The Western...

- Free '■ ■ . for ; ings by co ■ . ft i. , , tilJ il and enprg'y. Mjuiy of tl ttiirncd : ñutí' thiir own anH enlisti-d in lioulh h:ni -.■:■■ Tlvtb! Eist, wit!) !■:: incn a n% weighi thftt of a larger au 1 longer lever. Hen is ono secret of its rapid growtli. It ia forty years sioe the first white families entered Iowa. Bwt no ■ tliiiii one-tbird of its present populatiun wpre bom witbin its liinits ; two-1 hrtve come in. Uf its twelve hundred thousand to-day, one-ilalf were bom in some mon eostprn State. Forcipn oountries beitij further than the Atlantic slopo from the West have hüherto feit its influence less - buteventbey werelongsincediin naa wel] as drawn to send their sous thither. The influenco ex rted upon thenj baa been . the sume nature wit'a that whioh hes brourht Wpstward so inany irom our own Eust. Heneo one-sixth of the population of Iowa has come into it from beyond the Atlnntic4 Not one-sixth of the poptilation of Nebraska were born wi.hin it limitf. More thao twenty-Sve thousand home steadefs and pre-emptora hnve filed claims In tiio lutd-omoe at Lincoln, u capital not yet six yeara old : - and with3)i the lnst turen years, nbout threethou?and settlers hñyc, bougtt farms on the land-KTant to the Burlington and Missouii Iliver Railroail- on ten years' credit and six per cent. interest, and, on contracts Made since 1872, no installtn nt of the principal due till the beginning of' tbe the fifth year - and then only oneseventh. The Westward tidal ware was never so strong as to-day - but it will bo stronger to-morrow. Tlie stronger it grovvs the more strength it has to grow strong-er. Nor can it fail to wax stili more miphty till so manj' of the Eoropean millioüs have misrated that the density of iepu latiou and the rate of wages shall I become well-nigh equalized ( n both side?