Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-28
Going West.

peQpIe VINO go WeS% from q uGslIe 10
get out of the old rnts into new eNper-
fences, and who have no 9sfiaite aims
or plans in view, are often sorely dis
appointed. They paint the scenes be-
fore them with rosy hues, and if the
shadows prove TO be deeper than antic-
ipated, they lose heart, decry the west
and curse their i'll luck. 1t is a rare
thing one finds the royal road to wealth
in any department Of life's activities.
Yet some are so foolish us to think
that "out vest they may get fortune
and fame for the asking.
The west has great and varied re-
sources, but these do not spontaneous
ly yield up their wealth. Toll and sac
rilice. thought and persistent effort, are
the prices of success. Some capital is
needed even ON q "free homestead"
Yet many go west taking only enough
money TO pay their travelling expenses
to their destination. Once in Il While
such a one succeeds, but he runs a
great risk in so going tG new and I'M
tried scenes.
Some peysulS go west seeking Il
homestead on public lands just suited
to their taste: They scour large re-
gion of country, and do not find what
they want. They hope to find hill and
dale, meadow and stream, soil and eli
mate and accessibility to markets in a
certain pr%ecnnceived shape. Some who
TAIL to find what they look for take
what they do find. adapt themselves to
circumstances and in time succeed.
Others f'Dlast the country and go back
TO the east, with lugGbrious tales of
she Wild west.
Persons going west should be pre-
pared for hardships and disappoint-
ments, ready to work at what their
hands find to do. if it be honorable.
They ought to sake with them money
enough to live upon for at least six
months. IT they go upon a claim, they
nave much value in the land itself, yet
it will cost something to build a suita-
bic %habitation, and tools and teams will
pe needed. While the cost 0fliying on
the frontier is larger in respect to gro
ceries, provisions and clothing, than in
the east, yet the aggregate of expenses
is usually much less in. the west, for
fhe reason that questions of rent and
the like cut scarcely any figures there.
Failing to see the thousand and one
things they are tempted to and often
DO bay in older settlements, they do
not spend so much for tritles. They
earn, as a rule, better wages in q new
country than III an old.
One with some capital will often do
better to buy improved land in prefer
ence to taking a homestead. There are
frequent opportunities to buy farms
cheap. In every community are those
who want to sell out at any sacrifice
and move away.
One going west should use sound
sense. Judgment and discretion, and
not feed on too much romance about
the great west" except with eyes wide
open.
Some OF the most prosperous com
munities in the country, We're, when
they were on the frontier, points full
OF difficulty and Encouragement. In
fact many Of the best points in the far
west are diamonds in the rough, and
need much furnishing before they will
shine. Stout hearts, hands ready to Ia
Dor, added to a moderate sum Of mon
ey. will bring success to the great ma
jority who respond to "westward, ho.'
Western Land Guide.
II you ever read the newspapers, or
permit yourself to mingle in political
disgrace yourself as an A1nerican-you
have often observed how profoundly
devoted to principle and patriotism is
the great party Of Outs, and how anx-
ious they are, for the sake Of humanity
and all the great virtues, that the ms
should be defeated. The Ins, accord
ing to the orators of the Outs, are such
a host OF corruption, they are SO venal,
so selfish, SO unscrupulous, SO auda-
cious. so contemptuos of right ard JUS
tice and law, sc tyrannical, so ignorant
SO abominable, that we may Justly ex-
pect the Divine wrath to yisitthe world
with another deluge unless the Ins are
put out and the Outs are put in. But
IT you incline your ear to the eloquence
OF the ms, you learn that the Outs are
the refuse Of creation, solely intent up
on success that they may fatten and
batten upon the good things of power.
and that their triumph would be the
surrender Of every hope and interest
OF mankind to unsparing destruction.
IT'S the great struggle between Pot and
kettle.-G. w. Curtis.
The officers OF the West Michigan
Farmers Club have had considerable
correspondence with the trunk railway
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