The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-10-27
BOies and Lacey.

Though Governor Boies refused t.
meet Major Lacey In debate at New
ton, both spoke to nearly the same au
dience and each profited in number o.
hearers, and probably about equally
by the speech of the other. Major
Lacey spoke in the evening, to an i'm
mense audience, Bnd replied to the
statements made by the Governor in
the afternoon. Governor Boies had
reiterated in substaI CO his statement
about the sixty-seven cent loss In
Iowa corn, and claimed that his statis-
tics were the result of reports from
1000 good farmers, indiscriminately
selected throughout the state. and that
If the report was wrong the farmers
were to blame and not Boies or Sover-
eign.
Major Lacey took this corn state.
ment up and substantially said:
at has been said that it is an inspir-
ing sight to see man In possession of
an idea, but it is sad and sorrowfu
spectacle TO see an idea in possession
of a man, and this sixty-seyen cent
idea seems to have entered into the
Governor and taken possession, body
and bone, aud cannot be cast out.
Last year this corn question WAS a
very prominent one, and as was tax
ing part in the campaign, l attempted
to trace the report OF Sovereign to its
source. wrote to Mr.. VIM. McFar.
land ard eau sed him to make formal
demand upon Mr.. S0vereign for the
reports frcm Mahaska county, and if
they could not be secured to at least
secure the MANS of the reporters.
Mr.. Labor Commissioner refused TO
allow the reports to be seen or to dis
close the names, but no attempt to
send Sovereign to j 4il was thought of.
1t remained for the New York Democ-
racy 10 attempt this plan.
The Thousand farmers who reported
Iowa's agricultural calamities we're
carefully selected. This will be evi-
dent from any examination OF the fg-
ures. The same men who reported
the loss on corn also reported the re-
suits on wheat, barley, horses, hOgs at d
chickens. To see with what care thee
thousand calamitous reporters NUT
b I'VE been selected allow me TO turn /"
that part of the report which deals
with chickens. The same thousand
farmers who lost 67 cents an acre on
corn, give their experience on chickens
and wish to read it to you.
What part Of these Thousand farmers
do you suppose lost money on chickens ?
1 pause for yCu to think nom ant on
the sui ect. Some of you will say one,
some two, some three out of the whole
Thousand may have lost money thus,
and the most enthusiastic Boies man
in this vast audience will draw his
breath deep With establishment when l
tell him that out of one thousand of
the men that gave the governor his
own statistics 1888 of them lost money
on chickens. Men who could not raise
chickens at profit could not help los
ing on corn. With what care these re.
porters must have been selected to
show that agriculture in Iowa was a
failureI
How could a man lose money on
chickens? remember in Tennessee
man who lost money on chickens when
a Yankee regiment passed his deserted
plantation late one afternoon. His loss
on chickens was total. But how could
the5e 1000 Iowa farmers thus have met
with 78 per cent of misfortune?
The hens steal cut of their nests and
come home with chipping herd of
chicks.
A little attention suffices and the
birds grow fat upon the insects and re.
fuse of the farm.
They never die of old age and their
eggs are an unfailing source of pleas
ure and profit. This report is one of
the m 0st glaring frauds ever perpe-
trated by dealer in figures and l Sc
lect this item at random as q sample
of the kind of statistics which led the
governor to make his great speech in
New York and it is amazing that he
should wholly neglect the curreL "
issue in order to take time to resurIe,
this issue of 1891. y
A report made Ly men who could
not grow chickens in Iowa except at a
loss merits no consideration"