The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-02-24
About Going West.

Elitors IntellIgenCrr; ''a''
Your Tuesday mornings article on
"Going West" is hardly the square thing,
in my humble opinion. Because the
Kansas grusshOppers have taken one
crop out Of dozen, causing considerable
suffering, OF course, and bringing to your
notice great many honest tales Of sor.
row and suffering, with nearly as many
dishonest ones, you Complacently take
that most aggravating Of all positions,
u told you SO" and create the impress
sion upon the casual reader that in your
opinion "going vest is almost a crime,
Ii the American people had believed in
your doctrine and followed the advice
you would have given them, the western
boundary Of the United States would now
be the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the
rest Of the country now possessed and
enjoyed by Uncle Sam would be howl.
ing wilderness or in the hands OF some
hostile power,
The graSshOppers which devoured the
crops in Kansas last year have been
travelling eastward for number Of years,
and it Is altogether likely will eventu-
ally light on the Panhandle RepubliG-
that Is, as many as can find a place ia
light on. The advance guard may reach
here next year. The entire army may be
expected the year following, When they
come you may depend upon II business
will be lively. You will find that, how
ever we'll fixed your farmers may DO al
present, many Of them will be glad TO gel
Sauer Kraut. A large majority will Ol
course be able to smile at the grasshop.
pers for one summer, but you know very
we'll that many farmers would be in ab-
solute want II they lost single crop. In
this country II Is n necessity to go West
There's MI. Jones with two hundred
acres, well.to-dO farmer, with fine boy'
and whole raft OF girls, lie lives well
new, but he can't leave q nice farm tC
each one Of the whole tribe. Ii the boy.
understand themselves aud understand
the country, you ought 10 advise them
all, boys and girls, 10 go West, No dan
ger;of them all going, Some in the party
will not have the requisite sand, but The
best OF them, II they understand the true
situation, will go, carrying their Strengtl
and manhood aud refinement to les'
crowded locality, where they will have
room to breathe, room to spread them
selves, and assist In the making Of n new
State which will In n short time be n
good Us the one they left. OF course
will grant you that many people hrl
themselves by going West, They have ne
business going West, or any plQce else
But because they do go and right ava,
begin their bowling about being cold AnC
out OF grub, that's no reason why yOt
should take their unfortunate condition
rs u natural and legitimate consequence
Of "gOing West" In nine cases out o
ten the same people would have been on
Of grub, and cold, and down with sCurvy
II they never had gone West. They ar,
the scurvy kind, and rather enjoy hay
Ing It,
The statistics Of tho soup business il
Wheeling, which you flourish so enthu
siastically, show that even in this para
disc Of poor people, d man or woman
now and then Is thankful for n charity
dinner. Suppose you go around and Asl
them for an 'acCOnnt Of the present Condi
ton Of affairs in West Virginia, md theI
write moral lecture from their stand
point.
The "intellcClnal and social" advnn
tages OF the West depend on the settle
mGnts. II the people live In towns or il
close proximity, they enjoy lust the SAINT
advantages that you have here. I'll,
West Is not settled by the rude, inCulti
waited and illiternte, as u rule, but fire
luently the very best and brightest mel
In the old States are the first To go West
have no Western land to sell, but m,
home is in the West, md ! think that tliI
grnssloppCr yarns Of unfortunate green
horns have frightened you into awroni
position. want you to know TINT tlGrl
Ia one Western man who decidedly disa
greeS with you and your hungry Western
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