The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-30
The Ola ana the New states.


Somebody having taken the tfoub.
lie recently to depreeiate 10 pris, the
waste Of money. life and labor 10 ois.
lpersing the people ef the old States
over the far west, ia the widest,
must remote and most secluded re.
gions, the usual western response is
made that the old States gaia by
those colonies new markets for their
capital, products, talent. skin and Ia
bor. There is justice on both sides
in this case The old States use their
farms in this way because the rail.
roads have made farming more prof
table at the West than at the East.
The South undersells the northern
farmer in fruits and vegetables. and
supplies the seaboard markets q
month ahead Of the local season,
while the west prevents the seab0ard
farmers from making money 10 grain
and stock This causes q perpetual
drain Of all the better class Of farmers
to settle the western prsiries. Their
places seem to be filed with lower
grade of agricGllurists, whose living
costs less; and who are more ecoGom-
ieal in their cultivation and ways IF
life. rhis change gees on in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois tie same as 10
New Jersey, New York and Penn
sylvania, aud those old western
States feel the drain more than We
do, because with them there CONES
the sharp tug of endeavoripg to at
tract population fer other purposes
than the cultivation Of cheap lauds
1t is manifest that We il the Uai-
ted States cannot adjust our produc-
zion to a proper balance any more
than the rest Of the world. We must
take our chances in marketing eur
products wherever We can do so 10
the best advantage We have the
command in cotton, corn, wheat ard
tobacco. provisions and some other
articles, and the more We ex,e1i the
area Of settlement and cultivation,
the larger becomes our txp.rts. 10
food PRODUCES we could raise enough
to supply all Europe, bot our surplus
Is restrained by the amount required
TO feed the States which ID not pro-
duce their own suppliss IL e5nse-
qaence Of the emigration, maiy ag.
rlcultural districts OF the New Eng.
land and middle States show re-
duced population, and ff9sn the s1m-
plants received from tie ola vest
We apprebead that the ceasus Of 1880
viii SLOW corresponding results there
Sill there is an obvious reaction be-
ginning in the establishment Of but
ter and cheese factories, eaaeieg fac
tories, and other aids to agriculture
Oa the other hand the progre ;
made by such States as MiDnesota.
Nebraska. Kansas and Colorado, un-
donbtedly creates markets Of morr
value to the merchants, manufaetUr-
ers, and capitalists of the old States
than the loss OF population amounts
to. The rapid increase Of Illinois,
Missouri and Iowa has been Of i'm
mense value to the industries Of the
New England aud Middle States.
Why, then, shall we object TO a rep
etition of that progress 10 Nebraska ;
Kansas AID Colorado !! Is it not bet
ter to have these emigraDts doing
we'll at the far west than idle and dis
con,ented in toe old S,atss ? Tn y
never raised the enormous crops AZ
home that they produce at the westl
Nor is it pereepIiole that our own
crops are reduced by :be siiiax OF
population In szct, the man who
leaves Us, betters bis own fortunes
without iujaring those be leaves be-
mind