We must move or die. We must be re-planted, we cannot mature
in a hot-house. If you want to have fully developed fruit, you
have to move them out of the nursery and plant them in the orchard,
where they will have plenty of room, light and heat. So we must
go and occupy the virgin soil of the West, we must go and stake
off our claim, cut down the trees, burn the brush, dig up the
stumps, make the fence to protect it, and then wait for the harvest
which will follow as a reward for work, and faith in the ground
and God.
Get up and Go? Go, take your family with you. Go as one of the
pioneer's and you will have a pioneers reward. It will not affect
the farming interest of the State to have some of the labor go
out. It will give those that remain more work and better wages.
It will help those that remain to take better care of their families,
to save money, and to be more comfortable while living; for where
there is one hoe or shovel that wants a hand to work it, and twenty
hands are sent out after it...
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