Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
No Progress by Leaps-No Payne mt by
Lottery.
BY PROF. j. ID. BUTLER.
LINCOLN, Nebraska,


The Mediterranean sea covers more than
a million square miles, yet it was all ex-
plored from the earliest ages. The rea
son was that i: is studied with islands. as
stepping stones from emf To end Had
the Atlantic been SD .slanded, America
would have been discovered by the an
cient Greeks. But since To cross that
ocean was labor that could not he divi-
ded, il proved too much for Hercules. 1t
was almost 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 always
been too much for European masses. 1t
has stopped millions from emigrating
who If the Atlantic were terra firIna, had
long ago reached America. A continent
as broad as that ocean they would have
traversed step by step, though penniless
toOtmen, 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 life time. In
order to pay the ocean fare men have sold
themselves into 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 easier than shilling on the
other side of the water. English Emf
grafton societies taxing each member a
weekly penny, cast lots yearly who ol
them shall get their passage to America
Seldom can poor man cross the sea by
aid of such lottery or on credit. Sci
dom 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
penny. worked for shovel, then for 8
wheelbarrow-a horse, a cart, team, q
farm, house, etc.
Transportation companies will not car.
ry emigrants over the ocean on credit
because they like not their security. They
can get no assurance that those carried on
credit will make payment.
But the accommodation which the ocean
lines cannot grant, the Burlington and
Missouri River Railroad Company Is
granting to ten land buyers every day
Within the last three years /: has sold
476, 98S acres for 81, ,656, ,498. on ten years
credit and per cent. interest, to 4,52;
buyers, many of whom could not have
raised money enough to cross the Allan
tic, and others of whom had landed in
America without a shilling. A majority
could not have bought, did not the rail
road department allow them ten years fo
payment, where transportation companies
will not allow them ten miuutes. Divi
ded into seven parts a burden is light
which would crush If laid on all at once
On Contracts in 1878, the first seventh q
principal does not fall due till the end O
four years, and twenty per cent. of Ian,
price is thrown off for prompt improve
ment. Buyers securing farms in thi
way, initiate the old man in Esop, who
seeing his stout sons unable to break tn
heat of arrows, after untying the ban
which made them one, easily snappe
them ali asunder like pipe-stems, on
, after another. Many strokes fell gres
oaks.