The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1886-10-22
GET OUT OF THE CITY.
SUCH IS THE ADVICE OF THE POET
OF tn. SlERRAS.

OF tn. slERRAs.
What joaquin Miller Says If New York
The vine.Clad Hi,,> IF the Curo,;nns-
Life in the Sierras---Arizona and New
Mexico.
t;et out of the cities and stay on, OF the
cities. The cities of the United States are
too big entirely. mean to say that our
population in the cities is fraituiiy dis.
propprlionate to our population in the
country. 10 say nothing abnu, the cold,
GEAR truth that neither geniu, nor great
j. dgment ever fiourishe,l ina city with
out first drawing its milk from the ru,l,,-
try. beg You to compare EnglaiI>
e untry population with her city Iul',ia-
t.on. and then ours. Take France il you
like 1t better, Or Germany. ipu will DC
startled. But have ncitlicr space nor
Il position to debate or cry out against
this cowartlly disposition to hide away in
the commercial. pork packing: elites If
America But will say This of New
York, u city know inirly well from some
years OF residence there: never saw Hh
ignorant people amy where ON earth rs the
people OF New York. Yes, they read. But
what ITO they read: The papers Aud
the papers they read are the New York
papers. They simply read Of themselves
their own sins, their own fnllic>, their
own weary and tircIc>> round and rcp"ti-
ton of crimes, set and served rs II break
fast dish by the brilliant men 1T the pens.
Get out of that place aud stay OH, of it.
Get out ot all such places. Get into the
country, into the lifted hills il you can.
1t is only II little distance to the glorious
green and vile-cI,l hills Of til" caru!;;,s.
send some one Of your number down there
to see those fruitful and h.althtul hills,
aud my word for it you viii moi willingly
spend all your life inside the lin" Of folly
which makes up life in il great city. Get
ont Of those places Will, your children. No
English gentleman VIII" can afford il will
leave his children tt the iullieS and the
sins nt !, city. NJ wise man will. Of
whatever land. AMI 81 it |, with warm
hear, >houl! like t.. respond /" this crv
which appeals to me from the cities for
homes and information about homes in
the west.
Frankly, then. would first say 60
down INTO the plea>an, mountains ut The
CayOi,aS first, lHta't - that is close toy.
Get Il bit ut land the ii ynl like il. ';ct
it now. 1t will never b. cheaper than t
is nov. Next year ii may In. 'i"uM" IT.
present price. At least. inquire there
rather than 81 ne. 10 You know thu
nearly all on, grapes in the eastern states.
as we'll u, cl>cw here. came from the ar'-
linus long ago: DO sou know ,l.a, the
medical herbs of the Ca,'lina> t'"'A the
worlds prize in Paris ID" yon know
that these silent ami \"iccles> states
have given the world the only
new gem tina, has been named
since Christ was born: Il" down aud look
ut these. states. They are close by, and no
wild beast or Will man will dispute your
path. Go to Cherokee: county. fWl will
fine, gold there. You will find plenty ii
Cherokee Indians there still, have seen
ut one time at least twenty free born
daughters If these brave people >t;tndin
in the water to the knees washing I"
gold Go down there ami SEC these lands
first
If you do not like it there. and can at
ford to come to the Sierrn>, why come
here and companion with the peaks Only
get out of the cities repeat i, for vn''r
own good. for the good u, the nation. get
out of the city and stay OIL 81 the rl!N
But don't come IL atil''illa WIN l'!'
idea that you can be idle There ~" t."
many here who are Possessed with that
notion already.
If you want 4 great il!sur. 10 l"' M"l.
with great enterprise. =" I" \rz"nn and
sett on the broad ;iciu- Vt GRASS aud tak''
your chances Oh finding waite! >"'"-
where down in the earth. ! "'aljh say
the same thing Of ~" MrNirn. \rh |
advise either III t!,'s': territories '"':"r''
California, sin,pl, iN"a'sN' they are ri''>'r
at Your handthc ~ same reason, ''r
urging the Cardiff. "a !",r a,'rn'nrI
before other places.
Let me say this, rs il traveller and II man
who loves Mother t.:'"th :In,i makes him
Sc { familiar with he All ian''> ave ,"'"
alike than you imagine. Mud wherever II
man has set his :a and l"'';id III" l;.nt
of milk and honey he has rc'na'"c! The
honey is in the Possession III the other
man all the time, wherever yU, may
travel. Goodness didn't We =" through
all this when hunting for gold here
long ago. How many an old miner will
turn to you now AMI testify that II he
only had staid where kc was IN some
mn,,ntain uulch, with pure air, pleasant