Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
MurrayvlIle, Illinois.

SuOSh yet. Ou COEu 1dn0 NhSdb ul'
poorly; and much was plowed under
and some left that was not worth cut
ting. On stubble- land wheat turned
out better than was expected, and
many heavy crops have been threshed
Oats appeared well in the field. but
the grain is very light. The weather
was too wet and warm for this crop
A farmer hauled 100 measured bushel,
to market and it weighed out only 7z
bushels at 50 lbs to the bushel.
Your writer tried a few acres o
southern cow-peas, of the '.Whippoor.
will' variety and thinks he has learned
at least one reason why they have nev-
er been generally grown here;-the
weeds take them, unless the rows are
wide enough apart for cultivation.
Some of our best lands here have be-
come badly fouled with morning-glory
and cottonwood; both of which it
seems impossible to kill out, and these
take everything after cultivation stops.
Some of the cow-peas were sown where
not a cottonwood has been allowed to
go to seed for more than eight years;
yet now they hide the peas.
Last night brought tremendous
rain and to-day much corn has fallen
fiat, especially where level culture was
practiced. Your writer used riding
cultivators this year with three dices-
not plows-on a side, and earthed up
very high. Such cultivator, with a
man riding on it, pulls lighter than
tivator, and acts like a pulverizer in
fning the soil. They would not work
well in rocks or stumps.
We have the silver craze. and have
it badly here. Silver should be coined
on the same terms as gold; and Con-
gress never had the right to restrict
the coinage of any mental used as
free coinage will bring good times.
No possible form, or increase, of cur
rency will do that; the cause of hard
times lies deeper than the medium of
exchange. The cause OF our present
trouble lies as deep as the source of
productions; and Democratic leaders
are risking too much when they preach
good times through the agency of sill
yer.
Our Democratic State Convention
passed a resolution condemning, in
severest terms. our present system OF
raising state and local revenues, and
pledging Democrats in the next legis-
lature to try for something better; but
this plank was suppressed in the Re-
public and other Democratic papers.
and now, weeks after the convention,
few voters have seen a full platform.
We single-taxers tried to get plank
favoring an amendment to the state
constitution giving the voters of each
county, township and town the right
to fix for themselves the subjects of
taxation, but the Democratic delegates
were not Democratic enough for that
yet. Before the convention was over
more than half the delegates were
wearing Home Rule in Taxation"
badges, which were distributed by
some of the delegates from Chicago.
If all other places in this state were
like my own school district, and town
ship, where three-fourths of the voters
favor the single tax. we should soon
have radical change and better times.
Radical changes must come, and that
very soon; and if my informants are
right you'll find out before you get
through with him that you have some
thing deeper and more radical than a
I6 to / candidate on your hands now.
One OF our greatest drawbacks is
that we have so many men calling
Democrats who don't know
Democracy when they meet it in the
big road. Men generally seem to
have become confused and fail to grasp,
mentally, the rights that are theirs by
natural laws. The Surveyor who
meanders a stream first lays off base
line on its general course to calculate
hisdepartures from; and the carpenter
who saws up plank first tFues OF g
side to square and to gage from; but
our voters sail in and dispose of meas
ures that affect their own lives and
the lives of their children without any
conception OF the means in which such
measures coincide with, or contravene,
the principles of right and justice.
They remind one of the Smart Alecks''
almost every teacher finds in school,
who want to cipher in compound num-
bers, and even square root. before
they have committed the fundamental
tables. No wonder republics have
generally been failuresl
July 90, 1896. WM. CAMM.