Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-03
The Primal Industry Organized Emigra-
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perfect, from the hand of his creator, found
himself in a garden, surrounded by flow
ers and fruits and animals of various sorts,
with all the comforts OF lite, except gas
and newspapers, and a few other things
we might mention. These he would have
got on very well without if he had behaved
himself properly, and we infer from all we
have been able to learn from Hebrew his
tory, the testimony Of the rocks and
things, and the trend OF events and opin.
ions, from Paradise to Paris, London and
Chicago, that had he been faithful in his
allegiance TO his divine father and kept
his hand from the forbidden fruit, he would
have been in Eden today and forever,
growing throughout the ages in noble
qualities and attributes, and approaching
in character and beauty the graces and
proportions of the divine model
Man at his second best, when he had
shown his humane qualities and frailties
by disobedience to God, became farmer,
aud proceeded to coax out of the SOIL by
honest but laborious industry, those fruits
of the ground which at the first sprang
spontaneously and lusciously to meet the
eye and the palate.
l. vas only when people became very
bad that cities were invented and unfortu-
nate people were crowded into them.
Then came indigestion, headaches, fevers
and epidemic scourges, with liquor saloons,
corner loafers, ward bummers, book agents
and dead beats; and it will be only when
people grow better and wiser that they will
go back to first principles and seek in the
cultivation OF the soil that sort of life and
sustenance which restore and ennoble and
tend to bring man back to his first and
best estate.
One little bit of good fruit that has been
borne by the bad tree OF any hard times
has been the forcing from the workshops
of hundreds of stalwart, strong armed
men to the broad fields of the south, west
and northwest, to find in agricultural pur-
suits health, independence and generous
subsistence. We need not here 90 into
detail nor undertake to show how these
men, with very little money capital, but
with great pluck, perseverance and we'll
directed energy are entering upon new,
better and more prosperous lite for them.
selves and are serving, also, as good citi-
zens to build up the great wastes of the
interior OF the continent into the grand
and measureless empire of the future
Uncle Sam sells to each son who wishes
| it, good farm for much less than the
price of one of PATHS songs, and the man
who has a thousand dollars ahead can--on
western tarm-make himself indepen-
dent for life in years time. And men
with much less than the sum named can
begin life anew on government or railway
land, and in a few years be their own men,
as independent and as happy as De Foe
made out Robinson Crusoe to be.
These suggestions are purely disinterest
ed--made solely and utterly in the inter.
ests Of men whose condition in the crowd
ed towns, as the employees of great corpor-
ations, is unsatisfactory and Improbable
TO themselves. They are good class of
citizens and to the people of the city in
which they live their exodus, in any large
numbers, would be calamity, but
they have, nevertheless, the right
OF selfprotection and the natural,
God-given privilege OF trying to promote
their own welfare.
We are inclined to consider with much
favor the plans now employed for sending
such men and their families as wish to 90
out in groups, with a good representation
Of those industries which go hand in hand
with agricultural pursuits-men to build
their houses, or to make their clothes and
shoes, or to supply them with the manu-
factured and imported products necessary
to their subsistence and comfort. But en-
terprises of this sort need very wise, care
iul and close management, and if they do
not have it are in danger of disastrous
end. Men must make good selection Of
land, climate and companions.
1t seems to us that these suggestions
may be made especially useful to young
men OF energy and enterprise. General
Keifer aud Mr.. Bowman, of this city,
have purchased large tracts of land
in Kansas and Nebraska and have
sent their sons out to manage and cul-
tivate them, with very good results. The
young men are finding health, strength
and development and the great primal in
dustry which they have entered upon and
| are carving out sure and generous fortunes
These young men had not the spur of per-
sonal need to inspire them TO effort, but
they had the laudabe desire to do some
thing in the world and for the world, and
they are doing it. What they do from
choice those who are engaged in fighting
the grim wolf of want from the door, can
do, on a smaller scale, in their pursuit OF
food and clothes
1t would be well if we had large and
strong companies, composed of well-to-do
men who were pubic-spirited and phiian-
throphic, which could aid those in mod.
crate circumstances who wished to take up
land and cultivate the soil by loaning them
funds for year or so as needed, until
they could raise crops and return the
moLey.
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