The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-22
Go West. Young Man.

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Greedy, on his Iarm, laid out and
a cool quarter Of dollar
upon every turnip he raised. No
wonder he was the author Of the
above fallacy. The turnip grower
knew an little of his country and its
wants and needs as he did of farm
Tag. He was . farmer on paper,
and was not 3 success in tilling TIE
earth. This advics does not
suit Tennessee or the south by q
lOng distance. In this state the au-
thorities are disbursing annually
thousands of dollars of the peoples
taxes to induce the foreigner to 10
cate in its teemIng valleys, on its
rich mountain sides and upon the
lowlands. The advice of the "Lat-
er Franklin" if followed, would en-
ly send the native population
abroad, and their places would be
filed from countries beyond the
ocean. Let US examine several Of
the excuses that some of our miG-
guided TSnnesseans are continual
ly urging for our young men bund-
ling up and turning their backs up
on the finest country and the best
people in the world, and pushing
their fortune in the "Wild West"
Among the first may be named enc
that impels the young farmer, with
a young family, ''to pull up stakes
and go to the boundless. west, to
get hundreds of acres to divide out
among his children. He, in nine
cases, out Of ten, comes from some
old southern family, with "big"
ideas about q "great house" and
large homes and plenty of elbow
room. His idea is to have each one
of his children located around him
with farm as large as his own,
and fitted up in the same style as
his Own. This does very well if
one has baronialiacres to indulge in
such fRncies. But where the times
are sadly out of JOINT, and taxes
have to be paid promptly, and the
race of life has settle down to q
contest for the survival of the fit
test, this 10 vagary of the most
Improbable stamp. Experience,
the best of teachers, has long since
demonstrated that small farmers
are the source of the power, pride
and happiness of any country. 1t
has also pointed out the great liv-
ing truth beyond any cavil, that on
the farm boys can be better train
ed for careers of usefulness than
anywhere else. 1t is there and in
this way that the youth of the coun-
try are kept safely from the cor
rupting habits of city life. It is
thus that the politics of a land are
kept pure, and religion is hon0red
and observed. Above and beyond
all other considerations remains the
granite fact that a country 10 rarely
and richly blessed when its farm
ers teach their sons and daughters
TO love their homes and to love the
art OF husbandry. Instead of bur
rying boys eff to the country store,
or behind a city counter, or into the
offices or lawyers and doctors.
farmers should instill into them the
dignity of labor and a love for the
most independent, the NEST useful
and remunSrative, mere human &C
cupation among men. Teach them
to love home and a small farm.
Let them know and learn that farm
ing well followed will pay. II this
country wishes TO keep the founda-
ton ef Its social fabric, and of its
religious and civil liberty on an ev
'r,asting basis, let the young men
IF the country he taught to love
home and to despise the foolish ad-
vice of the late Horace Greedy.