The Portland daily press., 1890-01-18
SHALL | STAY AT HOME OR 90 WESTp"
There are More Opportunities, but
Less Comforts In New Places.
But a Man who can Flourish There
Can Get Along Here.
Editor e. p. mayo, Of the Fairfield
journal, Expresses an Opinion,


In pursuance of its plan of ascertaining
the opinions of Maine men as 10 the West as
a place of residence for young men who are
not quite satisfied with Maine, the PRESS
has obtained an interview with Mr.. E. P.
Mayo, editor and proprietor Of the Fairfield
Journal, who has visited the Southwest re-
Gently. When asked to give his opinion on
the subject of the PREss's inquiry. Mr..
Mayo said:
"Your question is broad one and covers
great deal of territory. Tell me who your
young man is, his likes and dislikes, his
tastes and capacity, and can answer your
question more Understandings. 1 would
say In all earnestness that l would by no
means advise all young men in Maine to
leave for the more tempting offers extended
to them, neither would l advise all to remain
here'
Certainly not, but does not the great
Southwest possess greater possibilities to an
active, stirring young mau than Maine"
eyes, it does, and it also possesses greater
chances for losses. A young man Of an ac-
tive temperament, with good health and
clear head can do well anywhere If with
these advantages he has not been able to
accumulate anything in Maine, the chances
are that be will not be able to do much bet
ter elsewhere. The man does not change
when he goes away from home. A drone in
Maine will be drone in Kansas or Texas
and hustler" here will "hustle" there.
The man does not change, only his sur
roundings'
What are the specific advantages the
Southwest possesses OYER New England for
young man Of energy, good habits and
determination to VIM"
1.-The place to catch suckers is where
suckers rum is true, If not an elegant ex-
preston, and applies exactly to your ques-
ton. There is SO much more money in cir
culation in booming Western towns that the
opportunities are necessarily much greater.
Jay Gould, with all his millions, could not
make money where none was in circulation
where there was neither demand nor sup
ply. Gould makes money by going into COM
munities where there is scarcity of money,
but surplus Of resources. He encourages
the interchange of one for the other. This
is business. The more business the more
money. This is the condition of many parts
of the newly awakened South and the wild
and booming West today. These sections
are fairly burdened with great undeveloped
resources. These possibilities, one will call
them. are being fast recognized and i'm
proved. Great sums of money are being
sent from New England to develop that
country and this activity gives the wide
awake young man his opportunity-an OPP
portunity to acquire wealth and position Of
fered in but few II any sections Of New Eng
land today. With these golden opportuni-
ties come responsibilities that cannot be
avoided. Because there is money in the
West there Is no reason for any one to sup
pose that it is to be had for the asking.
There are no open treasures, where the
money idly waits your coming. There are
no golden paved streets where the pavement
can be looted a5-SVI-sskf,5 Some awfully mean
men may get offceS West as the boy in
formed his father, bS ~ takes right smart
one to get dollars and keep them"
rs business life more exacting there than
here?"
"a thousand times more so. People live
| fast and under great mental strain, that
must sooner or later bankrupt the hardest
| constitution. 1t is place that kills. But
there are other disadvantages than hard
exactiDg work. We live in palaces here
| in comparison with the habitations of
even the well-to-do in new towns The
money all goes into business and the house
| Is an entirely Indifferent matter. Then, too,
| our climate compels us TO build our dwell
| lings well and we are thus comfortable in
| the seyerest weather, while in warmer eli
mates the cold spells come 50 seldom that
| 1t is not considered necessary to have their
| dwellings so impervious to the weather. AS
| result in cold spells the people suffer much
more than we do here when the thermome-
ter runs much lower. But if they are fortu-
nate enough to have good house the home
is too often lacking The two do not go to-
gether there as generally as here. In no part
of the country that have ever visited have
l seen anything to come up to our New Eng
land homes. They are certainly the safe
guards of our republic" I
"How will the wonderful growth Of the
| South coast effect New England and its ma
teral interests? p"
| Not disastrously by any means l think.
| New England has too solid financial backing
to be seriously disturbed by the diyeItiDg of
even larger sums from their ordinary chan
nels. Then the money that goes from here
| is drawn largely from savings banks and
trust companies where it is virtually idle as
far as the every day financial operations are
concerned Very little of the money leaving
New England nowadays has been actively en-
ployed for some time. Our strong conseIva-
tive element will see to it that the every day
needs Of business are supplied. There is
1 mi hax III. AZ "a
money cannot go until there is greater
feeling of security in certain sections of the
southwest growing out of the race trouble"
I'm your judgment are not the differences
between the whites and the blacks fast pas
sing away?' I'D,
mot as fast as they were. Eight years
ago | spent the winter in the South and
then predicted that the education of the
negro would tend to soften the asperites be-
tween the races. This has not been the case
as lar as my observations go. Where the
colored man has acquired proper education
he has insisted upon rights that he never
claimed-in his ignorance and poverty and
this has antagonzed the whites, and the
breach between them has perceptibly Wild
ened in the eight years."
what will be the out.come?"
Il do not consider myself competent to
predict 1t is as Mr.. Grady recently said in
Boston, the question of questions in the
South"
"What then are your final conclusions of
the whole matter of which we have spoken ?"
THAT the young man of good abilities
who has made mark here aud cares to go
South or West and take up the hardships in
cident to living in booming city with all
that it implies, has great opportunities be-
fore him which if fully improved ought, and
doubtless will, yield good results. If, how
ever, the young man has not all these qualifi-
cations and is well settled in his New Eng
land home he had better let we'll enough
alone and remain here"
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