Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

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Nh. EBrroas The Times editor
.ls making 8 great row about the
athirty.fve thousand Iowa cove
that have gone into the cheese
factory business" and straight
way proceeds 10 abuse atha seee%
sion, JET Davis, intoleFana big
Oted Democrat" becdhse the COWS
Of Mississippi have aOt gone into
the "cheese factory business aad
because ~ there IL q pound Of
cheese manufactured in this State,
Mississippi zoe the Times nan,
are not dI0aFe If n'u
Now / assume that these thirty
five thousand Iowa cows" require
five thousand milk maids-tbat
each milk maid requires one calico
dress-that each dress requires
ten yards Of calico, and that the
entire Iowa COW brigade requires
fifty thousand yards Of calico
to furnish one calico dress
per annum, to the milk maids Of
Iowa! Nov the cotton Of which
this calico Is made Is produced
down South" either in Missis-
sippi or some other Of the Bour-
bon" States, and the calico itself
IL most likely worn and printed 10
Massachusetts, or Rhode Island.
Now, II every State notcursed with
+" secession, JET. Davis, intOler.
ant and bigoted Democracy" must
produce everything IL consumes,
or, in default thereof, be visited
with the anathemas Of the immac-
ulate Times, why the deyel does
not Iowa, which Is not cursed with
" secession, JEFF. Davis, ETC., etc."
grow It's own cotton and wear and
print It's own calico for It's i've
thousand milk maids? may be
told that the climate Of Iowa is not
suited to the growth Of cotton,
in the first place, and in the second
place, that the people Of Iowa
prefer to sell cheese and buy cali
co from Massachusetts! Ireadi-
ly recognize the first % conclusive,
and the second as q sensible one,
and that the people of Iowa who
make cheese may find their profits
in exchanging It for articles which
they do not and cannot make =
Not so with the profound philOso-
pher of the Times, who, because,
in other days, he CHANGED to be
q Wing, imagines that when be Il
vituperating men whose "shoe'
latchets he is unworthy to I'M
loose" is displaying a high order
of intellect and statesmanship.-
The Times man is slightly mis-
taken. 1t is no evidence Of man
illness or of intellect to belittle, u
d~epreciate, or to malign his Owl
State and people. He may have
opposed Democracy "fOr forty
years"-he had a perfect right L
do so, and his right to continue
that opposition will not be qnes
toned BY one who was as true
Wing as he ever knew how to be
but my hostility to Democracy
shall never induce me X
affiliate with Radicalism, Of
to belittle my own fellow-citi
zens for the Qualification of a coy
brigade in the distant State o
Iowa. Cheese is avery good thing
and there are great varieties 0
f that valuable household commOdi
~. The LimJerger is q high
; favored, loud smelling article
much affected by our German fel
low citizens. John Bull prcfer'
the famous Cheshire cheese
and most sensible people agre,
with him. "Goshen" cheese also
has q good reputation, while thu
"Cream" cheese Of the blue grasI
region Of Kentucky, is very highly
esteemed. AS to the quality o
cheese made from the milk o
"thirty-lve thousand COWS il
Iowa" the writer himselfpossesseI
no knowledge, but he is quite sur,
that it is "not just the cheese t
villify and depreciate ones owl
home and people, and he hearth.
agrees with the old and homel!
adage, otis an i'll bird that foul
its own nest"
No more from your loving
IlNCLE EPHRAIM.