The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-11-30
TWENTIETH YEAR.

Tssy I'D naay u their lsnds ss large prsses.
on long time. With I've per cent. istsrsss pa
aasan. The ssrns vsss eapsivasag aad vsss
sassghs = - easy - she purchasers, bas sAsy
nave proved disastrous = many gosd men, and
nov ws undsrssAna that very large propor.
tioa ei ths coasfasts have hesa ahandensd. end
saat ths lanAs Aavs rsvssssd 70 The Oonpauy.
The lessoa taught by this experience d, that
NJ nasssr what may b. IL proximity to ! rail-
read, Ne man oaa alIsrd 70 pay fabaloss priees
for land 70 b ussd for agricultural purposes.
Il y aid that there 10 no unmitieatsd evil
There s alnest always some corresponding er
dsdacib's good from every calamity. The
financial hurricane that has recently swept over
sos couasry, has pressrated many worthy men,
ana wrecked many we'll devised schemes for
human advancement. Il has left 20 many iuH.
viduai suherers that the superficial observer
ihlsnt observe that the Sate at large had suffer.
60 great, II mot permanent injury. But ve
solnx Otherwise. 1t has forced many who have
hitherto been non-producers, to become pro-
dacers, to become producers or starve. Il has
driven people from the villages into the coun-
try. ~ has swept out Of the way large class
OF men Who have attempted to live BY their
wits Is spectators in town lots and farming |
lands, and whose credit sales to each other
served to increase the nominal value Of proper
~ until it was placed entirely beyond the reach
Of persons desiring to occupy and improve. It
viii bring cheap lands again into the market.
II will fercs the nonresident ~ well a the res
'dens spectators to sell the immense bodies Of
iands they now bold At such prices that people
can atord to buy and improve them. 1t will
do for 10 what the railroads could not do: it viii
give us men. citizens. It will show the mans-
gers Of the railroad companies that people along
their lines will be Of vastly greater value to
them than lands, and that it will bs Infinitely
better to sell their lands at moderate prices to
active, thrifty farmers, than it would bs to re-
lain them to sell At larger prices TO men who ,
only pay in promises. ,
greater increase In our population 10 desi- I
rabls on many accounts, but We cannot force ,
emigrants hithsr. We cannot open at eur will 4
the streams Of foreign emigration. Railroads if /
built would not bring Us many citizens while
lands may be obtained in Minnesota, Northern q
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas and Dacotah at
'ne half or None third Of the price for which /
hey can be bought here. We must patiently q
'ide our time. In due season we shall recover
rom the baleful effects of the 'sland warrant, q
ystem, which has had something Of the inHu- /
nee upon Iowa that "absenteeism" has had 4
'pon Ireland. Wild lands are falling in price, q
md will continue to fall. and settlers will gra- b
lualy coms'in and occupy them. Our growth
hereafter will be slower, more compact, more 9
and healthier than it has hitherto Il
'een. 1t will be such growth as will strength. d
IN the railroad companies, and insure the COM v
'eton Of their roads at quite as early day as
he best interests of the State will require.