The Red Cloud chief., 1875-06-03

EpNESDAf JUNE 3, 1875
The eastern states look with moth
erly anxiety and alarm a, the iisposi
ton Of their children to leave the
cover Of their wisss and strike out 70,
themselves. They run clucking and
cactIing about Ike old hens, whose
chickens have cswled through The
fesees which srs ~impervious to them.
albeit the chicken seem well conteo,
With the picking odd scratching 10 the
neW Geld.
The eastern papers just oow are Civ
Ing their undivided attention 70 the
grasshoppera The Beccher trial has
Lost its interest," Grants removals OF
sppo;stmeos are no longer mopopolis-
ing their attention. All these subjects
3e stating, while the future grss-hop.
per 10 growing more fresh and inter-
esting every deg. This is ~shs7sesson
for immigration, We may expect con-
sequestly the most gloomy accounts Of
the grassbopper ravages 10 eastern
papers, until the season of immigrs-
ton is over.
The Toledo Blade enjoys the largest
circulation Of any eastern paper in this
vicinity. perhaps, and it is particularly
discouragiog 10 its account Of the con-
dition Of things out west. 1t has Il
ways advised its readers to stay ct
home, and has c!ucked and cacklcd
excessively Y the truaots who have
sought richer and wider fields. East
srn people seem to forget that their
states we're oncc new and their settle
Dent attended with moro troubles aud
hardsbips than We have encountered
IN Nebraska We have had no swamp
fevers like those which have retarded
and blighted the carly settlement of
Illinois and Missouri /; no dense forests
to DC cleared. as was the case ia Ohio.
We have simply had q locust raid. 1t
would have been strange If a young
state should have no. Disadvantages
and NJ set.backs. We acknowledge
hardships. But what ore they /?
The small crops which We had been
able TO plant last spring we're destroy
ed. But their destruction would have
been but q sn II evil had it moi been
Ter the general poverty which is always
incident to the settlement Of country
however rich and fertile. Those of our
farmers Who have been here four or
five years were not discouraged and
would hesitate long before exchanging
farms here for fsrms 10 Ohio or Iii.
nois. They have tested the product
ivcness Of the soil. and are assured of
abundant bsrvests. The grssshoppcrs
we're no more to them than would
have been the chintz bug or potato
bug. Were the farmers of this county
on their feet, ssand situated. q the far
msrs Of the east, an occasional loss Of
crops from grasshoppers or tho drouth
would be Of no more consequence to
them than . like calamity in any other
state. We have talked with gentle
men from the eastern part of the State
Who have been in the State q number
Of years, and they say that the locusts
are not q new thing. The northeast
ern counties have been sstsiSdseiRhteen
or twenty years. The grssshoppers
have ravaged them from time to time.
Yet the farmers are prosperous and
are rapidly sccumulating wealth. We
have overestimsted our disaster. LII
We would. imsGne the cornstalk black
with ~locusts, and not only the coru but
the wheat aud other small grain, it
would still be no greater evil than We
hsve previous experienced in the east
from the chinch bug. It's not difficult
to recall the kerosene oil We poured
over our potato vine to secure them
from the potato bug. 1t is easy to
recoIlect the time when it required all
that could be raised from 80 acres to
pay the taxes on one hundred and
sixty. Last year the drouth threaten-
ed to diminish our yield Of corn. 9th
er xatess were similarly amictcd.
There have been famines in Ireland,
and Persia; old . it is, was only re-
Gently in the greatest destitution, and
received aid from the west. Hard
ships and disasters are the lot Of man
20 where We will Yet the face Of
providence is not always hid behind
frowning cloud. We are not justified
in expecting another failure this year.
The crops are unusually promising
now. We have had an abundance Of
rains. The grasshoppers have not
made their appeasaues except II the
older states To al sccoauts and nro-
phsssss ofeastern papers, We pas in
eU unqualified denial. I
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