The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-05-21

Al no! only fear that day, i"
Il The day you will forget me. -:
1t WESTERN EmIGRAT1oN..
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Every year increases the volume Of
emigration from the East 10 the West,
ern States. Local and temporary eaus::
es swell or decrease the number of emf
grants. Thus, hard times in the older
fills the newer States A year Of pan:
is, in greater degree, a year Of emf
grafton. Tho great business and social
earthquakes 9Th shake up: society, aud it
moves westward.
The truth is, there are :numberless
pessohsiin the older communities who
arc constantly meditating emigration. -
The idea is a sort of vent or 'scapegoat
for the feelings. When the ills and
cares Of life press, men look to tho
West, TO- its broad, unoccupied lands,
its future towns and cities, its indepen-
dence, and the chance to grow up with
its new civilization, The hardships Of
the first few years and: the expense of
moving are the obstacles. For these
reasons, tho contemplated cmigrant
merely dreams about it. At length,
some crash in business comes. Work
shops aud factories are closed He is,
as it were, rooted out Of the place
where he grew, and,:if he has means
enough: emigrates. ..:.
There is another class-young men
in search Of an opening. They have
been educated for any-or, rather, for
no particular business: They must
shift for themselvee, and have been el,
bowed down in the great crowded cities
or older communities. :, They may have
the means to emigrate::'%: themselves, or
some relative. solicitous about their
welfare, sends. them.adrift. West; with
tho v.gae general idea that there are
plenty of openings there The mi.for-
tune with this class is, that they want
to'be statesmen in stores, clerks at ho-
tels, school teachers, lawyers clerks, or
may run about with a patent right for
a new washing.machine, or the sub.
scription list Of new book. The curse
Of the rising generation is a thirst for
its ideal Of genteel occupations.
From the Middle States comes an
other class-men who have been reared
on farms. Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
York; Indiana, Kentucky. Tennessee
and Illinois, not long since the fields
for emigration, now furnish annually
their hundreds and thousands of seek
ers for new homes. These States, it is
true, have not by any means reached
their rmaximum of:cxpansion. Popula-
tions::ten-fold greater than those of to-.
day will doubtless:live in them, but the
first stages of mfortableness for el-
room is being felt. Lands there
are high-in many places, fifty and one
thousand dollars per acre; sometimes
more.. Thousands Of families grow up
and cast half dozen or dozen Of young
families into society, with limited
means, exacting tastes, and Thousand
difficulties in the way Of moving tor
ward. They may become renters On
the fields Of another, or purchase and
struggle: with q load Of debt and inter-
est. One other alternative-they may
emigrate, and compound the hardships
Of a few years for future home and
stake in growing community.
We must confess that there are mea.
gerness and barrenness in the statistics
of emigration, The causes that drive
men forth !; the numbers Of disappoint-
ed or unsuecessful: emigrants; the av-
ersge length: of time it takes to trans.
plant tho human tree; the amount Of
watering it takes to keep up its first
sickly life, and send out its desponding
suckers into the new soil-thesc arc
subjcct.mastcr for philanthropic inqui-
ry and common.sense Investigation. Is
there science in. emigration ?;or does
it consist in buying railway ticket,
kissing Julia, and turning ones face
towards the Getting sun? How few
branches of industry but have been
made the subjects Of scientific inquiry
Even when We make soap, VIC study
the afinities Ut alkalis and the different
notifications Of the grease family By
when I. man ,cmigrates, he shuts hi
eyes and consigns himself to tcnae
nercies Of lu.k Of Providence,
Il would be difficult to extfmate ,h'
importance Of emigration to this Re
public? 1t is little more than a colon!
OF new enigrauts shot up into nation
A glance At Illinois, for instance, ~bicl
in tcw years has grown from a prairi'
toa great commonwealth, is a startling
lesson u: The rapid development AM
increase; in tho value Of property hav'
made. thousands rich. A, ''m,le il
Middlesex". may be worth more than "
prinoipelity IN Africa but our vii
'priucipalit,es" shoot into States With
ineslculable oelerity., Nor has emisrs
lsioh'tsashed Il. bishe.. 4 tide. The ''I sa'