104 LAND AND LABOR. 



and circulars, advertising their lands and giving the 

 most glowing accounts of the prosperity of the far- 

 mers in the west, the cheapness of the lands, and the 

 certainty of quickly accumulating fortunes, and the 

 life of comfort that follows. Multitudes are induced 

 to abandon their connections and homes in the old 

 country, and seek the new ; some with contracts for 

 lands in their pockets before they start, and others 

 with barely enough to reach our shores, at once be- 

 coming additions to our multitudes of paupers. 



The following extracts from Jay Gould's testimony 

 before the New York Senate Committee, December 

 14, 1882, as reported in the Tribune of the following 

 day, will shed some light upon the manner in which 

 the great spontaneous [?] European immigrations are 

 engineered : 



" You stated that speculation promoted immigration. How 

 does it do this ? " 



" It induces the construction of railroads into new territory, 

 and that induces the roads to send abroad to get immigrants to 

 settle the lands." 



" To what extent have you influence^ immigration ? " 



"That's impossible to tell. We are advertising in all the 

 lands abroad. The immigrants come, and may go on our lands 

 or elsewhere. When I was in Europe you couldn't go anywhere 

 but you saw agents of American land grant companies." 



"Do all the roads have these agents ? " 



"All the land grant roads. The Union Pacific, Central Pa- 

 cific, Atchison and Topeka, Kansas Pacific, Chicago and Bur- 

 lington. Missouri and Nebraska, Rock Island, Missouri, Kansas 

 and Texas, Texas Pacific, and St. Louis and Iron Mountain." 



[Mr. Gould explained at length the methods used by the 

 companies and their agents to induce emigration from the 

 European countries.] 



