Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-02-17
HARD WOODLUNBI
Sash and Doors.
DOORS,
HOME AND LIFE IOWA,

Our friends who live one thousand miles
or more ,ast OF us, in New England and the
middle States, many Of them have strange
and erroneous notions Of what constitutes
homo and life in the West.
The impression with a large majority who
have never been West, is that we are almost
out of the world, and entirely away from
home that old home in the dense!y popula.
ted acigaborhoods, towns and cities, where
schools, churches, colleges, and the various
literary institutions are llourishing upon their
wealth and cnaowinents--tha old home
where Yankee genius is employed in extern
sive factories aud machine shops, eyer ready
to fill orders fron, the making of shirt but.
ton to the building Of locomotive or a
steam engine.
Alss, they are led to conclude that society
is very defective, being chiefly composed of
pioneers who for want of schools and itera
~ advantages are but little superior to the
red man thai has bat recently given place
to us.
Furthermore they are under the impress
sion that we are far away from the markets.
and mast necessarily be denied many com
ferts and Injuries of life.
In brief manner the writer will endeayor
to correct some Of the false impressions.
Since our Government has been put upon
trial, for the maintenance of her laws, the
Northwest has won the admiration of Amer
leans and the world.
The West has actually filled the most re-
sponsible stations Of State and field, and the
spontaneous response to the calls Of the Gov
ernment from The West, both in numbers
and hcroism, is without parallel
These facts only prove that the West has
been peopled by a class of the most enter.
prisng and intelligent of tho older States,
and with the inspiring influence which pre-.
walls in the prairie States, it gives a charac.
ter Of enterprise and goaheadativeness I"
that is nowhere excel,ed.
Schools, churches, aud colleges follow fast
upon the heels Of emigration, although per.
haps not conducted with as much system
and perfectness as in the East, yet they af.
ford means whereby our youth are pre-.
pared for the various vocations of life, and
what may seem to be lack Of more scien
titic training is supplied by a spirit of ex.
panxion produced by life on the broad, fer
tile prairies which abound in wonderful and
enormous productions. The exhlirating
and aninatng effect of which tends to great
er magnanimity than the pent up and con.
trscted regions Of the East.
Such vast region of rich and productive
soil all ready for the pillow, pastures ard
meadows to feed millions Of cattle and sheep.
enlarge mems notions of business, and stlm,
ulates them to undertake and perform great
enterprises. Some years ago Southerner
travelling on the Upper Mississippi made the
following remark Of western men and ,he.
manner of doing business. Said he, ''cvcry
man moved about as though he had a small
steam engine in him."
The spontaneous productions Of tho soil,
and health!ul Climate of the West, afford all
the substantial comforts and Injuries o. life,
such as may be found in supcrabundance in
the larder Of the most humble farmers cab.
in or eottage-the fruits of his garden farm,
dairy, or poultry yard, and when desired,
they can add Of fowl and fish from the prai-
RES, lakes and rivers.
J, The West is already the great wool grow.
ing region Of the United States-and will
soon lnanufcture oil they need and to spare.
There is no part Of the West that now Of
fers greater inducements to. the enigrar,
thaa lem. The State catao. be cxcg!ie; in