The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-11
KENTUCKY AND IMMIGRATION

KENTUCKY AND IMMIGRATION
From their native city of Krenz-
llingen, in the Canton of Thuregay
two sturdy Swiss boys have come into
1.-THE rural districts of Franklin county
of Kentucky to work at mans first
task. Farmers and husbandmen the
state over have been besieging the
commissioner to draw from some OF
the virile stocks of the old world
young men to break the stubborn
glebe or seam the fertile earth OF
Kentucky where now 1t lies rock
laced or useless. These two, the first
of the advance guard of a stay-at-
home among nations, have lodged
themselves in the heart of Kentucky
and it is probable that from this time
forward Swiss labor will be on the
increase in the state, says the Louis
vile Herald.
From the silk barbados where for
years and generations they have been
intrenched, the native-born have sent
to the commissioner of agriculture
fears that Kentucky would lose its
caste by an influx of foreigners. They
point to the incontestable fact that
the circumstance of this state having
been populated by the native Ameri-
cans of the Carolinas and the Vir-
ginias has made its people among the
greatest hearted, the ablest and the
most social of the continent. They
contend that a rush of foreigners
even of the clean, careful. industrious
Swiss, will remove from Kentucky
the last charming distinction of gem
creations and section loyalty that il
now possesses. though cities are grow.
ing into the counties, and small
towns are putting black clouds of the
smoke of industry into the blue
heavens.
When Adam devised and Eve span
and all the world were neigh bors
there was no worry about foreigners
race problems and the like. Wher,
men toll at the simple duties of tht
soil and the mine, there is no worry
about class distinctions. In cities
such as Louisville, class distinction:
Lore paoaooorv aud r,uot ho lyant fn,
communities grow too great for so
cial evenness, and cliques must be
formed from standpoints of educa
ton, wealth and the other symbol:
OF modernity.
In the farming regions, into which
these Swiss will come. there is NJ
such grouping, however. All tasks
are the same. hence all interests are
the same; the suns course is the
time for work and all lamps burn the
lsame length of wick in the dark. As
the examples of New Amsterdam
with its Stuyvesants; of Savannah
with its Pierrots; of st. Augustine
with its Icons, have illustrated, for.
eigners need but the welding fires OF
time to make them native. There Is
no doubt that the early Van Renssal.
lears were stolid Dutch, drinkers OF
ale and worshippers of the windmill
in architecture, and that they Jared
on the senses of Puritan and English
colonist: the Pierrots were thought
full of gesture and garlic by the ma.
tive English; the Icons We're dis
trusted for the hidden stilettos they
were thought to carry. Yet search
New York, Savannah and ST. Angus
tine now and you will find the de
scendants of these one-time foreigners
leaders of the classes and Americans
to the tip of the eyelash.
So will it be. under the gentle rural
influence, with these two young
Swiss, from their native city OF
Kranzlingen, in the Canton of Thure-
gay, now toiling at the pillow and
lspade in the austere county of Frank
lin. Put them in city, and it would
take ten generations. In the simple
district of the Jersey and the 8 O'Clock
bedtime, it will hardly take two.