The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
Go South, Young Man.

Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew, in an ad-
dress to the Alumni Association of Yale
University, said of his recent tour through
the Southern States:
s'The net results of this visit to the South
| to my mind, is Just this-that the South is the
bonanza Of The future. We have developed
all the great and sudden opportunities for
wealth, or most of them, in the Northwestern
States and on the Pacific slope, but here is a
vast country with the best climate IN the ,corld,
with conditions of health which are absolutely
unparalleled; with vast forests untouched,
with enormous veins of coal and iron which
yet have not known anything beyond their
original conditions, with soil that under pro.
per cultivation, for little capital, can support
tremendous population; with conditions in
the atmosphere for comfortable living winter
and summer which exist nowhere else in the
country, and that is to be the attraction for
the young men who go out from the farms to
seek settlement, and not by immigration
from abroad, for do not think they will go
that way, but by the internal immigration
from our own country it is to become in time
as prosperous as any other section of the
country, and as prosperous by a purely
American development.
Mr.. Depew is one of the most eminent
men in New York He is close observer
and profound thinker, and his estimate
of the future prosperity of the South is
correct. Its development will be effected
by our own citizens, and not by immigrants
from foreign countries, who are aliens to
our institutions. our laws, and our system
of agriculture. The youn;; men who are
crowding each other in the more populous
parts of our country, can find comfortable
settlement and fortune in any of the South
ern States. Ioun. farmers who resort to
the cheap lands of Maryland and Virginia,
are sure of success, with ordinary industry
and frugality. Let them 90 to Southern
Maryland and Virginia, where good farms
can be bought as low as five and ten dol
lars per acre Here they can become rooted
to the soil as landed proprietors, and enjoy
comfort, competence and independence.
This is far better than focking to the over
crowed cities to become the servitors of
others. Horace Greely's advice to young
mcn-"Go West lis obsolete. Let them
take the advice of Mr.. Depew, and go
South, where fame and fortune await
them. The cheap land of the South rem
ders it an easy matter for young men to
settle themselves in comfortable homes with
very little capital The secret of the rapid
growth and development of this country is
its cheap lands But the day is coming
when these lands will all be appropriated,
and it is not very distant. Our population
is increasing at the rate of about one mil
lion per annum, and yet the senseless de-
mand for foreign immigration is reiterated
on every hand. Our own natural increase
is sufficient How long will it be before
our country is overcrowded with popula-
ton, like Europe and Asia, entailing upon
it all the misery and wretchedness conse-
quent upon such condition? When that
day comes the owners of the soil will be
about the only people who will enjoy
comparative immunity from such wretch
edness Now is the time to secure it,
while it is to be had at so cheap a rate.