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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-17
Boutwell, on Farmers Debts.

In his address at the Worcester
County (Mass.) Agricultural Fair,
last week, Senator Boutwell, said:
I do not imagine that Massachu-
sets farmers are generally in debt,
but l am quite sure that some OF
them have applied their annual earn
ings to the payment of mortgages,
when the money could have been
more profitably used for the improve
ment of the farms. 1t may seem
strange that l should suggest that
it is not wise always, and under all
circumstances, to Fay debts. 1t is
told of Mr.. Wcbster-but whether
with any foundation in truth | can
not say-that in speech at Phila-
delphia, on festive occasion, when
Pennsylvania was embarrassed and
her credit impaired, he insisted
that her pubic debt must be paid.
Warmed by the occasion and sub
jcct, he said; "rhc debt of Penn
sylvania must be paid; it shall be
paid--if l pay it myself" And
then after little delay he added,
"but as to private Indebtedness,
that is a different thing" Private
indebtness, gentlemen, under some
circumstances, is different thing
from a public debt. | do not speak
of the obligation, but OF the wisdom
of delay with the consent of the
creditor. Public depts usually re-
present the cost of wars, Of public
buildings, of enterprises too vast
for private undertaking.. There are
no available assets except the pri-
vatc property and producing power
of the people Every delay shifts
something's Of the burden from ac-
cumulated wealth to the wcalth-pro-
ducing classes. The interest on the
public debt of England can be
wrung largely from the laboring
classes, but the principal could on
ly be paid from the accumulated
wealth of the country. The logic
which forms the base Of British
policy on the subject is clear. The
wealthy men of the country receive
from the laboring classes interest
at 3 per cent. upon a debt which
they themselves ought to pay.
Hence the policy Of Great Britain,
dictated by the wealthy classes no
surplus income, no payment of the
public debt. Her example teaches
that public debts ought to be paid,
and paid with the least possible de-
lay; but private Indebtedness, under
some circumstances, is "a different
thing. If a farmer has half the sum
of money necessary to buy a farm
suited to his tastes and plans, there
can be no doubt of the wisdom of
the purchase. The debt is secure;
it is represented by real property.
There is hardly any personal re-
sponsibility attaching to the debtor.
He enjoys the use of the land upon
the payment of a certain annual
rent, subject only to the chance of
rise or fall in the value of the estate.
Every Improvement is for his bene
fit. The debt is an annual charge
to the extent of the intercst-noth-
ing more. If the farmer can use his
annual gains in the development Of
his farm, in the increase of his pro-
ducts, he adds to his wealth more
rapidly than he would by the pay
ment of the debt. The debt is
fixed sum; the increase in the value
Of his farm shows his gains. 1t is
certainly wiser to add to the. value
of the estate than to diminish the
fncumbrance while the owner has
not all the means in his business
that he desires.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-17
Bad Seed Wheat.

The Canada Farmer concludes
an able article on "Mistakes in
Wheat Culture" by saying: tits a
mistake in wheat culture to sow in
ferior seed. Indeed, this is very
foolish in regard to any and every
crop. Like begets like. Weakness
and disease are propagated in the
plant " orld, very much as they are
transmitted from parent to child in
tho world of human beings. The
greatest pains should be taken to
procure the choicest seed that can
possibly be had. 1t will pay the
farmer who depends on. his own
growing of seed to Gull out the best
portions Of a field, when there is
perceptible difference, and devote
them to this important use. Indeed,
it is wise policy to select the ear
Hest and finest head, and from these
grow seed. 1t is also well to OBJ
tain change of seed from time
to time, rs successive sowing in
the same soil and climate seems to
induce more or less degeneracy.
The farmer should never grudge a
little extra outlay in the purchase
of choice seed. Such outlay is pref.
ty certain to be well rewarded.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-17

"OUT, DAMNED SpoTp-The en-
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mentally calculated by every house
wife when confronted by the mani
fold variety Of stains and spots that
distigure articles Of household orna-
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not so easy to remove by ordinary
means. A little Sapolio brought
into timely use causes them all to
disappear as if by magic, and bring
peace and satisfaction to the house
wile's mind. AS cheap as common
soap and q hundred times more eff
fective.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-17
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-17

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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-17

THE Italians have a proverb that
"He who takes an eel by the tail or
woman by the tongue is sure to
come off empty-handed."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-17

IT was Voltairc who said: "Ideas
are like beard; men only get them
when they are grown up, and wo-
men never have any,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01
BACK PAY AND BACK BONE.

There are a number of men Iii public life in
one way and another to-day who, without being
positively bad, are a damage and hinderance
to the progress of political morality. They are
men who mean to do about right, whose eye
brows rise at fragrant offenses, and who never
SO much as daily with patent and outbreaking
sins. But there is sort of fabbiness in their
virtue which makes it worthless 1t has neither
stiffness nor consistency. 1t lacks the fighting
FIBER the Cromwellian quality which the times
demand. The "Christian statesmen" who
dabbled in Credit Mobilier exhibited it when
they turned over between thumb and
finger the chances for questionable gains
and were won by them. They illus
trated it further when confronted with
the plain questions which only wanted honest
answers. They doubted themselves distrusted
the people, quibbled, prevaricated and lied.
There Is not a bakers dozen of all the lot of
representative men who assume to be expo
nents of the party Of moral ideas who can be
depended upon to stand up before the peo-
pie in support of unpalatabe truth, or who
in the face of any possible peril to the
party, or hazard of present personal popular
ity, can be counted on to act the part of
brave and honest men. Day after day of the
investigation in Credit Mobilier and inquiries
into the circumstances of Senatorial cleo
tions this special weakness was laid bare,
and men to whom the country had
looked up in utter confidence in their honesty
and manly uprightness were shown to BIO
clubbing demagogues ready to sacrifice truth
or anything else to their own promotion or to
party ends. And they stood and stand there
in the places of better men-shams when the
times demanded men, moral towards when
the country wanted moral heroes. Good
enough sort of men they are for fair weather
and dress parade; men whose Christian char
acter shines beautifully under tho sunlight,
but drops limp aud Dabby and hangs loose
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01

SUPPLEMENT4RY DESIGNS at ALBANY.
Renewing for the moment their courage,
which had quite oOzed away on the passage
of the Charter, the Custom-hOuse managers
are again at Albany with a supplemental act,
which, we understand, they are already pre-
pairing to smuggle through in haste. There
are a great many Oversights and discrepancies
in the Charter as passed which need cor
rectiOn. For instance, we call attention else
where to blunder which gives to the De-
partment of Buildings Commissioner with
authority only to draw large salary. There
are other absurIities in the law equally as
glaring, which a supplementary act may prop
erly and judiciously correct.
But the act which Mr.. Thomas Murphy has
carried to Albany has "a special object which
we imagine none but politicians of his like
and his faction will approve. AT any rate,
we do not expect to hear that taxpayers con-
template the passage of the act with inditier-
ence OF that legislators are blind to its
purposes This object is to place Mr.. Van
Mort in the Board of Apportionment from
which the Charter excludes him. Another
object, to remove Mr.. Green from the
Controlership by making his Office elective,
anu Iol hh SiNNtiOih h'AV u an
seems to have been abandoned for the present
Now, neither of these two things is demanded
or even desired by respectable minority of
the people of this city, and when Mr.. Murphy
appears at Albany with any such absurd plea
he does so under false pretenses, and should
so be understood. Mr.. Van Mort was left Off
the Board Of Apportionment by some mad
vertence, but it was very cOmmendable
blInder. He can do little mischief in the way
of extravagant expenditure if somebody else
appc.tions for his department Educated in
the school of Tweed, and managed by that
master and his man Murphy, he would be
likely to make a good deal of waste if he had
a voice in the matter of the amounts to be
spent by him.
We hope the fact will not be lost on a
Reform Legislature that the proposed supple
mentary act has for its main object the grant
ing of additional power over the Treasury to
the Commissioner dictated by Tweed on re-
firing. The fight is not won or the victory
secure so long as the Ring in its new disguise
can plot and struggle to accomplish such
perversion of the will of the people-a perver-
sion which must not be permitted to succeed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01

do There must DO a shrek and a wild war
cry. and piling up Of adjectives and hur-
ricane Of denunciation. Otherwise, you know.
the good cause will not be advancing.
Ii may appear paradoxical to say so, but il
really seems to US that smokers are also q
somewhat injured race. Everybody who has
hobby against tobacco thinks ne may be-
offensive to them. They have no rights which
the non-smoker is bound to respect. May we
not have little better custom in this matteri
For the blackguards and outlaws who smoke
when smoking is positively forbidden, in tho
presence Of ladies, into the faces Of mankind.
we have nothing to say. They deserve TO be
kicked out Of society. But when respect
able and decent smoker ventures to indulge
in the seclusiOn of his own precincts, is i.
necessary to bawl in at his window that he ia
simply worshiping the devil
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01

citizens rs no Mayor ever had before. He can
place in Office the very class of honest. able,
public-spirited, and reputable men whose ex-
clusion from municipal employments in past
years has been standing subject of COM
plant. No matter what cliques may have been
formed in the Board of Aldermen, he can
break them up by making nominations of such
conspicuous fitness that no party will take the
responsibility of rejecting them. Thus far he
has shown the possession Of many OF the
qualities which we ought to require in the
chief magistrate of a great city. How he VIII
bear himself under the severe test to whicn
no is now exposed is subject of the most
earnest speculatiOn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01

about them when the stress of any great
temptation comes.
All these men know, If they know anything
at all, that the salary grab by winch INC
members of the last Congress took out OF the
treasury a million and o half OF unearned
money was UNANIMOUSLY dishonest Some OF
them said 80 and stuck to 1t, and refused 10
take their share of the plumber. Others looked
at IL wistfully, compromised with conscience
by voting against it, and then pocketed it..
The newspapers have been more OF less nut
of explanations concerning it ever since the
adjournment. The explanation OF the Hon.
Jas. A. Garfield of Ohio, to which reference
was lately made in THE TRIBUNE, was the last
Ii was satisfactory enough so far as it con-
cerned his relation to the 5000 which was
his personal share of the plumber. He has not
touched that and does not propose to. lie
shows his own view Of the transaction by his
refusal to share in the profits of it. 1t was
money to which he had no right or title. If he
had none, then no other member had any. And
yet Gen. Garfield reported this bill, was Chair
man of the Committee of Conference which
recommended its passage, and his last words
to the House before the vote was taken were
in the nature of q warning that the dreadful
consequences which would follow its defeat
would be an extra session Of Congress. We
give him credit for opposing the measure in
all its stages up to this time. This was the
crucial test. This was the time when he
should have risen to the full hight OF the
occasion and thrown himself into the breach
to defeat it. In his explanation he sets forth
l. l,Ia m IN
consent to the passage of the bill with this
feature in 1t. They are not without some
force. The principal one was that in order to
kill the salary grab it would have been neces-
sary to defeat the most important appropria-
ton bill of the session, which would have
made necessary an extra session, and that he
thinks was to be avoided because an unusual
amount of dangerous legislation was pressing
upon Congress for action which it was desira-
BILE to escape. And 80 in the choice of evils
as it presented itself to his mind
he chose tho less. Somewhere in this
world, il not in political life, some
where there are men who would
have looked over this matter as Gen.
Garfield did, and braced themselves to do cx-
actly right and be stubbOrnly honest without
reference to extra sessions or pending danger
GUS legislation. There are men-there must
be-of such uncompromsing integrity as to
say in front of Gen. Garfeld's dilemma,
There is but one right way, one honest way;
that way / take and leave to God the consc-
"quences." Those are the men whom the
country needs to-day; on whom the blandish-
ments of power and the clamor of partsans
would have no effect; men not merely Of
ordinary honesty and integrity, but of stub
bornness, pluck, back bone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01
Neip'2gotk Daily Gribmare.
BY HORACE GREELEY.
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1873.

bill in favor Of woman suffrage rejected in the
British House of Commons = The Italian Ministry
has defeated The CITY Of BilbOa is said to be
surrounded by Car1sts.
The Governor has signed the New-York Charter 60
The Hon James Brooks died yesterday. - A general
Indian war is anticipated in the Northwest. 80 Gen.
Crook reports cessation OF Indian difficulties in
Arizona.
BY proposed school act the Brooklyn Board of Eiu
cation will be made elective == Startling revelations
have been made relative the failure Of the Atlantic
National Bank. - Three ocean cable companies have
been consolidated. 80 General concessions have not
been made to the Crispins. Gold, l16E, III, 117t
Thermometer, $40 GO, 49o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01
A OUESTJON OF COLOR

Our Philadelphia friends appear to be suf-
fering the annOyances in the planning of their
great Centennial celebration inseparable from
all such undertakings Committees jar and
managers wrangle. Even the apostles laying
out the future church squabbled about pre-
cedence in the kingdom of heaven. Such uD-
wieldy engines as that which our neighbors are
setting i'll motion need rot only strength and
motive power, but incessant OIL One lit
tie difficulty which they have encountered we
think deserves notice, as it is a social trouble
outside of Philadelphia throughout the cOun-
try, and one which little common sense
would set right The women's branch of the
Centennial Commission, 1t appears, called upon
certain women representing class of
both cultured ami influential colored people
in Philadelphia TO assist. The ladies white
and black having assembled, the explanation
of the work expected of the latter was unfor-
tunately left to Yice-President possessed ap-
parently of ore zeal than discretion, as, adj
dressing theu from a lofty hight, she man
old position and their present inferiority
that they one and all Indignantly declined
to take any part in the work. Excep-
ton was especially taken to their
being confined to persons of their own color
in the matter of soliciting subscriptions, and
to what they termeo a threat of being "re-
" manded TO Africa The consequence of
which tempest III Il teapot is that unless the
matter is damaged in future with more judg-
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01

On the second page of THE TRIBUNE we
print a chapter of the history of the late civil
war which will interest many readers. There
have been so many and contradictory state
ments concerning the burning of Columbia,
S. c., this version OF that affair should be
added to The records Of those stormy times.