Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-03
7 HIR D EDITION.
s,ar Gr~at Granger p.c.nIc.

Will ANS GROVE. Pa, Septem beI
a Moue, ate estimate Of Tue crowd
NJ he rrAnSers' pic mic TO day is 25,.
900 ArJut one half Of these people
came 10y rai', 40 car loads of passsn
ger. having disem bsrked at the grove
during The day. The remainder ar
rived il yehicles, on horseback or or
foot Manager Thomas estimates the
crowd to have been 5000 larger thar
thai Of the responding day of last yeal
Tue Gu IN bertrand Valley Railroad Com
pany carried II 900 or Is, 600 people
sva us road without accident aud with
very little delay.
The order maintained on the grounds
was excellent, considering the vast
crowd witch traversed them. Police
were distributed all over the grove, but
they had scircaly anything 10 do In the
su opres,ion OF dlstur Dances. Que OF
the i.ccm forts TO which the thousands
of pedestrians were subjected was the
dusty condition of the grove, owing 70
the absence of rain and good sprinkling
facilities, and in anticipation of an un-
prec 3dented crowd to morrow the
grounds will be treated 70 bountiful
supply OF water before the intlax
begins.
n LILO oohh 4NOiIlbt VI
Philadelphia, spoke an hour on freight
Discrimination and kindred subjects.
He said Against the railroad
managers and the legislators who do
their bidding the farmers Of this State
have serious grievance. The farmers
are Disseminated against In order that
speculative leases of Western lines at
exorbitant rates may be made rem une
rative, and to do that the grain of the
Western grower Is carried to the sea
board for less than Is charged for NOV
ing the produce of the farmer OF
Pennsylvania. Iu this way the big
trunk lines are crushing the agricultural
interests of the Eastern States and de
veloping tr lde TO demorslize the Mls
sissippi Valley. Is it any wonder then
that between Chicago and the Missouri
river the value has been enhanced with
amazing rapidly and that our lane s
ave deprecated IN value.
While ourState is admirably adapted
TO agricultural growth the railroad
companies 81 9 ating lines across the
State have subjected it to such unfair
treatment that Penusy lvsnia has de =
clined in agriculture instead of ad.
vanced. This in the face Of the fact
that the lands Of Pennsylvania yield
more wheat per acre than tho soils OF
Minnesota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa
Michigan, Missouri AID Dakota"
Mr.. Norris sta ed that the farm land.
of the State hal decreased in va,u,
sixty-eight million dollars from 1870 /.
1880, the value per ace fell fifteen pe
cent. and the value Of agricultural
productions declined hfty fur miliio,
dollars per annum. He submitte,
figures TO show that along the Penn
sylvania Railroad the decline was from
four to fifty five per cent.
now FARM LABOR SUFFERS.
These figures" said Mr.. Morrj.
show that the labor of our farmer
has been aft ct-d by the adverse dis
elimination Of tho transportation com
panies. IL is trus that there was
general decline in face values, owing +
the resCm 3tlcn Of specie payments. bu
there was an additional decline in sem
OF the Eastern States Independent OF IN
changed standard, aud it was greater i
PennsylvaniA than in any other State
maklngiitself clnspicuously apparer
In the census returns in spite Of til
great energy and enterprise display .
by our people while cOntending ayaips
these Corporate aggressions." Ex Con
Gressmau Mash, OF York, dec,a e.
against 'he Vanderbilt railroad d-a
and C9-ont Pollet predicted judicis
decision against its contamination.