The Forrest City times., 1891-11-27
Befora and Since 1880.

The country is sick. Three schools of physicians are offering their ser vices, the Republican, Democratic and Third party. Whose medicine shall we take? To find the remedy we must ascertain the cause.
 Before the war the patient was under the democratic doctors for upwards of half century. Since the war it has been under republican treatment up to the present time.
 Before the war farming was one of the most profitable pursuits. Now farms are being abandoned by the thousands. Even in Massachusetts, at the very doors of the factories and their home markets 146l farms have been abandoned, 172 of which have buildings upon them.
 Before the war the farmers were mon-y-lenders; now they are borrowers and martgaSorS
 Before the war a mortgage upon farm was d rare occurrence; now eighty per cant of the farms of some of the most fertile states in the Union are under mortgage.
 Before the war eighty per cent of the bahk stock in the agricultural states was owned by farmers, since the war. in 1SS3. only one per cent Was owisd by tl!em,
 Before the WAT. in 1858, seventy five per cent of the students in our colleges and universities were farmers s'ns; since the war, in 1850, lherc were only eight per cent.
 Before the war the value of the farms of the United States was eSti mated, in 1850. at S3,27l .575, 426. Ten years afterwards, in 1860, it was s6,- 5i5. GOT .O0o. an increase in the weight of the patient in ten years under democratic treatment of 100 per cent. Since the war. ill 1870, it was S2 26l,- Sc3 .S6l. Ten years afterwards. in 1880, it was only S10, 0,l27 ,0G6.77G; an increase under republican doctors of only nine Der cent in ten years, and this, notwithstanding the vast increase in populatIon and the boasted l.oiAe market.
 Before the war, in 1860, the live stock of the United States was esti- mated at S54i.lS0, ,556. Ten wears afterwards. in 1870, it was only S5l9.- lS0,3jj. i he patient had fallen off S25 GJ0 .00J ill ten years under repub- lican doctors, although several new states had been added and had gone into the business of raising stock.
 Before the war the average value of the farms of the United States, in 1850, was S2 25S per farm; ten years afterwards. ir 1860, it was S3.25l; all increase of S993 per farm in ten years under democratic treatment.
 Since the war, in 1880, it has fallen to SGS2 per farm in twenty years of republican quackery,
 Since the war, while farms are being abandoned and farm values are de- creasing, there IS widespread dissat- isfaction among ali classes who make a living by the sweat of their brow, and this amid the enormous increase of wealth in the nation at large. What is the cause of this disease? And what is the remedy?
 Oar Farmers Alliance seem to think contraction of the currency is the chief cause. But this does not account for all the symptoms of the disease.
 Contraction of the currency would affect manufacturers as we'll as farm CTS; the wage earner in Rhode Island scarcely larger than Western county, had on deposit in 1880 in her savings banks three times as much money as the states of Ohio, Minnesota and h. diana combined. Massachusetts had more money on deposit in her savings banks than all of the states west of the Alleghenies combined.
 There is but one disease that can ac- count for this contested state of the patient, and this is class legislation legislation which is designed to benefit the very classes who have been bene- tited at the expense of all others Every single symptom can be ac counted for by the republican tariff.
 W. Nj. FIsHBACK.