St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-07-16

every shape. The population is be-
coming dense. The families are large,
and consequently expensive, and re-
quires the whole proceeds of years
labor to support them in the extrava-
giant style into which fashion has
forced them.
And there is still another class to
whom we have q word to say. In all
large cities there arc thousands of
young females who are compelled from
the misfortunes of their parents or va
rious other causes, to seek active en-
ployment for livelihood. The great
mass of them earn scanty and preca-
rious subsistence by the incessant use
of the needle They manage to obtain
enough to keep body and soul together,
and to cover themselves with scanty
habiliments, and that is about all. Is
it any wonder that when temptation
comes in the shape of promise of com
fort and ease, and relief from a life OF
hopeless drudgery, that they take the
one fatal step, and glide by degrees
into that abyss of shame and degra-
dation that yawns forever at their feet
Now these great evils may be rene
died, not altogether, indeed, but to a
very great extent-and at the same
time the west, as well as the east, will
be greatly benefited.
There are thousands of acres of un
occupied and unimproved lands in oul
glorions young State ; this land, too, Ii
of the most fertile and productive il
the world The farmer who in sterile
New England has been accustomed tC
wrench with cruel labor fifteen ol
twenty bushels of wheat from the rocky
and unwilling land, or thirty or forty
bushels of corn to the acre, here finds
that with less than one quarter Of the
toll he can produce more than double
that amount. And another and very
material advantage the western farmer
has in the increased price paid for his
grain. Look at the price now paid for
corn, oats and potatoes in this region
"Corn, S2,40; potatoes, SO oats, S2;'
and sec how they compare with your
eastern rates and please remember
that the land can be had for 81, ,25 pei
acrc-quitc areduction from the worth
of your eastern farms. Nor is the dis
tancc from market any objection. BY
an admirable system OF Railroads
now in construction, covering our Stat'
with a net work of iron, and penetra
ting to the remotest section, a marke
. is brought to every mans door. Their
is land enough IN TIC single state
Iowa to raise wheat, corn and oat
enough to supply the whole Unite
=, States, if the land was but brough
under proper state of cultivation.
Let the teeming east send us thei
hundreds of poor farmers,-poor, W
mean, in this. worlds goods, but ricI
in honest hearts and strong arms. lie
them come here with their wives ant
children, their substance, whethe
great or small and if they have
: poor cousin or niece who is wearing
, her fingers to the bone in making
shirts at ten cents apiece, or who |
filling her lungs with the dust of th
: factory let them bring her along
Let the toiling laborer, who work
hard for Seventy-livc Gems a day, pre-
cccd here, where from s. to So is free
| ly paid for less work, or where he ca
4 get farm for one seasons laboI
, There are hundreds Of instances oFmc
/, coming into our own County Of Wei
= ster poor, and with no other capt.;
than a stout heart and an honest d
: termination, have become wealth.
Let all emulate their example who d
sire comfortable home and its Il
: tendant blcssings.-fort Dodge Sent
Rel.