Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-02-28


ment, bankruptcy, crime, suffering,
pauperism and starvation" This pic
ture is somewhat colored but there is
good deal of truth in it. But come
to read the next whereas we feel
somewhat amused to learn the cause.
1t is Legislation" A gentleman went
into hotel the other day aud asked
the hostler to get out his horse. The
stable boy sat still in his chair and on
examination was found to be asleep.
The gentleman picked up straw and
tickled the boys ear. The boy with
. limp hand brushed it away as if it
were fly. The tickling was repeat
cd, the brushing was renewed. Tick
ling and brushing were repeated un.
til the boy settled down in the chair
with his coat tail over his ears and
his legs hanging out over the back of
the chair. Still he did not awake.
His "industry was paralyzed." The
man applied the straw to his nose. He
knocked the flies away again. His
nose was tickled again and he rubbed
it desperately. The process was kept
up until he sqirmed his body down to
the floor with his legs sprawling over
the chair. He looked like one of the
poorer class, with distress inflicted
upon him. The tickling was kept up
and his contortions were persisted in.
Still his eyes were closed and he
slept. His legs struggled around un-
til they came over a bucket full of
water standing on stool, and his
body was on the floor just beneath it.
The gentleman fixed the staaw in
place and stationed himself out of
sight to await events. Pretty soon
motion of the boys arm drove the
straw up his nose as far as an unob-
structed passage would let it go. At
this instant contraction" drew down
his feet suddenly, and the contents of
the bucket came all over him. He
got up looking as if he were victim
OF reimbursement, bankruptcy, and
crime," but as he could see nobody
around he swore the LAND was filed
with fraud" "brought about by legis-
latlon." He was awake now and soon
found his "business income and
wages reduced
Some of us hard workers are in
the fix of the hostler. We are asleep
on our chairs. Some of Us make
bargains with green tree nursery
men BY which we expect to make
fortunes. By and by we are in for
a few thousands, our .'real estate be-
comes deprecated, FOUR "industry be.
comes paraly zed." The tree"trade
is depressed and when the bucket
of cool bankruptcy comes down up
on us we see it was not any sleepy
nonsence of our own that troubled
US bur it was Legislation" Others
of us pay $50 or 500 for few bush.
els of fancy oats that next year may
give the ordinary yield. The seller
deposits our notes to the amount of
$500 to $1,000. at each of the market
towns on the borders of the county,
and another man comes around SELL
ing the same oats at SOC q bushel.
Our farmers are out several thou.
sand dollars. 1t was legislation in
the interest of money lenders did it.
Flies and mosquitoes These ere
what us sleepy farmers thought it
was. We didn't know it was a mon.
strous legislative straw. A year ago
last summer floods came over Grant
County. Stacks of grain, fields of
corn, fences, buildings and bridges
disappeared, to the amount of hum
dreds of thousands of dollars. "In-
dustry was paralyzed." We thought
the floods caused it. How sleepy we
were. 1t was bondholders' legisla-
ton. This winter farmers have not
been able to get their produce to
market in seasonable time. The
sleepy fellows thought the mud was
the trouble, but it turns out that it
was Legislation % For eight or ten
years farmers have sown wheat
and when it was grown and ready
to cut the beads were empty. The
stupid grangers thought chincb bugs
took it but this cool bucket of plat>
form which as they awake they have
kicked over shows that "This state
of things has boen brought about by
legislation in the interest of and die
tated by money lenders, bankers and
bondholders.
Well, we meant to go through
with that platform, but have only
just started on the whereases. We
shall have to take it up again. The
Greenback fellows have kicked the
bucket. We will look around and
see who has been tickling them with
the legislation straw and kept them
so long wriggling with their backs
on the floor and their limbs paving
the air after imaginary flies and mus.
quetoes.
AN M e. of the State If Ctanlov