The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-03
nARpEN or MISSOURI.

A fine field for the agriculturist, land
where milk and honey don't flow exactly,
Int where labor is well repaid for It's Ell
fort; a land where crops grow in plenty,
where corn, oats, wheat, rye, barley, hay,
&c. spring up and abundantly repay the
farmer for his planting; a land in which
rich and well.to-do men are locating, with
wealth and plenty TO build and adorn their
homes with all that is useful and beautiful
a genial soil, pleasant summers ana m9a.
crate winters; society for the sociapie;
churches for the religious. politics Tor the
nolitician; game OF all kinds for the sports
man. and public schools for the young,
These are some of the attractions that La
fayette and Saline counties Of this state OIL !;
ier TO YOU OF the East. And yet with all
these the mountain homes OF my native
state are far preferable, for while we may
there have crops less in quantity and u
NAV bc inferior in quality Though doubt
~ I'VE nj, home have markets for our pro-
Jncts. while here they have none. inns
fart shouId be fixed before the. eyes OF
avery SS one who thinks OF emigrating from
West Virginia or any other OF the Eastern
states TO the West. Remainder one ting, you
n'aw rniss niore-ady doIbiy more on me same
"H, g OF lind in t6isoounfry, and yet your re
Mr., fr;I be small. roMrproft, u any, irtH Dc
, rs,1, rsrv little. For why2 Simply because
thsre ara but two markets for your pro-
Ince, Kansas City and st. Louis, and the
frei0hts to either Of these places Will eat
IN your profits; the railroads gets the ker-
NO, and the producer gets but the
shell For instance, the very best OF
wheat sells to-day in Lafayette county OF
AZ cents Deductfro this 20 and % cents
fse;cht ner busllel TO Kansas City and st;
= e,s;s and YOU have nothing left over and
above the cost of growing ana preparing ~.
the grain. ! am not exaggeraung, Du.
understanding, when say that ~ per
cent Of the farmers products in TINS c9un-
try goes to the railroads over and apoy y
ia net receipts. Iventure 70 say that y
the Missouri river was to-day naylsapIl "
for towboats, as is the river lowing py
vour city, that grain OF all kinds could DC
deiivered in Eastern markets 70 per cent
cheaper than 1t is now- There ore bnt
two outlets to all this region-but two
channels for Il to pass through-ytz: the
Missouri Pacific and the st. Louis, kansas
G;ty & Northern railroads, and with
clSsped hands these two pool all ireights,
snneeze all shippers and divide all prohts'
Tins Il Ia that the farmers have clamp
about them; have cramped themselse,
~;tb county and township debts to build
and equip the railroads only to cast them
selves into their clutches and to tind them
seiyes powerless to extricate themselves.
This n, more than anything else has given
cause for the Granger uprising; the simple
Snestion OF self-protection; or, 10 other
words. as these men have voluntarily
chosen TO burden themselves with an
enormous debt to build these roads, they,
demand in return an equitable, iair and
inst rate to the markets for their produce
'rhaE Is all they ask so far rs lean learn;
M more: no less. Thisis "Grangertsln,
Misunderstood By us Easterners to a very
vreat extent and loaded down by lot o.
heresies which were never contemplated
by the orisinators OF this movement,
dRANGERIsM,
30 far as / can learn, is the name chosen
nv the agricultural class whereby they ART
Known; L Is the title OF band OF farmers
ali over this Western country, who too late
have realized what arbitrary power they
have Welded to monopolies and who have
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