Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-17
No. 65

beyond the Rockies, and without any clear purpose or destination in view they pack up their effects, which too frequently com prise miscellaneous collection of tinware and children and start for Oregon, Califor- mia or Washington, as the case may be. When they land st one of the cities of the far west they have no money left, and are not met by employers in eager quest of laborers, as they had calculated
 After eking out precarious existence for few months nearly une-half of such emigrants "hock" what they have left. or induce their home friends to lend them enough money to get back to where they started. When they get home again they proceed to lavish abuse of the west, and 1t they try farming, under conditions en- urely new to them, and failed 10 reap A rich harvest the first year. they report the land as good for nothing. If they come as laborers, and find no particular scarcity of hired help, they return east cursing the Chinese in particular and the western em- ployers of labor in general Such do not stop to consider that Ihe farmers of Cali fornia and Oregon have been managing to get their seeds planted and harvests gath cred before they thought of emigrating.
 What the far west needs is enigrants with capital enough to buy land and mon ey enough to sustain themselves for one year al least without earning dollar. There are now enough labnrers here to do all the work to be done. The Pacific coast states can absorb vastly increased popu- lation. But good live farmers are most needed. There are now enough merchants, mechanics and newspaper men here, but not enough farmers who are able 10 ac- quire farms of their own.
 l was recently waiting al the depot at nFk Sgwr sNae gna.@ tall, hardy looking men. each with a big, black paper sa ,hel and bed quilt ted into a roll and corded with a clothes line. l engaged the younger of the two in con- versation, and found him 10 be a typical immigrant of the class above described
 He said: ''I am gwine back to 'Brasky. This bloody kentry is no good fur a white man to live in have bin up to See att el, and while feller gifts good wages he pays ten dollars a week fur board and has mighty little left. cum on down to Kal- Horny, and worked all summer with a thrasher at two dollars a day and board But feller has to sleep on the soft side of d straw pile and make up his own bed in the mOrnin'. Artsr thrashen was done bin a-grubben and cuttin' wood fur a fel- Ter at dollar and a half a day. But I ain't spoke to wOnmon in six months. Why, common feller ain't no more'n & dawg in this kentry. Nobody don't care nuthen fur nobody. A feller sleeps in a barn and furnishes his own bed
 Il tried plowen, but was afeard I'd git lost. They start ont in the mornin'. a dozen teams in a gang, and it takes all day to go one round. They take along dinner and feed for horses, and when noon comes they take out, feed and eat, and then drive on till night afore they gifts back to where they started. No, sir, no Kaliforny fur me. I'm gwine back to Brasky, whar a feller is somebody and has his bed made up fur him, and whar a feller can speak to a wommon without she gittin' scared
 And he bought second-class ticket to Omaha, and had bag of grub to last him a week.
 He was a type of immigrant, good enough where labor is needed, but of class of whom there seems to be enough here already.