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SOME PEOPLE WHO OUGHT NOT TO GO. 
‘“‘T should think,” Rob continued, “ that you would 
strongly advise every poor man to go to Dakota, as 
well as many who are in good circumstances.” 
“ No, I don’t—not by a great deal. Some men 
fail there as well as elsewhere. Some are like a lo- 
comotive: they have a great deal of power in them, 
but they need somebody to direct them; otherwise 
they soon get off the track and smash things. Such 
of these as are on a good track, and have a good en- ~ 
gineer to keep them on it, had better stay where they 
are, because they may not tind another so good a 
track nor so good an engineer in Dakota or anywhere 
else. Then there are a great many people in good 
circumstances, from the well-to-do to the rich, who 
ought not to move. Generally every man must de- 
cide the matter for himself. If he has a wife he 
should consult her, of course, and often her judg- 
ment will be worth more than his, and she will 
give him ‘ points’ that he had never thought of be- 
fore. , 
“ There is no doubt at all that there are thousands 
and tens of thousands of people, in the eastern and 
middle States, who would greatly improve their con- 
dition and their children’s by going eitber to Dakota 
or some other part of the great west. And they are 
going every day. The railroads are full of them, the 
hotels are full of them, and even the great, broad 
prairies are getting full.” 
