Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-14
SUCKERDOM.
Storms. Crop Prospects, &c.

Dear Register-A friend writing te
your correspondent from Northern
Louisiana, few days ago, said down
there peaches were ripe, as well as
plums and blackberries, while potatoes
were as large as goose eggs, and corn
tasselling. He also added that he
''could not understand why men
would live where they were pestered
colds in winter, when two days would
take them to Indian summer the year
round" His letter was received about
the 21st of May, when ice was quar-
and our corn and potato crops were
| nipped to the ground, not to mention
TIE damage to garden "sass" general
ly, and fruit. Then we were receiving
every day items that demonstrated the
fearful force of cyclone that swept by
| within sight and hearing; while news
from those that passed at a greater dis
| tance was coming in by every mail.
wings of wild goose. that we might
fit at once for more congenial cline.
Wheat was largely plowed over here;
and very much of what was left will
be half cheat. Corn is sicklier and
punier than ever seen here at this sea-
son of the year before. Many tons of
seed corn were shipped in, but so much
failed to grow in the cold clammy soil
that thousands of acres are being plant
ed over again. Many are compelled to
plow the land afresh, for the the third
planting, while others are using the
disc harrow, which seems to be win-
ming prominent and permanent place
among the implements of the farm,
where neither stones nor stumps inter-
fere. The last two years were, as a
whole, Improbable to the actual cul-
tivator of the soil; the present loss and
bad prospects are telling against them,
and of course against every class whose
welfare depends upon the prosperity of
the working agricultUrist. The terms
oSCubA Sd1lAh q oASi . anu Ah1AS dSl1Cu1"
turists are used because we have large
class who are called farmers who, in
reality, are only landlords or mere spec
ulators in land and labor, and who,
tial citizens," are only hindrances and
deadweights upon the men who really
make all that Is made.
T. c., writing from Belleview, thinks
we must rid ourselves of the onus of the
national debt before We can hope for
much improvement in any way. His
mind is turning in the right direction,
but does not go far enough. The ma
tional debt is made means of getting
without earning; but it is, after all, on
ly part of the whole debt system
which grows out of the legal recogni-
ton Of rent as just, and totally ignor-
ing the fundamental principal that no
man has natural or moral right to |
more land than he can personally util- |
ize, principal upon the observance of
which all good government depends.
Apropos of this subject the Chicago |
Tribune, of May 2d, contains an edito-
rial upon land investment. in which |
the assertion Is made that "Henry |
George is demonstrating his. incapaci-
ty as an agitator by talking kind of
to a people who are es-
land owners, at least 25,00O,-
900 of them" This is wanton insult
to common sense and the American
people. In the first place George is
not an agitator, but the ablest political
writer and speaker of the age, who, ac-
tuated by truly patriotic motives, cries
put against the folly of the times, as
every sensible man should. In the Sec
,nd place, his doctrine is in no sense
He isropposed to gov
restriction and regulation,
md in favor of several, or individual,
of all the products of human
abor. Thirdly, we have not q, ,O00, 900
If landowners, though We include all
Aliens and the absentee landlords and
in the companies and syn
iicates who are buying millions of acres
If our lands every year. Lastly, is an
INSULT to the landowners themselves to
nsinuate that they are like Doc Jones'
to get, and don't care a
IN how they get, so they get it."
Among our landowners will be found
large number who would rather make /,
my sacrifice than transmit q curse to ,
heir children. It is true that many ifI :
lot most of them were driven from the s
and or States of their birth by land !,
ordism; and some of them verify the !
Id adage, "Put beggar on horse g
md he'll ride to the DEVIL" for living
nee where they could own no land, 9
vhen they get chance to own some ,
lere they want all of it. But the ne Q
essity Of change must force itself up '
n the minds Of large majority; and