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P O S I T I V E L Y C A S II.
CITIZEN.
Volume 4.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, July 17th, 1885.
Number 11
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&r Mr. liny the Into first assist- can boast. Not satisfied, however,
tint post master-general has given j with Noyes’rebuke, the nhove tele-
up the arduous duties of that office I grain informs us tliat tlie president
on account of ill health, anti it now
goes to Mr. A. E. Stevenson a well
known and very popular Democrat
of Illinois.
The cholera plague in Spain
grows worse. It is reported to have
broken out in the Atlantic cities and
towns of that country, and the dan
ger of its crossing the Atlantic to
North America is very iminent.—
It will he likely to break out, first
in Central America or Mexico,
when its transmission to the Uni
ted States will not only bo easy, but
certain. The health officers of the
whole country should redouble
their vigilance, and let no vessel
from the infected district touch our
shore without a thorough search for
cases of this terrible scourge.
tmr The associated .prfss dis
patches of Saturday brought tlie
wejeome news to England and
France of tlie death of El Mahdi in
the Soudan, and that his motley
followers were fighting among
themselves, and the whole thing
falling to pieces. While Egypt
will now be an easy prey to some
foreign power, England is in no
condition to assume offensive ope-
rtions. She lias her hands full at
home.
lias directed Gov. lloadley, who
is himself a “galvanized” Republi
can, to select some other Republi
can for appointment to that office,
“to whom the Democrats of the
state will not object.” We are at a
loss to know where such a Repub
lican be found.
And no\v comes a later telegram,
dated the Kith inst., direct from
Washington, which informs us that
the president has stopped all re
movals for any cause. If Mr. Glev-
lantl’s intention is to murder tlie
Democratic party in cold blood, he
is pursuing the right*policy to effect
his purpose—indeed, we believe
this is a fatal blow to it, and now
predict its overwhelming defeat in
1888. Mr. Cleveland seems anxious
to succeed himself, and fTom pres
ent pointers, he will apply to the
next Republican convention for
the nomination of that party.
The following dispatch will
startle some of the old, sleepy Dem
ocrats of this great nation t
Cincinnati, July 11. — Hoadly
baa received , the following letter
from the president, asking him to
give himself no uneasiness over the
Noyes affair, as lie (the president)
bail not allowed the comments
upon it to annoy him at all. The
president requested the governor, as
General Noyes had declined the
appointment made, to name anoth
er Ohio Republican for the position,
and to whom the Democrats of the
state will not object. Governor
Hoadly seemed much pleased by
the reception of this letter, and af
ter consultation with his friends of
both political parties, sent to L. V.
Harrison, president of the first Na
tional Bank of tbis city, asking if lie
would accept tlie position on the
Union Pacific directorate. It is
considered probable tliat Mr. Har
rison will accept. Iloadly also in
formed Gen. Converse and j'udge
Thomas that lie would, as request'd
by tlie president, accept tlie nomi
nation for governor of Ohio. Both
these gentlemen have, therefore,
signifled tliat they are agreed that
there shall he no opposition to
Iloadly’s candidacy.
We are tired, disgusted and nau T
sealed by this eternal hypocritical
caht about “civil service” and “par
tisanship.” It is tfll egregious tom
foolery. No Republican officehold
er expected to hold his office a min
ute after President Cleveland’s in
auguration until the president com
mitted tlie folly of writing his “civ
il service reform” letter, when ev
ery Republican ofiiceholdor consid
ered himself entitled to remain in
office; and when the pressure be
came so great tliat it could no long
er be borne, tfie excuse of “offensive
partisanship” was trumped upi and,
the*“turnlng tho rascals out” busi
ness was partially adopted, and ev
ery Republican officeholder who
would have cheerfully stepped down
and out vf all precedents had been
followed,; 1 and all dismissed* went
away indignant,believing himself to
have been made a martyr to Dem
ocratic partisanship. But, what
■constitutes this ‘ioffVnsivo partisan*
ship”' bf Which wo have heard so
miith since tin- inauguration of the
Democratic administration ? Eve
ry man who advocates any creed
or code of principles, lie.irreligious,
political, or otherwise is a partisan,
uml is a partisan of equal measure
with tlie fervor with which lie ad
vocates his peculiar views, and, of
course, Ik “offensive” to all who are
opposetl to ills ideas. If he has no
warmth, no spirit in maintaining
liis principles, then no sect or
political party wants him in their
ranks, and ho is entitled to no fa
vors. It is .all stuff—wo are all par
tisaus, “offensive” partisans for and
In anything wo advocate. The pros!
dent, himself, seems to have entire
ly forgotten Ills own rules for gov
erning appointments to office when
1m appointed General Noyes, who
delivered such a scathing, humilia
ting rebuke to tho president’s ap
pointing policy lately by refusing
to accept the appointment to tho
important position of United States
Director of the Union I’acillc rail
road, if there is a man who has
rendered himself peculiarly obnox
lous to the Democratic party, that
man is General Noyes, lie being one
<if tho visiting statesmen who lout
important aid in tlie stealing of
Meeting of the Howard Agricultural Club.
Considerable interest was mani
fested in the subject of poultry rais
ing, and Dr. Jones was not only
made happy by a fair attendance of.
gentlemen at his home, but several
ladies were heartily welcomed, and
invited to take part in tlie discus
sion of tlie subject: “Is-chicken
raising profitable? What is tlie
best breed and most economical
way of feeding?” By common con
sent the Subject took tlie turn of
general poultry raising. Dr. W. B.
Jones was called to tlie cliair. Mr.
F. A. Jones opened tlie discussion
as follows: “This branch of the
farm has generally been consider
ed little, and beneath the attention
of a man, and left to the women to
look after. It has, however, proven
both profitable and pleasant to me
to give it my personal attention.
As to breeds tliat is simply a mat
ter of fancy. We are trying Ply
mouth ltocks, and find them good
fowls for all purposes, Tho Leg
horns are the best layers. In set
ting hens, we mark our eggs with
the day of the month, so as to tell
if any oilier lien lays to tlie one set
ting. In feeding chickens, I prefer
wheat to any other grain, and think
it better for stock in general.” The
members differed with Mr. Jones
on this point, and Mr. R. If. Burton
said that “during the war they were
sometimes compelled! to feed their
horses on wheat, and they did not
relish it, and did not thrive as
well as when fed on oats.” Mrs. W.
II. Bullard remarked that their
“liens never seemed to lay more
or thrive better, than when run
ning on the oat pasture.” Mr.
Jones resumed his remarks by say
ing “young chickens should be fed
regular, and should get a feed very
early in the morning, as soon as
they begin to stir, if left until late
they become weak and often tlie.
WU are apt to noglect tlie water
and let it become stale, this is very
wrong, and will cause cholera and
other diseases. One of tho great
drawbacks to poultry raising are
the hawks and owls. The host way
to got rid of these is to poison; mix
little strychnine and lard and
grease tlie top of a chicken’s head,
he careful not to grease about the
mouth or throat-, or you will poison
the chicken, shut up till the poultry
except the one poisoned, and place
this,one where the liawk or owl can
easily get it. We use snuff as a
preventive for mites, and find it
voryre(feefive in destroying them.”
Judge Jones: “What do you
think of geese?”
Mr. F. A. Jones: “They are a
fine fowl and are easily and cheap
ly raised, feeding principally upon
grass, their only trouble is the dan
ger of young goslings drowningdur-
ing heavy ruins.”
Judge Junes: “Tell us about
pigeons.”
Mr. F. A. Jones: “They are a
splendid bird to have on the farm,
using all the waste about tho plan
tation.”
Judge Jones: “Wligt about ducks
ami peafowls?”
Mr. F. A. Jones: “1 like ducks
and think they are easily ami
cheaply raised, but the peafowl Is
very destructive to young poultry
of all kinds, and also to the garden.
You raise peafowls, give us your
ideas of them.”'
Judge Jones: “I like them be
cause they keep above tho class of
labor 1 have to keep around mo. 1
don’t find them any worse about
tho garden than turkeys.
Mr. It. H. Burton: “Tlie guinea
fowl wljl always notify you if dis
turbed at night, ami I should think
in this way would ho in little dan
ger of trouble from the class you
speak ol.”
Dr. 'Jones: “Messrs. Pavid Laud-
roth & Sons say this Is tho only
fowl they can permit to run on
Florida's electoral voto for Hayes
and always one of tho most rabid I tholr lurnis, and find them of groat
partisans of which the Radical party I sorvlco In destroying insects.”
flic chairman next called on
Mrs. C. F. Shewmako. She said
her experience was very limited,
they had tried the Kentucky Domi
nique, and found them a desirable
breed, but delicate. She told of a
lion of this breed that layed for her,
from tho fourth of February until
the thirteenth of June, seventy-five
eggs, without going to setting, stop-
pin,, >nce for eight or ten days, and
then commencing to lay again.
They were now raising game fowls,
and liked them very much. The
best remedy she had ever tried for
mites was dalmation or Persian
insect powder, the snuff had done
little or no good for her, and tho
insect powder was the cheaper.
INIr. Shewmako claimed the game
fowl to ho superior to all others.
He knew they were considered in
ferior in size, but lie had sold game
cocks weighing eight and a half
pounds, and a game chicken otten
when dressed gave more flesh than
one of another breed that looked
larger.
Mr. B. F. Jones, when called on,
said he had raised Plymouth Rocks,
and thought them superior to other
breeds, lie was also raising Brown
Chinese geese, and thought them
better than the common geese,
being larger and giving a greater
amount of feathers, besides being
splendid layers.
Judge J. B. Jones thought tlie
subject might have more properly
read, “the most economical way of
raising poultry,” as there was no
doubt about the profitableness of
raising poultry for one’s own con
sumption, and lie placed it on the
same footing as raising our own
hogs, slioep and cattle, and while
it might lie cheaper, with superior
advantages, to raise pork, mutton
and beef in the West, they had no
■such advantages in raising poultry,
and it could bo raised at homo
much cheaper than it could lie
bought, in fact it was often impos
sible to get chickens or eggs at all.
He did not think there was any
profit in raising poultry for distant
markets. As to managing chickens
he had very little experience, and
it might surprise many to hear him
say-lie had never set a hen in his
life. His peculiar situation made
it very difficult for him to raise any
poultry at all. For this reason lie
kept peatowls, as it was impossible
for tlie rogues to get them. Those
living three or four miles from rail
road stations and towns were bet
ter able to raise their poultry. It
lias only been of late that I found
the value of tlie goose egg as a food.
Having more eggs than we cared
to set, we have been using them on
tho table, and I find them as palat
able as lien eggs, and one will till a
glass, and make a meal. Tlie pig
eon is one of tlie nicest and most
profitable birds. Some people, as
you will notice, have a certain
quantity of pigeons, and they never
seem to increase, or furnish any
squabs for tlie table. It is because
they crowd them too much
small box. Give them a good
roomy house, with nests largo
enough, and they will furnish you
with squabs all the year, except
during tlie moulting period of Au
gust and September. In conclu
sion I will say my choice of breeds
of chickens is Black Spanish.
Mr. G. W. Jones prefered the
game fowls to all others, |lio said
they are tlie best layers and setters,
ami make tlie best mothers, are
freer from disease, loss troubled
with mites and are more able to
take care of themselves and their
young than any of tlie other fowls.
Ho gave an instance of a lien ot
this breed, that raised five broods
of chicks in one year, setting one
time in a squirrels nest in a tree
twenty feet high, and safely dis
lodging her young when hatched.
Mrs. W. II. Bullard said in trying
tobacco leaves for mites, she found
it spoiled tlie eggs.
Mr. It. II. Burton Haiti his oxpe
rien'ee was too limited to add any
thing to tho discussion. Tn answer
to an inquiry from Dr. Jones ho
said lie had tried carbolic acid
about hen Hosts and it spoiled tlie
eggs.
Mr. C, T. Belt remarked tho only
profit he found in raising chickens
was from four or live hens ho kept
about his lot, these seemed to keep
some plow boys he had in good
spirits, and caused them to got to
tlie lot very early In tlie mornings
ami to stay arouml tlie lot content
ed at dinner time.
Dr. W. D. Jones closed tho tils
eusslon with tho following remarks:
“The subject of raising varieties of
fowls hfts boon pretty well gone
over. Very few estimate tlie value
of tho water fowls in their freedom
from disease and longevity, the
goose, like tho slioep, gives you
Ills covering for downy beds, will
feed himself on grass pasture dur
ing the summer, with a little grain,
and will glv > you three coats of
feathers a year, if properly attend
ed to. It is estimated that fifty
geese will supply feathers enough
for an ordinary feather bed during
tlie year, and will live almost a
generation, when fatted li is carcass
furnishes a fine dish for the table,
like sheep, pays an annual profit in
ids covering, and is a fine weeder
in tlie cotton field. This bird is
largely consumed for food in o)d
Europe. Large flocks' are driven
to market, and it is as easy there to
buy a pound of goose as a pound of
stake. Tlie same may be said of
ducks as a profitable bird, easily
raised and free from disease, if the
young are kept from going in water
until full fledged. Tho young of
domesticated water fowls have not
tho power to turn water as wild
fowls. The great difficulty in rais
ing chipkcns in this country is the
ever presence of cholera poison
with us, which is propigated and
becomes a pestilence from unclean
yards and houses, and filthy water.
This is like true Asiatic cholera of
tho human, zymotic or blood
poison, it is pedeluval, on the ground
constantly, and carried by the feet
of dogs, cats and rabbits from one
barn yard to another. There is but
one cure or preventive for this pest
ilence, as soon as discovered, and it
is easily recognized by tlie greenish
droppings of the bird, I have found
that tlie only way to arrest it is to
take up every chick and chicken off
of tlie ground and put them on a
plank floor, removing tlie sick from
the well, and keeping them there
until tlie disease shall have subsid
ed or the poison dried from tlie
ground. This requires about ten
days or two weeks. I have noticed
tliat tltis disease follows long spells
of wet weather, and seems to be
more fatal with tlie feathered leg
brahmas and coacnins, than with
tlie clean legged varieties. There is
a disease attacking chickens called
sore head or erisypelas, this, if per
mitted to run is infectuous, and will
prove fatal to any chicken yard. I
have found that the application of
tlie solution of tlie iodide of arsenic
and mercury (Donovon’s solution)
penciled upon tlie sore partis a cer
tain cure, also a weak solution of
carbolic acid with Darby’s prophy
lactic fluid will arrest tlie disease.
The turkey is one of the most pro
fitable birds to those who have suf
ficient out grounds and arc prepar
ed to keep them. They are great
foragers, and are destructive to
green patches, and on this account
are objectionable to many. Tho
largo black bronze and golden
bronze are healthy and grow to
great weight, often weighing twen
ty-eight pounds. They should be
carefully noticed when laying and
setting, and when tlie young tur
keys are hatched, tlie lien should be
confined, and tlie young permitted
to forage around as far as they will
go, first food with bread crumbs
mixed with lard and boiled eggs,
with vegetables, such as onions and
lettuco chopped up with their food
When kept on this diet, with ti
little animal food, they grow rapid
ly and will soon bo able to follow
the mother and find their subsis
tence on grasshoppers and bugs
with very little attention save
housing at night.
A turkey lien is tlie finest mother
of any bird we have—she will carry
and hover any kind of young poul
try. These birds are profitable on
tlie Western plains, and one man is
known to raise from ?00 to BOO a
year. I will conclude my remarks
by saying that poultry raising is as
much a sfllenco anil certainty as
stock raising, and it is certainly
profitable for every family to raise
its own poultry. Judge J. B, Jones,
Mosers. C. F. Shew make and R. II.
Burton were appointed acommiftoo
for selecting a subject. Tho sub
ject submitted and approved by tlie
club is: “The Best Stock of Cattle
for this Section, Regarding Milk
Beef and the Yoke.”
Mr. U. If. Burton was chosen to
represent tho club at tlie meeting
of tlie State Agricultural Society.—
Several invitations were tendered
the club for tho next place of meet
ing. Judge J. B. Jones’ was select
ed.
Published by request.
Kl'ITAIll.K IMMItHIATION.
A OlIKONIC HOKK I.KU CtritKIl IN TKN
Hays.—C'uinberltiud, MU., Auuiist H, lssa.
About two years ago, while lit tiio employ of
the II. A. O. It. It., a collision occurred; my
left leg was broken below tlie knee. Tho frac
ture was a bad one. and would not heal.—
Uungreuo uot 111, and the sure became so of
fensive that no one could remain In the room
where I was, and was so painful Uml 1 was
often advised to have my lug amputated.
I mentioned Hie matter loan old friend, who
urged mu lo try U. t'. ('. So 1 pureliused u
bottle and began to use It according to direr-
lions, when (lie sore began to heal; In less
Ilian twelve hours the offensive smell had
vanished, and 1 am happy to slate lhat my
leg is entirely well, and I have only us, d a
single hnftle. 1 am, sir, yours most res poet-
fulfy, A, 0. Touuknck.
Thai lady, married or single, who has be
come Irregular uuoh month, who Is feeble,
pale and emaolated, who Is annoyed with
aches ami pains, or altllctoil with any of
those troublesome disorders, so uominou with
women, should always have the Mexieall
Female Itemedy al hand, it Is applied In-
cully: Its action Is prompt ucd satisfactory,
and li Is prepared especially for those iron-
Slmmons' Iron Cordial eliminates from the
system all impurities through the lungs,
liver, kidneys end skill.
The Ulml of laimtgrunls fhorglu Needs- Why
foreign 1 in migrants Have Not Sought
the South.
Savannah Morning News.
Herndon, Ga., June t).—The ne
cessity of immigration is a debata
ble question, concerning which
there if^ttill a diversity and con
flict ffc opinion among the most in
telligent, practical and progressive
minds of Georgia, many contend
ing that an indiscriminate immi
gration that has to be bought and
sustained cannot be permanent or
reliable. This character of popula
tion repeatedly introduced for
several years past by individual ef
fort, lias, by being restless and mi
gratory, proven to be a discourag
ing failure, and must necessarily
disappoint similar efforts m tho fu
ture.
As successful agriculture is tlie
basis of actual wealth at last, and
necessary to the success of manu
facturing and the mechanical arts,
it is to the interest of this great in
terest we must ever turn as the
hope of a prosperous state, and it is
in behalf of this that this essay is
offered.
Mines, mining and manufactories,
capitalists can and will take care
of, and need no encouragement
from individual or state aid to im
port their labor. Tlie reading, in
quiring world is only too ready
seeking opportunity for profit
able investment for capital in
these industries. If tv mine of
good mineral is advertised in
Georgia, there suddenly arises am
ple capital seeking investment. So
with manufactories and mechanical
arts. Even upon tlie decadence
and poverty of our agriculture, we
turn with delight to tlie rapidly in
creasing investments in cotton fac
tories and machine shops, which
are independent of local supply for
their labor.
The sudden disruption of the re
lationship of owner and slave over
twenty years ago, brought about
radical changes in our entire sys
tem of agriculture and domestic
economy, based upon tlie actual
needs of climate and society as
then existing in tho South.
For political power and suprema
cy to make this change permanent
and effectual, by a series of oppres
sive and misguided lawSj our gov
ernment lias seemingly laid its al
most omnipotent arm upon our
helpless rural population, and lias
crushed out in a great degree peace
ful and contented agriculture. By
intelligent, practical minds it was
foreseen tliat wo would bo repeat
ing history, and that these sudden
unnecessary changes, combined
with interfering, mischievous legis
lation under reconstruction meas
ures, would necessarily be fatal to
tlie happiness and prosperity of two
helpless and distinct races, brought
in an abnormal position to eacli
other. They foresaw, too, with
painful solicitude the reversion oi a
largo fertile territory to tlie origi
nal wilderness condition; tho waste
and decay of farm buildings and
fixtures; the obstruction of drainage
accomplished by long years of la
bor; the rapid desertion of rural
homos for towns and villages by
our laboring population, known to
be gregarious and migratory in
their habits, leaving a few white
families to combat tli* baleful in
fluence of a semi-tropical climate,
and helpless to keep up roads, brid
ges, churches and school-houses.—
These leading men sought to avoid
these evils, and anxiously petition
ed individual and legislative aid to
a rapid introduction of farm labor.
Much lias been said and written
upon this subject; repeated period
ical excitements and spasmodic ef
forts for tho introduction ot this
labor has only added discourage
ment to defeat, and we sadly realize
the truth of the poetry, “that hone
long deferred maketh tho heart
sick.”
These very apprehensions have
been fully realized, and have been
used as forcible arguments to turn
the current of foreign population
from tho South to other states and
territories by interested Immigrant
agents. A minority of the intelli
gence of our country lias booh con
tinually abused and held up to tho
scorn of tlie world for tlie baleful
effects of the above mentioned re
construction measures which Ittvve
tended to forco helpless whites,
through fear of uliuost dally acts
of crime and violence per
petrated by a demoralized and cor
rupt race, who, lu their drunken
carousals, are nothing but savages,
to leave tholr prosperous happy
homes for the uncertain llvolyhood
of a city. Titus in this sad decad
ence, tlie constant reflections upon
us by the periodicals of tho day for
the evidence of decay visible on
ovory side, is like abusing a man
who having fallen into the hands
of enemies, is ridiculed and cen
sured for being down ami helples*.
It 1ms been said that revolutions
never go backwards, and we may
now have readied that point where
more peaceful councils are likely to
prevail. Along,weary travel lots
at last a happy turning—sectional
prejudices and antagonism have
sufficiently stung and wounded
themselves to lie satisfied to submit
to more peaceful and conservative
legislation. By delay, patience and
long suffering the ardent friends of
immigration, liavig learned by
study and experience the errors
which they at first committed, and
which now they can certainly avoid
can now better appreciate the
character of immigration they need
to invite, and tlie manner of intro
duction.
The first and most important
truth that lias been taught us is
that no nationality other than our
own will be contented isolated and
alone. If immigrants are intro
duced they must bo introduced to
settle in communities. It is observ
able that the Celtic and Gaulic ra
ces colonize in centres; they will
not remain contented isolated in
tlie country—they seek to live here
as they do in their own land. One
who has passed through the little
villages and towns of Prussia, will
not fail to observe how necessarily
dependent those people are for
comfort and happiness upon the
occupations of each other. The first
tiling observable in walking
through one of these villages is a
common school house, church, pub
lic bakery,water fount,horse trough,
restaurant and beer saloon. These
seem to be tlie necessities and nu
cleus of every little town and vil
lage, recalling to mind the associa
tion of the ‘ The butcher, the baker
and the candlestick maker,” to
complete the success and comfort of
a village. Take a family raised in
in one of these communities, put it
in Georgia to accustom its mem
bers suddenly to our difference in
living and social life in every re
spect, and they soon become lonely;
melancholy supervenes, and they
leave to seek congenial society in
the nearest German community,
even if they do not better their con
dition. This is not to be wondered
at. Take one of our genuine Geor
gia crackers, accustomed to liis hog
and hominy, bacon and greens,
with liis tobacco continually, and
liis whisky frequently thrown in to
give a zest to liis daily routine of
labor, put him suddenly in the“fad-
derland,” introduce him to a soloon
of beer-drinking, smoking Germans,
iftvite him to a repast of saurkraut
and Limberger cheese, and howev
er famished lie may be, his stomach
would revolt at this strange and
foreign menu, and he would long
for tlie homely fare of lus own na
tive land.
Frenchmen rarely ever colonize
without the association of France.
Tho Frenchman will immigrate to
towns and villages in other lands,
but rarely ever builds, up anilide-
pendent settlement, lie is ever look
ing back to the homo government
for material assistance, and con
stantly pining to return to his own
sunny France. Tho Englishman,
on the contrary, when he plants his
foot on a foreign shore, goes to stay;
lie looks for no help, cannot expect
tiny save that protection to liis life
and property which the British con
stitution throws around him in all
lands, from the rising to tlie setting
sun, wherever England’s power is
felt. He adapts himself to independ
ent isolation in Australia,in our own
Western wilds, and in every land
from the north to tlie south polo,
least inviting to human kind. Tills
is the style of immigrants that
would suit us best—people of our
own language and lineage. The
Englishmen and Scotcmen have
proven to lie tho best citizens for
energy and conservatism in social
and political life that wo liavo ever
had or can hope to liavo in tills
country, and have produced tlie
highest types of statesmen and lie-
roes as well as agriculturists.
It other nationalities are intro
duced as immigrants into Georgia,
it will have to 1)0 accomplished as
it lias boon in the North and South
west, by railroad influence and syn
dicates offering great inducements
of cheap homes and cheat) trims
portation, Wo are not in a condi
tion to oiler similar inducements,
but to tho better class of mind
grants with some means to pur
chase homos our state can offer as
fine a climate and as great a variety
of agricultural capacity and pro
duction as can bo found under tho
sun. Tills bettor type of immigra
tion . is gradually coming from
Canada, tho New England states,
and even from tlie great West itself,
and it is better that this choice
character of immigration should
bo invited over than tlmt promis
cuous paapel kind that lias to he
brought and sustained.
To be plain, wo want no tramp
ing, mob elements; our occupation
being that of agriculture, we need
peaceful, contented society. One
other class of immigrants we would
especially hope to avoid, viz., that
class of self-constituted developers
who, coming to teach a “higher
civilization,” ignorant and indiffer
ent of the actual needs of our pecu
liar Condition, strive for tlie own
self-aggrandizement to embitter
race prejudices. Tho results of
their teaching has been such tliat
we beg to be delivered from farther
developments of like nature—social
ly, religiously and politically. They
are more to be dreaded than tho
“heathen Chinee,” who did come for
actual labor, and assisted material
ly in building up our great West
ern world, from the Atlantic to
tho Pacific, at a time when ho
was absolutely indispensable. Tho
flidnese are now being donied a
landing upon our shores, and re
turning homo contemplate with
almond-eyed incredulity and meek
ness and pagan veneration at the
teachings of a religion which is to
them a robbery and hypocrisy—a
Christianity, so-called, that is a
cold, calculating cruelty—a philan-
thopy, to them a progressive, plod
ding, pleading poverty. He is not
alone, probably, who has witnessed
in our boasted icsthetical civiliza
tion tlie constantly increasing ele
emosynary institutions which mul
tiply the very crimes and evils of
society they arc impotent to heal.
We wish no developers of tramps,
jail and chain-gangs; for these ap
pear where a few years ago they
were unknown. We wish no furth
er extensions of penitentiaries and
tho erections of gallows for tho
punishment of crime; no farther
expenditures for lunatic asylums
already over-flowing with whites in
an advanced ratio over slowly in
creasing population, but also with a
once happy negro race, among
whom, a few years ago, a case of
lunacy was an anomaly. We wish
no farther developers of suicides
from inebriation, the result of a
flood tide of spirituous liquors which
have been pampered and sustained
by our very government itself for
revenue. We would wish to be de
livered from burglars, detectives,
junk shops, pawnbroker shops and
all those sad evidences of decay of
society which are not the legitimate
results of our illiteracy( ?) but aro of
tlie fruits of that testhetical civiliza
tion which has, in some measure,
been lorced upon us.
It were better that our population
should remain sparse and homo
geneous than bo subjected to tlie
scourge of such mischievous im
migration, and whilst we have not
more than one-fifth of tlie people
necessary to develop tlie manifold
and varied resources ol our state,
it were better that wo go slow, and •
if we cannot invite a working, con
tented class of immigrants with
some means, we had best leave our
vacant territory to bo filled up with
the natural increase of our own race
of people.
The objection of many to indis
criminate immigration would be
that we don’t want any more labor .
to produce cheap cotton for a homo
living or for speculation without
reference to food crops. The larg
est results in production seem to be
more a badge of poverty and de
pendence than actual wealth and
gain.
It appears tliat wo ennnot produce
cheap rice in competition with the
cheap labor of India and other rice
growing countries. Our govern
ment has had to step to the relief of
this perishing, precarious industry
with an import duty per pound
equal to the cost of tho articlo as
produced here a few years ago, and
not much less than tho price of the
foreign article now.
As to tlie specialty of sugar, this
nation pays out annually $00,000,000
to $80,000,000 in gold for foreign
sugar. Notwithstanding tlie fact
that there is a heavy tariff of pro
tection thrown around our article
here, and with htHidr‘>ds of thous
ands ot dollars for niauy years past
spent by tlie agricultural bureau-at
Washington, besides individual ex
penditure in experimenting with
corn-stalks and sorghums, wo liavo
seen as flue sugar lands as , the
world contains passing under mort
gages from original hands, und
abandoned from inability to copo
with foreign productions. Franco
and Germany by their beneficent
aid to agriculture and liberal dona
tions to practical, experimental
scientists, have been able to pro
duce beet-sugar so cheap as to flood
tlie European markets, creating
fatal compotitj^i with our own
article as well as tliat of tiio West
Indies.
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