The Red Cloud chief., 1895-10-11

III IL uULtH lOi HE tnV
old story Is still told Of the emigrant
from a Massachusetts town, who went to
Ohio, carrying with him a jug Of mo-
1asses, and came back Boosting that he
had sold his molasses for enough to pay
Tor the molasses and The jug. On the
right hand n Oil the left, every effort
was made to persuade our people that
they had better stay here and not trust
themselves to the ricn valleys Of the
Scioto and the Miami. Those who
went and trusted themselves there
were perfectly Indifferent AS to what
was said to those who remained be-
q bind. And the caricature and the
= pamphlet are now left to the dust Of
antiquarian libraries, and only referred
to as Mrs. Partington's broom is re-
ferred to, with which she tried to sweep
back the waves Of the sea.
All the same. however, little or moth
Ing Is known about the wave Of emigra-
tion. De Tocqueville studied the
matter with care, and gave to US the
~curious figure, which has been verified,
that the average flow of the wave was,
In his time, seventeen miles in a year.
A similar flow began from the Pacific
coast eastward, after we took a foot
hold in Oregon and California, and the
W wave have met each other.
There are people to-day who are as
unwilling to encourage emigration to
the west from New England as their
grandfathers were. They are a little
nnk IN ha NAsIA avhA Ov,vS tnnnnNnnf
= houses, ten stories high, and would be
glad to make them twenty stories high
II they could get good rents for the
nineteenth and twentieth stories. They
are people who are living under the
delusiOn that a city. because its popu-
.lation Is large, Is prosperous and rich.
But the prophecies Of these people,
and the Partingtonism. does not in the
least affect the purpose OF those people
) who wish to emigrate. AS Abraham Lin
coin would have said, those people who
want to go want to go, and those people
, who mean to go mean to 60. In point
~ net, roughly speaking, 2 per cent
OF the population Of the seaboard states
move westward every year. 1t is a
little curious, and 1t Is satisfactory for
US In Massachusetts, to observe that
the attraction of Massachusetts, to an
other set of people is. in its way, as
! great as, in its way, the attraction Of
the western valleys. 1t would prob
ably be fair to say that at this moment
$50, 900 persons born in Massachusetts,
are living in other states OF the Ameri-
can union, and that $500 0 persons
born In other states are living in Mas
s~achusetts. The two fancies about meet
each other. The account is about as
broad as 1t Is long.
At the interesting meeting held on
Monday evening, the first colony club
in Massachusetts, was formed, not to
make any particular colony for any par
ticular place. but set on foot such ar
rangements as shall tend to the COM
fort Of emigrants. The Col
ony Club proposes to collect and circu-
open-air life In the west. 1t proposes
some such mutual assistance as has
proved possible in the Chautauqua cir
cles and other great reading circles OF
the country. 1t proposes the establish
ment of similar clubs In all the larger
centers of New England. And 1t cannot
be doubted under prudent and wise
management n satisfactory result may
be secured.
TO q certain extent, the indifference
Of the general government towards in
terror emigration may be atoned for
by such arrangements as these clubs
may be able to make.-Edward Everett
Hale. in Boston Commonwealth.