Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

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tain either that the Vermonters are more
dishonest, or that they are not more rich
than the Iowans.
But the Iowan wealth has all been ac-
ouired in less than half the period during
! which that of Vermont has been in
growth. Thirty years ago Iowa could
1 NOT boast more than half either of the
wealth or of the population which Yer
mont had in 1870. Now it shows, speak
ing absolutely, three times as much of
both, and speaking relatively, no less OF
either. This result is owing to the soil,
the bounteous mother earth OF Iowa,
which yields more in week than Vermont
in a year, and works for every farmer as
with the hundred hands of Briareus. Set
down in Iowa, the Vermonters would
have achieved more than the 1owans
have done, for, as whole, they are supe-
rior both in physical stock and industrial
training.
But the Iowan lump has never lacked
Vermont leaven. Ton years ago the CEN
sus marshal reported more than seven
thousand five hundred (75SD Green Noun
tain boys there already, and the last de-
cade may well have doubled the number,
as it has well nigh that OF all other ele-
ments in the Iowan body. What has
been will be. Vermonters have resorted
to Iowa for soil broad, needing no fer
tilizers, easy of cultivation, rising in
value. They still will. They there set
tie in the great agricultural belt of the
Union, with fourfold choice among
competing markets, and where railroads
from all quarters converge in one trans
continental highway.
Along all these roads there is now
thronging immigration. The one last COM
pleted, called the B. & M. r. burlington
and Missouri River, opened last January,
runs through the State from the Missis-
sippi to the Missouri, on the parallel of
New York city, and through the most
southern county tier save one. The name
of it's eastern terminus, Burlington, was
given by Vermonter, and in memory of
his Green Mountain home. This route,
starting from Chicago by the @. B. and O.,
is now the favorite line to the Pacific. 1t
is the only one where the trains are ac-
eompanied by Pullman's dining cars.
| No part of Iowa has been longer or
more densely settled than the eastern
half of this Burlington and Missouri
Railroad line. Its western half is as yet
more sparsely peopled. Its settlement
was retarded by the slow progress of the
railroad, and by lands withdrawn from
market in reserve for railroad grants. But
the railroad being now completed, the
company last month began to bring their
lands forward for sale,-and farm-hunters
are rushing in. So great is the eoncourse
that the 1000 acres now offered by G..
S. Harris the Railroad Land Commissioner
IN Burlington will be soon absorbed. 1t
is no wonder that the last chances this
side the Missouri for the most desirable
lands in the most desirable latitude,
should be soon snapped up at forced sales
hurried on by the Railroad Company's
need of developing the country.
But the Burlington and Missouri
Railroad has crossed the Missouri,-it is
already opened more than half way to the
capital of Nebraska, and will enter it in a
month. Thence it will push on to Fort
Kearney, there interesting with the I'm
ion Pacific. This cutoff will avoid the
detour through Omaha and draw down
the inter-oceanic chain more nearly to the
latitude of New York. 1t is both tap and
tunnel of the best of all homestead regions.
The last of my fears is that many Green
Mountain Boys will lack pluck enough
for the farms which it is now their privil-
to seizs,' bot I have some fears lest some
Green Mountain girls will miss that share
of Woman's Rights which belongs to them
in Iowa. What is that I might answer
"Husbands of COURSE" but 1 will rather
say, "Tools for hands that can use them,
scope for your energies,-ample room and
verge enough" What sort of boons do
mean that Iowa will give you? Come
CONSUMING beyond the Father of Floods,
and you will soon see. Ten years ago
nearer eight than seven thousand (75S1)
Vermonters had already gone from you
into Iowa. However they have faded out
of your memories, you live in theirs
Come and see them, and you will double
your happiness,-because you will be
more useful in a wider sphere. Your Gull
ture, which now sometimes lacks an
arena for it's exercise, in the new State
shall find it. An accomplishment COM
mon with you may be rare at the west,
and rarity gives value, as it did to Whit
tington's cat in Barbary. Governor Slade
by helping female teachers on their way
west, did a good work, not merely for the
Mississippi Valley, but pre-eminently for
those teachers themselves. But the good
Governor has gone, and I know not on
whom his mantle has fallen. Besides, a
teacher brought out by herself will always
do better for herself and for others, than
one imported by any outside pressure. Be
then Governor Slade for yourself.
But at the last Census the excess of Iowan
males amounted to nearly forty thou
sand, 90 ,222) and 1 fear it now exceeds
fifty. The consequence is that no sooner
are Vermont girls beyond the Mississippi,
unless they push on to Mormondom,-
than they find themselves an article for
which the demand exceeds the supply
Unless greeneJ than their native hills,
they rarely return east of the Great River,
except on bridal tours They may hide
themselves in a school-house, or under
take plain sewing. But, though their
needles are warranted not to eat IN the eye,
that is more than can be said of the
users OF them. Though men are proverbi-
ally the stupid sex, they cannot pass by
angels unawares, especially when their
visits are SO few and far between as in
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