The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-06-06
IMMIGRATION BUREAU.

| $50 4
Aims and Objects of South Louisiana
Cooperative Observation-Disclosures
taaes of This Section to be Wide
ly Exploited.
BY R. S. VICKERs, Acting Sec.
AS the aims and objects of the
recently organized South Louisiana
| Cooperative immigration Association
may not be fully understood by the
| general public, I take this opportu
| nifty of explaining them briefly
through the columns of this paper.
Owing to the economic revolution
in the sugar section of the state,
which has compelled a. complete
change in agricultural methods and
quick reimbursement to new condi.
tons, we have been made to see the
advantages Of the small farm and
| the necessity Of the small! farmer.
| But although we realize that diver
s1fied farming must take the place
of the big plantation and the one-crop
| system. the small farmer in our midst
| is conspicuously rare. In order to
meet present conditions, it Is neces-
sary for us, therefore, to look to the
congested sections of this country or
Europe and by setting forth the SUI
periority of our soil and climate, at
tract this way a desirable class of
immigrants.
However, the western states are
making and always have made
strenuous efforts to attract the immi-
grant, and to their success along
these lines is due in great measure
the marvellous growth and develop
ment Of that section. Canada, too,
Is offering strong inducements both
to the American and the European
farmer, and because of the attract
i've and substantial nature of those
inducements, a considerable tide of
immigration has set that way.
In order, therefore, to succeed In
our efforts to turn the skilled farm
er and desirable homeseeker in this
direction, we must meet the eompeti-
tion of other sections, which though
less favored by nature than ours,
are more Reenly alive to the import
anee OF immigration and to the ne
cessity OF going after it and offering
substantial inducements in order to
attract it.
1t was for this reason the South
Louisiana Cooperative immigration
Association was formed. It is COM
posed of planters, landowners, bust
ness and professional men of the par
ishes of Iberville, Assumption, st.
James and Ascension, anyone being
eligible to membership who has any
interest, direct or indirect, in the
progress and development of this sec
ton. Annual dues for the landhold-
ing class have been placed at $50
and for the business class at $40,
In order that minimum fund of
$500 per year be raised for carry
ing on effectively the operations of
the association.
The purpose of the organization is |
to get in touch with other sections
whence desirable immigrants may be
drawn, acquaint them by means of /
booklets and the proper lit |
erature with the matchless superior |
tty OF our soil and climate, where all /
varieties of agricultural and live /
stock products flourish the year I
round. It will be our special en-
deavor to put prospective homeseek-
ers in communication with any of the
members of the association who may /
have land to lease or sell, and in
flne act as general and reliable bu-
reau of information both to the. out
slider and insider, and by legitimate
Advertising and proper business meth
DDS SO convince prospective in1mi- i
grants of the welcoming hand ex-
ended them and of our sincerity of
purpose that they will heed our in
1tatlon to come and join us and be
u us in our efforts to make this
country the promised land, God in.
ended it should be. 81