The San Francisco call., 1910-06-09
HUNGRY PEOPLE TURN
TO LAND FOR RICHE-r
City Dwelers, Worn With the Strrugle For
Existence, Find Wealth in Fields

atrophied farm the best and the stur-
diest type of the continent is coming to
found towns and to break ground;
farmers and builders, dreamers and
schemers. young and old. clerks and
college men-bresd eaters turned bread
raisers-relinquishing their sullen fight
against the odds that face book keeper.
shop girl floor walker and canvasser-
merchants and professional men ready
to develop with the country, preferring
a hundred per cent opportunity in towns
which they will help to create to the
meager certafnties of metropolis"
The natural query as to the type OF
men who are filing the land he answers
thus:
The newcomers are not boomers nor
adventurers. but men able bodied, VI
rile, honest. sober and Industrious They
are not the failures of other states.
but chiefly men who have found Orner
states failures. Few foreigners are IN
their ranks They are Americans, the
native born, the sons and daughters OF
pioneer strain. hearkening to the i'm
pulse which in another day drove forth
their forbears.
"They have come, these square jawed
Americans. with their families. TO make
homes and make Hvings-not to spec
ulate at the long odds of the fortune
hunting vagabond. Ability. intelligence
and purpose characterize their meth-[s
DDS; sewerage and schools are the first
things that occupy their attention.
When men give immediate care to SAN
ita tion and to education it is an IN
dubftable earnest of the impulse that
brought them into a strange region"
And yet there is a demand for the
foreign born, particularly OF the Latin
race, He deals with this point in the
following way:
AS for field labor. the prejudice
against the blacks is strong and II is
The antebellum negro has disappeared
and his descendants know practically
nothing of agriculture beyond cotton
raising In the towns they become
pestiferous idlers. At the polls they
extend the influence OF the worst po-
steady and industrious. but Mexico can
not spare him. The Germans and the
Swiss prefer the colder northwest.
The east is protesting against the
Latin. There is boundless room for
him in the southwest. His former en-
vironment ideally fits him for the sec
tion There's a wage waiting for him.
an acre 10 till and a chance to own a
home. Italy could empty herself into
Texas alone. and Texas would still have
room for Germany and France to boot.
''Distributive immigration would
benefit alike the densely populated
coast and the empty plains. With
Galveston as a port of entry the south
Europeans could be diverted from the
New England and middle states and
landed in a region of farms.
''The cry against ,immi grafton is
nothing less than a protest against
the increase in the number of bread
H. rl.TT
tion to the bread raisers.
I'VE want the European. but we don't
wish him TO remain European in his
instincts and his habits; he must settle
where he will be most useful and best
serve his adopted country. In the
beginning the southwest may meet him
with prejudice. but prejudice against
the stranger is a matter neither OF
geography nor of period.
The ancient aTarmist did not differ
from his brother of today. 1t was
the German and the Irish who would
prove unfit for citizenship then: Amer
lea would. go to the dogs IL the Ceit
and the Teuton were not restrained.
But what the melting pot has wrought
1t will do again, and the new America
Will assimilate it's Latins and add their
quick strain to the national breed
And thus he speaks Of the type OF
American being formed through the
new movement:
"A new type of man is rising 70
power; the settlers win have their say
and their seats in the assemblies. The
southwest will add a distinct type to
the great national potpOurri. II Will
breed original thinkers AMI workers.
1t will produce leaders with farvisions
and builders with great dreams. The
crossing of strains and the blending
OF brains will enrich the twentieth
century with sturdiness and mag
ination. The son of the pioneer is heir
to ambition, pluck and tenacity He is
physically At and mentally clean: and
il is in such men that the boundless
rope Of the republic lies"