The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-09
THE PERMANENT CLASS.

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The advance guard of the immigra-
ton to North Dakota is beginning to
arrive, and while, like the robins,
there are only a few to be seen, they
are an indication of what the state
may expect during the present sea-
son.
Those who have feared that the rush
to the cheaper lands Of the Canadian
northwest would to some extent, in
jure the prospects of this state have
little foundation upon which to base
these forebodings.
There will be a great rush to Can
ada, probably the greatest ever known
in the history of the west except in
the opening of some of the Indian
reservations in the last few years. But
there will be plenty of people to stop
in North Dakota.
Many of those who are going into
Canada are from the new states of the
west They are those who having
taken advantage of the opportunities
of a new country and realized the
advantages of the change in property
values from nothing to those of the
richest country in the world, are ready
to seek second fortune by the same
process.
These are as good as citizens as
can be found anywhere, and are the
pride Of any community.
But there is another class just as
progressive and just as energetic who
do not care to endure the privations
of frontier life and are ready to step
in the places of those who are moving
on, or to locate in a country which
has passed beyond the primary stage
of development
These are usually men of some
means who having accumulated a
competence sufficient for themselves
in the older states, are going into the
newer ones where their capital in
vested in cheaper lands will give their
children a larger Inheritance.
These are the people who give
rermanency to a country. They are
lot possessed of that restless spirit of
daring push which makes them I'M
happy when once the excitement of
new conquests Mas paled.
On the contrary they are surround
ing themselves in that period of life
when the leaf begins to turn to gold,
with the opportunities for their chill
Gren's success in life, and as these
will remain until they too must seek
a widening field as did their parents,
the country is given character of
rermanency by their presence.
In large measure this is the class
that is now coming to this state. They
are men with families who desire the
advantages of schools and churches
and societies, and who prefer the OPP
portunities offered by these in this
state combined with the splendid OPP
portunities for certain success, in
reasonable degree to the chance of sue
cess or failure in larger degree with
the uncertainties leaning toward fail
ure, without the opportunities men
toned.
When these people come into the
state they become at once citizens in
truth as well as in fact. The pros
perity of the state becomes. at once a
Tart of their ambition. They do not
tuild for day or year, but for
life.
They are interested in making per-
manent homes and surrounding them
selves with every comfort of life. They
want to make the land not only yield
o competence for themselves but they
want to leave it as an heritage to
their children. capable Of yielding to
them abundantly for their labor.
These are the people who want to
drain the Red river valley that 1t
may furnish wealth producing homes
for their sons; who want to irrigate
the semi-arid lands, in the west that
there the desert may be made to BIOS
4 som 1sll like the rose; who are building
the brick blocks I'm the cities and /