Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-01-30

Last Friday the supreme court rem
dered q decision on the constitutional
amendments ratified at the last elec-
ton, which. while it is the fruit OF q
suit brought to test the length OF the
term of county official merely, COW
ers the whole ground placed in issue
by the amendments. Theconstitution-
atty of the observation-disclosures Is al
firmed, and the geneally accepted
Interpretation of their effect given the
authority of the law. The readjust-
ment of the terms of office made by
the amendments is sanctioned, and
the slight mistiness in which jul
dicial terms were left is cleared up.
The terms of judges are declared TO
end six years from the first Monday
in January following their election,
except in the ease of terms expiring
in 1886, which arc specifically extend
ed one year by the amendments.
County officers whose terms are abhfe-
Waited by the amendments have no
claim to salary for TIL: two months
cut off.
st. Panl Dispatch: There is not in
all human probability more uncared
for and generally neglected class OF
people in this country or state, than
the farmers. They live struggle and
die, mhonored and unsung, as if our
whole existence as n prosperous nation
was not directly based upon the fruit
of their hardy industry. When they
purchase for even cash, prices higher
than usual to the posted are charged
them through their Ignorance OF ever
thing but farming. When they bor-
row or purchase on credit, they
are often in financial condition
where 1.-The accommodation" cannot
be selected, but must be had ii 1t be
equal to surendering up the ghost,
and becoming beggars. They are Of
ten made the victims of being com
PEELED to pay the highest price for all
they buy, and are forced on the other
hand to sell at the lowest possible
figure they can by cunning manipula-
ton be ground down to, so that there
may be rich margin for those to
whom they sell. This class OF depre'
dations committed upon the farmers,
builds up cities, business blocks, fine
brown stone fronts, supports elegant
style, and maintains extravaganza Tor
those with whom they deal. 1t passes
current for legitimate business trans
actions, and it is popularity hailed as a
glorious way of getting up in the
world, which does not in the least in
terfere with a mans conscience, as he
enters his pew in church for religious
meditation, and honest prayer to the
Deity. Rich stock companies are
formed which become blood-sucking
monopoiies, controlling elections, as
if the destiny of the farmer and his
family was to be nothing but sunburnt
tillers of the ground, unworthy the
touch of the rich mans swinging gar,
ments, or the lofty-headed passers up
on the streets. II his bones have nc
marrow for spectators, his wounded
woes are not worthy Of notice. He Is
from the country nothing but a farm
er, and there is no time in the
crowding hum of business to bind uI
t the wounds of such as these. To cal
attention to his prosecuted condition
, is to offend the rich and those LIVING
in affluence. and the work is not only
unpopular, but often dangerous to the
prosperity of one who dares to under
take it. If the farmer complains IL
!, behalf of his starving family he be
comes q crank, and is diverting pub
lie attention when business affords nc
profit in listening to him. Paid mo
: nopolies drown his cries, and ne re
!, tires to his cold weather-beaten cot
over which hangs destroying angel
: Mortgage threatening to eat out his
e last grain of substance. 1t would be IN
i sulting to ask what Minnesota has
done for his comfort, while its capita
lists have dotted its whole length OF
S railroads with elevators-com blnatlon
: to take his grain at a lowest possible
price to him, and to the greatest prot
/. it to themselves. The Millers' AS
i ISOLATION whose deep dyed hand is a
l. the bottom of all this, mocks the far
e mer's poverty, and claims through It
;, millionaire stockholders and it's sub
L servient paid agents, that it is tn
e farmers h,sssing<while mlany Others
Join in the chorus. Minneapolis ha
+ mo cause of rebuke to these proceeding
It as it adds to her business Golfers S.
O OOO,0OOa year; and St. Paul has bu
|. one voice in her press to raise agains
a it. as it is nothing to her, and alto
n gether too remote for her sanity at
e tention. SO the dogs of war are al
l. the time loose to steal away from tn
>, farmers hungry child its last crust Q
J. bread. This is Minnesota's protection