Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1862-10-09
Juan's Twenty Years Experience
in America.
CHAPTER 1

years after he was born Juan heard of
America, and the reports that he did
here induced him to think that America
was great country, and had in itself
every facility, for making it good
country. According to the impression
made upon Juan's mind by what he had
heard, his ideas were that America had
in it thousands upon thousands of good
soil in its virgin purity, capable of pro
ducing all the material necessary to the
we'll being of civilized humanity that
there was in America water power enough
to propel any amount Of machinery +;
that there were untold beds of coal there,
and iron, and other minerals, all wait
ing the hand of industary to call them
forth, and apply them to uses tending
to the advancement and wealth Of the
people Juan had, moreover, the I'M
preston that, upon the whole, the eli
mate was pretty good in most sections
Of that great country, and that so far
as soil, as climate, as natural resources
and room to spread is concerned no coun
try that Juan had ever heard Of offered
a more likely chance for a man to try
the battle of life in, than did America
But it was its system OF government,
that, as much as anything worked upon
the ideal Of Juan-a Republic De
mocracy-a government without hlng,
without born aristocracy, without even
Princes, OF Dukes: government where
every body was every body, and every
body was something, and every body
could claim the right to be something
and 4 no could tell what kind of some
thing any body might be. Aye, that
was the government. Juean was tinct-
ured some with radicalisms, he had seen
the snubberyism of corn arlstocrats,
and the high starchifcation Of struttine
officials, and, to tell the truth, Juan die
not much admire it Juan had a kline
Of don't like strut in his very nature
perhaps it was there when he was born
any how it made itself manifest when
he was pretty young, and clung to him
when he was over five feet i'll stature
and the more he looked at it, the more
he thought, cannot this poor acortd D.
qocerned mithout born aristocracyisn
chosc business 1t IS to rule and st'nt
and wh folow no other business. Some
how the idea came into his head again,
and again. that such governing ma
chine could be arranged, and that i
should be arranged, and that cho "o~la
would never be right until it was arang
ed; and that was the reason why tha
when Juan became older, his radical
isms against born aristocracies became
as part of himself. The aristocracy
that should rule, thought Juan, is the
aristocracy of good sense, and not the
aristocracy Of born snubbery; OF all the
things to squeeze the essense out OF
humanity, and make what should be
men, into mere things-machlnes to
grind and grind that others may grow
fat. born aristocracies are those kind OF
things, and born aristocracies should be
annihilated. twill be easily seen, then,
that when Juan heard Of vast country,
good soil, good climate, and very many
other good things, and its government
Republican, Democracy, that it should
take his fancy-nor need it be a matter
of surprise that he should have ideas IN
his head of visiting such a country, and
perhaps staying in it, nor need people
wonder that he should read about It
and that to philosophise on the spsritot
its constitution was among the theams
of his thought; and 50 the more he
read, the more he thought and philos-
ophised, the more he became smltten
with the notion that that was the coun-
try, and that manhood in that country
had a chance different to what it had IN
other countries, to stand up stright and
breath Free
1t was some time before Juan could
get fairly fixed, or rather fairly unhxed'
to move away to the great country which
had in this manner attracted his atten-
ton. But, after a good deal OF trying
matters became so arranged that he could
go, and he, with a good many others
on tbe same errand with himself, were