Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-21

up indeed for Iowa news when II
consents to publish anything so alto.
gether silly and utterly unreasonable
as the following communication we
have clipped from its columns. We
know no excuse for paper publish
ing anything 30 palpably absurd.
Either the Journal must publish Its
communication without reading
them, or is 30 dumb as to be unable
to tell the difference between joke
and a funeral procession, or else II
must have desire TO lend itself to
the injury OF State from which 1t
draws much OF its support. Since
there was not the shadow Of cause
for the doleful story told by its INDIE
pendence correspondent, and since
the Journal must know that this Is
true, il would seem that common
decency would lead ii to correct the
untrue and damaging reports IL has
set afinat. So far from the CORE
spondent making true statements,
we may say that Iowa has the very
best Of crops. Wheat, while not
promising 50 large yield as usual,
is Of much better quality. Corn II
the best We have ever had in present
promise, and will probably be the
heaviest and best in yield. Other
crops are doing finely. There is not
only no prospect Of famine In Iowa,
but the surest cheer Of rs great a
plenty as any State has ever known.
Should the Journal, after publish
ing this "fearful statement" of pros
pective dcsolation, refuse to contra
diet II rs prominently rs IL has
scattered IL abroad, our people must
Judge for themselves the exact mo-
tive which induced its publication.
We copy 1t In our columns, that our
people may see that n certain class Of
individuals are not all dead set, and
that some Of them have newspapers
at their command, which know even
less than themselves. 1t is rs follows:
"Eumi1e dred1led In Io,ra--A Fearful
Statement Crops DesfrOyed by
n,1Oppesf--.Sad Prospects, '
"INDE1'ENDENcE, Iowa, July 6, 1870.
Weeks and weeks have passed, and
still no rain, Is the complaint from
every one we meet. For more than
half a century such q dryness at this
season was never known here. Ev-
erything IL dying for the want Of
rain. Go where we may, almost,
and II is universally acknowledged
that this surpasses anything In tho
past. A famine upon our very
threshold! "And what shall be
d0ne?" Is reiterated everywhere.
Fears are felt that even the seed will
not be realized that has been sown,
and the granaries arc nearly all
emptied.
The signs have been indicative Of
rain repeatedly, and yet none comes,
and these appearances are becoming
less and less. Even the very ground
Is severing in large crevices, such rs
In the past are OF rare occurrence, not
In one or two places only, but all
over; and IL Is fact admitted by all,
that should 1t now rain 1t could do
but little good To the present crops,
almost everything being beyond
resuscitntiOn. The large streams are
nearly dried up, so that many mills
have had to stop. Spectators have
been around, picking up what little
-four there IL In the mills, and hold
ing for future emergency. Surely,
unless a miracle Is wrought, Chicago
will have to ship -four and wheat
west instead Of east. The leaves up
on the trees are drying and falling as
In autumn. And the shOrtness Of the
crops IL not confined to wheat alone,
hut nearly everything, corn being
the most promising Of any. and that,
also, begins to show Enthusiastically
tho effect Of the drouth. Stock Is
suffering In many places for the want
OF food. The farmers in some locoli-
ties talk Of burning up the crops to
get rid II their straw. Think Of thut,
ye Chicngoans."
BY the time TINT the above story
nf horror has crossed the ocean. the
European papers will he waxing
eloquent over the great famine and
loss Of life In Iowa. II n lie could
grow to suci, immense proportions
In the short distance between Chicago
md Independence. tn what size will
1t not have attained when ii has
reached the foreign countries from
which our State IL now attemnting
tn induce immigration:--.Hdfe Regis
ter, 18th.