The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-10-06
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Nh. EDrrox Next Wednesday morning
our third Annual Fair eonnenees- Farm
ers, mechanics, merchants, lawyers, doctors,
editors, everybody, turn ont and make this
Fair -emimenslJ the best ever held in
the County. Col. BAsslrr, with praiseuor-
thy enterprise, is sparing no pains to make
the grounds what they should be. He Is
making srossing track half-a-mile long,
and building shed fer the vegetables and
chicken fxins,' o0xso feet. He has dug
we'll on the grounds, which now has Eve feet
Of good water in it, and he viii have 3
pump attached to it. that water may be
easily and abundantiy obtained.
Agriculture is the main artery through
which the life blood Of communities and
nations shrobs. The people who foster il,
it repays with lavish hand, and they grow
wealthy and powerful. They who check
and discourage il, in their eager haste to
tread what seems to them sh 3rter road to
wealth, are Ike the man in the fable, whose
goose laid him golden egg e.ery day, but
who, in his eagerness to be rich, killed the
goose, when 10 instead Of The golden treas
ure be looked for, be found nothing but
worthless embryos. The people Of the
Slope have awakened from their dreams Of
princely wealth by the transfer of corner
lots in paper cities and let them now, each
and every one, take hold with . will in ad-
vaucing the interests Of agriculture, and ere
long our wealth will be as real and perma-
nsns a. it has heretofore been fictitious and
aeesing. The mechanic need not forsake
the goose, the last, the saw, the trow J, or
the anvil. The merchant may stick to his
ledger, the lawyer to his brief, and the doe
tor to his scalpel-each one attending dill
gently to his own particular business, but at
the same time, giving the farmer to under
stand that they are with him, heart and
hand, as be turns his bread burrows to the
sun, drives home his lowing herds, or gath
ers his golden sheaves; that they are proud
to acknowledge him as their chief in physi-
cal progress, to whom they look for the full
fliment Of that promise which nature has
stamped, with the seal of prophecy, upon
our valleys and prairies, that the Missouri
Slope shall be the garden of the continent.
Turn out, farmers, we are with you fling
to the winds that old idea that city folks
despise you; because, perehance, you now
aud then find a snob or a spoi!t girl, who
knowsno better, don't condemn US ALL
The perfumed no,hings who turn up their
noses at the country people, don't amount
to anything their expressions or actions
are no index to public opinion; they have
no ears for the chatter of o reaper, or the
lowing OF a cow, as to them the sweetest of
all music is the pop Of cork or the futter
of a ribbon don't mind anything they may
say or do, but just come in en- n,asse, and
pledge you the word Of our business men,
thrifty housekeepers, and our sensible girls,
that you will find whole hearted welcome.
Bring in your cattle, and horses, and hogs;
your sheep, and turkeys, and chickens your
corn, and wheat, and tomatoes, and pota-
toes, and pumpkins, and melons. You, Mr..
farmer, am talking to. And you Mrs. far
mer, aud the girls, bring in your bread and
cakes, and pics, and jams and jellics, and
quilts and socks and everything else you can
think of, no matter if it amt down on the
list, bring it in now don't forget, will you ?
A new feature has been added to tie
Fair this year, which is the throwing open Of
the lists for the competition Of our sister
Counties, and the ''rest Of mankind" Now
Pottawattam:es, throw down the gauntlet to
them all tell them to bring on their pro-
ducts, and look to your laurels never let
it be told in Iowa nor published in Nebraska,
that you got beat. And you, good people
of Mills, Fremont, Harrison, Monona, Shell
by, Woodbury., Crawford, Cass, Montgom-
cry, Page, Taylor, Adams, Adair, Audubon,
Guthrie, and all the rest of the Slope, turn
out and come in to Council Bluffs. And
you folks over in the Territory, you can't
vote for President, but you can come over
to our Fair, and we want you to come. And
now, one and all, State and Territory, Pot
tawattamie County and all the other Coun-
ties, do your best, and We will have the best
Fair ever held this "hish up the Maddy."
BRo,pW,y