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MVRE ABOUT MlNNESOIA.I
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MAN1Aro, April 26, 187S.-A month Of
journeying through the southern portion
of Minnesota has not only confirmed all
that has been said respecting the great re-
sources of this State, but has strengthened
my faith in regard to its future. have
completed careful tour of observation
through southern Minnesota, from Winona,
on the Mississippi, over the Northwestern
railway, to tie embryo town of "Gary,' IN
Dakota, Just across the western boundary Of
the state-the present working terminus of
the road. In Dakota Ispent one night! It
was enough! The entire region is one of
great beauty and of amazing productive
ness. know not where to find a better
It's advantages have by no means been exag-
gerated, and the immense swarm of imml-
grafton that is pouring into it, and who are
fast absorbing both the government and the
railroad lands, will not be disappointed. At
least such is the candid opinion of the writer
of this letter. The rapid development of
such vast and fertile region will work no
injury to the East, but will, in the end, prove
benefit to the entire country.
The States are being SO fast linked to-
gether by railroads and telegraphs that sec
tional lines are being, as it were, obliterated,
and time and space are being, as it were, an
INFLATED, in order that one mighty consoli-
dated nation may result, which knows no
North or South, or East or West! And
every section, when fully developed, will
thus forever be knit to-, and be real and
permanent benefit to every other section.
While every public journal should, there
fore, sternly discountenance every effort at
Misrepresentation and should set its seal of
disapprobation upon all selfish schemes to
promote the interests of one section at the
expense of another, it should not lose sight
of the fact that this is one united common
wealth, and that whatever tends to devel0pe
the special advantages of any particular
part of the country, is calculated to increase
the material wealth and to promote the
! general prosperity.
Those people in the East, who are dis
posed to view with uneasiness the present
movement to the West, arc, it seems to me, la
! boring under u mistake. So far as the
| movement is legitimate one and is not fos-
|
harm, on the contrary, it will do great deal
of good. A surplus and unproductive popu-
| lation is everywhere dead weight upon a
community, and is most prolific
source of popular disturbances and
crime. If this pressure of
| population, upon the means of support, is
permitted to relieve itself by natural means
! and in obedience to natural laws, all evil
consequences will be averted, and a healthy
tone Of both industrial and social life will be
secured. It need not be feared that too
many people will migrate from the East.
| Those who go, if the movement is just one,
and is confined within it's natural limits, will
| make it all the better for those who remain.
Supply and demand are the true regulators
| everywhere, and when these laws are net
arbitrarily interfered with by men of mar
row prejudices and one sided views, bene-
fetal consequences must be the sure and in
evitable result. AS certain as that water will
seek it's proper level, as certain is it that the
stream of population will flow in such di-
rections as its vital interests lie. And this
natural flow should not be thwarted, only
evil can accrue from any attempts on our
part to stem these human torrents by arti-
fetal means. They may be thus checked
for time, but the waters thus temporarily
arrested, will at length burst through the
flood gates and sweep away the fimsy dams
and scatter ruin. perhaps, on every side. This
IS the true light, am persuaded, IN which
men of intelligence in the East should view
the present movement in the West.
It should be borne in mind tina! this emf
grafton, which carries SO much terror t
tilnid souls, is in no degree the creature O.
speculation. If it were 80, then
indeed, it should be condemned. It ha:
sprung from iron necessity and is sus
tanned by actual wants. These men are no
going to the West to dabble in corner lot
and to revive the speculative fever which ha
grown cold. They are moving to their nev
Western homes simply to till the soil and t.
escape from the intolerable depression of th
more crowded districts. And they will sure
ly improve their condition by SO doing, an
by lessening the competition of labor the
will improve the condition of those who re
main behind. In this way the disproportio
; between demand and supply will be quietl
adjusted and wholesome equilibrium
} brought about. Our cities are now Over
crowded, not only in the East but in tn
: West, and the sooner these swarning placs
are to a certain extent depopulated and til
more copiously this unemployed labor
made to flow forth into the broad prairie
, and fertile lands of the West, the sooner wi
our national industry recover from the para
ysis that is upon it.
Such, in the view of the writer, is the tru
+ philosophy of this subject. Those who wis
1 facts can easily obtain them. The facts {
. Minnesota are within the reach of all, an
: they will bear the most rigid examination
AS a mere visitor to this State from the cit
of Chicago, can bear my humble testimor
! to its merits. In soil, in climate; in til
v beauties of its scenery and the character {
: its people, in the manifold variety of its pr,
auctions, in the grandeur of its rivers OF
the number of its lakes and streams, in
convenience to great markets and its faci
d ties for transportation by water and by "a
l. in these respects, as well as in its intellecr
\ and moral and educational advantages, Mi
nesota is unsurpassed.
y John EsA1As WARREN.
20 BARKIS is wILLlN'
And When He is Willin' he is Awful WI