Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27

rhe New Castle Farmers.
The farmsrs' institute meeting of Sat-
urdsy afternoon was the most noteworthy
and significant that Wilmington has ever
seen. Il would not, perhaps, have been
strange had an equal number of we'll
known men come together from different |
sections Of the county on fine Gay and |
in the heat of an election campaign. But
these influential, brsiny, earnest men
had assembled, not as partisans but as
tillers of the soil ) not drawn by the mag
netism of pcliioal excitement, but by
COOL deiibera,s, unimpassioned determi.
nation; determination the strength Of
which may be as fairly gauged BY the
wretched weather they faced as by any.
thing that was said or done in their con-
ference. The man who will turn out
on such day as saturday, reckless
Of the cold driving rain and the even
more disagreeable mud, to attend meet
ing ten or twenty miles away, is o man
who has business on hand which he re-
CARDS as important, and which he means
to attend 10 without regard to personal
discomfort aud inconvenience.
When suoh mon come together, in such
number Us they came on Saturday, from
such distances, in the teeth Of such
weather and in the absence of oil party
excitement, it is not easy TO oyerrate the
significance Of their assembling. They
were gathered without distinction Of
party, Democrats and Republicans,
tnsn OF brain az we'll as
Drawn, men of intelligence nurtured in
the school of practical experience, men
Of deeds rather than words, to consider,
discuss and fad out what are the unjust
burdens, national and local, that bear
upon the farmers with q weight that is
growing unsupportable, and what can,
may or should be done to tighten or
equalize those burdens. Talk Of such men
not knowing what business they came SO
far through mud and rain to transact;
of such man being led into traps" al
lowing themselves to be ''trioked,n 20 be
"hitched like dumb brute " to any
body's private cGrt?" The egregious-
ness of the impudenoe Of the Morn
tng Neps in fiinging such gra-
tuitous insults in the faces of the
earnest, ssgacious, practical, determined
farmers who made up thar meeting has
certainly never been psralleied in the
lis org or Wilmington newspapers. Such
insults would be pitiabls did not their
sel6shness make them contemplate.
Most of those farmers, it is true, had
signed the petitions that EvERY EVENING
sent out, but not because Every Evening
sent them out; they would have signed
them just as readily had they emanated
from some other source simply because
they embodied piece Of prRc-
tical and timely local retrench-
ment which commended itsslf To
the approval, support and endorse.
ment Of men who are growing very tired
of extravaganza and wasteful misuse of
pubic funds in county already bur.
dened with bonded debt of S4S6, 00C
and 8 floating debt of $4,000. They
signed and endorsed them because they
we're so clearly and demonstrabiy Just tc
the tax payer and sheriff alike thai
even the subsidized Nesos is con
strained to admit they embody
20 reduction which every one vii
oonosde ought TO bs brought about Al
soon as it is feasible and equitRbi,
10 do SOL 1t is q practicable
and specific retrenchment which hal
met with no opposition except whs
is couched in the plea "don't apply i
to the past year, apply it to next year,.
an obviously impractioable begging 0
the question since this levy court has NJ
power to fix the allowances to be granted
by the levy court to be elected next fall
1t is Asttering to EVERY EVENINGS in
: huenoe % an exponent of public opinion Il
be charged with running the Farmers
, Institute, Pomona Grange the Board o
Trade, the grand jury, and all the otbe
associations and individuals who haV,
: demanded and are dsmAnding that tn
levy court small qult paying more for tn
: feeding Of criminals and trGmpB than i
costs the farmer to feed anu oioths tb
members Of his own family hut, ss "
i say, we cannot take to ourselves all ii
u honor the ivraiag Ness would heG
4 upon us. Ips vice president OF Ne,
u York lEes trade club may bs aole to rU
n . protection" paper. but as cannot nu
K lily the emphssis with which tn
Q farmers spoke on Saturday by an
Z, such fulaOus fas,ery Of EqEp
a EvESIsa OF by liEening the me
n who took part in thst meeting |
?, dupes ami dumb bruteB.n They mes
I neither advice nor guidance Of papt
10 which stands 50 selt.diBcr5di;ei befoi
a the community % the Morning Neu
They know what they want and the
q have said 50 with q determination that Il
4, man With sgpira.ions for q political tutul
Y ia this county will dare to defy.