Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-12
TEE FARNERS, MOVEMENT
ILLINOIS.

deal Of political organizing, drillin 6
sham fighting, advancing and re
treating and so forth in the Sucker
State-Douglas and Lincoln, Nei
Baker, Joe Hoge, James A. Nc
Dougall, Thompson Campbell
Trumbull. Dick Yates, John A. Lo
gan and the rest, first and last, have
come to stir them mp and teach them
the politicians arts and SO it hap
pened that when the Farmers OF that
State took the notion of running it,
politics they had a good deal Of
usage and experience and know!edel
of the efficacy of organization to
show them how and what to do; and
the entire State, as one may say.
being given up to farming under the
tillase of these cute hhsbandmen,
thew made their anti-railway war a
very telling one. They knew what
they wanted and how to effect it !;
and SO they succeeded Moreover
they are rich, as q class 4; and so
could fight the wealth of tho monop-
olies-or, rather. were in position
to resist any small temptations that
the Z. r. people might offer. 1t
was different in Iowa and Minnesota.
In those States there was no clearly
defined object and very loose
jointed substitute for an organiza
ton. Ard still, We suppose, they
knew better what they we're about
than any Changers" in Nevada.
What, in the name of beans and
buttermilk, does anybody want to be
q Granger here for? If to resist
fence law, good if for the some
what vague notion Of segregatinS
the farmer vote from the vile politi-
clan, bosh But in Illinois they are
in dead earnest in wanting larger
facilities for transportation. They
want o decrease of railroad way
freight charges and they are ire
keen for Il ship canal which
shall put them in communication
with the So. Lawrence and the sea.
They want to dump their produce.
their wheat and corn and -four and
pork right into a ship at Chicago
and bid it God speed and cheap car
rage to the ocean. It is stupidity
to suppose they are anti-subsidians.
They are not anything Of the sort
only they don't want to pay the sub
sides themselves. There is no weak,
spouting sentiment about all this
it is business, cold business and
they will go up to Congress with
petition next Winter asking for a
survey and appropria-
tions to build their wished for ship
canal. They will come with power
behind them. Froth and fustian
don't scare anybody but the fools
but an organized party of farmers
with politics in their head and power
wisely handled will fetch any politi
cal body-or set its members to
thinking, anyhow. This minds us
IF John P. Jones trip to California
this ship canal project does. The
father and some other par
lies built barque at Cleveland on
Lake Erie /; and when John and his |
brother Henry got the gold fever
in 1S49-they just went down to the
Lake, away back there in rural Ohio,
md got aboard that barque and never
got out of her till they got to Talca-
luans and thence up to San Fran
isco. The craft was too wide to
,ass through. the locks of the Wei
and Canal 50 they had to shave off
ler sides, and then passed through
nd that's how John p. and Henry
ones made their trip in their daddy's
hip all the way round the Horn.
t is not at all out of the way to
hink that Senator Jones, fondly
boxing back upon this tortuOus sea