, 1879-01-02

likely te brought Into use in many kinda Of
printing, II it il not III newspaper work.
ROUGH On CHICAGO.
utt rerktns Oives Frse Reign to His Fancy
--chEcaEo All Owned Down East-Tes1s
Funny FAlsehood m Long john &nt
Observation-Disclosures Starving IIoKa Going
10 Now Tnrk.
terrespondtnes Cincinnati Enqxf9xr.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2a-Thc Chicago newspapers
arc making figures lie. They are taking inuu.
cent, harmless figures and putting them In tine,
aud making thcu, dress.pafaac around 50 ~ to
provc-sbsulurc1y prove-that Ohio. New York;
and Massachusetts owe more than Illinois. The
State Treasurer at Springfield has asraogcd
whole columns Of ilgurrs to prove that the conl~
bfned town, county, and Stats debt Of Illinois
Is less than the combined town, county, and
stute deot uf ohio, Pennsylvnn!a, Nav York, Or
Massachusetts,. / knew there WAS sone drccp-
tion about The figures given, And 80 the other
day, in Springfield, made Aome inquiries about
them.
"N'hcro Is the fallscy in this statemepti"
asked of a prominent oll1c!al. " "Certainly 1lli-
uuia owes moro than Ohio"
"1he fallacy 10 this" replied my friend.
"Thcy do not give the full Indebtedness Of Ill
npts. They don't give tenth part of her it,
lchteduess. Now, to illustrate, they nut down
the combined town and county indebtedness OF
Mclean County. in which Bloomington Is situ-
atcd, at about $500, 900. when, IN fact, Mclean
County owes over 81, QUO, 900 ~. aud pays over
CSC, GOO interest money every year to Ohio, New
York, Massachusetts. and tile East. They don't
sny anything about the mortgages on farms.
They ou1Y talk about town, county, and city
debts, There nrc to-day debts hanging over the
Illinois farmers, secured By mortgages on their
farms, amounting 10 over $25o, ,o0o,0oo. Mclean
County to-day, I say, pays over e5o.op annnal
interest money. The difference between Ohio
or any Eastern State aud Illinois Is this: In oth-
er States tho individual farmers arc pretty we'll
out Of debt, and the only debts standing are
small county aud town dsbts, while In Illinois
about every fnrmcr owes for hts farm. In Ohio,
II tic farmer owes anythtng to owes it to his
neigtbor, while ln Illinois the farmer owes over
in Countettcut aid massachusetts,: r,,,u.
farmer Is in a bad way. They havc had average
tuI crops III llllnuIs for over four years. Her
farmers arc d!sheaftcned, aud tho people 10 this
Cling along N poverty; They ere plncky aud
brave, but 10 per cent interest Is cntinE them
up. Daily big farms are changing hands, and
Illinois tnrnlera arc going to Kansas and Nc
sion Of their lands. | can bur ,rtch .al'urlal
lands In Illinois today with coal underneath
null capable OF raising seventy bushels OF corn
% TOO to .hs acre when IT. o,K dts1i M =, aSa 9Ss
Miami Valley would be worth $40. 1.and Is
actually cheaper today In Illinois than Il ls In
Iowa OF Eastern Kansas And whyf Because
It fs mostly owned BY men who naye nay Got po,ss; ;.
vank It. They want 10 sell 1t.
CHICAGO INDEBTEDNESS. ...
u How about the Indebtedness OF ChicaRot"
"Weil, she owes publicly 49, city, sup.
owe privately about $so3 n0o2 ~; shs 6wss 1S
this 500 ,no0ooo 70 NeM fork, Cincinnati. Phil
" DO yuu know" asked my friend, "that Chi
cago il murtEagrd to-day lor more than she
would sell form the lnarkota People In ctpctn-
One door.yard owes 1t to the othcs. But In
Chicago the mortgages are held out Of tho State.
| .tu not suppose that Cincinnati owes &5,o0Q..
o to-day to persons outs!ie IT, ot ~ hcr f. cIty inits,
grows like Jack Falktaif's men In huckraml--
that Is, S350, ,U00 0oo worth Of property claimed
by Chicago, In reality owned II, the Eat: Hart
ford, Conn. VIZ. oopulation % o. 4a a. 9wns 9Im
peupe. 50, n tact, Hartford Is adouble city, tlaif
Of It situated In Connecticut aud tho other halt
| situated in Chicago. New York also has larRe
to llyc In ChfcaRo are really Ncw Workers, o.
cupyluH New York houses located nwa5 from
| hotllc."
10 you see tho Illinois ncwspapoEs. sre untn-
tentionally making figures lie,-tuaklnx them
liz like gas-tneser or patt OF coai.acalcs. I'LL
nuls Ia LII a bad way. Her crops ase poor. Her
farm ucoplo are discouraged. It will take thseo
9ood crops Of corn and wheat to put her ou The
The Chtcase uian says: AT don't aarc Il VIC
don't own Chicago. Wc prefer TO have New
York and Boston own our real +stato mud build
Oh their valuation. Isn't II better to rent part
| Of tic city Fruln Now York and Boston ut per