The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-12-09
COMMISSIONER TALKS GOOD
Frederick c. Howe, Commits
sion of immigration of the
Port of New York, Makes an
interesting Talk to Confer
ence of General Marketing.

CHICAGO, Dec. S.-Privati mo-
nopoly of the land and the rail-
roads and of transportation, market
ing, warehouse, slaughtering and cold
storage facilities, is responsible for
the high cost of living, said Frederick
10. Howe, Commissioner of lmmigra-
ton of the port of New ork in an ad-
dress this forenoon to the National
Conference on Marketing and Farm
Credits. Mr.. Howe's subject was THE
People and The Landi the Problem
that Confronts U.s." Declaring that
the high cost of living has become a
problem to the people of America az
we'll as to the warning nations OF Eu-
rome and that the solution hinges on
the relation of the people to the iand
he said in part.
'The immigration problem is CON
nected with the land and is the
biggest thing to be solved before
the people because all wealth comes
from the land AS long as there
was land in abundance. under inc
Homestead act. there was no serious
immigration problem, but now that
the land is all owned the immlgra-
ton situation has returned and now
there is an industrial problem also
The government must turn to the
land question, to agriculture. to in
surfing lust treatment for farmer
and consumer alike.
Some means must be found TO"
openinr the land to those who wlsf
to produce wealth on it. There arc
ONLY thirty persons I'to the square
mile in the United States and bill
lion could live in America com
fortably if the boundless resources
of the continent were opened. Tho
first step in constructive immigra
ton is that adopted in Western
! Canada in encouraging farm i'm
provements. houses, ard growing
| crops by placing taxes on the lam
alone This would break up thu
colossal estates into which many
Western states are divided. More
| than two hundred millioT of the
| eight hundred million acres reau'
for cultivation in the United States
are owned by less than fifty thou
sand persons. Millions of people
| could be furnished homes and profit
! able employment if the hand O
| speculation and monopoly were re-
I moved.
| Il believe the government shoulf
/ provide readymade farms to peo
pie of small means. This is the
policy Denmark has adopted and
per cent Of her farmers own thei,
farms. The government there sup
plies all but ten per cent. of the
/ capital and this the farmers fur
nish.
| transportation should be a pub
| lie service and the government
should own and control it in or
der to distribute immigrants and 9th
ers to the land. Such service shoult
not be a private profit. Marketing /.
now uncertain and the farmer is So
despoiled by monopoly charges tha
he becomes discouraged and Otter
bankrupt"
In closing Mr.. Howe said the prob
lem OF distribution was to get peopl,
hack to the land under bearable con
ditions
Unless big constructive program
IS worked out" he said. 81 expect +,
see agriculture become less profitable
ana employ fewer people. Farmer
ana their sons will be driven to tn,
cues as has been the case in England
expect TO see the cost of living ris
III the government undertakes to ee
the people back to the land"