Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-09-01
Pone Lenis Message.


correspondence by cable is forwarded
from the State department:
To Hon. jas. O. Blaine, Secretary Of State
Washington;
ROME, Aug. Is, lSSl.-As the Holy
Father learned with painful surprise and
profound sorrow the horrid attempt OF
which the President Of Republic was the
victim, so now he is happy to felieitate
his eXcsllency upou the news that his
precious life is now out Of danger, and
will ever pray that God may grant him
the speedy and complete recovery of his
health and long spare him to benefit the
United States.
The undersigned has the honor 10 join
in these sentiments of sincere congratu.
lations and wishes for his complete re-
covery.
tSigned) L. CARDINAL JACoBIN.
Secretary Blaine replied:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 90, 1881.
TO His Eminence L. Cardinal Jacobin, Rome:
Please convey to his holiness the sincere
thanks which this government received
the kind expression of his prayerful in.
terest in behalf of our stricken President
Since the hour the message was sent, the
Presidents condition has changed, and We
are now filled with anxiety, but not with
out hope. The President has been very
deeply touched by the pious interest fol
his recovery show by all churches, and
by none more widely or more devoutly
than by those of the Roman Catholic
communion.
(SigneD JAMES G.BLAINE.
Secretay OF State.
Relation Of Railroads to Agriculture,
etc.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson writes as follows
under this head in the September num-
Der of the american AgricultriSt: The
outside observer, who is neither farmer
nor railroad manager, but who can
weigh testimony, finds ample evidence
that the farmers of the East will not be
subject much longer even to what they
believe to be the abuse of railroads, and
''ensilage" is one of the great forces
that may make them independent. In
fact, if practical men may ever be per-
mitted to indulge in visions, the visions
that may soon become accomplished
facts, of vast increase in the productive
power of land; quick transmission of
persons; if we can send light over a
wire; if we can attach to the same posts
another wire by which to transmit
power by electricity, so that each far
mer may perhaps keep power on tap in
his barn to cut his own fodder, churn
his butter, and do all the heavy work,
if we are to accomplish here what is now
being actually done in France, that is,
operate an electrical machine by small
water-power on the farm and run the
plows by the power developed by cleo
tricity; if, I say, all these things begin to
be apparent, that are so bewildering that
one even gets mixed up in attempting to
describe them, and is not quite sure
what relation his parts of speech bear to
each other-why then perhaps the mil
lennium of the economist is nearer at
hand than it has been supposeato be; the
time when intelligence and integrity and
avery moderate amount of Nabor, will
insure SO good subsistence that it will
not pay to be rich. The evil to which
refer is for every man to rush to the
Legislature and attempt to procure
statute for remedying small difficulties
which, in the nature of things, are
part of progress, and which time only
can cure. 1t is useless to try to cure
petty evils by statute which will only be
aggravated the more they are legislated
upon. Let any man ask himself whether
or not he would petition the average
legislature to provide by statute what
crop he should raise, what manure he
should use, what breed of stock he should
buy, and how much he should pay for it,
whether or not he should ensilage his
fodder; or who he should trade with,
and on what terms; or what wagon he
should use, and how much he should
pay for teaming-in short let him con-
slider that he may be as subject to med
dlesome legislation as any one, and per-
haps he will doubt that the average leg
istator is competent to operate a rail
road.