The Red Cloud chief., 1874-08-01

is very much ike mat in this respect.
he requires the worth Of everything
bestowed upon Us. If we cannot pay
FOR IL one way, We are allowed to pay
in some cthcr: Butwe must pay. II
we cannot buy Ian /, and homes with
money, We may buy them with self
denial. courage and determined perse-
veranee. If We choose this method
w must be prompt in u payments.
We must expect privarions, discour-
agements and harishirs. In fact, we
must rejoice in them. II these are
the only equivalents VIC can render. il
they constitute our sole possession and
our sole funds, We rave reason TO
thank God heartily that We have 50
large a share Of them a. we have
that the har]ships are 50 grievous and
the discOuragements SO numerous.
Were it otherwise. could these farms
and homes which We are working so
hard and enduring 70 much to main
tain be had for less, be, enjoyed with
out privation and purchased without
selfdenial and perseverance. We may
rest assured that they would not be
ours. Those whope successful com
petition drove us West would compete
with us here and with like result.
We're these lands at c valuable and
desirable. they would belong to those
who could pay most fr them. We
have the privilege OF MAKING them
valuable and desirable for ourselves.
Here is u opportunity. Nature With
an open to the abilities and capacities
of all, has been bountiful to all has
given to all work in her vineyard, and
work proportional to their respective
capacities. To those who could not
successfully compete with their fel-
lows in the old countries, she has Of.
fered homes and farms in the new
West, and protected their first and
feeble struggles by a more than pro
tective tariff. She has hedged them
in from the powerful competition Of
the wealthy by a strong barrier Of
hardships, privations and discourage
ments.
Had We no hot blasting winds, no
erasshorpers, no pests of any kind /;
we're this country what we hope. and
what it will be in the future, we might
know to a certainty that We who can
pay only in hardships, self denials. pa
tient waiting and courageous labor.
would have 90 means Of obtaining it
W. may be assured that we can OBJ
tain nothing desirable without paying
for it. We have abundant reason to
be thankful that We can obtain homes
and lands in this manner Yet a large
number Of our settlers are becoming
Respondent, and dissatisfied with these
hard conditions which are their sole
protection. The unusual heat Of this
summer, the grasShoppers and the
hardships ola frontier life. have driv-
many from the more western coin
ties. They belong to that Glars Who
UNIV ittingly smooth down the rough:
ness and soften the hardships Of new
country for the second class. Obscr.
walton and knowledge Of m,nEind has
the wealthy and better class Of
men in the east, that . large proper
ton Of the pioneers and carly settlers
of the west will encounter these hard
long enough to prove the coun-
try and make it desirable, only to
it to them in some moment
Of dependency. It is thus that 50
large q number Of first settlers ara
working for others and working IN
chesply. It has been the case in Oh
the Western States. To day the
timbered lands Of Ohio. the
fever breeding swamps Of Illinois. and
the dreary plains Of Iowa, opened end
abandoned by the squatter and pioneer
yield their ich,sreasures to their sue
SCISSORS. The hot winds and grasshop-
pers are now driving away some of
those who have demonstrated the pro-
iuctiveness Of the soil and the health
of the climate Of Nebrsska.
Yet these hot winds win ceaso v3tA
he Development of the couutry. Gisss
hoppers viii not always sfkict n. We
have Riven Abundant proof that the
Valley Is to become peo-
pied With prosperous and contested
inhabitauts-asd We can be those in
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