Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-18


The class TO which horned pout belong.
Some from the river are small as
they-perhaps the same &ind-and |
from that up to such as would care .
very little for trout line. Two men
saw carrying one by stick across
their shoulders, and had the fish hung
straight they would not have lifted it
clear of the ground. Knowing, as
you do, the shape of these fish, YOU
can imagine they did not carry this
one without some effort. 1t would be
however beyond my power and your
patience, to include in this an account
OF the fish Of Missouri River; il is
enough to say that wanting our brook
trout, or any thing similar, nature
seems to have tried to make up in
variety, what is wanting in quality.
Why people living lib such a uoun-
try are so uniformly poor, Or at least
short OF money, is puzzle to me.
Settlers in new country will be
short of money for time, but Mis-
'souri, where | crossed il is not all
new. In many parts Of the West,
they waste half what New England
family could live on, and vet they
complain of no money. l see no way
to account for it but want of manu-
features near at hand to make q mar
ket for crops. The cost of CARRYING
East leaves the farmer little profit.
and men who came West with little
money, are in debt and paying 10 to
20 per cent. interest, have hard work
to live.
Land unbr3ken, from which no crop
can be taken till the second year, sells
higher than the average of our hill
farms, more especially in Iowa, and
this where half almost is yet unsettled.
Schools have been in existence but a
year or two at most, churches far
away and society the kind in most new
sections here-ignoranL and unculti-
waited. Farming tools used here are
much morc numerous and costly than
at home, and to get farm and to get
to work on it costs about as much or
more in new places as to get an old
one at home. When got and paid for,
so one has no interest at these enor
nous rates to eat him up, it may be
more profitable, and is far easier
worked.
Nothing in travelling here makes a
thoughtful man, who cares for the
country's future welfare, par ticularly
an eastern man, more sad than to see
the growing jealousy Of the West to
ward us. Money is plenty in the
Eas', compal atively, and interest low
but here ii is scarce and interest enor-
nous, and as more than II proportion
of tho national banks are in the East.
people will have it that the East has
made laws to get and keep the advan-
tage; that 1t dnu't comprehend the
wants Of the West, and that the West
must take matter, into its own hands
and make things 90 as it wants, and
this from Intelligent men, public lead
ers. It's not easy to make them see
that wherever banks are money goes
from those that buy most to those that
sell most, and from those that pay
interest to those that get interest.
In my estimation what the West
wants is not so much banks as manu-
iactures 10 make market for its pro-
duce at better prices-not money
sent it to-day to pay its debts, but
the means of keeping what it gets hut
now sends away in interest and to
buy manufactured articles not more
farmers of scanty means to further
crowd its grain market and increase
its rates Of interest, but capital to
start manufactures, and loan mcnev
till the supply is sufficient and interes t
less.
The West, in truth settled by poor
men, and men starting in life, while
those who had money and could live
as they chose anywhere, remained in
the East, much resembles young
man starting without money. He
must take time to save it unless it
falls to him. So must the West save
it unless rich men move West. The
East is like an old man whose years
Of saving have made him well of, and
it seems unjust that the younger
should complain OF Justice Mrl op.
preston that he to3 must save lirst,
that lie is not n, rich rs the old TO-
day. Yet such is the complaint, and
Lllnnuh tlc Wesl will vet be the rich.