Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07
Correspondence of the Herald.l
LETTER FROM MICHIGAN.
Going West--Comparative Ad-
vantages Between the East
and West--Personai illustra-
tionS-Sound Deductions-Cood
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HART, OcRANA Co, Mich,
Daaapober 9.. 1874

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ktlitog Rutland Herald :. $50 West,
young man, go West This was the
answer that Horace Greeley invariably
gave to those who came to him for adj
vice in regard TO what they should do to
better their condition, and if they acted
upon his advice he would be rid of them
for all time, for they would either sue
coed in their new homes and become
men of influence and wealth, and form
ing associations aud business ties, have
no desire to go back or becoming hope
lessly involved in debt, and disasters in
cident to a pioneers life be unable to do
so, and drift fruther and further West.
We often hear the remark made by
men in the East, 81 am going West )"
and If you ask them why they desire to
leave home and all the associations and
ties which are near and dear to them,
and go away among strangers, they will
tell yon that the Eastern States are too
densely populated, that capital is in the
hands of the few who have become To-
Gated, and it is impossible for man of
small means to obtain a foothold in any
business. and to obtain any more than
living while working al day wages is i'm
possible This Is all true to some ex-
tent. To a single man we say, If
you desire to go West, get to-
gether q change of linen, pack your
trunk and with few dollars in your
pocket, be off, and don't wait to enquire
whether you can find employment or
not. If you are steady and temperate
and not afraid to work you need not be af-
raid of coming to want, and if for a time
fortune should frown so much the bet
ter, for tits only trials and disappoint-
ments that bring out true manhood.
Teachers command from $40 to $50 per
month aud board in this country, while
men to work in the lumber camps com
mand good wages. The West, whether
it be the present or in the future, teens
with life and activity, and in its cities,
towns and villages, in every direction,
Industrial establishments are found
which require good workmen, and good,
sober, industrious men need not long re-
main idle. find occasionally Rut-
land county boy who came to Michigan
and has done well. / spent some two
weeks with Nj. D. Chatterton, of Mason,
Ingham county, who came to this State
some IS years ago from Mt. Holly. BE
is at present Judge of Probate for Ing
ham county, lawyer of large practice
and ability, and though yet young has
by energy and business integrity amassed
quite handsome fortune. So much
for the single man. Bot to man of
family who is dissatisfied with his east
ern home and its surroundings, and, in
the laudable desire to better his eondi- !
ton looks longingly westward, we would
say to such an one to weigh well (
the chances before he leaves the as
sociations by which he is surrounded, 1
and the advantages in many things I
which a place long settled has, and emf
crates to new. 1t is better sometimes
to endure the evils we have than to fly I
to others that we know not of. / !
doubt if scarcely any who think of com
ing West have any idea what they will i.
fnd when they get here. The person I
who expects to come West and acquire
4 fortune without much of an effort, |
will be apt to be disappointed, for there /
is no place where life is more real and !
earnest than here. :. 81. ...-..
i Persons from the East who intend to |
come West should avoid the error OF /!
they are coming West to show |
the natives how to work. Western peO-
pie estimate man for what he is, and !
do not give him credit for what he may /
pretend to he and is not. Persons com |
ing here filled with eonceit soon get it |
taken out of them, while those who do |
not put ON airs, but adapt themselves to |
the circumstances by which they are
surrounded, find friends to help them |
along. Another error which is pre-
valent East, is that there is q scarcity of |
manageable ladies West. Men go East !
from the West and sing the syren song |
of E'no girls in the West, or pour it into |
their ears when they come West teach
ing, and in many cases the bait takes, |
and It's the old story of marrying in |
haste with plenty Of leisure for repent
anCe.
There are plenty of young ladies west
CAPABLE, and | had almost said willing |
to become wIves), to fill any station to
which they might be chosen in life. The
reason why Vermont girls marry so soon
when they come west is because, like
Vermont horses and sheep, they have
world wide reputation, and whether in
the near or far West, whether in Mich
igan or Colorado, where their enter
prise may have carried them, they will
be sought after If, then, young man,
you would come west, leave your con-
ceit behind you, and come along, and
having selected your location, drive
down your stakes and be determined to
hold on through thick and thin, and be
resolved to fight it out on that line if it
lakes many a summer and winter of
hard and unremitting toll. If the place
IS sparsely settled, and has not the re-
inement and culture of your former
lome, don't wear yourself out by useless
,epinings, but go to work sowing seed
which will bring forth fruit similar to
that which you have left behind. If,
hen, you possess the necessary grit
he kind that gets hold, hangs on, and
never let's go-we say to you as Horace