Evening journal., 1891-06-29
NEWSPAPER OPINION
Jerry. the oloud.outter.


New York sun
The Hon jeremiah Rusk will take
charge Of the weather on and after Wed
nssday next, and great improvements
may be looked for. Mr Rusk Is rapidly
but unostentatiously assuming the place
| of q sub Providence to the farmers. and
they will be ungrateful IL they fail to
make proper acknowledgment at the
nominating conventions. By . skillful
management Of the weather he may be
able TO put the brake upon the Alllance
movement as easily as IL ii were only a
big hay wagon going down the hill and
II seems TO be going down hill. Give the
farmers satisfactory weather, with pro
per distribution and proportion Of heat
ana cold, wet and dry, collar the cyclone,
warn of the chinch bug and the Hessian
ny, and the crops will be big enough to
satisfy the soul of the farmer, and cause
him 70 lose his interest Ia Alliance recipes
for making twice two six. The weather
Is very irregular In its habits and Uncle
jerry will find IL difficult to manage; but
Just give him ordinary good luck and he
will do well. The Farwell sohene for
making the sky weep over the thirst Of
the arid lands by exploding dynamite
Uncle jerry and hla experimenters are
experimenting busily. II be can give
rain chscks, payable upon demand he
will be the biggest man in the United
States. There is danger, TO be sure, that
he may cut such Eashes In the clouds
that the rain will fall too copiously, but
doubtless time will teach him how TO
reach the golden mean, SO far as the
arid lands are concerned he ap
pears TO be safe from failure. II his
dynamite rain compellers fail to work, he
has, or thinks he has, In the Broom grass
a forage plant that will clothe The arid
land and flourish luxuriantly without rain
Moreover he believes that the cultivation
OF this grass will make the atmosphere
Of the arid lands moister, and ultimately
draw down the rain SO that If he knows
himself, he will be able to add the arid
lands to the cultivated or uncultizated
lands Of the Uuited States The Eastern
farmers are not anxious for an increase
In the area Of farm land, but the West
is shouting for more land, and the Seore
tary Of Agriculture will not have to pan
der the exhausted East II his work OF re-
clamation is successful II Uncle Jerry
can annex the arid lands, arid no longer,
so the farm land Of the country, he may
be as famous for the achievement as
Jefferson is for the Louisiana purchase,
and the farmers will be compelled to ad.
mire him Think what he Is doing for
the farmers, any way. His bug hunters
are frightening grasshoppers and potato
bugs by calling them formidable Latin
names. His seeds are Epringing up in
every county except New York and a
"a Al
He has taken pleuro pneumonia by the
looseness Of its unmentionables. He is
inspecting export cattle, albeit foreign
nations do not seem to care copper for
the results OF his inspection. He has
compiled horse book that no self-re
specting horse can afford TO be without
He is trying, no matter with what un.
happy results, to teach the people to know
mushroom from toadstool. He accom-
panied Gen. Harrison on the renomiua
tion train. and celebrated the Department
Of Agriculture in many fervid speeches.
There is no hiding such light under a
bushel. Polk and Livingston, McCue
and PETER, Simpson and Kyle, are not
doilg half so much for the farmers as he
Is trying to do. Can they forget himf
Can the Republican party neglect the
man who Is taking the underpinning from
the Alliance, and the rain from heavenf
Foraker, the Farmers and sherman.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
1t is given out that 1t is not only ex-
Governor Foraker and his friends who
propose to end the public career Of Sena-
tor John Sherman by preventing his re
turn to the Senate; the intelligent Ohio
farmer is also whetting his knife, that he
may the more easily thrust it between the
venerable Senator'S ribs. Mr. ShermRn's
ofiense is one that the farmer cannot for
give; IL is that he has always been-from
away back-and that ne is now an irwin
chile supporter OF honest money. When
ever, as public servant, Mr.. Sherman
has erred. he has never erred with re-
gard TO the safe and honorable financial
policy of the government.
"whssever Protects Destroys"
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