world, while ut the
same time the wheat States of the West
'nd the cotton States of the South have
oeen wanting them and not knowing how
20 get into touch. A majority of our i'm
migrants are pouring into sections where
.hey are least wanted and where the least
finance of work awaits them. while they
are avoiding the sections where they
would be welcomed and given emune
tive employment.
Commissioned Frank P. Sargent will
shange this as much as possible. He
VIII open July l a division of informa-
ton, whose function will be to find out
where immigrants are most needed and
to see to 1t that the immigrants are in
formed. From all available sources will
be gathered useful information regarding
the resources, products and physical
characteristics of each State and terri
tory and this information. published in
different languages. will be distributed
at immigrant stations. States and ter
rltories will be permitted to send to the
Immigrant station agents who will point
out to the newcomers the special induce
nents for settlement offered by their re-
Spective localities. The Southern States
are already selecting agents for this
purpose.
Practically the whole of this campaign
will be waged at Ellis Island, where
$4,000 of the 1857 900 alien admitted |
to this country entered last year. Over
of these newcomers said !
they were going to settle in already !
thickly settled c~enters, with no special
object in view, except that acquaintance |
Or relatives had preceded them here.
About $4,000 settled in New York State,
nearly 100000 went to Pennsylvania ;
$4,000 had Illinois for their destination ;
$4,000 were bound for Massachusetts and
for New Jersey. Only $4,000
to the entire South. Yet the South
wants immigrants. 1t of
fers q splendid field for the newcomer
Drawn and energy. 1t has millions
Of acres of cotton, cane, rice and tobacco
that have never been cultivated.
Indeed, Louisiana alone has 10000 900
acres of vacant land out of a total of &c.
10000. and it is estimated that not
more thDn one-eighth of the cotton lands
If the whole South is undo cultivation.
In Louisiana there are more than a hun
ired immigration societies and in Mary
and there are still more. But neither
,hese nor the similar organizations in
'ther Southern States are looking for
he Hungarians and Russians now flock
ng into the North in superabundance.
The South has been calling for the good
I'D Teutonic and Celtic stock which set
led the country in it's first days-the
Irish, Welsh, Scotch and Ger.
mans, in particular. Yet, climatically
the Italians are, of all our i'm
those best suited to the South,
moreover they now constitute the
argest class of Jul immigrants. The
upply Of these far exceeds the demand,
n the North. They have proved to be
farmers where they nave so
ar settled in the southern cotton and
plantations. The great numbering
ompanies of the South are also employ
ng them and it is estimated that more
han 100000 are working in the south
IN Mississippi valley. They have begun
0 purchase little farms, to build good
ONES and to put money in the bank.
hey are found to be prompt in paying
ebts, and to have improved morally as
7ell as financially since arriving. The
ounger of these Italians do not wish to
to Italy, which desire has caused
heir race to be generally disliked in
lmerica.