New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-22

something quite different from migrating TO
another city and hunting up new oo's'
We would have each emigrant resolve !"
secure homo of his own, though he DC ooiiseu
to make it. :,
-"But this involves prvation ana haiusn'p'
Certainly. We are not familiar WIN any
safe road from poverty and dependence 10 Until
and comfort which does not. 1t Involves haiu
work for fully six days per week, PLAIN tood,
coarse clothing with any quantity OF patches ana
very frugal habits. If you cannot stand this
You will hardly mend your fortunes by going
West.
-aWhat YOU propose can't be done without a
pile of money"
Yes, it can for it has been. Northern Ohio
WIS n dense, giant forest, whence the Indians
had lust receded, when its pioneers made Their
way to it from New-England-practically
farther off than Oregon now is Very rev OIL
them had property, including money, to the
value of $500; many had little beyond the
clothes they stood in. They had to pay more
for their land than you need pay now and 1t
was four months hard work for diligent
man TO clear five acres of timber, leaving the
the soil still covered with blackened stumps,
and full of green, tenacious roots. Many
| settlers gave out, and returned-neeuy'
Respondent fever-s.ricken-to their 1athers
| Eastern homes. The greater ndmDer 1oughI IL
out on that line-gladly worked as hlreiings
for fifty cents per day, whenever they hau
chance earning thus a little meat and little
! grain, which they often backed twenty miles
to grist-mil, and (when ground) backed
home again. Many of them could not tell how
they lived; but they did live, reared log
cabin-full of rugged children, dug out into
civilization, and died owners of good farms
with large, well-flled barns and comfortable
dwellings. which their children and grand
children now enjoy.
-"But you wouldn't have erery one take to
farming" '.-
% noi We would have no one do that who
has anything to do that suits him better. We are
not advising those who are fully employed and
fairly paid at present or rather our advice 10
them is, "SGck to your work so long as IL
shall stick TO YOU" and thus save the means
for making flank movement whenever WORK
shall have left you. We are counseling those
who do need advice, not those who don't.
-"But is MT farming poor businessf Isn't
the country overcrowded as well rs the cities I"
Ny dear Sir, if you are inefficient, you Will
not get far ahead no matter which road you
may travel But what do you really mean by
| farming being overdOnel Suppose you were
this day squatter on quarter-section QOo
| acrcs) of the National Domain, which Is to
become yours when you shall have lived on 1t
five years and paid $40 as land-oiice fees
| how are you to be harmed by what are called
hard times7 Is produce cheapH You will have
! to buy more than you sell for the next three
years: how are low prices to hurt youH Is
business dulg Your business, for the present,
is to get part of your land broken up and
seeded Are many out of employment Your
homestead proilcrs yOu work enough-amply
enough-for every day of the next twenty
years. You will, for quite a while, be poor
| and out of money, whether bulls or bears are
rampant in Wall-strcet, and whether times are
! called hard or not.
! Once more we entreat every needy person
who can to forsake or shun the cities, II only
to give a better chance to those who would
! like to do So but absolutely cannot.