The States Already Boast Of Thirty
Millions Of Inhabitants - Not Of Unnoticed And Unnoticeable Beings
Requiring Little, Knowing Little, And
Doing little, such as are the
Eastern hordes, which may be counted by tens of millions, but of
men and
Women who talk loudly and are ambitious, who eat beef, who
read and write, and understand the dignity of manhood. But these
thirty millions are as nothing to the crowds which will grow sleek,
and talk loudly, and become aggressive on these wheat and meat
producing levels. The country is as yet but touched by the
pioneering hand of population. In the old countries, agriculture,
following on the heels of pastoral, patriarchal life, preceded the
birth of cities. But in this young world the cities have come
first. The new Jasons, blessed with the experience of the Old-
World adventurers, have gone forth in search of their golden
fleeces, armed with all that the science and skill of the East had
as yet produced, and, in settling up their new Colchis, have begun
by the erection of first class hotels and the fabrication of
railroads. Let the Old World bid them God speed in their work.
Only it would be well if they could be brought to acknowledge from
whence they have learned all that they know.
Our route lay right across the State to a place called Grand Haven,
on Lake Michigan, from whence we were to take boat for Milwaukee, a
town in Wisconsin, on the opposite or western shore of the lake.
Michigan is sometimes called the Peninsular State, from the fact
that the main part of its territory is surrounded by Lakes Michigan
and Huron, by the little Lake St. Clair and by Lake Erie.
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