The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-03-24
budding into womanhcol asking his

budding into womanhcol asking his
opinion as to the advisabiiity tf
allowing the young lady 10 marry 4
young man who was paying court to
her. and giving Il full description If
the young man 5 character and prospects
in order to enable the member the more
readily to come to It conclusion. An
other letter came from a young lady
whose tru" love course was running, the
usual rugged way and wio sought the
members wisdom for the solution Of
problems which she and her lover could
not settle. These are hut examples of
q great many such letters which are re-
ceived by members WHO repre- sent re-
mote districts, where the simplicity of
uncultrred nature prevails. Some of
the questions propoundfd by these sim
pie people would puzzle a Solomon, and
a member experiences no little emhar-
rassment in answering them. tholgh he
who has the wisdom to speak like
Delph;c oracle is in fair way to rake
himself solid with his people, getting
credit for it wherr his advice proves good
and not running much risk Of censure in
any event.
The number of letters received by
members in the House vary from five or
ten day, which is about the extent Of
the mail of Mr.. G"issenheimer of New
Jersey. to 80 each dav, which is atout
the average number of letters received
each day 10y Mr.. Harter of Ohio. Mr..
Harter having sent anti-silvcr circulars
all over the country. is receiving replies
which swell his daily mails to the hi gh-
est notch. But about onr other member
of the House equals him. That other
member is O'Donnell of Michigan, who
being an avowed candidate for the NOM
ination as Governor of Michigan, is
writing to and receiving letters from
| people throughout the State. Dalzell
| who is laying his wires 10 succeed Mr..
| Quay in the Senate, receives an average
| of about 300 letters a day. Representa-
| tives Huff and Enoshs have been get.
ting about 300 letters n day during the
! session. Lodge OF Massachusetts has
| a steady run during each session OF
| Congress of about 1oh every day. while
| Wilson of kentucky, Peel nf Arkansas
Pendlcton of West Virginia. ana Houh
. of Tennessee run close up 10 him in
! their average. AS "a rule members rep
resent:n- city districts receive less mail
! than any others in Congress and alto
gether are very much less troubled by
/ their correspondence.
| The seed season is just now beginning
| and the members from rural district.
are overwhelmed with letters from con.
stituents asking for seeds. which are
given out by the Agricultural Depart
ment, Il certain proportion to each dis
tric:. Each member has about $50.
packages of seed and 500 agriculture
reports 10 distribute. and most o
the country members have already al
exhausted their stock. Meredith, O
Virginia, whose constituents appear to h'
breaking great deal of ground for tn,
spring planting, has for several weeks
been getting an average of fifty request
each for seed, and Hoim; has alread,
responded to letters eXhausting his full
$500 packages. Besides all the letter
which members of the House receive
each gets daily n copy of five papers
which are sent free by the publishers
and an average of fifty country weekiie
are received by each member who's
district lies outside of the large cities
The great burden of this correspondent
lies in the fact that those men who &c
the most letters are usually the repre-
sentatives of class of people who in
s:st that replies must be written by tn
members themselves and not by the sec
/ retarieS,