Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-13
HALSYEAD'S LETTER.
Writer Introduces Himself to the
Farmers Telling Of His own
Rural Experiences
WHAT'S WRONG WITH FARM'No'
p,ono,,nds and Answers This Question
Advocating Mckinley and his
Policy as Panacea'
snoc,a, Correspondence of the Chicago D
oPeeA" News.

Snecial Correspondence OF Tue
News
New York. Aug. 81 desire w INC I
dnco myself to the farmers ny
Wv, INV trade one of them, though ~. -
,on, limo engaged in daily LABOR On
daily papers. There are still SUM Sc 80
old friends of mine who can 'es oo
tbe;r own knowledge that ttty yeaie
tbara wasn't boy in Butler count En
who could turn furroW peter loft
W. wv woS more expert in using ploWs 70, III
or right handed OH hlllsldes ~, -, land
lands, so as to leave less unui !, No lipht
at the turns than |, and there - ~ Law,
work I would like better now than p,o no
ing corn when it is about as hisn 40
nlowhoy. The trouble then IS II IS 81 VI ~,
fle. and it is very provoking 10 nave ny
pretty stalks brOken-and many e.. inf
have damned as a punlsnliir1en.e ~ onrn
ting his rude foot into bill OF corr =.
was a great boy to bind wheat, rye, oa'9
or barley with double bands, ana on Seot
tied nm a blacksnake in shear OF Wneas
SO tight he could not get out, ana tue.1
never was a snake or a boy more ase.n.
shed could beat ca th the 6if ris pfoR know
| all about husking frosty ears OF corr
with bone husking peg, held by strap
over the two middle fingers of the rlghC
hand: and the accomplishments Oh dls
| cling potatoes without cutting them, aAh
| mixirg green and dry food Tor HORSES,
and watching calves become cattle, cots
evolve into horses, lambs and pigs Dloon
| into sheep and hogs, are, with al Tue
homes and fears associated with them, Ia
miiiar. The practical farmers will Gle.
tect in these observations the presence OF
a line of information not pulled out or
| hoo ic1-n nm schools KNOW.
too, about the way good old farms grow
| less valuable, in spite of faithful atten-
| ton, and how it 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. .*-> q q
! The news has been circulated a good
| deal and not conclusively contradicted
| that this year a good many farmers are
so discouraged by the way their affairs
have been going that they are ready to
| that some of them think maybe there is
something in free silver that would
| just fit their case-therefore, that there
| are Republican farmers who if not en-
| lightened are liable to vote for Bryan
and Watson or Bryan and Sewall. They
| have heard so much about free silver as
patent medicine to cure the rheuma-
|
STA and vertigo that they do not know
but they will try it. If they do they will
| make the same mistake the workmen
did four years ago and invite even a
| greater misfortune than they tumbled
| upon themselves. There is absolutely
nothing in free silver for farmers.
| Whatever they want for relief it GER
tainly is not deprecated money-dollars
| debased. We have been going on now
| with dollars of the same value as that
| of gold for eighteen years and a change
| in the purchasing power of dollar will
| not help any honest man, unless it is
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 me that wheat had got
| so cheap in England that the straw wee
more valuable than the grain. The de-
| preston is not exclusively American.
The trouble is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is
the remedy? Whatever may be wrong,
and however difficult it may be to right
the wrong, there should not be farm
err in all America so ignorant as not to
know that the man who has done most to
frame tariff law to help the farmers is
William Mckinley.
What Mckinley Has Done.
What did he do? Consider sugar bonn
ties, Tor one thing. Ii the law had been
allowed to remain as he drew it NebEas-
ka by this time would have teemed with
beet-sugar manufactures, every one a
help to the farmers and the soil Of
Nebraska is better for sugar beets than
that OF Germany-only needs a good
start to establish an enormous and in
valuable industry. The Mckinley dntv
on barley caused the raising of millions
OF bushels additional to the average Of
former crops, and this reduced sensihlv
the excess OF wheat production. This is
an example of what we mean by the d;.
versified industry that the protective svs-
tenn promotes. We want more of + and
that is McKinleyism. - anu
why are wheat and butter DOWN A.
to wheat: The use of agricultural ma'
chlnery and the improvement in trans
por.atioh mas cheapened labor and ex-
prodigious wheat field. Tbe soil !; ~
admirable, the rivers are deep. the nlaiG rs
give full sweep to the macbinarv IN p.a': ny
ROADS have nc ing else to do tban az
ry the wheat t. market and the stea,,o an
carry the grain to Liverpool in hinge nan
gogs. oallng vessels whose sails arc
pulled about by steam. saving 'D ha are
cheaper the cost of putting do1, ,anas
gentlna wheat in Liverpool Egvnt Tnd A.
canada, Russia, compete with re =; ,hu l
wheat wheat market of Western Europe 1s III me me
W4rld is a sort of country neiebborhdane
-, what is the matter with butter5 nI I
IN tne o5 price 90 Of butter go up in New Ynr1
10 . or 80 cents pound-a liv;nci OK
De made producing butter at tbnsse can
ures-What happens? A cable , noe hg-
goes to 3 Australia and there are pes sag
ments OF thousands of tons Of ore ne SNIP
nutter at once. And it can h eAr n1a
in New York and profitabiy sole OLE placed ia
cents a pound. 1t cannot be o nroa alt
IN New York at those figures prT1hu;uced
lustrailon is not imaginary. Tho ms 4n IL
what is the remedy? We ~. 80 !, recently.
c c:1n that the coinage. - af answer
e sgsf to ae rase will mot Be help m We
hops, our own eggs. chickens our own
ana potatoes, to make our ae own onions
and our own tinplate, SO as ~ 1W d; sugar
advantage of our own markets - 1--WE the
h N "a re in the world that ey see
1lon OF articles we have in ne produc
wouid 1on turn IN oyer oyer to American aust named
aan 1 ae r., custom would annually,
vante,, OF the farms. There ; IL n the
nOSJrnm about this o. Is no patent Z