The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-16

tracted drouths but q country all the
year round-that we have never
known what is properly understood
as failure Of crops, while in many
States south of us crops are the excep7
ton, failures the rule. Our innum-
cradle lakessecure us against droughts,
and the character of our soil is such
that excess Of rain does not injure us.
Now, we very well know that all
these things are just as I have repre-
sented them, and yet we know that
they will be looked upon as exaggera-
tions by persons who know nothing
about our State. ~. II 4
I have long known that the man
who writes the truth about Minneso-
ia must be content to be charged with
extravaganza. But with even this
in view it is our duty to put ourselves
before the country by every means in
our power, by a free use of printers
ink, by newspapers, by letters to east
ern journals, by general use of let
ter sheets with certain prominent
facts as to our lands, crops. &c., 1t,
the head; by correspondence, in short,
by every means by which facts can
be given to the world. Let there be
facts, no need Of exaggeration, the
truth will look extravagant enough.
This done, as it should be done, each
man doing his share, and we will soon
see the beneficial results. We have
nobody attending to this now, and
can, if we will, do it better than any
one man, or set Of men, and it will
pay US all well for doing it proper
~.
We should be especially active in
this work now because the world will
be in motion next year. The centen-
NAL will put countless thousands up
on the road, and our beautiful State
should draw it's share. Let us then
fix up for company. Let us in city
and country trim up, paint up our
houses, fences and sheds, so that it
will look like somebody lived there.
Don't disgust visitors with. negligent,
diagy and tumble down tenemen6,
that would better become the noble
red man we drove away. The. ap-
pearance of the dwelling and sur
roundings bespeak~ the character: of
the occupant and tell whether he is
civilized or savage, energetic and
cultivated, or g. law yaqabond. Good
men are often repealed from localities
in city and country. by the latter
class.
Farmers, put in a large breadth of
crops for the coming year. It will
pay you. Diversity your crop that
you may be able to take it in out of
the wet if the good weather should
not last all summer. Be prompt to
garner what you produce. You have
seen this year how some Of our neig h-
boring States have been overtaken
when a little too careless and negli-
gent. Erect barns and sheds; they
will pay you, and at the same time
make demand for lumber and other
materials, as well as give employ
ment to our mechanics and laboring
men. You should do this. You
have been prosperous. The people of
no State have had so much to be
thankful for. Let us show that we
appreciate this and see that our pros
perity does not run us into extrava-
gances and follies. Above all let us
notsend abroad for what can as we'll be
procured at home. Encourage your
own merchants, mechanics manufac-
turers and tradesmen. They are
with us and part of us. They have
invested their muscle, mind and mon
ey here to help build us up. They
assist in adding to our revenue and
help us pay our taxes. The man
who forgets this and sends abroad for:
what can be procured at home, doesn't
deserve to live or prosper in the COM
munity.
Farmers, yours is an enrolling
vocation-honorable, independent and
far more reliable than trusting to the
uncertainties of trade or commerce.
Don't turn place hunters or try to
make money by sharp practices.
Public positions are dangerous places.
See that no dirty dollar stolen from
city, state or nation defiles your pock-
ct or your soul, to plague your Sleep
ing and your waking hours. Re
member it is the eternal law where
sin is sorrow shall answer it. Keep
your sons at home with you, rather
than send them to cities and towns.
Teach them honorable industry and
a manly economy-restraint from
that reckless extravaganza that is a
disgrace to this age. Teach them to
abhor, as they would a theft, the
thought of living upon other peoples
means of using that which other
peoples money paid for. Teach
them these lessons, and instill into
their young minds virtuous principles
around your own hearthstones, rather
than send them to cities to become
the associates of the vicious and de-
PRAYED in the haunts of vice and dis
sipation that beset them on every
hand.
Reader, if you are a Minnesotian,
think over the suggestions of this
hurried combination of disjointed
things. See if you. are doing your
whole duty for your State. Remem-
Der that every new man is worth a
thousand dollars to a Western State,
no intelligent estimate ever put it less ;
and that with proper effort we can do
more for our State in five years
than the do-nothing policy will in
forty. Remember that ninety-nine of
every hundred men we meet, were
brought here by something they read
about Minnesota. See if you have
properly considered the many ele-
ments Of progress, the many influen-
tial agencies we have here to justify
you in seeking to widen the sphere of
our usefulness. Respectfully,
G1RARr HEWITT.
St. Paul, 10th September, 1875.
b -s-Horlan & Chambers, grocers,