The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-07-30
FALSE INDUCEMENTS.

FALSE INDUCEMENTS.
 ] Every newspaper in the state devotes a
 part of its intellectual energy to the cause I iofimmigration. The labor thus employed yields handsome returns. for every indus ,rious man who comes here brings just so much of blessing with him; but i'm migration writing should be done care fully. You may induce man to vote for certain party. which indeed IS the oo- lect of half the writing performed ID this country. and TO material harm may be done. but when you induce man ,o leave an old home. where his wife Is satisfied and his daughters are well acquainted. and come to a comparatively new state. expecting 10 md rivers of milk levied with honey comb. you may work an IT, reparable injury. Arkansaw Is great sta,ebut in speaking of it's advantages do not go beyond the truth. The truth well told is enough to induce large immigra- tion The man who comes with pretty clear idea of what he is going 10 md makes a much better citizen. that is. does not vote half so early nor nearly so often. IS the man who Is disappointed at not
 finding the country as II has been repre- sen,ed. 4 friend down Tn the country who has large tract of land for sale and who Is publishing little immigration paper. is inJuring the cause by reckless cxaggeration. Last week his paper con- ;ained the following. which no man with cool. mathematical mind can read with now conceded by ali tha, Arkansaw Is the most glorious country in the world. for health richness of soil. urbaniiv of manners and general disposition to stand
 IT with the gang. In this community health is such an established fact that a farmer boy has considerable trouble in convincing the old man that he Is sick and should go fishing. And soil. gen tlemen. step away back. The soil Is so productive that you have to keep plug n the well to proven; is growing up some time ago gentleman came to our place and while talking to us ID the field. stuck his cane in the ground. He forso, he stick when he Jeff. and SIT, three days afterwards the boys chopped |, down for rail timber.
 These kind of inducements although ihey may be strong n etfec, upon some people. have a tendency 10 create suspi- con n the mind of the calculating man.
 \ disappointed man is the embodiment, of melancholy, The most endur- ing disappointment; ;s ;ha; of aa un- sa,isf .e;oy change of home. There fore. to not mislead the immigrant Think of what he has to endure. Think Of how his wife VOWS she will npt accom- pany hum. Think oi how she pines for a drink of water from the old spring after she does accompany him. The poor fci- low. struggling ,o improve his condition
 i, constantly harrassed by his wife and daughters. The people in this country don't know how to keep house" the wife declares. Bu, in fact you can't keep house clean Tn this county Never saw such a place for dirt in my life. The water aint iii to drink. and even the vcge,a hlcs don, taste right" Then one of the girls says: Nothing amt right. Go, no society Why. there am, young man in thls neishborhood iha, I'd have Every day secs a tree fall every day sees furrow opened. Amid vexations that would have made lob throw up his hands, the poor man strives week after week No sir do He, le; him see h's new home by the glmmcrinss of ] false light. Let him view i; ln the clear noontidc of truthful de-