Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-31

loAtat oppiausO- Auu the COTTup
ton that steals It's TO the heart OF
our sovereign, the violence that sti
fles has voice, the fraud that obstrucIs
him, is the process that chokes to
death our noble country, and there
can be no son 10 receive HIM. Great
applause Aud therefore The Kepub-
lican party will guard the ballot box,
this cradle of our sovereignty, with
all its strength, and guard it so
strongly that none but men who are
entitled to vote shall sully it with /
their presence. Great applause
Best of all was the eloquent peror-
alton:
There have been days of fullness
in the Republican party. 1t was a
day of fullness when you organized |
in 1854, and it was day of fullness
when you chose Lincoln in 1860. 1t
was a day Of fullness when he called /
for three millions OF men to 90 under
the flag and save the republic, and it
is oday again revival of the Re- |
publican party applause such a
revival as You and have not seen
since 1860. / tell you, fellow citi-
zens, in parts of my State, now, three |
months before election, they are ac-
tually taking the canvass OF town
ships and making up the lists of "cer-
tain Republican," "certain Demo
crat," and doubtful" The cam
paign has begun, and it has begun at
the right end of the line-among the
people themselves. These American
people have been more profoundly
moved by the events within the last
two months than anything | have
known for ten years. We have not
sought to revive the dead issues of
the war. For one, | would be glad
if all the bitterness OF that strife
should rest under the green graves of
our dead; if the debt, currency. the
honor, the faith and the glory, were
all. II you pull up, one by one, the
roots, You will see the basis of that
glory, of that faith, is the Republican
party.
Fellow. citizens, we stand together
as one. rejoice to see Wisconsin
young and strong, hopeful and stea-
dy, and running on her old high
plane of faith in the Republican par
ty. Applause. | do not care if
the Democrats do take our old posi-
fion, as they are constantly doing 1t
is only compliment to us that they
come after us. They tell us the
greenback is the best currency ever
devised by men. True. Who made
it? Applause. We made it when
you cursed it. Talk about home
stea1s; why, even the decent Dem.
ocrat now is in favor of reserving
all the public lands from the corpora
tons and giving them to homesteads.
But who originated that? The first
homestead law that the republic ever
knew was signed by Abraham Lin
coin after it had been vetoed by
James Buchanan. Applause. You
are in favor Of liberty after you
failed to keep slavery alive forever
You are in favor of war after it is
over You are in favor of greenbacks
after they have done their great work,
against your will. / find you march
t ing along on some high plateau and
picking up some branch that you find
of an old, smoldering camp fire, and
+ swinging it around and saying, "See
. my light" but the brand is an old
! extinguished brand of our camp. fire
great applause] that we built ten
years ago, and when you were firing
/, your curses at us. But our lights
, shine ahead of US eternally, and you
may, if you desire, follow us at what
, distance in the rear Won choose
, Canada Thistle. (Cirsium Arvensc. ]
(For the HERALD3
: 1t may not be generally known
TO the farmers of Grant county that
: this troublesome and almost indie
structihle pest is slowly but surel
gaining foothold on the farms in
, their midst. In four different local.
, tiles in this county, namely, near
the villages of Fennimore, Lancas,
ter, Caba City, and Martinvills can
this weed be found. Although our
statnles impose fine (see sec.
1850 1881, RS on any person to al.
low this plant to grow on lands oc :
cupied by him, it is in some in.
stances gaining considerable head
way. Now the sooner ard moro
thoroughly the farmers and people
generally are awaken TO the fact
that this plant mast be totally rooted
and DESTROYED the better. The old
saying, can ounce of prevention is
worth pound of cure" ia true 10
this Instance The patches, where
this thistle exists a. present, are
small, in some instances not moro
than three rods square, but If by
some neglect or accident, the piaets
are SLOWED to go to seed, who can
tell to what extent they may spread
over the adjoining fields? A few
days ago my attention was called
to few of these thistles that have
been allowed TO go 10 seed on the
mbar k-ent of the g. Il S. w. Mar
row Guage r r. Thcse seeds, Ike
those of other tbis.les may be borno
to great distances by the wind aud
unless the attention Of the unsns-
pecting farmer On whose lands they
may rest, ia particularly called to
the plant. he may, before he is
aware, have patch Of weeds that
will astonish as well as annoy him
by the pertinacity wi which they
stick TO him and his farm. Various
methods are given for The destruc.
ton OF this pest. but whether any
one of them is ffec,ua or not | can
not say. 1t is maintained by some
that il these thistles are moved in
August when the stalks are hollow
they will rot out. Others say that
cutting off the ,ons aud applying
kerosene. To the roots will effecsually
destroy them. VIII some one who
has tried these or any o,her meth.
/ DDS please report 1t is absolute.
~ necessary for the walfare of the
farming community at largo that
some plan be adopted TO completely
destroy these thisties Tho plan OF
moving them off app4rently hardly
serves to keep them in check. II