Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-25
The Fertility of Michigan-The State
to COmeltO-Th0se who 60 Further
VIII Fare Worse.

Will Fare Worse.
Correspondence of the New York Graphic.
1t is very hard work to keep still and
see millions of my fellow beings max
| ing total failure of life's missions,
when | know, as | know that I live, that
happy home on earth with peace and
plenty is within easy reach of every able
bodied, homeless man in the United
States.
Not until found myself homeless
and pennileSs wanderer (after following
the pillow in my own burrows for seven
years. did fully realize what hollow
and cold comfort there is in the popular
theories of reform, political and social.
of the day, to men without homes of
their own.
Tonight, as the cold, wintry winds
are bowling around my snug little cabin
far back in the wilderness of northern
Michigan, we. (wife, two little children
and MYSELF gather around our cosy
fireside and realize that we have home
of our own and an abundance of the
ordinary comforts of life safely beyond
the reach of landlords, capitalists and
prOfit-mOngers of the cold world. | feel
rich, indeed when reviewing the past
eight years of struggle to get a home,
although in 1870 | felt wretched and
poor with twenty times my present
capital. l ask myself: Is it possible
that recital of the truthsl that have
been literally ground into my hearts
core with my struggle from penniless-
ness and dependence to home and real
independence at the lowest grade of
labor and lowest wages under the most
hopeless circumstances that ever sur.
rounded man-can do any good to hope
less workers east.
When l know these truths, i. e., that
the physical strength of fifteen-year
old lad, we'll directed, will procure
enough of life's necessaries and COM
forts to sustain at least five families the
year round, if the worker will only trust
in his God, and go to the soil for his en-
plOyer, feel as though was "called to
preach" to the homeless workers through
out our country the truths that have
cost me such terrible suffering to learn,
to point them the way that have Eeen
driven as their only salvation.
Within cannon shot of my cabin on all
sides lie thousands of acres of the most
fertile land on this continent, every forty
acres of which would make a happy
home and an Independent living for a
large family, and this with only five
hours work daily after the first years
start. What If this is true. is it not
well worth while for the wOrkingmen
to think, and think seriously, if thew
love their wives and little ones, whether
it is best to waste their lives and wear
out their bodies in hopeless slavery. or
strike for home and liberty. If | could
0ntV ImnrQGC tho Cirn Mo h.
minds of the wOrkingmen of the differ
ence between bondage and freedOm-be-
tween the life of a wage worker, no mat |
ter how great the wages in the factories
and mines, and the life of pioneer on |
his own soil, in his own cabin, between |
working ten and eleven hours daily I'M
der an Overseer and working as you
please at hOme-Oh. could rouse them |
up and make them wild men indeed.
For the past few years there has been
I great rush for the western prairies. If |
The truth of the immensely superior
natural advantages of Michigan, with
is growth OF beech and maple, its rich
'Oll, pure, everlasting water, spring
brooks meandering over nearly every
section and the unrivalled health of the
climate could once be known to those
W Out WOulu
BASS 1T by and go hundreds of miles fur
her west to find home. No such solid
prosperity can be found in the United
states as exists i'm Michigan, and in no
part of Michigan can there be found
uch perfect farming country asIin the
lOrth central part of the lower penin-
uIa.
1t will pay those in the eastern states
Intending to Ego west" to try and learn
# the truth of this statement.
There can be no mistake; no man need
)e deceived. Wheat will tell. Never
we're there such opportunities offered
or stock raising. and in fact all kinds
# farming carried on north, as are
Ound here. Men of small means-frOm
300 to $1,000 capital-can certainly be-
,Ome wealthy in few years i'm this Sec
ion. On the prairie the poor man can
lot turn his labor to account i'm obtain
ng timber, lumber, fuel and water.
capital alone can do this. Here i'm a
lmbered country, with the start of an
TX, six months food, a COW and an OK
cam, man can very easily cut his way
tut to independence i'm three years. I
peak whereof l know when say that
10 section in the United States offers
uch inducements to poor men seeking
ZONES as this part of Michigan. But
Ortunes cannot be made suddenly here.
len must pay for what they get, slowly
m the start, but independence is GER
ain as the coming of the season to the
liligent worker. My income in the past
hree years although have been an
Invalid, with the heaviest work known
o man tmade light boys play by think
ng), taking off the timber-has been at
east $1.50 per day, every day, saved
lear of every expensefO old age and
Others have done much
,etter, and any man with 5000 start and
'Obust strength can very easily do twice
Is well.
When will the wage-workers and ten
mt farmers east wake up to know this
Oul and body saving truth? A home of
our own on your own fertile soil. with
,eace and plenty and perfect liberty, is
within easy reach of you all. God has
,iven you power to break your bonds
md find paradise on earth for your
elves, wives and little ones, if you will
'nly rouse up and use your powers mod
'rately, persistensly, prayerfully. Your
'nlY way out of the wilderness is into
he wilderness to cut your way out with
he ak.
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