Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
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l. Editor Of Gasette. The followir
9 is from the columns of the New Yoi
$ Tribune.
a An unworthy application 10 Congress
) that for half million dollars "to exten
the benefits of the signal eervice to IA
! | mers." So far as we have observed this pa
| ticular scheme "for getting something fror
, the government" is urged only hy the $
| | called National Farmers Congress while
, does not represent the agricultural interest
OF this country, but seems to BIO compose
OF few politicians out OF office and 'Gen
tlemen Farmers" who could SDossibiy b
persuaded to join them. And this Isl goo
place to say, In passing, that eongrtssme
and others will do well to view critical
the vociferous persons who from time /,
time demand their notice as alleged ngnnt
Of agriculture. II is easy to organize TAX,
an impressive corporate title nomtuall,
National" and appear in the newspaper
and before the Senate and House cOmultte,
and elsewhere under pretence OF represent
ing our great Leading industry. LII" above
mentioned Is one OF this sort. Anotfn r /.
this american Agricultural Association,
OF whose real inwardness, the Tribune ol
an earlier date afforded II suggestive
glimpse.
Now, Mr.. Editor, the above is what the
New York Tribune said of body of
farmers representing 90 states, three terri.
tories and the Dominion of Canada, and
who that paper says do not represent
the agricultural interests Of the country"
but are stigmati2ed as politicians out of
Office and gentlemen farmers." Now, if
il was not the intention Of the author of
the article referred TO, to pervert the
facts and to print lies, then he has shown
greater amount of ignorance than we
generally look for among men who con-
duct leading newspapers of the country
Allow me to name the men who repre-
sented the State of Delaware in that
National Farmers Congress-" and who
presented their certificates with the great
seal of Delaware upon them Paynter
Frame of Sussex county, the Rev.
j. s. Willis of Kent county,
and William Lodge of New Castle
county; representatives of the Della
ware Fruit Exchange with proper
certificates under seal Of said corporation
William p. Corsa of Milford, and William
Dean OF Newark; representative of the
State Grange, Thomas +. Dilworth,
David j. Murphy, trustee of Delaware
State Agricultural College, and John j.
Rosa, who for eight years was master of
the Delaware State Grange. The above
were the duly accredited representatives
from the State of Delaware. Let ma ask |
are the men above named politicians o,
gentlemen farmers? | here pronnitnc, |
the author OF that article either M mn. |
mitigated prevaricator or an ignurnnt
jackass SO far as the Delaware delegation |
to the National Farmers Congress is con |
cerned. From my knowledge of tho /
delegates there represented each state
andterritory was equally we'll represented
Now let us look little further as
farmers into the true inwardness of this
vile sheet that would spread broadcast
such libel upon the representative
farmers who attended the sessions of that
Congress, who went there of their own
will and accord and who paid their own
out of their own pockets. They
had no ak to grind. Their object was to
see, discuss and find out what to them
looked in the interest of agriculture. The
New York tribune ever since it has been
published has advocated protection to
every other interest than agriculture. The
farmers of America compose SO per cent
OF the wealth producing class of Amer
lean citizens and are the producers of
three fourths of the wealth of the
country annually, and four-ffths of our
exports to foreign countries are made
up of the products of the
soil. Look at the hundreds and
thousands of millions of dollars that
have been collected from our people in
the last quarter of a century in the shape
Of impost duties to protect every class of
labor except farmers, and yet the farmers
have had to bear the great burthen of all
this excessive taxation, and now, when
number of representative farmers from
the extreme sections of our great country
assemble for the purpose of enquiring
into matters relative to the farming
they must be sneered at by
mean, contemplate euss SO green that
were he to go among herd of cattle he
would be eaten for cabbage head, or
were he to go into stable where mules
were kept he would be kicked, surprising
1t were a sheaf of green fodder which
some fool had placed at the wrong end of
the animal.
Now what | want to say is that every
farmer and every granger in the United
States should drop ever having anything
TO do with so mean, low-lived, contempti
BILE journal, that would seek to do SO
great an injustice to respectable gather
ng of farmers, who thought they were
American citizens, and as such had
light to petition Congress to appropriate
ust half a million of dollars to give that
interest the benefit of the signal service
rom one end of the country TO the other.
Ne farmers have been paying subsidies
or the assistance and encouragement
# almost every interest in the country,
md now, when we propose to ask an
appropriation of half million of dollars,
We must be branded by ''rat" journal
IS politicians out of office and gentle
nan farmers" 1 would say to every
armer, granger and workinRman, give '
IL such irresponsible newspapers wide
'erth by letting them quietly alone.
The National Farmers Congress- was in I
ession ut the Grand Central Hotel in
lew York, February 10th, 18th and 18th, /
$50. WILLIAM DEAN. j.