Milford chronicle., 1889-01-25
NO FARMER WANTED.
THE FurIL1rY OF SENDING A DELAWARE
FARMER, IN THE ORDINARY STYLE, TO
THE UNITED. STATES SENATE.

Mr.. EDITOR Can there be any doubt
that our railroad company is as well OF as 1t
cares to be in regard to the election of SEN
ator in this State. The managers ofthe COM
pany can manage to have two strings to their
bow and as long as city men are elected to
Congress, they will not want for iacile TOOLS
Mr. Higgins is a city man. Wishing to buy
a Senatorial servant, the company could
doubtless easily have bought the election OF
Mr.. Massey, lad they not judged that it
would be cheaper to buy the services of
Mr.. Higgins,
It was advised lately in your paper to send
farmer to the Senate. AS this august body
is now composed, and under the present
order of things, cannot see that a faTmef
there would be of any considerable service
to agriculture, either through his vote or his
advocacy Of any measure.
It is unnecessary 70 define the character
of the typical attorney-at-law He has had
but one reputation fof two thousand years,
Useful in his place expert and sometimes
profound in his branch of study, he Is at the
same time, or appears to be, miserably de-
| icient In ucomprehensiVeness OF soul and in
tellect In that broad acquaintance and SYM
pathy with the interests of the people at
| large which should characterize statesman.
AS for agriculture, he neither knows nor
cares anything about it. The monied city
commercial manufacturing interest may al
ways reckon on the great liou's share of his
patronage; while the rural population scat
tered over the country, and its interests, are
out of the range of his thought and feeling.
| Such class of men are constitutonally
unfit for any considerable share in the legis-
lation of any great agricultural people, and
any such people consenting to a dependence
on them as a maiustay in legislation, from a
notion that they are prepared for such work
on account of their legal attainments, are no
better than parcel of political fools
But as matters now stand, what could a
| louely rustic, however capable, do among the
impudent tribe Of partisans who now fill
our Senate chambers Measures favoring
| agriculture seems to be out of the question
in this country, and if our Senatorial farmer
ventured to air his rustic patriotism, lie would
be voted granger, bore, and an old fogy,
and treated with contempt.
The whole social and financial difficulty in
this country, as l understand it, takes its rise
from that of the old world not taking into
the account the great heads of government,
the astute city people mean the trading
and manufacturing class of cities are one OF
the two great expressing parties of human
society there. The ignorant stupid country
! population, or peasantrY, are the great op-
pressed class, kept dwarfed by the upper
classes to little more than the mere bone and
sinew of humanity. From this dormant city
class of the old world have come those who
have founded aud to great extent built up
our cities here, aud who haYe given business
tone, aud determined business methods
From this ignorant, stupid, old peasant class
of the old world have come those who have
settled our country, engaged in agriculture
and as land has been dog cheap. have be
come our land owners. One would think
that it would have been easy for common
sense a hundred years ago, to have foreseer
the result ofall this. Substantially, the same
old game of Europe is playing here to-day,
there being, however, this difference, thai
the plunder money from our country people
goes entire to this dominating city class
whereas, in the old world a share must &c
to the great landed legislative nobility anC
gentry. No; under the present vicious pol
icy of the country, the sending of Delaware
farmer to the Senate, were hesa Washington
himself whics is a good deal mole than we
could reckon on, would be productive of lit
tie or good.
If, however, "the sovereign people" de
string to do so, could find somewhere amonl
our "ofscourings of Europe" and their pro
geny, a country gentleman ofthe stature an'
temper Of Oliver Cromwell, and march hin
into the Senate with hundred or two iron
sides at his back and ahundred or two thous
and more at his beck to put an end to thi
attorney-at-law dynasty, which has been th'
means Of degrading our general goyernmen
into an anomalous concern for pandering f
the rabble, rich, and poor, in their scramble
for money it might fall out that there woult
be place for our intellectual rustic in thu
, upper house of some bare bones or RUM
Congress, until our Oliver, like the English
took it into his head to dispense with " Con
gressional" aid, and rely solely on the army
FARMER.
Camden, Del, Ian. 22, 1880.