The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-05-17

Hlu ully VhTAlNIlN HAou. pHt VI Iccl
tho results Of whnt IL called pressure of
population, TO renlize horo pressure Of
tho same kind TINT forces European
emigration npon our shores, WI will
not have To whit for TINT. Europe to-
day II not over populated. In Ireland,
whence We have received such nn i'm
mense immigration, not oncsixth Of tho
soil is under cultivation, nnd ptpss
grows and benata fted where once werc
rorulans villages In Scotland there
Ii tie solitude ol thu deer forest md
tho grouse moor where n century npa
Mcro homes Of MN. Ono may ridc on
the railways through tho richest egri-
cultural districts of England and sce
scarcely rs many houses ~ IN tho valley
of the plntsa. who're .lsu biiilnlo hcr,l,d
GN soaia bnck.
Twelve months ago, when the hedges
were blooming, ! passed along lovely
English road near hy tho cottage of
TINT shepherd ~ Salisbury Plain rf
whom 7 ,cnd when boy in u trnct,
which in good sample Of tho hnsks
frequently given to children as religious
food, md which IN still, | presume, Ills.
trihut,d hy tho American, Ms II is by
The English. Tract Society. Tn one
aldo II The road wna II wide eNpansr of
rich lind In Which no plouRhshars
had TINT season been struck. because
its owner demanded Il higher rcnt tllan
the farmers would give. TN tho other.
stretched for many broad aero u
lor,lls park, its selvety verlure mn.
troAlen save hy n few light.footcd deer.
And, as Mc passed along, my com.
panion. anatiye of those parts, bitterly
complained that, since this lord Of the
manor had inclcscd tho littlc village
green and sot out his fences To take in
tho grass OF tho roadside. the cottaaers
could not hcsr cScn Il goose, and tho
children ef thu village had no place to
play. Place thcrc was in plenty, hnt, 81
far rs the children were concerned. IL
might as we'll he in Africa or in the
moon. And so In our far West have
seen rmigraa,s tailing painfully for
long distances through vacant land
without finding n spot on which they
| dared settle, In a country whore the
springs and streams ere all melesed hs
walls he cannot scale. the wa,farer, hut
for charity, might perish of thirst NJ III
| n desert,
lherc il plenty Of vacant land on
| Mauhnttan island Nut on Manhattan
Island human beings arr packed closer
than anywhere else In the world, There
| il plenty Of fresh air all arouna--~one
man owns forty acres OF il, a whilf oi
which he never hreathes, since his hom,
is en his yacht. in European waters--hut
for al, that, thousands ~ childre" III,
in New York every summer Tor want ol
II, and thousands more would dic did
no. charitable people subscribe 10 fresh
air funds, The social pressure which
forces ON our shores this swelling til,
of immigration arises not from tho fas'
that tho land Of Europe il all in use
but that il is appropriated. That vii
seoa Ire our casa NJ we'll. Our Ian,
will not all be used hut il will all b
"fvnecd in,
| We still talk OF oar vast public do
main, aud tigares showing millions m,
millions II acres of inappropriate,
/ public land Yet swell graa,lly in tho re
ports of our l.ana Office, Hut alrea,t,
II il so difficult ta find public land Il
for settlement that the great majorlt,
of those Wishing IL settle lind il chcarc
t. hay. AMI reats II California AMI th
new Northwest run for Il quarter 4
even one.half the crop, 1t must h
remembered that the area which "
,lsuras IN tho returns If our public 10
main includes all the great me,mtas'
chains all the vast deserts and dr,
plains 1T only for grazing, or not esel
Tor that, ii must he remembered that
of what is really fertile millions IN,
millions os aervs arc covered hv rail
road grants as sct aarateased. or
what amounts IL the same thing 10 tn
settler. are shalewea hv thems tha
much is held by appropriation of TIL
water. without which ii i useless, AN
that much moro is held under claims q
various kinds, which, whether legal q
illegal, arc sufficient to keep the settle
on unless h. will consent to pay
pr,ee or Ia MORTGAGE his labor for year.
Nevertheless. land with Us is sti
comparatively cheap, Bat this cann,
long continue. Tho stream Of imm
grafton that comes swelling in, aaae
To our steadily angmea,iNg natural il
crease, will soon naw 80 occupy or
available lands as to raise the price I
the poorest land worth settling on to
point w have never known Neasl
! tweaty years ego Mr., Wade, II ahi,
in n speech in the United States Senat'
/ predicted that hv tho close of Il
century every acre Of good agrscultur;
land ia tho Union would IL worth
| lesst so, That his prediction will |
even moro than verified We may alr,ad
see. tx the closc of the century OF
population. n the normal rate of /,
: crease. will he over IA. 600, oaN more tha
/ i'm 1880. That is to say, within the ne.
, seventeen wears an additional pornl
ton, greater than that ot the WHO
: United States nj tho close of the CIV
F. Mar, will he demanding room, Whel
. Mill thev find cheap landg There
, no further West, our advance h
! reached the Pacific, and beyond Il
: Pacific is the East, With its teenli,
: millions. From San Diego t. Tag
/ Soand there il no valley of the Ca
/ line tha. is not settled or rre-empte
4 IL the very f3rthtss corners of the I
| public settlers are already going. II
I pr, sSu.e i already 80 great that sre,
!. ia,ion ana settlement are beginning
: eros ti4a northern border into GAIA,
9 and tie sesthera hprler into AeAlc
: 50 great thai tn 4 i Icing settled a
is becoming ralra'ale that a lew yea
4 asa would have been rejected
e where m4nt Ats six months ami I
: taermom ter goes down INTO the fort
= below x.ro: Land where. ewing III iH>'
L lieisnt rainfall, "A crop is always ris
\ land that ear nj le cultivated n
h without ilr;gati IA. The VAST spaces
Il t'an western half If the continent da 4
n eontasa anything like the proportion
/. gahie land that dos tAe eastern. 1
/. great American dess TT VT eAls
le though not NOW marked aren .
Il Isa'ss.
A Isere is not to-day remaining in |
ia United States any considerable body
4 gana land unsettled ard nncla.ms
D.. u,pon which settlers can ~ Mita
ii prospect Il finding homestead
A. t.uy.rnmens terms, Already fhe II
a II settlement presses angfilg upon