The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-30
THE FARMERS CANDIDATE.

X e. Gazette:
The agricultural element of the
Second Congressional district will be
untrue to their own interests if they
fail to send Hon. +. H. Funston back
to Congress. No man has done such
sturdy work for the common people,
whether on farm or not. The party
he affiliates with has always been a
friend of the wOrkingman. Mr.. Fun
ston follows practical agriculture for
living. His competitor is money
shark, as all the candidates of the
protested farmers party are either
jackey lawyers, pill peddlers, middle
men or dry-goods box loafers. Rec
Ognizing his avOcation of agriculture,
and his attention to the interests of
the farming element, the authorities
of the house have placed and continu-
ed Mr.. Funston in the service of the
committee on agriculture. In this
service he has been of great value,
not only to his own immediate con-
stituents, but to the advancement of
this interest i'm general. He is a
special Representative of Secretary
Rusk in carrying out suggestions
from the agricultural department,
and bears a commission to day from
the Secretary to look after the conduct
of the meat inspection in this city.
Mr.. Funston in his minority report
of the committee of the House charged
with the duty of investigating the
effect of the tariff upon agriculture,
expresses wildly his sympathy with
the tillers of the soil. He believes
that agriculture is interviewer or
interlocked with all other industries,
and depends so much upon the success
of others around it that it cannot be
properly considered by itself. The
occupation is one of a, great deal of
drudgery and privation, and the day
seems far distant when it will be re-
lieved of all hardships and become as
remunerative as some others that
partake more of the speculative than
of the industrial. He talks to the
farmer thus:
"Some of US have lived upon a farm
all our lives and know something of
its real hardships as well as its COM
forts, and know it to be almost one
complete round of toll and care, and
with profits that do not seem COM
mensurate with the labor performed.
We can not, however, look back to
any better times, nor to half so good,
excepting, of course, war times when
all industries flOurished because of
Increased demand and reduced pro-
auctions. The days of the hand loom
the spinning wheel, the itinerant shoe
maker, the rye-straw hat, with oats
at ten cents bushel, wheat at fifty
cents, good COW for -. and a good
horse for $50, and salt at s. per barrel,
calico at 12.5 cents, sugar at Ii cents
per pound, and tin dipper at p cents
have no charms for US. We would
take the present, mortgages and all,
and add more to them, rather than go
back to times when there were no
because there was but lit
tie money, and almost none to loan,
and debt meant bankruptcy"
Mr.. Funston belongs to a party
which has always advanced the in
terests of agriculture, the only polite
al party with business capacity suffi-
cient to handle public affairs with
profit TO the peOple,-the Republican
party. Hence he has no sympathy
with the cranks such as PETER, Simp-
son, Otis and Davis, who believe only
in government aid and who would
pull down that which has caused the
success this people have
engaged.
Mr.. FunstOn's services appeal to Ia
boring men following other Oceupa-
tons. He is not coupon clipper or a
professional man living on his wits,
such as the Peoples ticket seems to be
of, but he chose farming, |
his family live upon a farm, and he |