Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-11-21
The Road to " ealth Leads Through the
South.

This is the title of an interesting lit
tie book written by Mr.. E. G. Robert
son of Cincinnati. and the meaning of
it is that there is wealth for any man
of industry and thrift who will go into
the South, almost anywhere, buy or
rent small farm, settle upon it and
apply the best methods of farming and
gardening and the best principles of
husbandry. There are thousands of
examples to prove the truth of the
proposition. The lack of prosperity
among those who practice farming, or
who play at farming, is, we believe, in
no case due to the farm nor to the in
herent difficulty of gaming Il good live
Iihood, at the least. from intelligent
cultivation of the soil and management
of farm with its properly attendant
matters of stock, poultry, pigs, dairy.
etc.
A failure to faithfully observe the
rules of economy which should obtain
| in every branch of business and which
should control in the government of
affairs in all the departments of in
dustry and of life is usually the cause,
and it would cause failure in one de
partment as well as in another. 1t
would not be expected that a lazy or
unthrifty man, a man of extravaganza,
of wastefulness, or Ignorance of proper
methods of doing business. could sue
coed anywhere. lie will naturally and
almost inevitably fail; he is Il failure as
a man to begin with. Not SO because
he has not been created right, but be
cause he or his parents have spoiled
him in education; in the preparation
made for q life of competition with his
| fellOw-men.
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| little book should be studied and APP
piled. They contain the solution of
many a problem for the working men
and women of this country. of those
who already live in the South as well
rs for those who, living now i'll an I'M
friendly climate, may contemplate re-
moval, and an improvement in their
condition. The man who can, with a
family, make anything like a good liv-
| ing in the West, can multiply his abil-
ity to do it in the South. 1t would be
an incalculable blessing to this coun-
try if it's idle population should de-
termine not TO depend upon the huctu
ations of mechanical industries, and
employment in hem for Il living. but
to go into he country and become
farmers, or the helpers of farmers, at
| the lowest wages. We know what we
are talking about when we say this.
Nothing but neglect to follow the
rudimentary principles of agricultural
success, such as rising early. working
hard and going to bed early, staying at
home, planting. sowing and reaping,
saving and storing crops, feeding the
stock and taking good care of every
thing, paying as you go and keeping
out of debt as far as it is possible to do
it, will break farmer who has an able
body and sane mind with willingness
to labor.
The road to wealth, or at least to
reasonable independence, to comfort
and to Iiealth. is certainly through the
South if there are those who will lake
| it and travel in the direction here indi-
Gated We sincerely recommend it
| We know plenty of men who have
travelled it and are travelling it now,
and they are the strength and hope of
the land; they are soldiers and the sons
of soldiers; they walk behind the pruu-
ing hooks and pow shares and guide
the horses In tie furrow /; they gather
tie corn and the fruit, they haul, bar
row and NOV. Poverty and want are
unnatural; God has made them I'M
necessary. Man by his failure to meet
all his responsibilities, by his failure to
be full statured man, has made them
possible, made them common and even
! fashionable Norfolk Landmark.