The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-08

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HosmuRG, GaaMASY. July 25.-This
day ono month ago / sent you my first
letter from Germany. l had then been
in tho country seven weeks. / have
now been in it a little over eleven
weeks, and it occurs to me that If l am
to follow up my first letter with another
one ortwo wilhelm the countryI hadbet-'
ter set about doingiso without further
delay. As usual you 500 that lam not
hurrying through the country, andif
you will look at the map you will per-
ceivc that l am only about 12J miles
north OF Baden-Baden where / wrote
my former letter, and also that | am
only Just a little outside OF the South
Germany that Ientered from the Alps.
as far back as %theaeyenth day OF May
last. In other words, l hqye only
Travelled thus far. In five Of the twenty
odd states or provinces OF Germany,
viz; Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden,
Hesse.Darmstadt and Hessen-Nassau
These provinces embrace all OF South
Germany and sorbs little-ot the Rhine
border, a. !
Some OF your reRdeTst may suppose.
from this enumeration OF provinces hat
Germany must Be q very extensive
country. We'll, tits an extensive coun-,,
try from a European standpoint. Asa
m~atteroffact it embraces one-eightecnth
part Of all Europe, but still, as viewed
from an American. standpoint, 1t Is
simply the equivalent OF nj great big
American state. Z Indeed, you could set
Germany down in tho midst oil our
largest state and then have an area left
two and a half times as large as West
yirginia. And yet, large as is that one
great state OF ours, 1t is of course not TO
be compared in any respect save that Of
mere territory to the empire OF Ger
many. No tourist, foreign ordomesttc,
need spend three months in Texas TO
see aud appreciate it all, but no tourist
can sea aud understand Germany in.
that limited time, even, II able to speak
the language Of the country. The dit-
ference Is Of course the difference be-
tween a new,tiraw and undeyeloped
country and an old, historic, populous
and highly developed one Some day,
no doubt, Texasswill have as many peo.
pie as Germany las, 100000, instead OF
her present 100000, and possibly at
some time in the distant future she may
compete with hen in the variety and
character of her attractions; but that
dayis some distance ahead. Andspeak-
ing Of that, Ihaye asked myself more
than once since 1 have been here what
West Virginia will be like when sho
comes to have al many people per
square mile as Germany (saY $50, In
stead Of her present population OF about
so. For, instance, what will the Pan
Handle counties be like when that day
arrives, for OF Course when the state as
a whole comes to have Us many people
toithe square mile as Germany has to-
day, the Panhandle will then be
as populous astthe Rhine provinces OF
Germany, and will have, as they have,
$50 to 450to the square mile. In that
day the little agricultural county OF
Brooke for instance will be as denseiy
populated asthe little district OF Hes
sen-Nassau in which / am at present
soiourning, for inherently the soilin
Brooke is better than 1t is here. 1t is
made productive artifcially here, by
expensive and persistent fertilization.
Brooke has about $500 people to-day,
or say 70 to the square mile. In the
year nineteen hundred and--s she
will have quite. possibly as dense 9
population as Hessen-Nassau ltor Of
course all Europe will continue to flock
to our shores), and the conditions Of
life in that event will be much the
same as they are here, for remember
that we are not Americanizing Europe
in America so fast or SO decidedly in
certain respects as Europe is European
izin9 America. In other words, In.
credible as IL may now seem, she will
have say 10000 people, and then not be
as densely populated as some parts OF
Germany not 10 rich agriculturnlly.
Bit the agricultural situation in those
DAYS will be quite radically changed,
whether for better or worse you your
selves shall judge at the end OF this
letter.
MI GREAT INDUSTRY.
Agriculture is the great industry in
Germany, aa,i it is in America. by which
the great majority Of people live and
must live. AS population increases
withsus the ttllage Of the soil must be-
come more and more minute, thorough
and exhaustive. Large holdings Of
land must give place TO small and still.
smaller holdings, andlvo acres or three
acres or two or even one aero must be-
come holdings OF Importance. Hand in
hand with this pressure Of population
upon tho soil for subsistence severe
economies and universal labor must be
the rule. IL is SO here in Germany
has gradually become nor and more
so-and 1t Is the same in France and all
over Europe. Once in Germany, insthe
days for instance OF Barbarossas they
had not 50 many people to the squire
mile az has West Virginia to-day, and
at the close Of the Thirty Years war in
the 18th century, they had a still less
number; only about "a. And yet,
since then, by natural increase alone.
and in spite OF wars and the untold
millions that have emigrated, Germany
has $50 people to the square mile
to-day on all her land, good and bad,
mountains andvalleys, and the struggle
for existence onO the part Of mon,
women and children is something in
aThe thing that hath been is that
which shalIbe.n Soweare told on high
authority even II experience did not
teach us the same thing, and the applt.
cation Of the text is simply this, that
Sthegthing that hath been" land now isl
IN Germany is exactly the thing that
viii be in the United States, aud par
ticuIaily in the desirable parts OF the
conntfy-such as the Ohio Valley. In.
Imagination / try to look forward and.
picture a parallel between what l see
hnrn to-daK and what some person, per.