The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-05
HALSYEADS LETTER.
Writer Introduces Himself to tina
Farmers Telling Of His Own
Rural Experiences
WHAT'S WRONG WITH FARMING7
Propounds and Answers This Questio.
Advocating Mckinley and His
Policy as Panacea.
Special Correspondence of the Chicago Daj,v
News. -

Special Correspondence OF the Chicago Dai,v
News.
New York, Aug. 81 desire to intro.
duce myself to the farmers by saying I
am by trade one of them, though for n
long time engaged in daily labor on the
daily papers. There are still some frosty
old friends of mine who can testify of
their own knowledge that fifty years ago
there wasn't boy in Butler county, O.,
who could turn n furrow better than
or was more expert in using plows left
or right handed on hillsides or level
lands. so rs to leave less unbroken land
at the turns than l, and there is no light
work | would like better now than plow-
ing corn when il is about rs nigh as n
plOwboy. The trouble Il en- is il is so brit
tie. and il Is very provoking to have the
pretty stalks broken-and many n horseI
have damned as a punishment for put
ting his rude foot into hill of corn.
was great boy to bind wheat. rye, oats
or barley with double bands. and once |
tied up blacksnake in n sheaf of wheat
so tight he could not get out. and there
never was n snake or n boy more aston
ished. l could beat the girls dropping
contour grains to the hill-and | know
with Il bone husking peg, held by a strap
over the two middle fingers of the right
hand: and the accomplishments of dig
ging potatoes without cutting them, and
mixing green and dry food for horses.
and watching calves become cattle colts
evolve into horses. lambs and pigs bloom
into sheep and hogs. are, with all the
hopes and fears associated with them, fa-
miliar. The practical farmers will de-
tect in these observations the presence of
line of information not pulled out OF
books or picked up in schools. | know.
too. about the way good old farms grow
less valuable. in spite Of faithful atten-
ton. and how 1t is that some farmers
| who do not buy pianos on the INSTALL
ment plan find it a pleasant experience TO
borrow money.
Farmers Are Discouraged.
The news has been circulated a good
| deal and not conclusiyCly contradicted
| that this year a good many farmers are
so discouraged by the way their affairs
have been going that they are ready TO
do something unexpected in politics
| that some of them think maybe there is
| something in free silver that would
| Just fit their casc--thcrefore. that there
are Republican farmers who If not en-
| lghtcned are liable tO vote for Bryan
and Watson or Bryan and SeNall. They
| hive HtuIu ~ lluth dIbuA ilfc SilNtI dS
| a patent medicine 20 cure the rheuma-
tism. heartburn, earachc, iistula, dyspep-
sia and vertigo that they do not know
bur they will try il. II they do they will
make the same mistake the workmen
did four years ago and invite even 4
greater misfortune than they tumbled
| upon themselves. There is absolutely
nothing in free silver for farmers.
| Whatever they want for relief i GER
tainly is not deprecated money-dolars
debaseI. We have been going on now
with dollars of the same value as that
Of gold for eighteen years and change
in the purchasing power OF dollar VIII
not help any honest man. unless u
incidentally and in petty and frac
tional way.
What is the matter with farming!
The owner of one of the finest farms IN
England. within sight of the forest OF
Windsor and the towers OF WINDSOR
castle. stated To mo that wheat had sot
so cheap in England that the straw was
more valuable than the grain. ne de'
pression is not exclusively American.
The trouble is acknowledgement u
the remedy? Whatever may be wrong.
and however difficult IL may he 10 rlsh'
the wrong. there should not he iartn-
or i'm all America so ignorant rs not 10
know that the man who has done most 70
4 frame n tariff law 10 help the farmers -
William Mckinley.
Il NJ H..