The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1873-07-10
OVER THE RIVER.

EDS. HERALD.--I see our friend Capt
Hunter has ably written up a subject. that
L have often thought of, and the question
arises, why this antagonIsm between city
and county? Now as Capt. says, many
farmers, Il hope not majority LOOK on
the city folks with a suspicious eye, and
per contra many city people look with dis.
dain upon the sunburnt farmer from the
rural districts. Now by way of illustra-
ton, would say, that recently 1 hired
boy "a widows sony stranger to me, to
pillow corn, and run the hay rake. The
widow wanted corn told her paid cash
for work, and that would buy corn The
boy took clean shirt, and lunch of bread
and started with alacrity to go with me
home; but before we got to the bridge,
(this was at Eddyville) old M-saw us,
and told the boy that if he went to work
for me, that 81 would kill him." The boy
hitched my horse in an alley, and have
not seen the boy since. Also, few years
ago, certain editor, mot In Oskaloosa) in
relating about the crowd at a big show,
said, "the cusses from the country were
there in force, women with yaller dresses,
etc." Now of course neither of those men
were an index of the citizens, and to be
brief would say, that the interests of city
and country alike demand general reci-
procity their needs are so interviewer az
to be inseparable; the country needs, yea
must have the printer, merchant, mechan-
ic, dentist, machinist, manufacturer, and
indeed, we could not do with
out at least, one or two lawyers, as many
physicians. why, Hoffman, Hurst and some
others are Indispensable we must have a
sheriff, surveyor, auditor, clerk, supt., &C.,
and they must reside in the county seat.
Now, so far as we are acquainted with the
prominent business mel of Oskaloosa, YES.
and Eddyvile too, We ore frank to saw,
that in our nine years business transactions
with them, we never were defrauded ont
OF dollar that we know of !; and there are
merchants, stockmen, bankers, grocers,
implement dealers, and lawyers that
we do think are emphatically honest men,
that no sensible farmer should lear or hate.
Again fellow farmers did you ever think
of the advance on your lands, if Oskaloosa
should some day be built. from Des Meines
to the Skunk river, with great business
blocks, for miles each side of her principal
streets, with the smoke of fifty manufactur-
ing establishments. great round houses at
intersections of the numerous Railroads;
when street car No. (perhaps) $50, halts
at your beck, when city fire engines are
supplied alike with water from the classic
Skunk and beautiful Des Moines, when
the weary passenger from Canton, Pekin,
or Yokohama, stops over Sunda . at the st.
James Hotel. All these, and more are
among the easy possibilities of the next
half century, as evinced by look at our
boundless resources, cereal, mineral, &c.
Now dear friends in view of our splendid
advantages, as q county, let us lay aside
the prejudice friend Hunter refers to, and
as the poet says:
Help us to help each other, Lord,
| Each others cross to bear. &C."
AS the immortal lincoln said, 1--WE (of
city and country cannot be enemies we
must be frienda." So mote it be.
JOHN TAYLOR.