Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-06-14
MISREPRESENTATION CORRCETED.
stubborn Facts Relative tn the Climate
Of the North weat.

stubborn Fact: RELATIVE to the Climate
Last Monday the St. Paul Chamber Of
Commerce had an interesting discussion
upon the Hopper question and 1mmi-
grafton. Governor Marshall, Hon. E. F.
Drake and others, spoke of the fine pros
poets for big crop in the State. They
had been over many counties, and from
every quarter came the most cheering
statements. They all regretted the ex-
aggerated accounts published over the
country as to the grasshoppers in Mime
sofa.
Col. Hewitt followed in few remarks
that set forth one prominent fact which
should have circulation wide as these
stories and especially wide and prominent
as have been published the exaggerated
stories about the severity of our climate.
He said:
Iagrec with the gentlemen who have just
spoken, that this hopper business has been
sufficiently advertised. It's about time new
done truthfully, and honestly. We have for
twenty years again and again, had to bear
with Stories published wide cast to our pref
udicc. States east and south of us have on
every occasion exaggerated our little troubles
until those seeking homes here have had to
especially to the stories told Of our cold eli
mates-upon this point their inventions are as
countless as the chills with which their own
fcver-rida n citizens annually suffer. We
have borne all these patiently and the new
north west has grown in wealth and numbers
<n~ n<nfSo n,1~ NTH
our products, the broad wheat fields Of Min
nesota sown to-day for crop Of forty million
bushels, the unequalled health of our climate
these overcide all that can be invented against
us or forged in favor of rival States. We who
have been here twenty and thirty years know
done US is by misrepresentingo our climate and
We have facts at hand to crush out these mis-
representations. A single fact to which you
can all attest, broad, robust double breasted
fact that strikes these falsehoods right
between the eyes, a fact that is known
to us and should be known Of men wherever
the map Of this continent finds its way or the
question of climate is thoughtof-a fact that
is of itself, single handed and alone, if properly
handled, the best IMMIGRATION document ever
issued, or tha tcvcr will be issued. The
fact is this: hundreds, even thousands,
of thrifty farmers, who have lived
in upper Iowa and Southern Minnesota,
have sold their good farms to newcomers, and
gone three hundred miles further north into
upper Minnesota, to open new homes OF
those who thus change their location, ten 60
North for one that goes South Our climate
has no tcrrors for them. They have tried it
long and well. We saw this morning, and
daily see, long trains of white covered wagons
loaded with we'll to do immigrants, passing
from points south of us to points away up
north, and into the very jaws Of the hopper re-
gion. They have done well on our soil, and
with increasing means and increasing FAM
lilies, they 60 to Northern Minnesota where
! they get larger tracts at lower prices on which
to rear the scores of healthy children we see
along with each train. It is estimated that q
full hundred such teams cross the Minnesota
river daily, bound North and West, and with
these thousands of robust boys and girls in
this healthy country, We need not fear that
population will fall of in the regions directly
tributary to this city-or rather the cities of
St. Paul and Minneapolis, which nearly touch
each other and should and will be one, con-
shutting the city or rather the metropolis of
the new Northwest. We are about through
with the 'hoppers, but lei! amy man look at our
broad acres and our hardy husbandmcn and
he will see that we can let the poor devils
have all they can cat and still spare enough
to feed half the continent. have known this
country long and we'll. have seen it man
and boy until am bald and gray, and know
something of other States but / would not
give Minnesota for all of them.