Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-03

Bishop Worthington Says Too Much Edu-
cation Is What Is the Matter with the
Farmers.
The Council Bluffs Ia.) Nonpareil,
republican paper and an ardent sup
porter of Mckinley, publishes the fol-
lowing in the fifth column on the third
page of it's issue of October IA:
New York. Oct. 23.-Bishop Worthing-
ton, OF Omaha, Neb., who is attending the
meeting of the house of bishops of the
Episcopal church, is a democrat, but he viii
vote for Mckinley. Speaking Of the stu.
alton in Nebraska. he said:
+" Y do not know whether Mr.. Bryan will
carry the state or not fear that he may,
because the popuists and many Of the
democrats have united. am Jefferson.
ian democrat. What I do not like about
Mr.. Bryan is that he has arrayed the
masses against the classes. Mr.. Bryan ia
not statesman; surely he Is not. He Is
too young and inexperienced. We need at
the head of this government In our pres
emit crisis the wisest man we can possibly
secure-McKinley.'
When 1t was suggested to the bishop
that the farmers throughout the country
were not in as prosperous condition as
they had been in the past, Bishop Worth
ington said: The trouble with the farmer.
in my Judgment, is that we have carried
farmers sons--a great many OF them
who have absolutely no ability to rise. get
Will never amount, to anything-that is
many of them-and they become dissatts-
fled to follow in the walk of life that GOD
cities. It is the ovel education Of those
who are not qualified to receive 1t that fills
our cities while the farms lie idle
Speaking of trusts, he said ne thought
the iniquitous silver trust. which is trying
to make profit on Its silver at the ex-
pense Of the people, the worst"
That a man protesting to be minis
ter of the meek and lowly Saviour could
bring himself to speak in this heart
less and cold-blooded manner is al
most beyond comprehension. There is
nothing in agriculture incompatible
with the most liberal education. Tho
educated farmer Is, in fact, the best
and most successful farmer. The farm
ers' sons are leaving the farms not be-
cause education has untitled them for
farm life, but because our merciless
financial system, based on the gold
standard, has forced down the prices
Of farm products until it is difficult to
make a living on the farm and utterly
impossible to make anything more
than chat. And this bishop would adj
just the farmers boys to the gold
standard by depriying them Of tho
blessings of education and forcing
them back into state of ignorance
| and degradation that would find no
| fault with it.
Humanity ought not to be thus sacri-
feed to gold. Let our financial system,
rather, be adjusted to the necessities
and aspirations of humanity. Let BIZ
metallism be again established, and
the price of farm products will rise
until the profits of agriculture will
again attract part of the educated
business talent that now seeks EN-
ployment elsewhere.
No man of good heart and common
sense would sheer at the intelligence
of the farm. It has been the birth
place and starting point of command
ing ability and patriotic leadership in
every land and time. The sentiment
uttered by Bishop Worthington is a
disgrace to common civilization. Poor.
old Burchard lacked sense. Bishop
Worthington lacks those attributes OF
the heart as we'll, without which NO
man is worthy of tho respect Ct hia
fellows.