Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-21

/|IX|IfII|5<ing attentions that
mHXWW NIz%~the man who had
s-ct-Z-ZME3 -calloslties on the
:-.r-yl- Snm-nmuTTT- inside Of his fingers
\MMIIe iv,urr=,--- was about to super
m- hVlplE nsede the man who
UUn6fllbs a;ldl l"got his bread by the
INMT ~ sweat of his inge-
nuity and had raised corns on the con-
volutions OF his brain by oyefworking
that organ.
Well, what are the facts2
Why, the facts are that the lawyer is
Just as dominant In this Congress as
ever. There are a few more farmers
than usual, but they have no more in
fuence on legislation than they had In
the Fifty-first Congress-, and their voices
are scarcely heard. AS John Davis,
one of the ablest farmers in Congress,
said to me yesterday: We scarcely
expect to get any Of our important
measures through this session, but shall
DE satisfied with an educational cam
paign. We are going to make some
speeches that will influence votes here
after"
Another Congressman farmer from
the West permits me to publish bis
plant thus:
The lawyers always rule the States
And all the rustic drudges;
They crowd the bar as advocates,
/, And iii the bench as judges;
And no man understands the laws
Till after he has paid them,
For they are tangled up. because
The cunning lawyers made them!
This Is "the Farmers Congress-, yet
there ars only twenty-three members
who really get their living by agricult-
ure, and there are 270 lawyers, about
three fourths of the whole, and twenty
more belong to one of the so-called
learned professions, In the Tennessee
delegation both Senators and all ten
Congressman are lawyers. Both SEN
ators from Virginia are lawyers, and all
the ten congressman, except parson
and an editor. Both Senators from Texas
are also lawyers, and ten out OF the
eleven congressman, che odd man being
+Parson Long" who indicates in the
Congressional Directory that he is vir-
tually and sentimentally Presbyterian
farmer.
Other Professions.
Among the other clergymen are Sena-
tor Kyle, OF South Dakota (Congregra-
tionalist); Mckinney, OF New Hamp-
shire (Baptist); Baker, Of Kansas; and
Posey Lester, of Virginia, who Is an
itinerant preacher in ghteen States.
Among the doctors are Gallinger. OF
New Hampshire; Dockery, OF Missouri;
L. f. Atkinson. of Pennsylvania; and
Thomas Dunn English, OF New Jersey,
far better known as a poet and author.
1t is noticeable that there Is only one
merchant in the House, but number
are engaged in mercantile pursuits. ;"
So a lot of the lawyers are chrome
fo,- ~ fhn Gnn af long
range. There half dozen bankers, too,
who are fiat farmers-raising produce at
a tremendous. expense, the horny hands
with which they toll being attached TO
somebody else's shoulders.
Some of the most extensive farmers
and planters in this Congress are those
whose practice law as their chief in
terest. This is true of Senator Gibson
Of Maryland, a man Of 80, who does not
look his years. Gibson keeps farmer,
OF course. He raises corn and. wheat
| twenty-five to thirty bushels to the acre
of the latter. He has four or five thou
sand peach trees and sends the peaches
and much small fruit to New York and
Baltimore.
| Holman Is running farm of three or
four hundred acres In the southeastern
corner OF Indiana, and he can stand on
his front doorsill and see court-houses
| In three States-Indiana, Ohio and KEN
lucky. His slightly home is on the Ohio
River hills, and the house is the one
] he was born in, built by his father
in the early pioneer days in the
first quarter of this century. The
kind of ability resulting from courage,
J sagacity and experience gives him a
i great deal of influence on the floor OF
| no. Ioxu hint
he now spends most of his time farming
when he is not here. He raises hay,
wheat, and corn, and farmer" is writ
ten all over him. He Is homelier than
Lincoln. Nature made him when she
was feeling reckless. He looks as IL he
had been rived out with dull ak from
4 tough maple log. His gestures are all
severely angular, and his voice sounds
ike tinman's cart on corduroy road
His beard is always three times as long
rs it ought to be. and his head is COW
cred with cow ticks, evidently bestowed
when the animal was feeling mad. Not
withstanding his personal appearance,
ne has kind heart, and will help any
body kill an appropriation with all the
suavity OF Chesterfield. He isn't as
poor as he locks, but In spite of his
proverbial honesty Is worth, they say,
S150,000
The Northern Senators are mostly
small farmers and the Southern mostly
large planters. Mr. Morrill, spends all
The time he can on his little Vermont
iarm of sixty-five acres, and never en-
Joys himself so we'll as when he is
here. He has been in Congress almost
Iorty years.
Senator Casey of North Dakota was
sent here as farmer by the farmers
He is one of the biggest farmers in the
land, having the control Of over 300, 900
Lcres and owning good deal OF 1t him
self. Irrigation is his continual tex
and he expects to make his State gar
Zen by bringing to the surface the vast
lake which underlies 1t.
Mr.. Vance is Senatorial farmer
Around his country seat in the noun.
tains OF North Carolina, which he calls
'Gombroon," he owns several thousand
acres of land, little of 1t arabic, bu
most OF il covered with some Of tn,
bess timber In the United States. HI
got IL for a song and IL has grown very
valuable on his hands. He pines for hi,
farm constantly when In Washington
and he not only enjoys life there, bu
dispenses large hospitality.
George OF Mississippi Is probably tn.
most extensive planter in the Senate
owning some thousands OF acres.
Ten OF the Southern Senators wer
Major Generals In the Confederat.
army, and four of them surrendered Il
Grant at Appomattox.
VIM, Farmers Alliance, of Georgia
tells me: my opinion Is that we shal
/ I'll ~.