Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-11
A Diff at Farmer"

THE following was unavoldably crowded
out last week.-ED.
Now, few words with Farmer" He
says: 81 see no sense in Nestor's remarks,
etc." No; he is not likely to, either. Though
one should use the reasoning of Plato or a
Socrates, he would still be like the man
who, CONVINCED against his will, is of the
same opinion STILL" One with jaundice sees
everything yellow. Though my friend may
not have jaundice, it is evident that he has
a very strong prejudice, and can view sub
ject on one side, and that side, the side of
selfshness. You subtract from human ma
ture all the selfish motives, my dear friend,
and then compare them With the small sum
of philanthrophy contained therein, and see
if you don't find a lamcntable difference.
that you want to take from your neighbor
for your own existence and pleasure, that for
which you never gave farthing i'm exchange:
Is it right that because / happen to come,
into the world before you do, that when you
come you are entitled to an equal share in
the goods that 1 have labored hard to earn?
Ii, by my hard endeayors, l happen to lay
up a competency before you come into the
world, is it right that must give of my earn
ings to you, and every other Tom, Dick or
Harry that is too lazy or incompetent by
nature to make living for himself, that
comes along?
Do you own any land? If not, how long
do you suppose it would take you to get a
forty or hundred acre farm? Moreover, do
you want q farm? If you have one, are you
so nearly perfect in your make up that you
would be willing to share. it equally with any
man, or set of men, who never helped you to
earn foot of it? My dear sir, do you kno "
what you really do want? There are thou
sands of acres of the finest land i'm the world
unoccupied to-day, that can be had almost
for the asking; and yet you sit back like
thousands of other lazy scabs of the human
family and growi because some man does
not come along and give you living without
work. That is the kind of man you are
You talk about the poor, as though all the
honest, industrious men who have made n
good living for themselves and families, were
responsible for their condition. Who are
the poor? Did you ever study the question!
1t Is the lazy, incompetent, thriftless, por-
ton of mankind, that no amount of legisla-
ton or help will do any good. Our actual
wants are very few, my dear sir, and yet
there are thousands in this world that don't
try even to ployids for these. You and your
kind are like the drones in the hive; as long
as some one else will go into the field and
make the living, and let you lie up in the
shade and enjoy it, it is all mighty nice; but
when you have to get out and work for your
self, then the selfish, lazy nature in you
prompts you to rob your more industrious
and frugal neighbor of his. 1 an 8 poor
man myself; don't own any land and don't
want any. have to work every day for my
living, and support family besides, yet /
do not covet NY more fortunate neighbours
goods. Men much more able to work, ask
me for bread almost daily. feel more like
kicking such men than giving to them. Out
With your namby PANTY talk, not argument,
about the sad condition of the poor! A few
good, stout hickosys vigorously used, would
do more toward relieving the wants of the
families Of some such poor, than 81, the
writers like you are on the face of the gl6oe.
But enough for this time. Some one please