The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-05-07
TWO Farmer views.

farm life and the farmer to Mr.. Abner L..
Frazier, of Milford, o., and il will be
published in the June number OF that
periodical.
This essay is said to have been selected
from large number of manuscripts sub
mitted by farmers throughout the coun-
try, because of the many sound and
practical suggestions that it contains.
"Times have changed" says Mr.. Frazer,
"and the farmer, whose work is the
foundation of national prosperity, has
not kept pace with the advance in wealth
enjoyed by merchants and manufactur-
ers; but the agriculturist in awaking to
his opportunities. Education, organiza-
ton and contentment with modern
profits--these are the secrets Of success.
Comfort, independence, leisure-these
are the rewards"
Mr.. Frazer closes with we'll consider
ed resume of the only legislation which
the farmer asks in his behalf--"laws to
prevent the manufacture and sale of
adulterated and spurious food products
as genuine, and to secure an honest gov
ernment for the whole people,"
The sentiment in this essay is good
and remarkably in contrast with that OF
Whiskers PETER, of Kansas, who keeps
on putting forth ridiculous utterances in
regard to what the farming community
demands.
The latest talk from the Kansas freak
runs as follows:
"The people want more money. They
do not care much about the tariff they
do not care very much about the coin.
age; but they want money, and they
will not be satisfied until they have
money. So you may set it down that,
no matter what Republican or Demo
cratic partisans do for an issue in 1892,
the masses of the people who are mus
tering for the rebellion which is coming,
will talk about little else than money,
more money, cheaper money; and that
will be the great issue in 1892, and from
that time forward, until success crowns
the efforts of the masses"
1t scarcely seems possible that such a
demogogue as this should ever be able
to raise himself into the United States
Senate. But such is the fact and he
vainly imagines that he is bigger than
both the old parties put together, and
wiser than all the political economists of
the past.
1t is we'll settled fact that the farmer
wants money. So does everybody. The
only smart thing that Monkey Rudini
said in the whole New Orleans discussion
was that "dollars" is the word constantly
upon American lips.
But the people do not want cheap
money. They do not want cheaper
money"
What does Cheaper money" mean?
Why, nothing in the word except that
its purchasing power is reduced-that a
dollar will not buy SO much as at pres
ent.
Certainly dollar buys little enough
now. No one who is in his right mind
can desire that it should buy any less.
Whiskers PETER says that the people
are organizing for rebellion. Bosh
What does he mean? How does he ex-
pect to get the cheap money he talks so
voluably about?
Does he imagine that the people are
going to steal or riot? If so, he is great
ly mistaken.
Labor is the only thing that will buy
money. If money is not earned the only
other way to get it except to inherit it is
to steal it.
Does PETER mean that the people OF
Kansas who have made him Senator are
going to organize rebellion and go into
the wholesale business Of stealing money?
Does he think this will be cheap way
to get it?
The more this unmitigated crank talks
the better the public understands that
there is very little of him except whiskers
and cheap Cleveland World.