The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-14

swelling the Liverpool supply and
reducing prices permanently. Even
with short crops the supply from our
Western States would make wheat
drug in LiN erpool if the millions Of
people engaged in American manufac-
lures, and in the selling and transpor-
tation of them, did not reduce the
surplus which would remain after the
food supply for the farmer and his
animals had been provided. Mr.
Moore suppresses this important truth.
but the farmers are shrewder than he,
imagines.
They also know that most of what
they buy from the American manu-
facturers whose capital gives employ
ment to the millions who consume nine
tenths of all the farm products Is OF
better quality and of not greater-often
of lower-price than are English goods.
Flows and reapers, all implements Of
agriculture, are cheaper in any conn
ty seat of the West than In London or
Paris, and so is household furniture
and so is tea and coffee Clothing Of
all kinds, except silks and broadcloths,
is quite as cheap in Omaha, Yankton,
or Bismarck as in any city of England.
Besides which, when Mr.. Moore
lauds the enterprise and growth
of the West, as he does in glowing
terms, he gives the Golden Clubs case
away. Commercial activity and rapid
growth of population are only found
where there is general prosperity. The
West grows because it is region
where the comforts and Independent.
cies of life are obtained with more ease
than elsewhere. "Change all this,
says Mr.. Moore. "Assimilate your
conditions to those of free-tradc En-
gland, In whose great cities one man
out of every five dies in hospital or
in a poor-house." We do not think
that even the unpleasant logic of
short crop year will induce the farmers
of Dakota TO accept Mr.. Moore's gos
pei of poverty. Chicago Inter Ocean
How Jerry Rusk Got to Congress.
Jerry was always a rustler," re-
marked a Wisconsin neighbor of Sec
rotary Rusk. Captain Bacon, with en-
thusiasm. physically he was a terror
before they came from hio-peaceable,
but could lick any boy around. And In
certain sorts of farm work he was an.
expert, unexcelled and unequaled IN
our parts. Did you ever hear how he
got to Congress the first term? Well,
he had marched through to the sea
with Sherman, and had won q briga-
der generals star, and he was pretty
popular. But there was another man
in the district who seemed to have the
grip on the nomination which Rusk
wanted. 1t was evident that the thing
was going to be close. One lively town
ship was pretty certain to carry Pierce
County, and it was generally under
stood that one family, whom / will call
Beasley, could carry the county. One
day the Chairman of our committee
drove around, and said to Rusk,
Jerry. we must go up and see
the Beasleys; / hear they are
against you" So they drove up and
found the Beasley boys thrashing wheat
with big four-hourse Fischer ma
chine requiring six men. The chair
man called them out to the bars and
introduced them to General Rusk.
They said little, but were evidently
impatient to get back to their work,
for the machine was silent. See here,
gentlemen said Jerry, If you have
any business with my friend here, I
will step out and keep the machine
going They smiled incredulously,
but he walked through the bars, took
their places, and said: Start 'er upY
They started 'er up. Jerry was 80
years old, and in the prime of his
strength. The hired men whipped
the horses and the old thing hummed.
Jerry kept the air full of wheat. The
brothers stared, then drew nigh and
enjoyed it. Very seldom has so much
wheat been thrashed in half an boar.
When he relinquished his position one
of the brothers took his hand and said,
General Rusk, we are glad to make
your acquaintance, sir. My brothers
and / agree in the decision that You
are our man for Congress, and they
wish me to say that if you can thrash
Democrats as you can thrash wheat
you can thrash 'em like h Pierce
County threw its vote for Rusk, and
he was nominated and elected to Con-
gress three successive terms. ". Il.
CroGiIt, IN the MitCaukee Sentinel.