Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-20

appointed in not reaching the highes
! place in their ambition, or whose self
presumed abilities have never beer
discovered, and the delights of po
litical preferment have never beer
enjoyed. These fellows are really
about as unfortunate as men can be
They make grand mistake, in the
first place, in believing that the av'
erage farmer is fool, and that he
has not brains enough to easily faith
ON the purposes which are spurring
the political hack on in his efforts tC
dupe an intelligent class of men. II
the second place, the farmer, when he
has time to blow away the vapor that
has been blown upon him, wants
nothing of the hypocrisy of the po-
litical demagogue. He despises the
man and his purposes.
just at present, while the League
and Alliance move is on, there is an
unusual crop of this class of creatures
who hope to ride into power on the
votes of the farmer class.
The farmers spectacles are not SO
clouded that he can not discern sand
from hay seed, truth and honesty
from fraud and hypocrisy. Nor will
he fail to understand that the publish
ers Of new and strange journals are
inspired by the thought that it is a
favorable time for them to get a pat
ronage, that they could not win on
merits of their own. 1t is the farm
ers' shekels, after all, that have been
the cause of all their new born love
for the farmer. Somehow men do
not get insanely earnest in regard to
the welfare of other people unless
there is some personal advantage to
be obtained. There is a fellow
feeling of the pocket book kind that
the stranger has, which is not the
sort that will care for the poor victim
of poverty and distress.
Speaking of the new-fedged farm
er Alliance and League journals,
they may have certain value, but
there is in the old publication, which
has won a patronage and constituent
cy by years of we'll doing that which
deserves the continued friendship of
its patrons. The publisher and edit
or of the we'll established journal
come to have, as the years go on, a
regard for their patrons and readers
which is not purely selfish. He has
soughtltheir interests they have come
to regard them in the light of friends,
and whatever may arise, they will still
work for their good. The country
journalist that knows hundreds of his
subscribers by sight, and all of them
by name, comes to regard them in
strong friendship. If he is true
man, he works six days in week for
their welfare. His selections are
made with reference to the pleasure
and the benefit of his readers; his
editorials are planned and written to
do them good in some line. The To-
cal items in paper are toned to say
a pleasant word in thier regard, or
shaped to shield them from censure.
The publisher of the established
journal has a character and stand
ing which are more to him than mon
ey, and will keep his reputation if it
can be kept while the journalist who
is in the spasm of early existence has
no reputation and will doubtless win
none.
Farmers, the old papers, the old
publishers are safe to tie to. They
care more for your interests than the
new born tadpoles who appear every
now and then for day and then van
ish. You will not be fooled by the
political demagogue, nor cajoled by
some new somebody or something
that has no use for you except what
comes from your votes or your pock-
et-book Take the soft taffy which
is so plenty, just at this time, with
some degree of caution; it is largely
adulterated.