Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-01
NUMBER 20.
A Letter From Farmer"

Since the late Democratic roundup
everything LAS been dull and dry here.
The weather has been, and is yet. re-
markably dry, so much 50 shat many
have tn haul water for miles; AMI
hear some have to pay 25 cents per
barrel before they get it at I'll at.
We may finally succeed in killing of
the aboriginal race, even if we have To
murder old men who feel too keenly
the bitter wrongs done to their people;
| but, unless we change our treatment
of the land, Nemesis will over take US
one of these days; for every decade. If
not indeed every year, drouth becomes
| more and more damaging and danger
Gus. Prices of farm produce, except
| corn, and hay, are remarkably low;
and business is getting duller every
| day. Some thing however shows a
remarkable growth aud that is farmers
| organic ions, especially the Alliance. /.
Republicans and Democrats unite in
1t; on avowedly political society. and
are earnestly trying to find out some
| way to better their condition. Whether
| they will succeed or not is another
question, for while the possibilities are
great, tie steps already taken do not
point to a solution of the problem.
There are many, however, of the
rank and file who do not accept the
silly sub treasuary plank in their plat
form, and after they get time to think,
large majority of them will repudia;e
it, so that while in two years from now
they will be power in the land it 10
hard to say just what their platform
will be. The Australian ballot in
State reforms, the popular election of
Senators, and free coinage, among Ba-
tional reforms, may he safely counted
on; but the sub-treasury bill is too
thin. and the graduated income tax too
sociaiistic to bear the horse sense OF
farmers when once they are reused to
do real thinking.
Called out few evenings ago, before
an Alliance where I was not sure of
the sentiment, and where the Gro i
seemed attentive yet very reserved, a
few words that | let slip in advocacy
of the single tax reused them and
unanimous demonstrations ofapprovai
After the meeting the lecturer came to
me to arrange for fuller explanation
of the single tax idea, and I was both
surprised and pleased t. know thai
they understood it and generally ap
proved of it.
Landlordism is doomed in the Unitet
States and when that curse is destroy
ed the question of the distribution o
wealth is settled; until then no posi-
BILE scheme can do more than give tenn
porary relief Among the Alliance
men are the old greenbackers wh'
have carried in their fat money idea
and one of the first things for thu
FARMERS to rid themselves of is th'
idea that a government can make
money, or create wealth; that govern
ment has dollar, or can get dollar
that has not, or does not, come out o.
the sweat of the people. But the very
fact that they are rushing into this or.
ganization proves that they have been
thinking and may depended upon tc
do more of it.
Wade Hampton may be the first
lawyer to step down and out for q
farmer but he will not be the last
Waiting to see which way the popular
breeze is going to blow is an old game
but must play out, and the men who
lack the power OF mental vision to see,
and the courage to advocate before
they become popular, measures that
will bring the greatest prosperity to
lgreatest number. much expect soon to
be set aside, no matter what their lie.
gal or oratorical pretensions.
One of the unpleasant signs of the
times was thirty-six divorce cases on
last circuit court dock ct in this county;
and nearly all from the farm. A hint
at the cause may be given when / say
that of five weddings to come off here
soon, all of them are farmers boys aud
town girls. The farmers wife. under
present conditions, must settle patiently
down to a life of drudgery or rue her
marriage, and town girls are not built
that way. They have some pretty
conceits OF rural life but a few weeks
washings and fixing few hen roos 8
soon knock their pr econceivtd n"ti' ms
out Of them, and with their ! o:ions 80
all love for the clodhopper husbands
who have no higher ambition or bet
ter sense than to be hewers of wood
and drawers of water for others. Per
b apps this is all right but it pains one
to think of the heart aches.
FARMER.
Murrayvi!le, Ills. Dec. 2lst, 1890.
Selling Out Farmers.