West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1882-06-02
tPITAL IGRICULTURE.

missioner OF Agriculture to wide
place in the Cabinet having
been hurried through the Low
er House and truudled over
to the other wing ot the Capt. ol :,
says the New York Tribune, awaits
there now the deposition of the
grave add reverend seigniors. Ru-
NOR says that they contemplate its
ungain!y architecture with wry fa-
ces, and one Washington correspond.
ent, himself an ardent champion of
the scheme, gives glimpse Of the
true inwardness Of the situation
when he lsmentingly admits that
"some OF the Representatives who
voted for the bill have since laughed
about it, and said there was no dan
ger Of its passing the Senate" IF
indeed our higher officials resolve to
apply to it that "iorce Of style"
which, according to Emerson, ICON
slsts in striking out" they will plac e
their constituents under renewed
obligation. And this they will GER
lainly do if they are attentive to
the diatinct and cumulative sound
that riees up from the rura. dis
tricts.
For the more farmers and intelli
gent people everywhers come to un-
derstsad the animus and meaning of
the projected move "nesrer to the
ear Of the Executive, the more are
they convinced that it is sure to be
costly advance without any CORE
spending advantage. They have
opened their minds to the historic
fact that the President is not deaf,
and if he were that the Agriculture
of this country has trumpet which
when its owners choose to use it il
bound to carry it's message to the
White House and TO the Capitol.
And the longer the taxpayers cast
the bright light Of reflection on the
political and ornamental agriculture
oi Washington, the more clearly it
apPears TO them as already getting
far msre than it gives.
The present annual outlay is near
half million dollars. This circu-
lates tons Of belsted gardeu-seed
for electioneering purposes. 1t sup
plies free bouquets in profusion for
the buttonholes and parlors and din
ing tables of favored public function
aries. 1t fights Rrasshoppers with
kid gloves-insects against which
minute modern psrasit es and the fer
vent prayers Of faithful Amos of old
time are and were vastly more effec-
tive. 1t Issues in frequent loaded
pamphlets, printed on paper with
the suggestive aud costly color oil
cream, figures that can sometimes
be made to live in peace with facts,
and facts largely at second hand
from agricultural journals Of the
month before. II plants srtesisD
bores in the foothills Of the Rocky
Mountains, from whose lofty pines
solitary owls look out on the borde era
Of wide reaches Of uninhabited
country. It rears hydraulic rams on
remote frontiers that--like gsthetic
aRriculturists -persistently refuse 10
work. 1t dihuses sunflowers of rbet
oric on shRhtest provocation st any
point Of the compass-snd all at
Government expense.
No wonder that thonghtfu prac-
tical farmers, who by intelligent in
dustry make sgricul ural sncce ess
and build mp our civilization-ol
whom Mr.. GedJcs is a worthy and
honored representative; no wonder
that men OF large capital and ioflu-
ence aud upfeigned love OF land and
its tillsge-like Mr.. Siugerly; no
wonder that cultured gentlemen
who brighten and elevate the rural
| life with their fine taste and attrao-
tive exanple-like the charminp
farm-autbor Of Edgewood no won
der that these classes, and all who
remember how our prosperity rests
on the basis OF solid earth, look with
such utter dislavor as they do on the
whole buooic business at the CapitaI
many Of them asking 10 have it re-
formed out Of existence. aud ell Of
] Them snxiously hoping nov that The