Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-11-04
WHY SHOULD WE
COME BACK HORE'
Faulkner, Okla.
Oct. %, 1910.

Dear Editor: | have just read your
advice to the native born people who
have gone west, to come back home.
Why should we come back? Just
because a new railroad has opened up
some new public works, for men to
still be slaves for the trusts to keep
in bondage? You know a poor man
back there is nothing more than
dog for those corporations. Yes, this
letter reminds me of brother Hartman,
when he came west to look out for a
new lodging place, and went back and
told the people that there was plenty
of time for the home-seekers to come
in three or four years from then.
Say, you people don't realize how fast
the time is passing for the poor mans
chance to secure home in the United
States.
There was a sale of school land at
county seat the other day, and 160
acres brought $12, 100000. That is
the way. Brother Hartman, time goes.
When Mr.. Hartman said he was N and
S, Z and w, think that he was in
Arkansas mountains, not in Oklaho-
ma. Your cock and bull stories of the
railroad does not agree with the
times at present. You are SO years
behind the time, or sadly misinform-
ed.
, You are mistaken about the west
being full up and men looking for
work, but your man from the east Is
looking for soup. That is the kind
that returns to dear old Virginia, to
sponge on his dad or kinfolks; he
ism { worth a d-n here or there.
You speak of cheap land. 1t is not
worth -- because money has to
be spent for irrigation. Not so. We
don't irrigate in this section.
You speak as though the west is
not populated. Dear editor, you must
been grossly ignorant, or you are
dreaming. Did you, when boy, ever
commence rolling a soft snow ball
and see how large it got? l can name
several boys from Virginia, who are
like your snow ball in wealth. One of
them raised 1900 bushels of wheat
this year, and God only knows how
much alfalfa and corn he did raise.
He was raised in Poor Valley and has
cracked many chestnut burr with
his naked heel besides. Now as to the
shame part to come back there.
would like to see the one that would
ever look ashamed unless it is one of
those fellows looking for a soft snap.
Yes, was about to forget the high
wages and high living. Say, l will
compare prices with you any day.
No, we cant find the end of the rain
bow, for it is like the miser that
found the nickel. We are too busy
raising grain, broom corn and stock,
to increase our bank accounts. Say,
dear editor, would like for you to
drop in our town some day and take
a peep at our farmers and their autos,
then you will not write any more
more any day. Say, dear editor, l an
not a millionaire, but if could have
time to spare from my farm ! would
try and find the end of the rainbow
and l will divide with you, but foi
, Gods sake don't call me a socialist
for l am a Virginia Democrat, deeI
dyed in the wool and have the bes
! government in all the states.
/ will help elect Lee Cruce thi
! fall, a Kentuckian, for our next gov
! ernor. Our new state is pur
! Southern one sure, and negroes wen
! where wards ducks" went las
Z spring Dear editor, l like Virginia
2 but you are aware that it is impossi
Z BILE for poor man to get goo
Z farm there, and if a working ma
= comes to this country and has FEY
\ hundred, he can make the price c
9 some of those mountain farms bac
: there in one year. Now, do yo
= think that it is good advice for hil
= to return there? / think not. PerhaI
- you did not know if there was wa
4 built around Oklahoma, that we hav
\ our living inside the state.
- Dear editor, / will reveal som,
4 thing you did not know. / and m
y wife have II living children, and "
y keep seven of them in Alva
q school, nine months out of the yea
\ the best schools in the southwest. 1
- you think if / had stayed in Virgin
n could have done that much f
them? / do not, for feel the lack
schooling, as you can see by n
! scribbling. Dear editor, l am su
N you will not publish this, but w
have Alex Tabor or VIM. Shannon
look after you for casting it in t
waste basket, or will have Pee
Britain to look after you for you a
III well aware that you are good
L looking up old hoes and potatoes, a
haggle tooth scythes.
I'LL CHAS. F. FAULKNE