Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
Whieh r. True ?

Horace Boies, acting as Governor of
the State OF Iowa, did, on the 25th day
of August. 1891, under his own hand and
the great seal OF the State, issue a
proclamation for the observance OF the
day set apart by the Legislature of his
State as legal holiday, and known as
Labor Lay, in which proclamation he
used words as follows, to wit:
81, Horace Boies, Governor of Iowa,
hereby recommend that on that day the
laboring classes assemble and ejofce, as
they may rightfully do, over the wonder
full development OF their State, whose
prosperity Is so largely due to their
efforts
And the same Horace Boies, acting as
candidate for reelection to the lice of
Governor, did, on the 22d day of August,
1891, at and in the village Of Cherokee,
Coun of Cherokee, State of Iowa afore-
said, speak In words as follows, to wit:
ut is true that not for five years only,
as said Ina New York, but for double
that time, pror to the present year.
which is exceptional. farmers have
prosecuted their business at a .oss.
We ask Gov. Roies to elect upon which
of these two declarations he will be tried
by the people of his State. He cannot
stand upon both. For Iowa is an agri-
cultural State, and. if it be true, as he
said n Avg %, that @not for live years,
but for double that time, the business
of farming had been carried on at a loss,
then he wantonly insulted the farmers
when on the 25th day of August he
said II hereby recommend that the
laEoring classes assemble and rejoice, as
they may righttully do, in the wonder
full development of their State. For If
the development of the State, "not for
five years, but for double that time, =
has been toward increasing POI erty. as
he said in New York, and reaffirmed
at Cherokee, then it was with insolent
irony that he recommended the "labor-
ing classes to assemble and rejoice" i'm
the adversely of the greatest industry OF
the State.
But there is yet another utterance OF
Horace Bo.es that must be abandoned or
adhered to; it is an utterance of Horace
Boies as citizen, and while it conforms
to the utterance of Horace Boies when
proclaiming Labor Day as Governor, it
does not comport with the utterance OF
Horace Boies as a candidate, deporing
the oppressed condition OF agriculture.
1t is in this wise. that within the period
covered by "the twice five years" which
Candidate Boies describes as years OF
oppression to the farmers OF Iowa, he
said to one M. III. Moore, a citizen OF
good repute, words in substance and in
meaning as follows, to wit:
IL am making money on my Grundy
County lands by renting them for one
third of the produce, and would not sell
at $50 per acre. for they bring me per
cent. at that valuation"
It is plain that II corn rent pays per
cent on cash valuation of the land on
which il is grown then it must pay per
cent on the cash valuation of the labor
employed to produce it. But the
declaration of Citizen Boies to Citizen
Moore was that he derived per cent.
from one-third of the produce raised on
his land The renter must have derived
IL per cent, and farmer who owned
his land must have derived 1s per cent.
Citizen Boies' estimate of an Is per cent
profit differs widely from Candidate
Boies' estimate of net loss
To resume, to which of his three ut
terances does Horace Boies adhere?
To his Cherokee and New York af-
frmation that farming is conducted at a
loss? To his labor-daY recommendation
that the people Of Iowa should assem-
BILE and rejoice, as rightfulIy they may, in
the wonderful development Of their
State?" Or to his declaration TO Mr.
Moore that he was making a per cent
profit from one-third of the proceeds of
farm, and this upon an estimate of a
cash value of $50 per acre?
1t must be plain to Mr.. Horace Boies
that he can not hold all of these affirma-
tions to be true. The question is:
(which is true?" He must make an
swer. -Chica 20 Inter Ocean.