Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-02-09

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the great agricultural States 1t the
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large accession to their rural population
from foreign immigration, the tendency
to abandon the agricultural districts and
crowd into towns and cities has been very
steadily and rapidly growing. In Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont and New
York, an actual decrease in the rural pop
ulatiOn, amounting to more than 25O, 600
people, occurred between 1860 and 1870,
and even in the great agricultural State
of Ohio, the growth of the cities and
towns attained IS per cent, and only 5
per cent. in the remainder of the State.
It 10 needless to adduce further examples.
The abandonment of agricultural dis
tricts, and the crowding into towns and
cities, are everywhere apparent. The ul-
innate result could only be disastrous;
the immediate effect upon the towns Of
this rapidly increased population was to
stimulate all kinds of costly improve
ments, public and private, such US Open
ing new streets, building grand edidces,
ornamenting cities, etc. Values became
greatly inflated, municipal debts grew to
frightful proportions, and taxes were in
creased till they almost resulted in con-
fiscation. When Ivy one or two great fail.
ures in the autumn Of 1878, men had their
senses awakened and began to realize the
true state Of affairs, the nation was panic
stricken, and the reaction became terri
bic, public credit was destroyed, securi-
ties supposed to represent hundreds Of
millions became worthless, and men who
had believed themselves millionaires
suddenly found they were penniless, pub.
lie works were suspended, private enter
prises and improvements stopped, and re-
trenchment in every possible direction
was the forced result. q.
At last men begin to comprehend the
folly Of crowding INTO cities and towns.
An army Of idle laborers fill the alleys
and by-ways of every considerable city,
and large proportion of the population
Of the smaller towns and the manufactur-
ing districts are out of employment, and
poverty and starvation are fsarfully com.
mon among people heretofore in comfort
able circumstances. The only possible
remedy for this state of things is a return
to agricultural pursuits on the part Of
those who abandoned the country fer city
life, and REIMBURSEMENT of proper bal
ance between consumers and producers.
1t is true all the surplus unemployed
population of the towns and cities cannot
go at once into the country and find work
and food. But before there can be any
permanent return to prosperity through
out the nation, thousands Of those now
living in cities and towns, dependent
upon manufacturing and mercantile bust
ness, must find their way into the coun-
try and become engaged in agricultural
employments. The nation is great in re.
sources and agricultural capabilities, and
there is to-day, in the Western States
alone, enough unoccupied, fertile land,
never yet disturbed by the pillow, to feed
ell the unemployed millions throughout
its vast extent. Let those who in pros
porous times saved their surplus earnings,
20 To the country bef,re their savings
have been exhausted in the fruitless
search for employ ment, and make ? home.
where by industry and fragslity they
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