The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-06-07
Written for the DSxoeRsT. !
~ CHEESE CuERsE i.

was brought up ON farm that is, 1
come up with the cows. labor has been to
me sweet boon. There is no farmer in this
country that has done more real sitting around
than have. It was my practice in youth to
sit on the fence and see the hired men work.
There is no more ennobiing occupation than
swinging the reaping machine or holding the
plow. never held the plOw much, because
the one We had was gentle Il would stay
without being held. The brewing of cheese
and butter was among the earliest industries
Away back in the history Of the world we
find Adam and Eve conveying their milk
from the Garden Of Eden in a sas-horse va
to be weighed in the balance. Whatever
| may be said to the discredit Of Adam and
Eve in the marketing OF the products Of their
orchard, it has never been chargzi that they
stopped at the pump and put water in the
milk cans. Doubtless you viii reInsnber
how Cain killed his brother Abel, because
Abel would not let Aim do tbs ehurning.
Even then boys quarrelesi sbsat doing the
family ehurning. They all wanted to do it.
We can picture Cain and Abel driving moo
ley cows up to the house from the pasture
in the southeast corner Of the garden, and
Adam standing at the bars with tin pail
and three-legged stool, smoking pnesr-
sehaum pipe and singing Is Hold the fort, for
l am coming through the Rye" while
Eve sits on the veraRda with sewing ma.
chine, altering her last years polonaise, and
winkiRg at the Devil. pho stands behind the
milk hcase, singing al want to be an Angel.
After Adam got through milking he came up
and saw Eve blushing and seid. Madame.
chesse I, - and she ctoss 4
But, to come down TO the present day, we
find that cheese has become one Of the most
important branches OF manufacture. Il is
next in importance to the silver interest.
And, fellow cheese-makers, you are doing
yourselves great injustice that You do not
petition Congress 20 pass a bill to remouetize
cheese. Cheese was demoneti5ed when Con-
gress passed an act establishing the theory
that the moon WAS made Of green cheese
There is more cheese raised in the United
States than there is silver, and It = far more
valuable. Suppose yOU had not eaten
mouthful in thirty days and you should have
placed on one plate table bsfore you ten
dollars stamped ont OF silver bullion, alsl
nine dollars stesnped ont of cheese huliio,i ,.:l
another plate which would yon take first
Though the face value of the nine cheese dol
lars should be 10 per cent. below the face
value of the ten silver dollars, yon would
take the chances on the cheese. You could
use it to better advantage in your business.
Hence say that cheese is more valuable than
silver, and it should be made legal tender
for all debts, public and private except pew
reHt. thrust the day ia not far distant when
4l23 grains of cheese shall be equal to one
dollar in Goldfish, and when the merry Jingle
cs slices of cheese shall be heard in every
pocket. Then every cheese factory can make
its own coin money win be plenty and
everybody will be happy, and there never
win be war any more. 1t may be asked how
this currency can be redeemed? I would
have an incontrovertible bond made OF Lin
burger cheese, which ia stronger and more
durable When this is done you can tell the
rich man from the poor by the smell Of his
money. Nov-a-days many of Us do not even
get a smell Of money, but in the good days
which are coming the gentle zephyr win watt
to us the delicate viole. aroma Of the able
bodied Limburger, and we shall know that
money is plenty. The manufacture OF cheese
is business that poor man can engage in
as well as . rich man. say it without fear
of successful contradiction, and say it boldly,
that poov man with, say 300 cows, if he
thoroughly understands his business, can
market more cheese than rich man who
owns 300 oxen. This is suscs s,,tible of DEM
enstra tina ii any friend 6 mine showed a
desire :" hesav:5s ass.lrssslaiI, would say to
him, Il ot,ng man. get married buy moo
ley COW and 60 to Eastern Oregon and start a
cheese factory" Speaking Of cows, did it
ever occur to you what saving it woald be
to you if you should adopt mooley cows in
do in making chsssei It takes at last three
tons of hay and a large quantity of ground
feed annually TO keep q pair of horns fat, and
Of what earthly use are they? Statistics
show that there are annually killed 4, 600
Grangers by cattle with norma You pass
laws to muzzle dogs because one in ten thou
sand goes mad, and yet more people are
killed by horns than by dogs. What the
country needs IS moro mOoley cows, and but
ter, and chesse-makers, for Oregon is the
land of milk and honey. J. w. H.