The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-06-27

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SATURDAY, :::::: JUNE q, 1857.
NJ. 3. P0sf, Is our Authorised Advertising and
Subscription Assat st. Louis, No Any business left
q his Advertising Once, No. s., north Second Stress,
wili b promptly attended ..
..Out wess.'
A correspondent Of the Portage County
(Ohio) Democrat, draws the following pic
ture Of life in Iowa:
"Dsbt debt everybody in debt Sell corner lots =
pay the merchap then borrow lawyer buy rea
estate again; bArrow Ut the miller psythe doctor w
there is nothing that has anythip: like nSed msns
sO:ts TO- much 70 live hers = costa aogeis ~, and
vndertakers' bills are " enormous. place "a
long in bunch Of hazel brush costs more than "
Greenwood and all because there is prospect o.
some time in the future. II II were not fof p1Ospss
what would become Of this wonderful StatoT
Such specimens Of verbosity and e1age-
ration, are having ssmagni6csns run IN
many Of the older States, at the present
time. They are eagerly seized upon, BY our
Eastern contemporaries, and paraded before
their readers with unmistakable gusto, for
the purpose of lettering emigration to the
West. We wish them Joy in hcirsmoun-
tain labors. We have no disposition to
say aaght in Justification Of speculators,
but we can assure our neighbors, that the
means resorted to, and the efforts put forth,
TO turn the tide of emigration from the
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West, will not have the effect sought. So
long as Western lands surpass those Of the
East in fertility-so long as those lands can
be obtained, at much less rates than an in
fsrior article can be bought for at the East
so long will the booming tide of emigration
wend its way Westward. You may indulge
to your hearts content, in caricatures of
"Out West" and to but little effect. We
have no objection to your making yourself
ridiculous, by kicking against fate, for We
had much rather "be damned than not men
toned" Notwithstanding the herculean
efforts put forth by many of our Eastern CO.
temporaries, to deteriorate the West, and
discourage emigration, the tide Of popula-
ton coming West, has very materially in
creased in volume. Those who expect, by
such paragraphs as the above, to keep back
the tide of people, looking westward with a
view to removal, and a permanent home,
must be devoid of common sense-either a
lunatic or f,ol-or, more likely, a mixture
Of both-a simpleton by birth, and mad
man BY accident-whose madness has given
energy to his folly, and whose energy thus
impaired has only resulted in generating
and developing kind Of meanness, as
above shown, which renders the crazy sim
pleton knave.
The innate character of the universal
Yankee nation, is migratory, and you might
as well try to lull the waves of the ocean,
with spoonful Of parcgoric, as to attempt
to prevent emigration, by such bug bear par
agraphs, as the one under consideration.
Since the founding of the Plymouth Colony,
in 1920, emigration has continued, and the
privations and sufferiNgs endured by the
first settlers Of Ohio, Kentucky, and all the
other States west of the Alleghanies, can
find no parallel in these latter days. The
first settlers of Okis, were forced to clear
the forest, and to labor for months, in or
der to prepare the land for seeding. In this
State, Of which our Ohio contemporaries
draw doleful pictures, nc such labor is ne
cessary. Our rich prairies afford unbound
I'D facilities for agricultural pursuits. The
land is already cleared, and ready for the
plough. Is net this an advantage, and one
we'll calculated to have the effect Of SUPER
inducing the husbandman to remove "out
Wests" What is it, then, of which they
complain? Why, 6rst-of the high price of
everything in this State. Well, there may
be some cause of complaint upon this point.
But, when they assert that the present high
prices are Totally the effects of speculation,
and that land is too valuable to raise pro-
duce upon, because they might thereby en-
danger the prospect of a culture city," we
beg to take issue with them. The fact of
the matter is just here-last years emigra-
ton, and the unusually long and severe
winter, created demand more than ade-
quste-s to the last seasons productions,
hence the high prices complained of. Spec
ulation undoubtedly has somewhat to do
with the quantity Of products raised, but,
it were folly to attribute every i'll that in the
course Of human events, might befal COM
munity, to that enc evil
The scity" mania, to which the writer
SO dolefully alludes, is "peculiar" institu-
ton. Cities are projected by residents, and
tho shares sold out to Eastern Spectators
at good round prices, after which the "city'
is left to shift for itself; and another sscity,'
founded perhaps BY the same parties, o
''great blow" made, until the shares are all
sold out to the same class of Spectators. We
will not pretend to say whether the State
gains or loses by such speculations. Certes
Il is, that there is an extensive business
done in that line. There has been many a
lofty" founded for no other purpose, than
that Of selling the shares, and then leav-
ing the "town site - wild unbroken
waste, without a vestige left, save the
'sstakes" that mark the outlines of the
''broad Streets SINE alleys" and ''beau-
Eiful PARKS" to warn the stranger of the
presence of a "large and Hourishing city,"
We are not yet prepared to justify such
schemes of swindling, but we think that the
'afsrsrs thereby are generally pretty well
lble to stand it. One thing We are certain
,f-the money thus laid out is in circula-
ion among US, und not so much land in the
hands of spectators, as there would have
been, had not these bogus paper cities drawn
% largely upon the pockets of Eastern ad-
'enturers in Western stocks. There is no
remedy for such things-they viii work t
but their own redemption, in the course Of |
lime. Il