The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-07-09
ARP IN MISSOURI.
He Keeps his Eyes and Hls Ears Open
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innate for one county in Missouri. Two
bushels of wheat and the harvest has
begun. was at Marshall last week, the
county site of Saline, which is said to be
the richest County in the State. I waa
in other Counties, and their good people
boasted in the accustomed way of their
county, and claimed that it waB the best
in the State, except Saline. Marshall is
a beautiful little city of 5000 people. 1t
is embowered in shade and environed
with beautiful homes. Homes is the
word; not fine palatial places to live in ;
not mansions to be afraid Of, but lovely,
inviting homes that seem to speak to you
and say, "Come in" I am awfully afraid
of fine house. I am afraid will hurt
it's feelings, or get lost in it, or take the
wrong door, or walk through looking
glass. I vas in one the other day, and
thought I SAW some people in another
room. There was dim, religious light,
| and I can't see very we'll no how, and !
wondered what they were doing in there,
and why they did not come into the par.
lor and be introduced, when suddenly it
flashed upon me that I VAS looking into
mirror and saw myself and my friends
who we're entertaining me. On another
occasionI was in the library room, and
when I took my departure i opened q
closet door before the good lady could
stop me. It was full of nice clothes, but
T dident pauze to admire them. some-
times I get turned round in a strange
| place aud would go the wrong way if my
judgment dident tell me better. Two
million bushels of wheat-forty bushels
to the acre-80 cents a bushel. Just think
of it-Missouri is set down for 100000
900 bushels. 1t takes pound of -four
day for each man, woman and child.
That is the average. Its the army ra-
ton. One bushel of wheat makes forty
pounds of flour. Nine bushels would
make enough for one person for year.
Thenait will take about 600,0oO,O00 of
bushels for all the people of the United
States, and Missouri will make one.sixth
of it. Besides this she will make millions
Of corn and oats and hay. A banker of
Marshall told me that there was paid out
through his bank last winter over $780,
600 for apples grown in Saline County,
and shipped to the east Then there are
the horses and mules and cattle and hogs
and sheep that flock the land wherever
you 60: I mounted the stairs of the
fine courthouse and climbed and climbed
until my knees ached, and from the lofty
pinnacle I viewed the landscape DER and
feasted my soul upon its beauty. 1t vas
like great carpet of buff and green mo-
saics.
care your people happy 2" said to my
friend. He smiled and answered, "They
ought to be" "Are your farmers grum.
bling because they have no nubbins to
feed the steers on 2" said I. "Some of
them are not content With their lot," he
said. "How about the alliance and the
sub-treasury scheme?" asked. swell,
ne have the alliance pretty strong, but
not much of the sub-treasury. Our far
mers don't want to borrow money. They
are not in debt in this region and have no
mortgages to carry except when man
buys more land and gives mortgage for
part of the purchase money. Mr.. Hall,
the head of the alliance in this State, has
just published general order warning
the members to be careful lest while
complaining of the government for rob-
bing them they be seduced by politicians
to become robbers themselves" Sam
Jones is up there pitching into both of
the old parties in very hostile manner.
he said he used to be Democrat, but it
got to be a whisky party and was run by
whisky men and a whisky ring, and he
had quit it and washed his hands of the
old rotten whisky-drinking concern.
Then he looked around and said: "Now
you old Republican sinners, you needent
be grinning at what I said. I thank
God I never did belong to your old beer
| swillin' party. Whiskey will turn man
into devil, but beer will make him
steal, and your old party is party Of
beer and plunder, and will bankrupt the
government in four years more"
And 30 the newspapers out there accuse
/ Sam of favoring third party, and may
be he is. Certain it is the masses of the
people are unsettled, and nobody knows
| which way the cat is going to jump.
Certain it is that the rising generation
has not that affection for the old parties
that their fathers had, and as for the for
eigners who have come since the war,
they have no attachments at all, and a
large portion are like the Irishman who
was asked about his politics and he said (:
"Faith, I don't know anything about your
politics, but I'm agin the government" !"
Certain it is the old party leaders are
feeding the alliance on taffy and both will
promise all that is asked and more, too,
but the whole business is new game on
the chess board and nobody can tell the
result until the game is ended. Certain
it is that the great army of laboring men,
who are jealous and envious of the rich,
are ready for any change that will make
them disgorge, and hence they will COM
bine with the alliance to form new
party, Notwithstanding it is the farmers
interest to get more for his produce, and
it is the laborer's interest to pay less.
How they will reconcile all these conflicts
We cannot see. The political pot is not
boiling yet, but it will be in few months.
If vas an Office holder or an Office