The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-12-17
40 PROGRESS ny LRAPs---NO Pay
mENTs ny LOTTERY.
By PROF. J. d. BUTLER.
LrNcoLE, Nebraska, 1873.

LINCOLN, Nebraska, 1873.
The Mediterranean sea covers more
than a million square miles, yet it was
all explored from the earliest ages.
The reason was that il is studded with
islands, as stepping-stones from end
to end. Had the Atlantic been so
islanded, America would have been
discovered by the ancient Greeks. But
since to cross that ocean was a labor
that could not be divided, it proved
too much for Hercules 1t was al
most like passing "the great gulf fixed"
between Dives and Lazarus.
The inter-continental passage is now
undertaken by dozen vessels daily,
and is accomplished by some Of them
in a week. Yet the barrier toll has al
ways been too much for European
masses. 1t has stopped millions from
emigrating who if the Atlantic were
terra frma, had long ago reached
America. A continent as broad as that
ocean they would have traversed step
by step, though penniless footmen and
begging, or working their way. Many
have in fact walked across America.
But the first ocean step costs more than
some laborers can save in lifetime.
In order to pay. the ocean fare men
have sold themselves into a sort of
slavery for more than one year. A
million others have had their passages
paid by friends in America, where the
working man can lay Up dollar easi.
er than shilling on the other side of
the water. Enlsh Emigration socie.
ties taxing each member weekly pen.
ny, Cast lots yearly who of them shall
get their passage to America. Seldom
can poor man cross the sea by aid of
such lottery or on credit. Seldom
can he work his passage.
But once over,-his fortune is made,
If he will make the most of his
chances. SAYS one who represents
forty thousand others: 81 landed in
New York without a penny, worked
for shovel, then for a wheelbarrow
IA horse, cart, a team, farm, a
house, etc. ,.r
Transportation companies will not
carry emigrants over the ocean on
credit, because they like not their Sc.
curity. They can get no assurance
that those carried on credit will make
payment.
But the accommodation which the
ocean lines cannot grant, the Burling-
ton and Missouri River Railroad Com
pany is granting to ten land buyers
every day. Within the last three
years it has sold 47S,9SS acres for s4,.
656.49S, on ten years. credit and six
per cent. interest, to 4, ,525 buyers, many
of whom could not have raised money
enough to cross the Atlantic, and 9TH
ers of whom had landed in America
without shilling. A majority could
not have bought, did not the railroad
land department allow them ten
years for payment, where transporta.
tion companies will not allow them
ten minutes. Divided into seven parts
burden is light, which would crush
if laid on all at once. On contracts
in 1873, the first seventh Of principal
does not fall due till the end of four
years, and twenty per cent. of land
price is thrown off for prompt improve.
ment. Buyers securing farms in this
way, initiate, the old man in Esop,
who, seeing his stout sons unable 10
break the sheaf of arrows, after un-
tying the band which made them one,
easily snapped them all asunder like
pipe-tems, one after another. Many
strokes fell great oaks.