Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-31
FROM OMAHA.
OMAHA. NEB., Aug. %, 49,

OMAHA, NEB., Aug. 221 1870.
FRIEND KEYEs-Last Saturday evening, a
| long train of cars passed by my place, slow
y, to the crossing of the Missouri river,
and noticad that about half of the cars
were filed with Cinnamon, going east to be
| hewers of wood and drawers of water for
our countrymen,
like what that bombast, George Fran
els Train, said not long since in speech in
New York city. ''Let them come-let the
Chinamen GENE. You Irishmen have
worked hard and worked well, aud you have
done the hard work long enough. Now
let the Chinaman do it for you aud you go
out on to our beautiful prairies and become
yourselves, owners of the soil, and in short
time you will be independent, while if you
remain here you viii never rise above your
present condition. There is truth in the
Cinnamon would come in such numbers
that they would reduce the price of labor SO
low that the laboring class would be obliged
to leave and push out to the broad plains,
where they can go to work and false their
own living from their own soil, with no one
to modest or Lord it over them. I have but
little sympathy for that class of citizens who
can ton the corners OF the streets whiting
dry goods boxes and complaining Of hard
bor cr;a
Rev Myron Read once preached sermon
from the text, ''Launch out into the deep
and cast your net" The idea was that it
was not best to hang around the edges, but
to put out--cut loose-shoye off into deep wa
ter and you VIII find fish. So I would like to
take one of these poor disconsolate fellows
of the knife profession and just tell him to
shut up his knife and go with me, we would
ia Ike the southwestern railroad from this
point to the Platte river and then follow up
that river till we reach Salt Creek, then up
that s tream to the village Of Ashland,
where our fellow townsman Mr. Wiggenhorn,
has a lumber yard, and here I would take
him to one of the high bluffs from which he
could have a view Of this beautiful valley
with its beautiful stream winding its way
through it till it empties itself into the
Platte | used to think that Rock county
was beautiful and that the country about
Ripon was, but since have seen this spot
dom think so much Of that country as did.
| would then take him to Lincoln, the cap
ital Of the State, and l would have him
climb up those stairs to the top ef the cap
itol, about one hundred feet in height, and
then look, yes, look, east, west, north aud
south, as far as his eye could reach and see
the beautiful, rolling, swelling, grand,
splendid country on every side of him. /
would tell him that two years ago the first
settlers came there and slept in their blank
cts on the ground, and thatone Of them had
Just sold his land, which cost him only
5l4. 0, Git being homestead claim for
$4,000, such men don't complain Of hard
times. l would then go with him north,
across the Platte, to Fremont, where I would
take the Union Pacific Railroad up the val
ley west, or I would go northwest into a
country, which am told, far surpasses that
l have described, and l would say to him
take your choice and make 10 yourself for
tune instead Of hanging around the over
stocked towns and villages waiting for
something to turn up.
With such vast and good country as we
have at our disposal and within our reach,
and with good legs to get to it, we should
be ashamed to complain Of hard times, and
my advice to all such is to launch out
your boat into deep waters and cast your
nets were the chances are, you will get a
full supply. o. &. Coz.