The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-22
COMING WEST.

About this season OF tue year III NV N.uei
eest OF the Mississippi, where
business openings are few and prospects to
the young look gloomy and forhldding, the
more yenturesome young men begin to
dream of and make preparations for coming
west. In the latter part Of the summer and
the early fall they come in imposing num-
bers, full of hope and assured that fortune
aud fame are easily picked up away from
h me. Many of them remain after reach
ing their destination and in time succeed in
gaining a foothold and adapting themselves
to the new order of things around them, but
the vast majority, if they do not become
after awhile dissatisfied and return to the
eastern states, utterly fail to realize
the bright dreams with which they
crossed the Mississippi. The cause OF this
dissatisfaction or failure is easily explained.
The majority Of the young men who come
west come unprepared for business. With
out having learned well any special line OF
business and fresh from the schools or
homes where their time has been spent il
idleness, they push out among strangers
with the hope that something is sure to
turn up" that will put money in their
purses and render them independent. AS
a consequence we have annually in our
midst multitude of youths who are seek
ing employment without having any fitness
whatever for the character of labor they
desire, or for that matter, of any kind.
The result is just as might have been ex-
pected. Hundreds are forced to remain
idle or engage in unremuneratve and
mental employment or return as best they
can to the homes and centres from which
they fled but short while previous,
and the west, instead of prov
ing au FL Dorado becomes
a worse prison and field for growth for
many year than the older sections they
left. We notice from the Macon Telegraph
through an Atlanta letter, that within a
few days past large number of young
men had left their homes in North Caro-
lima to seek fame and fortune in the west,
southwest and northwest. They reported
dull times in the old north state, and spoke
discouragingly of the business prospects
there, and, with common purpose to seek
rev fields, started to the great, and to the
eastern youth, ever attractive west. Facts
such as these are of Importance not only to
the young men who have thus left home,
but equally 30 to the west, their destina-
ton. We need many strong arms in the
west, and especially the strength and prem
ise and activity that come with
youth. The rapid development in every
line .of effort affords innumerable
openings, and the young men of
the east are the most desirable immigrants,
but there are some things that these young
men should first learn before venturing
/ nto new fields, for their own sakes as vel
as for the advantage Of the communities
into which they may come. The west needs
educated, skilled LABOR. Mere adventures
with nothing special in view, and no spe
cial.fitness for anything can nowadays do
as we'll in any other section as in the west.
II is this class that grows dissatisfied, that
failing to realize baseless dreams becomes a
dead weight upon the social, business and
moral circles Of the west, and the relation
Of whose miserable failures keeps better
men unacquainted with the real facts At
home. But to the man with specially
the man who has learned well some charac-
ter Of work or business, and who has the
requisite pluck and staying qualities, the
west, almost any portion OF ii, offers u
boundless and promising field.
II these young men from the "old north
state" therefore, or any and all others who
are coming into the west, have welldeiined
objects . view and the practical knowl-
edge ana experience necessary to accom-
pligh under any thing like favorng condi-
tons, their objects, success in the west will
be assured. They act wisely in leaving the
sleepy east, and the communities in which
they may settle will gain largely by their
advent. Only, however, under such cir
cumstances and conditions as we have sug-
gested is this annual deseItion OF the east.
ern states by the young men, wise OF
promising move, except in a very few and
rare cases. The young men on the other side
OF the Mississippi therefore will
do well to remember that be-
fore coming west they should care.
fully fit themselves for some useful line OF
business, no matter how humble or of what
character. lfthey be intelligent specialists
ii they bring skilled labor, the west wants
them and success awaits them. Failure Ia
do this has been the cause of many a'bitter
disappointment and much keen suffering
in the west. Nearly every portion of the
section west of the Mississippi is now
settled in business and socially, and the
conditions Of success are pretty much the
same as they are in the east. The days Of
rapid fortune and luck are about over, and
only skill, patience, intelligence. courage
and industry now find field and achieve
success in the great west, just M is the case
in the east. The fact is one, therefore, tina,
those who contemplate coming west will dc
well to remember, and no season is NOR,
opportune than the present to impress thi.
valuable truth upon them.
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