Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-08-03

than laugh or drlig store TO dispel
the delusi0n. Socialism, or communism
or agrarianism is an exotic which, soon
becomes indigenous to this clim ate and
soil. The disorder and riots of lat We r
prove that laboring men have inhaled its
views, that it has taken firm root and that
IFS branches.are spreading, Trees which
are ornaments to behold and whose fruit
have dispensed comfort and consolation
to thousands cannot hardly live in its vi
ciniIy. 1t has i'm this country evolved it.
self most too sOOn-frOm a rerniciOus
plant lEto Il ilriOils and ungOvermable
monster whose will is law. lie has no
respect for venerable institutions, but u
great deal for anarchy and disorder. I'll,
moral cole is somewhat remarkable as is
ovinced by emitting the negative in the
commandment. Ills cllarac eriStics are
selfislincss, croOkedness-anythin but
gOdliness.
How to ril ourselves OF such monster
is IL query. My .aughing-gas would only
produce OH him Il sardOnic smile. like
that OF Gen. Buffers when he SAW him
self in possession of tie silver spoons.
The drug store might dO something in
that way, but the monster knows more
than rails. The most effrct,Ial way i'm my
humble opinion is for every labOrimg
man TO take piece of land, live on and
improve II. AS soon rs the monster will
pei ceive that labOring men are ,letermin-
ell by their own arms; their own indus
try and :hrir own persc veraice to make
homes for themselves. he will soon get
diSgilsted and leave ChebOygam.
Laborlng men are not willing To go
ten or fifteen miles from the town in
order To get themselves Il homestead.
There is good deal of land from O:.e
to three miles away that can be pur-
chased on easy terms. If a person c,l,-
not afford to buy twenty acIrs let HIM
buy ten. and il he cannot buy ten le
him buy five acres. Five acres improved
us land is improved in the vicinity of
large cities are worth to latOring man
more than five times as much as any
cOmmOn'hUlise and lot anywhere within
the corporation. The fault is that farrp-
ers OWL too much land in this county;
aud in t6elI endeavOrs 10 improve all
they improve none rs land land ought 10
be improved. Were laboring men to
adopt the above lint they would not
only DO good to themselves but would
help TO improve the vicinity of the town,
Which is so much needed.
find no less than eight homesteads
taken OH The plains of Sturgeon river.
Some OF them would seem to be very
sanguine OF their future succrss. /
noticed il; many places that The subsoil
oI The plains is clay. such us can ba seen
along Ilgeon river AID around Black
lake Such plains make the choicest
farming land. There are many persons
in This county who consider the plains
as entirely wOr. hieSs. Df. Roming.r. the
ate groiOgi>t, gave but little better
character of the soil. In his report, in
legarG I'd the timber and soil of the higl,
plateau IN tue rOrlhern part OF Lower
Peninsula, he says: The high plateau
IN the L"wer Peninsula is covered with
pine iOresi. to tie exclusion OF almost
every oiher kind of timLer.s The soil,
us long us there is any humas mixed with
IL. may GIVE fair potato crop, or, by
car iu' Attendance, garden vegetables clii
Oe RAJ, Ell, But its productiveness is so
soon Xhatlsied aud its moisture so soon
lost HAT II can never he used for agricul-
ttrc Oh urge scale with any prospect
| OI sueccsss-;
mus say that | do not understand
now tibe doctor came TO such Il concla-
SION lii regard To the forests which COW
ers se above mentioned land, as he
! w"u'd appear TO dO SO in Il very
sho time. TO any OF our wOOdsmen il
Woss.,ld certainly oe tie work of a lon:
| iii5ne Science has made such wonderful
aSavanceinent within tie last few years
,at it would be we'll for person not !,
eiru,ist 10 suspend his opinion tor lee
! tlat he doctor may be in poss,,s.,lli;'. l;.5i .,
SOM. great discovery which t,.uN Az Mi.,u IN,
OF iofesf III Z large Tact of ''"'rS WIN
f out seeing it. ,.,.,,
soil refers exclusively 10 pine plains, but
it would be well tor a person to wait the
test of our seulcIs OH Sturgeon river
before homcsteading land on the plains.
" herever the subsol is clay there ought
TO be 40 hesitation i'm taking the land,
us such lands are the bes in this county
| | would Say to labnring men 10 secure IA
piece of land willie They can. Tor in few
years that chance will be closed against
| them. Yours,
j. NJ.