The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-08-10
"we,n Como In the spring.o

"we'n Come I'm the Spring."
| This expression we have heard made hun.
dreds of times by our friends farther east, when
they were urged to leave worn out region and
emigrate to the rich and un.workcd soil of the
west.
"WeIl come in the spring" Why not come
now II you have remained in q country ten
or twenty years and are yet so crampcd in
means that you can scarcely get away, how
much more able will you be in the spring p
One,half of all you have worked for, goes to
| the landlord of whom you have rented. You,
stock that you decline selling now, will eat up
! the remaining half, and when winter break.
you will be in debt to the store keeper, and
| have to remain on the old farm if the owner
will let you, in order to "square up"
Tho best time for young man to emigrate
| west is nor. Never stop to make extensive
calculations. If you have means to get here,
there is no danger of loss in the exchange
Your team can be proftably employed all win.
! ter, in a country requiring so much labor and
possessing SO much enterprise. Any season OF
the year is suitable to come in except the win.
ter. As soon az you can reach the prairie that
God made for you west Of the Mississippi,
your wages are doubled, your rents are scarcely
more than half, while land is so cheap as to be
within the grasp of any industrious family,
Eighty acres in the country you are now occu.
plying is worth four or FIVE, possibly Eight or
Ten thousand dollars. For all practical good
to you, there might as we'll be q law prohibit
ing poor man from the possession Of a home.
stead. 1t is now 30 high tilas y0d'c can not pur-
chase, and with all the economy you can prac.
tice, the land will advance more rapidly than
your savings will accumulate. You can see
nothing ahead but a life Of dependence, and
your children must inherit legacy Of plod-
ding servitude.
You'll come by.and-by. Don't wait day.
Get ready at once and come along. Don't be
too nice in fitting up for the journey. Any
| clothes are good enough to tear out on the
road Western people do not judge folks by
tho cloth they wear. If you can pursue any
avocation that is useful you can soon improve
your wardrobe obtain good piece of land
educate your children out of our Iowa School
fund, and find youself among as kind neigh.
bors as you are leaving. To make new coun.
provement. If you wait till our villages are
cities, our Indian trails are Railroads-onr
streams all nicely bridged-school houses, and
churches erected, and society well regulated
you may as we'll decline coming entirely. be.
canse land will be as high here then as it now
is where you are.
1t will do for the wealthy man to talk oil
choice, but a wife and dozen children depend
ant upon the head and hands of husband and
father for the necessities of life dsqualifes him
materially for the business of choosing losa
ton. He may be attached to the stream tina,
runs by the door of his cabin, he may admire the
cascade that yet leaps down the mountain side
as it did when his childish eyes first gazed upon
the may be charmed with the waterfall
whose monotonous music was his lullaby wher
a prattling boy, tired with play, he has faller
asleep beside it. All such attachments credita
BILE though they be to human nature and indica
tive as their possession is of delicacy of feel
ing, must give away. when the stern demands
Of necessity are made known.
| "These things called wife and wesns"
| "Wad move the hearts OF very stanes."
So wrote the Caledonian poet, and non,
knew better than himself the truth of the coup
let.
| The present season of 1859 is the best yea
! for emigrants that ever turned up. The eartl
i ured, produce Of all kinds nuet rule low, laut
/ is cheap and easily obtained, times are just re
covering from the panic and the man VIII
comes west this Autumn will have fair star
! with all hands on the road to that prosperit,
which We all are seeking and which 10 as sur
to be found in Iowa, as that prairie land, wort
$50 an acre in Indiana or Illinois, can now b
bought here at Itco to Five Dollars.
Wake up you Woodworking hanger on to Al
arbitrary landlord and get out to land which
you msy call your own. and where you wi
not be obliged to 60 every spring to the ma
who rules you and beg the privilege of givini
him half or two thirds of your labor
Candidates.
/ We occasionally hear of new one. ALvI
Tommy, of Millyille, is out in the Guttenber
Register with adeclaration of principles, and q