Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-08
From "FarIner.''
Ed. Register

EU. heY1SteT-
l must sing you the old song-Dry, dry,
drouthy and dry. A few showers from the
northwest have threatened US, which probably
emanated from the lakes, marshes and bogs
about Itasca; but the clouds seemed 10 be ex-
hausted before reaching US. On the timber
and clay lands the corn is dying, or premature
ly drying up; and though affected in the fat
prairies, it will there make good crop gener-
ally.
This will make good country to get away
from unless some way is found the tendency
to drouth. Allowing rough lands to return
to timber, and by making dams and ponds to
hold water, would probably effect this object.
We hear bad accounts of drouth from Belle
view in your county. Your correspondent had
the pleasure of meeting one of his old neigh
bors from Belleview at the soldiers reunion
at jacksonville, on the 10th. He said that
''dry as powder-horn' hardly expresses the
true condition there.
When one looks back and contemplates the
changes that have taken place here in the last
forty years, he can hardly help feeling some
anxiety for the future of this country as affect
ed by climatic changes.
I noticed the friendly criticism of my last
letter by "Foreigner." II England should
arbitrarily and forcibly interfere with the
United States, / should certainly advocate
armed resistance; but, as military man,
should consider armed resi- sistence folly on the
part OF Ireland, for reasons apparent to every
sensible or weIl-informed man. AS a states
man, too, should oppose the separation OF
England and Ireiand-if only for reasons
growing out of their geographical location.
l quit reading the Irish World because it
advocated a policy that was only calculated to
rnislead and demoralize the Irish people. 1t is
opposed to arace rather than principle. The
cause of the Irish masses is the cause of the En-
glsh masses; and they ought TO be allies, and
must be before anything lasting and beneficial
can be accomplished for either. But the World
would do all it can to make them enemies, by
raising every prejudice and antiphathy of race.
Everything British is mean and rascally, and
every thing mean and violent is British yet to-
day British soil is the real refuge for the
oppressed of every land; and even Hartman,
the Russian, had To fee from the boasted free
dom of the United States, aud take shelter
under the British flag. Give the devil his due.
Where shall We find Marx and all the leading
spirits of true democracy to-day. The land
lord!sm or Ireland is not as grlping as the
ianulordism of this county, where It is regu.
lated just as the railroads are said to regulate
their tarltfs--by all the traffic will bear.
Tne State here undertakes 90 reg ulate inter-
est, but leaves landiordism to work its own
sweet will. and to curse the land worse than a
swarm OF grassnoppers.
That the lanliordism of Ireland is absentee
is to be expected, since the Irish agitators
have done their worst 10 make that country
dangerous aud unhealthy for landlords by
waylaying and numbering chem.
LanulUrdism in every land should be abol-
ished; but there is a right way and a WRONG
way of doing things. The Cause of Ireland
is the cause of t!,e civiliz. I'd world: and when
ever their leaders are willing TO unite with
the true democracy of everl land AMI oppose,
by constitutional ami legitimate neans, every
form of government that tolerates landlord
ISM, then they may n,pe to bless their own
land. Let them cpntiLue their violence and
dynamite plo:s, aud tn y will be regarded
human wolves and enemies of the human
race.
The Greenhackers held three-days' camp
meeting at Jacksonville, ILL.,, last week, aud
urew large crowd. They have unfortunately
made a misstep at the inception . their party
by becom NJ the cham pions OF the the iiLt
paper money lunacy. Bat they will
ing TO admit that any kind of money that will
draw interest is the rich mans money; and
that la d that does to hire or speculate in
better tEan to improve and cultivate, is the
rich mans land; the lauilor Is land
They have, to-, some very bic speakers, who
are doing ,heir Very best to remedy the blum
lers OF the past; ard they certainly gain
ing ground here iu way taat will astonish
the Old party poiiLiciaus at the next election.
People are getting really to do away with
those unearnei increments, interest and rent,
through the medium of which capital has
always absorbed the resources of aud enslaved
labDr FARMER.
MURRAYvILLE, ILL.,, Aug. 81, 1881.