The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-05-10

Chicago Herald.
what ails the Western farmer? Why
does he observe the denudation OF his
soil and the desertion OF his sons with
ont striving to know the cause! With
the camker Of protection gnawing st his
yilals. why does he not address himself
10 the disease? The railway managers
have had sordid reasons for the main
tenance ,ofa system which hindered the
usefulness OF their roads. But the TAR
mer owns stock in no mill lie makes
no.contract. lie does not stock his iarm
and then vote himself $4,000 salary
He does not consolidate with his neigh
Dor aud water the two capitals for twice
their value Why should he uphold .
reign OF false economy that reduces the
value of farms and products aud de-
priyes The agriculturist fali the advan-
'ltages accruing from benefits Of twenty
five wears OF constant labor and wonder
ful invention?
j Is Il true that the farmer reads little
Has he cessed "a till h;s mind ! Did he
.lwhen he WAS q harness-maker IN 1867
read the daily papers with zest! Did
lhe. after he moved on the farm. welcome
the visitors who brought the daily news
Does the same host now. IN his old age
~ indifi, rently on the same courtesy
Of his visitor? Have the years Of toi
7 reduced that farmer to peasantrv?
q l. the farmer twenty years behind th'
! age? When Louis Napoleon was "re
: elected in 1870 il was said the French
\ FARMERS thought they were voting 70
il the Little Corporal. Are American
= -agriculturists equally conservative
y The tariff reform laid the truth befor
J. our farmers last fall. But the Repubii
g can orator, familiar with the premises
u A " eli on that last fond look the farmer
y eldest son gave the old place Is b
! marched away to Shiloh. The farmer
eve was on the dead past. Will he, a
o someldecade IN the future, be CROWN
n apgrier ~ the wickeiness Of the presen
y war tariff when the question shall b
Q olyrown with sod, as Is the hornets net
il and the peach orchard.
'el Awake to day. tillers Of the great "
sslsy! Your house is on fire, your chiIt
D. rem will hurn! The third stage Of q
y awful plague sits on the brow OF -
'elland. The government. swollen wit
'e pride and arrogance, winnows your e.
oiire whest crop. Apparent idlers ha'
y.lset up scandalous pretensions Of val'
ne Tor their sservices.' international tra'
a. Il long abandoned. American ships q
Al roued aud gone. Gigantic consoiid
i-ltions OF goods stolen from the labor
ed 1.-The nation mount to heaven and ke
inlthe bright sun away from once hap
ireland hopeful yeomsnry.
mel Reduce these olious and profligate
~ penses OF 1919 100000 year. Coll
rd- only hair as much. and collect II wiih'
'rv the robbery which has made Ameris
III methods the astonishment Of the wos
I'M. Reduce stock waterers. Lobbyists. q
ec-lnopolists an | tariff masters 10 the hon
Tue WAYS CT toll. snch as are praciiced in
Hong aud black fnrrows Of Illinois.
as not be PLAYED upon like IIamlet's pi
'ei liiscour-ing most excellent music
an thieves Tor human pride. rspaci'y Q
false ambition.
win the farmer be man or peasa
Does he worship the son Of the fail
ble like anv ciout il italy or Russis!
theIthe farmer OF Illinois presently walk
ing 1.-The bsllot-box aud vote intelligent
any lIf he should DO il hut once the dish
rst. lest, avaricious. ariStocratic war "a
II would disappear like the airy fabric
ion, vision, leaving not track Of wrong
ou' hind.