The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-06-17
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ISSUE " tue 4NleuVlAsOpuuty tilT0lt'
PEE gives his experiences in the
West in an article which merits
general circulation in West Viz
gina. II shows the reverse side Of
the gaadily colored picture paint
led by seltinierested land agents
and others to allure our people
from their comfortable homes 10
seek easy fortunes beyond the Ohio
river lie says
81 have been West al least ak
times, and the more | zee Of il, the
more | don't like ii. The more |
see Of Vert Virginia and its capa.
bilities, the more ! like them.
This talk Of getting rich out
West is an absufdity. Just as II
there were hardly any poor men
thofel Why, the country is dotted
with them, just AZ bard up as the
poor are here, And, If YOU take a
county in Illinois or Iowa, and
compare It with any county in
West yirginia, where the land az.
efages the same 10 value, how
many more rich men will you find
in tho prairie county than in our
mountain one2
Their is one solid advantage in
going West, and only one as Tar as
! can see, for US Of West Virginia,
and that is, that it isapt to help The
man who goes, as a man. 1t Is apt
to teach him To work harder and
better, 10 have more true indopen.
dence and self.reliance. But these
virtues can be acquired here us full.
" as there, if parents will but
teach them, and boys will but prac
tice them, There is no patent
right for them out West nor any
sole agency for distributing them,
as far as | know.
Again. Before our people move
out West, | think they had better
reckon up u little on The score Of
comforts, How much does the
shade around your house cost you2
You will have to pay for it out
West, and wait years TO get it, too.
The same, too, in regard to fruit;
here, IL is everywhere; there it is no
where. Ard il you 60 to the North.
west, it is a chance il you can raise
any at ALL The climate is severe.
What would you take to do with.
out your ppring and creek2 If you
move West you will have nospfing
your creek will be poisonous dur.
ing the summer-and, when you
have dug a well, the water will be
apt to be very inferior to what you
nave been used 10.
What are you going to do about
wood TO burn, wood for fence posts,
and rails, and boards for fencing
and building? will tell you. Out
West you will probably have to 60
to town and pay money for coal,
which is so miserably dirty that
yon would not burn ii here. You
will have to buy every board and
every fence post you use. There
may be some scrub in the neigh |
borhood where you can cut pea
sticks, but if you want a sled, or
wagon pole, you will have to go to
the lumberyard aud buy it.
Money is very powerful, very
useful, very delightful. am will
ing to admit all that. am also
willing to admit that good deal
more Of it passes through an aver.
age mans hands out West than in
West Virginia. But how much
more of it sticks to them? That is
another and u very different ques.
ton. Yes, after buying all the
store goods that a man has to buy,
whether he lives East or West, and
then after meeting all tho extra
calls that he has on him out thsre,
| certainly should like to know
how much more money sticks to
the fingers out West than in West
Virginia.
And then the long winters, when
a man can do nothing but feed.
And tho tremendous wind storms,
which we know nothing about here.
And the grasshoppers.
Aud the risk Of the prices of
corn and wheat being below the
cost of raising them, us they were
last year.
And the roads are no better.
And the frosts are just as bad.
Aud the taxes are q good deal
higherl
Andtho chills are laying in wait
down by the creek. Andconsump.
ton stands ready to wind up a cold
for you, If you are not careful. No
sir, there is no Western fever about
me. I've been inoculated for it
six times over. And I'm not go.
ing to change a country where a
man can raise anything he likes,
aud have the hcalthiest and pleas
ATTEST climate | know of, for any
part of that overpralsed Great
West that have yet seen or heard
Of.
The watch word for West Vir.
ginians should not be go West; but,
learn to farm, When our young
men have mastered this, the West
ern fever will be cured; for our
whole country will BE- so prosper.
Gus and so healthy that the poor
Western ague victims will como to
US in hundreds as they have before
now come in tens.
West Virginia.
New Orleans TimcS.Democutl