The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-22
The Hello Farmer and the Alliance

the havSeeu VOtc must Dc anEleu LOT Will
haysecd bait bilious townsman OF Mr..
WHEELER's has written to the Ne,c York
Times n letter, evidently inspired by envy,
to show that Mr.. WnEELER's farming Is full
of frills and trimmings and his farm top
dressed with mortgages. Tho writer Of this
letter seems to think that the luxury OF Mr.
WHEELERs homo and the mortgages on it
ought to warn tho Iowa farmers against
voting for q man who lives so splendidly
and farms so poorly. But rs wc shall see,
the picture which is drawn OF Farmer
WHEELEHS farm and farming finance is call
cua,cd to win for him the support OF the
Farmers Alliance. Perhaps 1t is not any
body's business what kind OF n house Farm
er WHEELER lives in or how many mort
cages he chooses tt put upon his farm, but
| M an examination of these matters has been
made with hostile intent, it is only fair TO
Farmer WHEELER to show that tho cXamina-
| ton must recommend him. il not to tho Re-
publican farmers, To the yearning spirits OF
| tho Alliance. He Is, in fact, very nearly in
, the condition that tho Alliance tinancicrs
| desire for themselves. IIc lives in big and
| handsome Queen ANNE house or mansion,
| and without either ploughng or driving he
| tills the soil with Il telephone. Read this de-
scription OF n Western farmers house, such
| sa the Alliance wants tho Government to
| loan money for at per cent.
"Itis All elegant home. Its exterior handsome and
commanding 1t Is furnishes but faint idea OF tho
elegance OF its interior II has all tho conveniences Of
the mansi, OF tho wealthy dwelers in the tics The
woodwork is venserei With foreign woods of an sxren.
sys KIND and the furnishings are Of the sumpt'ous
order Brio bras gftle!ei IN foreign travel AMI pic.
lures pos esstug mo erate degree OF artistic merit
|
pervade the entire premises no. assign of the toll and
privatons which are supposed to DO the lot II tho West
era farmer being anywhere visible.
MIR. wHErLRR's oitcs building, near tho great barn
whore he his imported Percheron horses has
air OF luxury about it also. In tho room which is do
voted his privat. its ipans desire for the
enjoyment of and comfort Is every here
| be gratifed larIe Turkish rug les most of tho
pine floor brio ahrac encumuers the maHtel pictures
hang upon the walls and books. apparent more for
aprenran than for use rest generally undisturbed in
| the appropriate case. from tho general managers
room. adjoining that of tho proprietor telephone con
nec,ion ia had with the Offices Of III. three division
perrin euIens different parts of the great farm"
Farmer WHEELER has what every Alliance
| farmer would lik, u have. II the fat days
come OF the Sub-'rrelsury, and the land
| loan, and so Il head. house like Mr.
| WHEELER'S will be deemed scarcely good
enough for an Alliance mans barn. The
! cows will b. milkcd by electricity and tho
potatoes will be made to hoe themselves.
The evolution, now in its first stages. OF tho
farmers into a favored class must bring
about a great Increase in the reinements
and suDeriluitins among the asrculturists.
| This fellow in Odebolt who is trying to ridi-
culc Farmer WHEELER for making himself
| com 'ortable Is putty-headed sumph. Is
there any reason why Il farmer shouldn't
! have brio .i.-brac? Why, when the fight be-
tween the Alliance and tho multiplication
table has ended by smashing the latter, tho
| Alliance farmers will expect to have their
milking pals made OF repoussG silver and
the horns of their oxen tipped with
diamonds set in gold. The pigpcns
will be tiled, the barnyardS Aoored in mosaic
and the sitting heu5 will sit behind LOUIS
Nv. screams. The horse trouShs will be of
Mexican onyx. tho pitchforks will have
Dresden china handles, and tho hired man
have SINAI! bottle at noon. Why not
What is the Alliance here for? Is anything
too good for the Alliance? Farmer WHEELER
! will DO considered a dOwn-trodden helot
w hen the Hawbuck millennium begins bust
ness At present he is only small Tore
runner OF the golden. or rather, the paper,
joys of the triumph Of PETER, tho Collar
less and SIMPSON, tho Soclilcss AS an
opener of the new age when money will
grow in paper mills, and two and two make
twenty-five he ought to do very well; and
the Peoples party should have borrowed
Him from the Republicans With the Gov
eminent shOveling out loans Mt two per
cent, and with low prices for rags tho
humblest economist in the great order
will outwhcelcv WHEELER. in splcndor and
expense Be good enough to observe that it
will be just rs easy to enrich agriculture
with 5000 per capita currency as with
Sj0pcr capita currency. II Farmer WHEELER
has been ab'o to mako himself solid with
Mammon without borrowing OF the Govern
mcnt, tho Alliance can still forgive him. For
it appears that his farm has raised big
crop OF mortgages. AS tho iron-rivetcd
Republican patriots of tho Fifth Assembly
district OF this town would say Farmer
WHEELER is "wid' the Alliance in tho
matter of mortgages. The Allianc, bowls
that the farmhouses are covered with mort
Cages up to the ridgcpo!e. See how it is with
tho Telephone Iiller Of Odcbolt:
"The mortgage ia a luxury OF moro masn On. pro.
portions and it reaches from line to line from
corner enveopng not only tho entire ton sections and
tho appurtrnances thereunto beonging' but tho
contained In this respect few farmers In Iowa can
compete with candidate WHEELER herecords OF the
county tell tho story They show conveyance to Mr.
WAR Oct,G 1871 Of . i65 acres Of his present
farm for the sum OF Sll7,u,Ji On Sept 10 of the
same year hs purchased .,aip acres for tho of
| S.s3u1j masin- his present farm OF G.l1l acres
cost him S2I,1lI, or u tribe ess than Sa.yj per
acre The records further show that upon oct q.
ir75. he norga.ei this enr. property for $500 ON
Aug 81. 1871 this mortgage was paid on aud
for $40 coo entered on record On Sow. ], issl this
mortgage WAS cancelled and one for $50 D0) was re.
corded, covering tho Same property Nov ., 1855
second mortgage for $1,000 was put on top Of tho
other ma.inga mortgass Indebtedness Of S7OoD un.
satisfied to-day. Thi, is sis,5s3 more than the land
cost him Its sio per acre, over three times the
cost of the land when It was transferred to him.
This Is . record Tow Iowa farmers can show, and
would caro- to show Tho census Of 1880 gives the
! Inortgagod indebtedness OF all tho land In Iowa at
S-u.toJo ~ In round numbers THIS falls far short OF
The wuTtER standard In order to come up to the
sot tho WDlUlD @ al O