106 LAND AND LABOR. 



the same cause. This also shows how it is that our 

 country is being filled with an alien population raked 

 out of all the corners and hives of Europe, and sent 

 here in swarms, to occupy our public domain, and 

 leave to the children of the soil not an acre of the 

 heritage bequeathed by our fathers, that we may call 

 our own. Here we have the most conclusive evidence 

 that the monster immigrations from Europe which we, 

 within a few years past, have been receiving, are in- 

 duced by the agents of the land grant railroads, to 

 fill up and occupy the lands of the people. For the 

 benefit of these railroad corporations are our General, 

 State, and Municipal Governments taxed for the sup- 

 port of the paupers they send to our shores, and for 

 Emigrant Commissioners, etc. Not only are our peo- 

 ple thus robbed of their rights in the public domain, 

 but are mulcted in all the costs of the care and sup- 

 port of the multitudes that are thus thrown upon us. 

 But the railroad companies are sure to escape all of 

 these costs. These European hordes are planted in 

 colonies as tenants upon the lands of some alien Croe- 

 sus or domestic plutocrat, to extend the feudal slavery 

 already so firmly planted. Or, if they have the means 

 to do so, to start a small farm near some land grant 

 railroad, to be surely swallowed up by the great estates 

 with which they are surrounded. Whilst other hordes 

 who are not thus planted in colonies, nor obtain farms 

 on their own account, are turned loose upon the coun- 

 try without occupations, or other means of subsistence, 

 to furnish a fund of cheap labor to be drawn upon by 

 the bonanza farmers, or others, as required. 



Here we have a condition of things for which his- 



