Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-04-23
MARyIA,,D A PARADISE VS.. THE WEST

MARYLAHD A PARADISE VS.. THE WEST
A BARREN WAsTE.-Thc CAtoclin Clarion,
o newspaper printed at Mcchanicstown,
Nd, rnpears to be Jealous ofpcopic in that
10, alily taking Horace Grceley's advice to
90 West 1t talks about thousands being
nrcd to starvation and despair and goes
on to tell its readers that the country out
West teens with gophcrs and other des-
trucliyc things which always destroys the
crops Then it balcS away by depicting
the seasons as uniavulah'c, and that when
1t rains the prairie becomes Al untiIlablr
and impossible sea Of mud, Then With
the same breath CATER getting through
with destroying the crops in their infancy
says the grain usually grows luxuriantly
to near the time Of harvest" when !. be-
comes almost valueless On account Of the
difficulty Of harvesting" Catching, as it
were, q kind Of last gasr at this flourish. it
condescends to say mat 1.-The average yield
Of all kinds Of produce is always low
Taking fresh breath, the writer makes a
raid OF the dreadful winters, and says that
IN single storm the loss Of human life is
cuualto year of frontier warfare
Nebraska is spared the lash, and rightly
too, for she is one of the lrcttlel stock ana
agricultural States in the Union. Come to
Dawson County, and look at this picture
and then ut your own.
The above article we copy from the Daw-
son County (Neb,) Pioneer, as q comment
upon an article that appeared i'll orr issue
of the 9Th ultimo, under the head of Life
on the Prairie" sc. The article was not
original with US, and as a matter Of course
is properly credited TO an exchange ana q
western one at that But az the Pioneer
has unfured that great pair of ears of his
and tried to crush us with single Tray,
we feel compelled to defend ourselves, as
we always take proper cognizance OF every
article put before the public through our
paper. We DO not clam Mary land as a
Paradise nor did we say the West is .
barren waste, but We do think that just a
little ordinary common sense would teach
anybody that all sections OF this county
la. its iii. advantages Is well as its adVant-
ages and we repeat the assertion land be
licyc it to he colrtct) that seems to worry
the editor Of the HonCtr almost to WnAcy,
and that is That many persons are Iured
from comfortable homes in the East II ull-
known ones in the WcSt-anl i'll many
instances are driven from place to place
with the expectation Of dong better or
in the attempt to get rich in very short
Undertaking more failures, we are sure.
than successes. We have been through
many sections Of the West and know it to
be generally q good county, hOt II has It's
drawbacks rs well as any other section
As 10 Dawson County, Ncb. it has no. yet
been our fortune to visit, but from the ap-
pcaraucc Of her paper a good critcrian to
60 byl we say God deliver us from Dawson
County. The appearance Of the it""".f
only more strongly confirms the IDEAS put
forth in the article We published: that ihry
delightin 4 big display on a very light basis,
as, for instance, this paper splugc- around
in AN eight page dress with what's known
Is u patent outside" Tha, is, certain cs-
Establishments in the city print thc>c papers
and Use several columnS for their special
Observation-Disclosures the paper a;
about the same price we pay for blank pa
per But not only are four pages OF the
Ptoneer gotten up IN this way bat six out
of tie cight-thus leaving but two TO be
printed ut the Office from wl4icl i i, issued.
and those two pages look IS though they
were printed on a cilcr,picss with apple.
butter instead of ink Still, il, Western
enterprise" To the editor Of that paper
wccan only say as did the boy ,oa comyadc
with whom he was Quarrcl!0s about Il
dog: - man who wont stick MP for
bis relations Hast or West,