The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-08-15

man colonies scattered over the stale
Of Kansas. he result Of the work Of
my department, OF immigration. The
)rulouis pad ou au average FIVE dol.
lar, per acre Tor their land in 1873 10
$50, which is nov worth from one hun.
bred dollars To one hundred and fifty
dollars per acre. In the "Germania
Colony, - Barton County, Kansas, which
is made mp Of Germans from all parts
Of Europe aud the United States, il is
difficult 20 find q farmer who could mob
realize at least one hundred thousand
dollars for his lands aud personal prop
erty, and none Of them began with any
more money than was absolutely ne
ccssary 30 make q modest payment
down for eighty or one hundred and
,iSty acres of land.
The land was bare buffalo prairie,
.trewu over with bleaching buffalo
bones and a deep blue SKY over all. Now
: b. 4 park Of about three hundred
aud twenty-five thousand acres with
homes scattered over it that would do
credit 10 aay Chicago suburb
or recent years the racial complexion
Of the alien immigration that comes to
this country, has been greatly changed.
The southern and Southeastern Euro.
rcau., the Italians, the Says, The Mag
vars, by far uutnumber the German,
NhglO Saxon, Celtic, aud scandinavia
immigrants. This class of foreigners,
perhaps, does not come up as near 10
The American standard of civilization
a. the Germans aud other Northern
people DO, but IN point Of physical Gu
pacity and endurance they are at least
heir equals, il not their superiors, and
We need them all. We need them on
our irrigated farms, in our mines, and
mills aud manufacturing plants of ali
kinds, if we want 10 continue or rather
regain our domination Of The world ;
markets and not surrender il 10 Can
ada an! the Argentine Republic, where
mat class of immigration is welcomed
wiki open arms aud treated with the
utmos, liberalty. Shiploads Of South
European emigrants are brought out 10
the Argentine Republic for which the
transportation Is paid by the govern.
ment Of the new country, and the aston
ishing increase ot the export trade OF
that rival Of ours shows the effec; Of
a liberal Immigration policy. In our
country this alien influx is looked up.
on in certain quarters rs Il menace rath
rr than q benefit. and. restrictive legis.
ltion Is constantly urged upon Con.
gress, CHIEFLY in the pretended interest
Of organized labor. II is assumed tina.
the foreign alhor will reduce the stand
ara of wages ia our country, which is
not true ;thc foreign labor comes here
because Of the higher wage scale and
IA reality an ample supply Of unskilled
labor such as Southern and Southeast.
"rr Europe furnishes US will stimulate
oar iudu,tric, and enable the native
worker who dcspises mental labor 20
secure Tar himself higher employment
a. more rcmuucrative wages. 1t is not
the native American, nor the German,
scandinavian ard Anglo Saxon, who
is found as track laborer along our rail.
roads, CO.. who will wheel scrap in the
steel mills for seventy hours u week.
The railroad contractor formerly look
ed TO he Irishman to build the tracks;
now 1t is the Hungarian, the Slovak,
the Greek, the Turk and Italian, who
perform that mental labor, not because
he works for lower wages, but because
NO more lrishmen can be had for that
line oi work.
Fh" time has not yet arnved when
we should exclude from our country
the surplus human force-brain, Drawn,
and muscle of old Europe, on flimsy
pretcXts, such, for instance, as The pro.
posed literacy test now under consider.
alton in Washington, We are not get
ing At present a foreign immigration
90 large for the country to digest. If
the Dillingham; bill or the Burnett bill
should yet become law, it would mean
hr exclusion annually OF about two
hundred thousand ablc,bodied immi
grants, who come to rs to employ their
muscle and Drawn in hard labor to pro.
iIcr values.
The United States Government has
spent seventy millions of dollars in the
reclamation OF arid lands, AID now the
officers - the reclamation bureau find
they cannot secure settlers for the land
ready to be served with watetr for irri,
cation from the harnessed rivers and
streams. The Italian is the best irri
cation farmer, but il he cannot read
and write, he is to be debarred from
the privilege Of employing his other