St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-08

Eastern parentage going West to grow
up with the country. | am at a loss
what to think, as there are so many con-
Trajectory stories afoat in the Eastern
papers relative to the West, and espe-
cially as so many Western men who
crack up the Western country as being
the place to live in, are continually COM
ing East, investing their surplus or en-
gagiDg in business with Eastern con-
Germs. If the West offers such broad
field for advancement, why then do
fertile fields and pastures new? With
kind regards, yours very truly,
1t is true that great many Western
men come East to inyest their surplus,
but if
THEY HAD NEVER
gone West they would not have had any
surplus to invest.
The advantages of the West for the
young man consist in this, that he is
there given chance to show his gait
and demonstrate his merits. Nobody
asks him who his grandfather was, and
why he came West. He is tested and
ind0rsed or lynched. That is not all.
clothes and bobtail genealogy as any
other man, if he be good citizen and
pan out all right. The difference be-
tween the East and West is that in the
new West less attention is paid to forms
and eXteriOrs than in the East. In the
West man may be millionaire and
still be required to behave himself. In
the East millionaire can behave him
self days and do as he pleases the rest
of the time.
But the chief advantage to young
man who has his way to make in the
world consists in thiS-that industry and
merit are at
ONCE RECOGNIZED
in all new countries.
The last question is more or less
personal one, and it shows that the man
who wrote it was philosopher. In re-
plying to it must not forget that it is
serious and sensible inquiry. My own
case is an exceptional one. In the first
place, everybody is not allowed to re-
main in the West. In one way the West
is democratic: in another it is exclusive
and aristocratic. 1t is no sign that
others may have to move East because |
did.
Seriously, let me say to the young
men who read this, that if they are
the right kind of material they can sue
ceed sooner in the West OIL less money
usages have been long established and
where customs are gradually becoming
more and more European. In the West,
America sticks out more prominently,
and there is degree of freedom from
the petty envies and jealousies
WHICH CURSE
the lives of those who live in
older countries. l could be poor and
come nearer enjoying it in the West
than anywhere else. This is not sur
mise on my part. 1t is experience. Many
writers have shown us where to go
with capital to do the best, but
what we want is information that will
help those who want to know where
poverty, where good citizen is wanted
and welcomed. The main difficulty
with New York and Boston boys in new
countries is homesicknesS and diSap-
pOintment because a good many inSti-
tutions to which they have been accuS-
toned are not to be found. To succeed
in the West young man must become
a part of his adopted country, and loyal
to it. He must not act upon the princi-
pie that he is still a citizen of New York
or Boston, but in good earnest begin to
be necessary to the section OF country
he has removed to.
difference between the East and West.
All Western men, with the exception of
the Indians, were once Eastern men,
and Eastern money makes the West
successful. Let no young man from
large Eastern city console himself with
the notion that he is comforting favor
ON THE WEST
by removing to that part of the country.
The fact that he is there at all is proof
that he came there to better his cOndi-
ton, and he cannot conceal it. He who
goes West solely to teach the untutored
pioneer the elements of refined civiliZa-
tion will not endear himself to his COM
munity, for the humble pilgrim who
walks into new town in the territories
and goes to work attending to his own
affairs is more apt to return to the East
some day in a Pullman car than the
man who enters the place preceded by
a silver cOrnet band.
The West, of course, is not now what
it used to be, for modern improvements
have reached everywhere and the 'front.'
ier is pretty well narrowed down, but
there is still plenty of amusement, eX-
citement and instruction for the i'll
guiring mind.
have said seriously what have said,
because this will answer a question that
/ have been often asked. A good %citi-
zen is an ornament and success,
whether he dwells within the shadow
of Bunker Hill or the canonS of Color
and get the eye of the speaker sooner,
perhaps, in Colorado, because the fur
ther young man can get from the de-
pressing but brilliant record Of
HIS GRANDFATHER
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ment has nothing to do with the cam
paign.
Another thing have noticed in the
older parts of the country, and more es
pecially in New England, which keeps
young man back. In the town of his
nativity he is never considered by the
old settlers as a man. He is called
Henry or George, or, worse still, 'Will-
iam's boy" or "John's boy" until his
teeth begin to fall out, whereas In new
field he would be called colonel or judge
or governor on good salary.
The West wants good, live, self-sup-
porting young men. Whether or not
the East can spare them L do not pre-
tend to state. The West will always
welcome the sensible young men from
the East, or from other countries, who
are equipped for rOugh-and-tumble
with outrageous fortune. While l
would not guarantee success to every
body who goes West to-day, l would
certainly under like circumstances go
West myself, willingly and hopefully.
1t is no sign that the West is full be-
cause once in while man who comes
from theSe is in that condition. Neither
should young men hesitate about going
towards the Occident simply because a
few wealthy freaks like the under