Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKEI A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. SI.OO CASH, $1.50 ON SPACE: AND WORTH IT. VOL. XV. Highest of all in leavening Powei. — U. S. Govt Report, Aug. 17, ISB9. Wfcl KSS ABSOLUTELY PURE moricssfo v.i/, i DEN I' I ST , MeDonot«h Da. Anv oi‘o dofulrfu*? wink done e-ui «c --cniiiinodiitt d either hy calling on ire in per son or addressing me Ihroiigh tlie iiwils. lemia e.-sli, unless special arr.inecnienls ate oil’erwise made. Geo W. Bryan j W.T. Dickkn. 8515V a:\ a mnii v ATTORNFAS AT LAV,'. McDonouoii, <A Will practice in the counties composing »he Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Court c f Georgia and the Giiiicd states District Court. ’ apr27-ly UK. si. ’rim*nit, ATTORNEY AT LAW. M t Do CO.lt <’A. Will ni itiice in ee coaiuies composin'.' ,i, e Flint li.ioi. .tic .-up.ome Comt if G’Oicin, and i>e United Quit's District Court. niu.it 6-1 y j 7 *»• ««*«**. ATTORNEY AT LAW. McOo. oci ,?, tin. Will pr.’ci ice in .ill i.lie t ont l? oi ■ Giucgia Sncci ,1 rlicii ion giv u to conttne.fiul ami biVercollt ciio.is.. Will •• rtevd »il t Si,- Courts at Hainpiou r* pii’i lv 11 ; ■*' tip.-t =i. a ovt-r Tut: WciKI.Y O.'iirr. j l\ WAL«» ATTORNEY AT LAW, AlcDoaojoh, l* A . W ill pr ici :ce in I.hocouu.i« couiposiiig the Flint Judicial Ciicuii, and ihe Supreme atui ■District C our.s of (■< Otgi F’lOiitpi cut ion giv-m ocollc .ions oc.n- 7!t ■ty 4. »i:oka, l A'ttTOUNEY AT LAW, nW ,4$ - M®Uoj4haiii, tin. - Will p*ii diet in i’ll I lie count ins compos uig tin; Flint Circuit. the Snoivni.- O'unt oi Georgia and the United States District Court. jjnl-ly DUNCAN l CAMP. WHOLESALE GROCERS AMD DEALERS IN Flour, Meal, Lari iprs, Coffoes, Tobaccos, Giprs eic, ALSO, HAY, BRAN, OATS, CORN and all kinds of Feed Stuffs a specialty. We beg to call special attention to our Brands ol Flour, OCEAN SPRAY, POINT LACE AND PRINCESS These are our Brands, manufactured ESPECIALLY FOR US and we guarantee every sack. Write as ior quotations. We guarantee satisfaction and the lowest possible prices. We also call your attention to our TOBACCOS, ‘■GOLDEN SPARKS,” ‘•HENRY COUNTY 9in.s’s,” AND “HOE CAKE.” These goods we guarantee to give satisfaction. Sam ples sent free on application. We have also a fine line of Mew Orleans Syrups, which we can sell at “ROCK BOTTON PRICES.*’ We will make it to your interest to see us before buying. Thanking our friends for their patronage in the past and soliciting a continuance ol the same, weave Respectfully, DUNCAN & GAMP, 77 WHITEHALL ST , ATLANTA. CA. lj A. PKEPIA>, ATTORNEY AT LAW, llaui’tox, G.i. Will practice in all .lie counties composing the Flint Judicial Ciieui.. tbe Supreme Court ot Georgia and the Dis. dot Court oi' the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections Oct 8, 1888 I no. D. Stkwakt. I H.T. Daniel. KTKWAItT « I>AAll'll., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Gr.it kin, Ga. | It. It. .9. 4lt\OI,»». 1 > Hampton. Ga, I hereby lender my professional service io the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all cal s night and day. | 4111.4 Cm TYB. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gale City Natioil llank Building, Atlanta, Ga. Practices in 1 lie State and Ft det’al Courts. GRIP FIN FOUNDRY AND Machine Works. i \ ife unuouticc (o tbr P»>Vi;c tbat. we are »? ptiP.ued io mau' 1 Fti r ’i,»e Hoil c.s ; will lake ordeih lor all i -uds of Boil ! ors. We are prepared to do all kinds of | repairing on Engines, Boilers awl Mncliin i ery, genet all v. We keep iu stock Brass j fittings of all kinds: also Inspirators, In jectors, BaU :y Valves, 31 earn Guages, Dip.- and Pipe Fillings and Iron and Brass j Casting* of every Description. o*i:oU\ *V H4M 01T. j _ g? ft Vk Whiskey Habits frngr U rf ’£ cured au home with * H BBp 6R &3 geygjoutpain. Book of par* ; K 5 pSE L C\ t] ticUiarsscrit ftsL ii.M.\VO()LL£Y,M. D. Atlanta* h-u, Whitehall 8* mcdoxough, ga., Friday, October, it, tßs>o. A NATIONAL LITERATURE. Where We Should Look for a Ileflectlon of Popular Character. It is as natural for a young people to copy older ones as for an infant to imi tate motions and sounds. In Hie course _ of nature the infant passes beyond the stage of imitation. Wlwjb ft nation bom in the throes of revelation lias at tained, through years of heroic youth and manhood, the dignity that is ours today as the greatest republic on earth, its life may reasonably be expected to exhibit individuality. For a reflection of the character of a poople wo look to its literature. Nothing is better able to show forth the daily life and the spirit of a nation than its Action. The novel and the abort story of ail lands, merely in their national significance, afford a study of wonderful interest. The American life of today is a copy of nothing. It is absolutely unique. Nor is it lacking in the most decided dements of romance and of the pictur esque. Where its spirit has been caught —perhaps best by Hawthorne —it has yielded everything essential for the most stirring effects. If it wore not so —lf we hod no originality—our writers had better remain copyists, for when they oease to be that they would be come nothing. It Is to bo confessed that our literature has been too long of that character which is worse than silence—of sustained mediocrity. Too long our nt .velists have gone abroad for their subjects; too long our people have gone abroad for their novelists. Let the writers look at home for ‘heir subjects, and when they have fras(K‘d the spirit of American national Jfo they will find a burst of apprecia tion on the part of the people. But let tlie writer that would be successfij rid himself of tlie idea that novels of the New York drawing rooms are American stories. The attempt now lx’ing made to foist them as such, either on us or on those who judge us by our fiction, is a shameful fraud. Let him get out among tho people, breathe American air, look over American fields, acquaint himself with American (lowers and birds, visit American cities, and he will find springing up around him material for the best literature tlie world lias seen. Tills nati >nal lifo is already being pictured in our sin >rt stories. As yet no great novelist is with us, but we have become the best short story tellers in the world. Those who are to inaugu rate an American literature are in train ing. And the dawning of it rigoifle* tho reality of our national life, strong, secure, everx ..-here an inspiration to tlie cause of human freedom. —Chicago News. Not Worth Counting. In California, it is said, they have no smaller coin in circulation than a nickel. Poople in that land of sudden fortunes and wholesale incomes cannot appreciate the turning of a penny or even the chase of tho “nimble six pence.” A San Francisco paper illus trates the contempt of Californians for pennies by the following: “Give mo silver for this, plcuse,’’snid tin Eastern tourist yesterday, as he dumped a double handful of one eent pieces on tho counter of a prominent money broker. “I don’t want them. They’re not worth counting. I wouldn’t give fifty cents on the dollar for them,” was tho reply. “I never took them but once, and then I had to. A fellow owed me five dollars, and after repeated duns offered payment in coppers. The next day ho came in, anti shoving a copper eent in my hand asked me to give him credit for that amount upon the debt “ilokept that up, making a payment of one cent every uioiT.lng, noon and night—three cents every day—until I accumulated a cigar box full of coppers. They're hero yet, and they'll stay here until some ono comes along who has more tirno than money. I won't count them.” Coffee Dying Out. "The tliu’- Is not far distant when coffee will havo ceased to be tho beverage of tlie people.” This declara tion wus made by Mr. J. J. Grinlinton, who has been a resident of the island of Ceylon for thirty years. Mr. Grin llnton sny» there Is a marked decadence in coffee raising both in Ceylon and Brar.il. He also says: “Borne few years ago a fungus para sito attacked the plant and is gradually killing it out. Not only is this true in Ceylon, but it is also the easo in Brazil and elsewhere. People must learn to lake tea Instead. You liavt' noticed that the price of coffee has been grad ually ascending. It will continue to do so, and the time Is not far distant when tho plant will have died out”—Cor. New York Herald. A sca.ooo Notched Stick. “Here Is quite a curiosity,” said a Washingtonian, producing a stick two feet hi length and curiously notched and split. “There are seven notches,” said he. “This is a certificate of de posit issued by the Bank of England over 100 years ago. A stick was taken, notched and split. One piece was giv en to the depositor, who had to pro duce It and match the other piece to get his money. It defies forgery and fraud. This stick represented a deposit of £7,ooo.”—Washington Post. There Are Little NousDrtt. A Michigan paper tells of tho capture of a fifty-pound turtle in an inland lake, and refers to tho creature as a monster. Turtles weighing 300, 400 and 500 pounds ore by no means rare on the gulf coast, and so there must bo two kinds of monsters —big and little.—De troit Free Press. Kitrmcr, Slltl Merchant. There are some merchants doiug busi ness with the fanners in Franklin coun ty, life., presumably at 10 and l‘M per emit, profit, fcnfttho method* of some of these are poouftsr. According to tlie "contract the merchant must show his bills for goods to tho committee repre senting the farmers. From these hills the committee marks on each article the cost and selling price. As a matter of course the «<>mmittee in determining the cost of floods cannot go beyond the bills presented by the merchant. It is very easy for the merchant to exhibit bogus lulls from the wholesaler, show itig anycoet price he chooses to fix. A traveling walettman,,{ryim St. Louis told our correspond! days ago that ho knew amef bpiffh Fraifktln county who is getting Lh off a contract with tho Fanners’ Mntnal Benevolent associ ation lodges by the use of “duplicate” bills. “I sell goods to a customer of our house,” said this traveling salesman, “who has a contract with the Fanners' Mutual Benevolent association, and he sells a pile of goods, too. When ho took the contract he asked our house to make him ont duplicate bills, to sell from, you understand. Tho house re fused to do it, not wanting to bo a party to such a thieving business, and, besides, i it took a great d"al of extra clerk work, but at his request the firm sent him pails of till our different kinds of blank hills, 1 and now' he makes ont his duplicates to suit himself." While the business experience of the I F. M. B. A. has had the effect of break ing several honest storekeepers, it hn also had tho healthy effect of creating competition in trade and generally re ducing prices. All that keeps the order out of politics in this senatorial district is lack of numbers. The political dis cussions at the Lodge meetings in the district school houses are as heated hero as anywhere, and tho questions of tho tariff, tho currency, the hanking system, tlie railroads, tlie trusts and taxation are disenssod with more intelligence nnd thought than the professional politician would imagine.—Chicago Ilcrald. Whnt the CttnadiuiiM Say. Sir John Macdonald attended a Roman Catholic picnic at Morrisburg recently, and in tho course of his address said in j sulietance: In regard to reciprocity the govern ment had begun and is now desirous of closer tratio relations with the United States, but the fet liny; is not reciprocal. It was the Unit ’d States that recalled tho treaty of 1854, and ever since all at tempts mu iu by Canada for closer trade relations hail bqeu refused by tho United States, am! they were now’ passing the '.EiU. up unfriendly measure. The r would like freer trade rela tions with our neighbors, but if they would not grant it lie believed in look ing for new markets. lie advised farm ers to grow two rowed barley, fur which, ho said, they would find a ready market in England. He also said that London would bo a better market for Canadian eggs than New York, and that Canada had already opened up markets both in China and Japan for a largo portion of her manu factured goods. lie said Australia was anxious to have more Intimate trade re lations with Canada, and advocated the laying of a cable from Australia to Brit ish Columbia, thonco across Canada to England. Canada must meet the hostile legislation of the United States, not in a spirit of imitation, not in u hostile man ner—because Americans had a perfect right to pass whatsoever laws they chose —but by opening up new markets.— Ottaw a (Ont.) Dispatch. Compact mikl United. George B. Sprague, the ex-president of the Fanners’ Alliance, was one of the prominent grangers assembled in tho oorridor of the Merchants’ hotel. Mr. Sprague said he had lieen on a tour through a great portion of the state, and he declared tiiat the Alliance party is compact and united. “As an evidence of this,” said he, “look at tho party papers throughout the state. They are, with one or two exceptions, absolutely mum ou politics. 1 They know that if they came out against the Alliance they would be boycotted by the farmers, and whoever buys them will havo to pay for their circulation. As to the talk of the farmers and tho labor element nut assimilating, that is all bosh. They are jHirfectly harmoni ous.”—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Ijubstlonii to the Point. \V. M. Benninger, through The Rural New Yorker, asks his brother farmers of Pennsylvania the following among other questions: Farmers, arc you satis fied to sell all your products for from 25 to 50 per cent, less than the cost of pro dnotion? Can you afford to sell w heat for 80 cents per bushel, the raising of which costs, in most sections, $1? Can you afford to [iay nearly all the taxes, both direct aud indirect? Do you know that out of t>l 1,000,000 of taxefl raised in Pennsylvania you pay $34,000,000, while your property represents $2V5,000,000 less than the other property in the state? Do yon know that yonr land has depre ciated in value from 30 to 50 per cent, hi recent years? Do you know that the sheriff Bells, on an average, twenty Penn sylvania farms per day? How l>ppew l*i|furfft4 l’ercentago. Dr. Depew’s brotherly talk to the grangers was suggestive and interesting in many respects. But there was just one statement which the doctor inado that in our opinion is hardly consistent with the fact that he still draws his salary from the New York Central’s treasury—inconsistent, too, wc must ad mit, with his degree of LL. D. conferred by Yale university. “Railroad rates,” j he said, “in tlie last twenty years, have l gone down over 100 per cent.” Oh, what a fall was there, my coun trymen!—Hartford Courant. The mem iters of the executive com mittee of the Farmers’ and Industrial Union party of Minnesota are not by any means idle. They are sending out speakers to all parts of the state and ar- 1 ranging for holding numerous meetings. AN ALLIANCE CANDIDATE. iddrt’KN by th«* Nt>t>nt*k» Furinom* Noiui~ n«w for Governor. In the course of an address recently delivered before tho Dannebrog branch TV. H. Deeli, candidate of the Farmers’ Alliance of Nebraska for lieutenant gov ernor, said: A nation’s debt of $17,000,000,000 bang ing over yonr heads —oan you grasp the enormity of the same? No. The pro ducers of tile country are earning per eent. under the most prosperous auspices, but pay out 5 per cent., and in unproa pereus years nothing is made, but the rental of money goes on incessantly. Whenever rental of money becomes so liigh that the product brings less than amounts to the result is otter ruination. When a man has money in the bank wosuy that ho is rich; when he puts in more, people say that he is get ting richer. ITow is it until tho fanner? When his corn crib is full they say that ho is poor; when It is fuller and his hog jiens are filled with fat hogs he is still poor. Oh, they say, it is overproduction; he can’t sell and get liis money hack. Tlie speaker said that tho miserable economic condition was principally due to the restless and selfish financial policy of the government. The moneyed aristoc racy claimed that the monetary system was too intricate and abstruse for the common herd to deal with, and they had no business to meddle with it. Wo can’t; comprehend it, they say. Oh, yes, we' can. but they don’t want it agitated. They are willing that wo should pound away at tho tariff and transportation if wo will only lot tho money question alone. They are working a game that! leads to tho ultimate ruin of the whole nation, and our only remedy is legislation ! through tho ballot box. If you do not relieve) yourselves by tho ballot box you will in the end he hurled into a terrible revolution. Oh, but they say that Dech is an alarmist. Would to Gtxl that I was a fool, but the signs are too plain to he mistaken. Tho politicians claim that tho evil lies in that wo are living too big, and that we must lie more saving. It is a tre uiendons lie! If the money Is hero, who brought it? Did not labor produce it? If there are comfortable houses for every man, who created them? Labor; anti should it not onjoy them? But the jioo plo have in tho first place put our rulers ou a saddled horse, aud they would lie fools if they did not ritle it. He scored the deceitfulness of tho old political par ties, and said that they had obtained power under false pretenses. They pledged themselves to jierform things which they never meant to carry out. If a farmer comes to a merchant and got. Roods under false pretenses he 4s jailed. By the application of the same principle, aud if tho punishment should bo commensurate with the crime, those false pretenders should now lie in the penitentiary in place of tho halls of con gress, every ono of them. Thi* Imllaiyt H«o|»lb’h Party. Tho People’s party of Indiana, rocontly formed by n coalition of tho Farmers’ Alliance, Greonbackers and Union-La bor party, declares: “We are in favor of placing tho chari table anti penal institutions of the state in tho hands of men comj>otent to man age them, and not in tho hands of mere partisans, and that tho management should not Iki changed when a change of party occurs." Tho now party favors tho rejieal of an existing law permitting townships and cities to vote taxes for railroads, and de mands a more equitable districting of tho state. Tho platform Is for free school books and against child labor. Follow ing tho declarations as to pensions is this declaration: “We favor the issuing of a full legal tender pajier money to meet tho dis bursemonts under these bills, thereby enabling tho government to maintain its honor and pay its debts, and at tlie same time aid the people by giving them a sufficient volume of manoy to meet the demands of the legitimate trade interest of the country. Chir government paid the soldiers in paper money during the war, anil the veterans will now gladly accept it in payment of their just de mands.” The Throo K’i*. In relation to Dr. Dopow’s suggestion that farmers should organize, with the three R’s—reciprocity, retaliation and revenue—as their motto, Governor Hill In a recent speech said I)r. Dejiew could have aroused tho enthusiasm of his hear ers to a higher degree anti given them more practical relief by promising to tlie farmers of this state suffering under railroad exaction tho remedies afforded by three other R’s, for which they would be truly grateful—“regular reduced rates”—upon tlie transjiortation of their products. This assurance would In crease the farmers’ “net revenues,” illus trate the advantages of true “reciproci ty” nt bonm. ami prevent any desire for “retaliation” uptji tho railroads for al leged previous < ■ tortions, arid would tie something practical rather than theoreti cal. Farmer* to the Front. Indiana is calling upon her farmers to como forward aud act as legislators and to occupy positions of public trust. This is not confined to auy party, but upon the safo and tried principles of the grange it is found popular in all parties. Among those who have Is ten honored we find the names of our brethren, Milton Trusslor, William M. Blackstock and George Doup. The various parties but honor themselves by honoring such men, and it is our hojie that every fanner who ts true and tried to his calling may be successful.—Grange Bulletin. Should Go Hand In Hand. Agriculture and manufacturing are not in conflict They should go hand in hand. They do, except that agriculture wishes protection for itself as it has been asking for its neighbor. The plow should be protected as well as the loom and the spindle. Protection has all been ou one side. The farmer Is getting cross.—Field aud Farm. TWO PRICES, Sea*" id l’rletm of Amcrirun Hade Imple ments In Spuln und the United State*. If there are any doubting Thomases among tho farmers whom this article 1 may reach we desire to call their atten thin to a few hard facts cud plain figures. Tho guarantee of their genuineness lies in the fact that they are advertisements put forth in bold typo aud paid for by the monopolists, who thus openly ex hibit the margin of excessive profits they are levying upon the American farmer by and through the tariff. Tlie present tariff tax upon fanning implements is about 45 per cent., so that nearly ono-half of the price paid by the farmer for his tools is a tribute levied | upon him by tlie manufacturing mon- I opolißt. We will further add tiiat tlie protective duty in this case is practically prohibitory, and thus becomes a solid wall against foreign competition. Where a duty is so high as to become prohibitory the home manufacturer can not jKissibly compete on the home scale of prices in foreign markets. The re sult is that if lie gore into a foreign mur ket he must sell to the foreigner cheaper than to his own countrymen. Need we point out to any American farmer tho shame Involved in such n transaction? It. means that after taxing him nearly ono-half of what he p»ys for his fanning tools, on the oftteTrihl ground of raising his condition al«>\ tiiat of thy foreigner, tin manufacturer uses the tax as a fund to enable him to! hand over a bonus to that very foreigner by underselling the foreign limntifac! 1 urer. In other words, the American funner makes a forced contribution tot the foreign farm r ont of his hard earn I ings, and all this on the pretense of | raising his condition above that of tin latter. There is no farmer so dull ar not. to take in the gross injustice of tl:i discrimination at a glance. Now for tlie facts in black and white The Ann Arlior, Mich., Agricultui. l company is probably the largest pro i ducer of agricultural machinery in this | country. Tho New York Ameriean i Mail an ' Export Journal regularly ear 1 ries a ,* mass of advertisements of j furmiii"; tools, with illustrated cuts, and j it prints special editions with reprints of j these same advertisement i -varied, how- j ever, in important points—for circula tion in foreign countries. Here is a| literal reprint in parallel columns of the advertised scale of prices of the Ann Arbor concern nt homo and abroad; Spaiifuti American price. price. Advance plow j fl oo Jis to ; Advance plow 4 00 S 00 Hay tedder SO 00 45 00 Mower 40 00 05 no Herne mite If 00 ' ,i ' > r *SL -rtpir fe~d cutter. 1 ol). 00 ao (XT Ann Arlior cutter, No. fi .... SS 00 40 00 Auu Arbor cotter, Nu. 1 10 00 SH 00 Clipper cutter 0 60 18 00 I/iver cutter. 485 800 Cultivator 88 00 00 00 Sweep t 60 00 00 00 In tho special Hpanish editions adver tisements uro printed of the manufact ured products of lflfl agricultural firms in the United States, all of whom an nounce that they will sell to foreigners from 80 to 50 per cent, cheaper than to their own tax plundered fellow country men, whose forced tribute, wrung from them by the protective tariff, enables them to offer these tempting terms to "tho pauper fanner" of other lands. Massachusetts farmers are invited to turn these facts over in their minds. It is not a free trade theory, but a high tariff condition, to which we are calling their attention. —Boston Globe. VIVII, Why I><> I h»sy l.nuv*? Secretary Franklin Dye, of the New Jersey State Agricultural society, has boon on a tour of inspection through south Jersey. He took the trip in order to ascertain the exact condition of the ! Jersey farmer. Mr. Dye is back, and ho 1 says his observations proved to him that the Jersey farmer and his condition had | been misrepresented. Ho found tho former pretty generally pi'tsperous in stead of in bad shajie, with depreciated farms and a dismal outlook. While tlie section of the state visited by Secretary Dye is tho agricultural re gion, he thinks what he ascertained in that section is largely true of the fanner In other portions of the state. He was surprised to find ixviple going west, away from tho advantages at, home, arid paying about as much \n;r acre for land, when tho outlook, agriculturally, is so bright hero.— I Trenton (N. J.) Special to New York Press. It In l.lttlu Wondor. Railroads run the state of Nebraska. They nominate and elect tin* officials, they counsel and bribe the legislators, they guide tho hand of tho governor, and they cau be found clothed in the ermine sitting in its courts. There is hardly a county official i» the whole state who ha t not in his picket annual passes over nearly every railway line in I Nebraska. They have seized the lands I ~i tho people, they have controlled the supply and regulated the pri<xjs of agri- I cultural products, they have made the I most exorbitant. charges for hauling grain and freight, ami compelled th< > state board of transportation to back them up and report adversely against the com plainants. Under this stato of affairs, and what with unjust taxation, broken pledges and crops burned by heut and nipped by early frosts, it is little wonder tiiat tho farmers of Nebraska are allied together 80,000 strong.—Omaha Dis patch. King Hoodie. No wonder the fanners havo started a uew party. The leaders of the old ones have for some years been acting on tho supposition that tlie people are so stupid as to be satisfied to vote for tlie party that could show that tliu other one was the meaner. For a while it did look as though this sort of peanut politics would work forever. The farmers’ movement Is proof that something beeides prejudice must lie used to get votes hereafter. But is tho new party strong enough in the girth here in Colorado to clash swords with the giants of the boodle elements? After all is not King Boodle the power in politics? -Denver Field and Fsnu. FARMERS' RAILROADS. Mr. IJuatr* Plan for Kuabllnif iarmerr* to Build Th«lr Own Hoadu, As a solution of tills great railroad problem is the paramount question of tho hour and is scarcely second in im portunCo to even tho money question it self, it follows that any well digested plan of solution must commend itself to all who vs ish well to tho farmer in his present -ht rugglo to emancipate himself from tho load of middlemen anil tariffs of various sorts now preying on his an nual surplus. Kvery platform of every farmers’ con \ nation or public meeting held in the United States of America during the last year or more lms a plank demanding in some sort that the general govern ment own or control the railroads. By h sort of common consent it is assumed i by all there conventions, and assented to | on all sides by the press, that somehow the government ran take jiossession of : and run the railroads of this land as tho imperial authorities of Germany and Russia do theirs. Men seem to forget that this is a republic; that contracts are binding here; that although the public at the outset had rights yet now those rights have lapsed, and that private ownership of our highways has become not only u matter of fact but ts also backed by decisions of our courts that nothing short of a change of constitution and a revolution can unsettle. llovv then is our government to own these railroads- By purchase? No. For, first, they will not sell; and, second, we can not buy, since ont of the $h,000,000,000 over ono-lmlf—to wit, $4,250,000,000—0f their value, according to Poor’s M rtnal, is water. Now, sir, my plau is, let that water drip out by a method perfectly constitu tional, just and right, ari l so put the railroad lords in selling mood. Your Fjiaco will not allow me over a fair chance to go into detail, but to show tho fanners that by going away, say five miles or ho from any railroad, they may parallel it, nslng fifty six pound st to the yard at a cost not to exceed SO,OOO ov 157,000 a mile; that if eac.li mile in length tlio farmers on either sido to the number of forty to the mile unite they can grade up their own roadbed, can t ike throe rods in width, fence it, and absolutely own it, and so adjust its af fairs that no one but a resident farmer shall own a cent of its stock, and the to tal cost to each of the forty farmers will not exceed $l5O a mile (possibly plus some Individual labor of oacli in grading and fencing). I prove to tho farmer that they can own and control their own mad, and when forty of them to tho mile, for 3vo to ten miles on each sido of -tim iuibino and agree to give all. their busi'Ksss to any such road the whale gumo is in their own hands. I show that good ruilroad men, capi talists and managers stand ready to lease such a roadbed, build its steel bridges, run their own cars on it and do all our business (mark tho our) at ono third present rates on any lino of ruil road in tho state (or nation), t prove that for us to keep five miles uwuy is to our hnmenso advantage. Wo put in a small sido track at every cross wagon road; we need no depots of any great value—an old box car is often good enough. Our co-operativo stores will locate at those cross roads and do all our business, and wo will so lease one lino of road that each mile that is 150 milas away from Chicago wili pay ns 0 per cent, on all cost and divide $2,000 a ndlo betwoon us and our lessees. Now, as to tho towns and cities that v. < pass, leaving thoin to one side, I have this to say: This is tho year of our Lord 1800, and the farmer, after a sleep of thirty years, is awakening, and like Kip Van Winkle ho is not earing much whether his old gnn is repaired or not. Let tho old gun look out for itself until wo have saved the farm and provided for wife and babies, and then if the old town that has skinned ns for years needs repairing we will talk that matter over at our leisure. Just now wo are looking out for the farmer. I send to any man free a circular, giv ing cuts and figures to prove m v Solution of tho farmers’ railroad problem to bo true. 1 show by the roads themselves that my calculations are correct, and I close by saying: Welcome tho day when tho farmers save themselves by owning their own railroads. It can lie easily done, and thousands of farmers greet these utterances everywhere with a hearty amen.—ll. H. Haalf in Chicago Daily News. iielj> !•!»• b'mrmor, 11.-Ij* 411. The talk of ovorprodu' tion Is perfectly ridiculous; it Is preposterous to assume i that 100,000 men and women go naked and are starved because they have too much of tho necessaries of life. Under I consumption and unjust distribution is I the key to tho secret. If the farmer got | fifty cents a bnatal for hi- corn there j would be a comfortable frame house on | every qn’artcr section, and everything ! ;oc in proportion, and this in tivn would give i<llo meu now begging for work ; more employment in pineries, railroads I and nail factories and all other Indus* ! tries stimulated by inc: stand consump tion, and each farmer could afford to employ two pc three good hands. -O. .’l. j Kern, of Nebraska Alliance. So Tioie to Whtae. It will do the farmer but little good to sit with folded hands and cry “Hard times.” He must bo a man among men and assert himself, and through informa tion gained by reading and intercourse with tho world he will right tho wrongs and secure again that period of peace and plenty for which so many are anx iously longing and sighing. The grange, with its innumerable benefits and bless ings to the farmer, is a chief factor in reaching success.-—Grange Bulletin. Dr. Towle, of Freedom, N. H., says: I -•Farmers have wasted hours of brain j work for politicians instead of using j their brains for themselves. Today we have too many political demagogues, and tho fiirmers are left behind while others 1 have gone ahead. Concentrate our efforts and we can astonish the world with what we can do.” NO. 9.