The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-19
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some well-timed and forcible remarks on
this subject from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts:
Thousands have gone, and are going
West, from the North, South aud East, as
we'll as the multitudinous stream Of hu-
mainly that has been forced BY the strate-
gical, sharp practice Of railroad caterers,
direct from the sea-bOard, aye, from the
deck plank, as far as the poor emigrants
could be conveyed BY nail, when they were
landed at or beyond the bounds Of civil
mtion, and dropped, like cat from a bag,
TO live the best they could. Sad, sad
enough, would DO the truthful history Of
thousands Of poor ignorant Germans, and
others from the other continent, who have
been thus enticed from their peaceful, hap
py homes in the Faderland, and taken on
shipboard, their passage money secured,
and ere they were allowed to place their
foot upon the soil Of the new country, their
railroad fare was worried out Of them, and
they hurried like drove Of brutes to some
grand trunk railroad station, and whirled
away TO the wilds of the far, far West. A
very large majority Of these emigrants, who
have been thus stealthily entieed to an I'M
congenial abode, know little or nothing Of
the character Of farming required in set
tling new, or even a partially improved
Western farm, nor of marketing what sur
plus they may produce. At best, many
Of them only barely live for years, until
they learn the new system Of farming, and
learn how they csn dispose Of their surplus.
Then thousands have settled in that sad,
fatsd country, where the grasshOpper has
devoured all that would feed man or beast,
and they having invested all in the land,
and the meagre Improvements, are utterly |
helpless, and as unable to escape from the |
dread want and suffering in which they |
find themselves, as \ starved bird would be |
bereff Of its wings But for the gain to
be gotten by railroad companies, and the
greed Of their agents, very many of these
honest, simple people, would have settled
near the sea-board, on small farms, leased
or purchased-where they could embark
in system Of cropping and marketing
which they understand, and by which they
could have made comfortable living at
once, and they would have been surrounded
BY associations and customs similar TO those
they left, instead Of the loneliness, priva-
lions. and all the hardships and trials that
are the common lot Of the pitiable frontier
pioneer The low price Of land in the
wilds Of the West, tempts the unwary to
invest in broad area; and the large farms,
Of course, place adjoining neighbors so
remote, that all sociability and intimacy,
the striking characteristics of the Germans
at home, is rendered impossible, and fear
ful discomfort is the natural and common
result.
We sincerely hope that the Patrons Of
Husbandrywill take hold of this subject,
and inaugurate an effectual means by which
desirable European cmigrants, who are
farmers, and truckers, and dairymen, who
come to our country to settle in the future,
viii be settled on our seaboard lands = ,
thousands of acres Of which are lying out
uncultivated, and can be purchased in ,
healthy localities, with all the advantages
Of near market, society, schools, churches,
&c, for prices nearly as low as the wild
lands Of the West, where none Of these adj
yantages Of civilization are to be had. Il
Is true that large portion Of each Of these
sea-board, southern and mid interior farms, |
are, many Of them. in great degree, ex.
hansted by long and injudicions culture,
yet, there Is generally some portions Of
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0ass aa'',0as image sea and fertilizers
apP''s'' aas arg majority o. these low
4 'ans M n'Ay y deeper ana more
'n''Ousn '''lase, ana the turning IN Of
- a'aaas smsn' q fap'd'y resuseiiated, |
made y pay Tor culture and fertiiizen,
who purchase them, from the FIRST.
Tens Of thousands Of acres az goufhern
lands are be;nc s.la a. ,.vs. 40 e
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