The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-15
Il TORD TO IRISHMEN.
DON'T BUY FARMS IN NEW ENGLAND.
fRonton Pilot. Oct. u

Boston Pilot, Oct. ~
There is better land, O hundred times,
in the West and South, at lower prices,
with larger markets.
There is future of Infinite prosperity
before the Western and Southern laDdOwn-
ers. Farmers depend on tradesmep ana
man ufacturers to buy their produce. Many
cities and towns of New England will soon
cease to grow while the Impoverished
land becomes early poorer and poorer.
The man ufactureIs of New England Will
soon have only New England market.
The South is building cotton mills, and
will be able to beat the world in cotton
cloth. Where the cotton grows it can be
manufactured at first cost.
1t is doubtful if there ever again will be
" full time" aud good wages tor the presen t
working population of the cotton towns OF
Massachusetts.
The national trade in furniture has been
taken from the East. The upbosterers OF
st. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, San Fran
cisco, and the rising cities in the Southwest,
are already underselling Boston and New
York in all sorts of walnut and aeh. iurpi-
ture. The wood grows in their neighbor-
borhood, and they have attracted good
workmen from all quarters.
The boot and shoe trade ia spIeadln G
South and West, and before ten years those
portions of the Union will undersell New
England.
The land of New England, especially of
Massachusetts and Maine, has been farmed
for generations by hardworking, thrifty
people, who have failed to make it pay.
These have departed, and have sold or are
trying every year to sell their worn out
farms to Foreigners. Remember, that
where Yankee staIves an lIishmsn can't
grow fat.
To- day, by her intense brain power, ex-
listing in machinery of all kinds, and in her
Inheritance of the lines of trade, New Eng
land is very rich and powerful. She holds
mortgages on a great deal of Western prop
erty. But rich, fruitful soil is the basis
of solid national wealth 1; and this will tell
in the end against New England and for the
West and South.
The West can mortgage the undoveloped
riches of the soil. Massachusetts can only
mortgage her machinery and trade take
these away and she has nothing but granite
hills and inferior valleys which would coon
be deserts.
There is now going on a change of popu-
lation, which all judicious settlers should
observe. In the natural evolution of this
continent, the dense population will move
towards the rich soils. This movement will
be rapid, as all American changes are.
Great cities arise in the West in twenty
yeare aud it is US easy for city to decline
as to grow.
At any rate, even should our conclu-
sions be exaggerated, there are farmers
enough in New England and there is not
one farm in ten without mortgage.
Therefore we say to our people-if yen
arc going to buy u farm, buy fruitful one,
in growing region. Take warning by the
departure of the old Yankee farmers from
Massachusetts. They g0AtO the West aud
South and they know what they are leav-
ing.
This is no dream of ours !. the merchant
or manufacturer of st. Louis smiles at the
mention of Eastern competition. The West
and South are going to be independent of
the East to large degree. The New Orleans
Picayune said last week, and there was q
deal of truth in the words: Within fifty
years the spider will weave his web over
the looms of Lowell, and the owl take up
his solitary habitation in the deserted fac
tories of Lynn. Within fifty years Texas
will cast double the electoral vote of New
York and the import duties of New Orleans
will exceed those of all the ports of New
England combined"