Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-14
BUMPER CROP is NEEDED.
Would AIIay Existing Discomfort Ii
%ha State

tne 1SaSe.
Rolling Westward on a c. & n. w
Caravan, April 12.-James Poole in the
Livestock World: mo, Iowa isn't hard
up said the man who had been dis
cussing economic questions to the edi-
flcation of everybody on the car. she
isn't hard up. but Il little more money
in circulation would come in handy.
There's been a little tiEhtness of the
circulating medium. bankers are keep
ing tight grip on the COIN SO to speak,
but we amt hard up. Some of us have
bought more land than we know JUS,
what to do with at the present moment,
it is true, and soma OF that land is so
far away that we may never see it,
but that isn't the main cause of
the trouble. I've got bunch of prai-
RE UP in Alberta that a glib youth un-
loaded on me In fit of absent minded
hess two years ago. My banker says
it isn't good collateral and / am not
disputing his judgment. The price OF
that land would not have bothered me,
and the money 1t cost would come In
handy just now, bat for the great ca
tastrophe. as l regard it."
Whats that" lisped guileless
youth, on the scent of development.
The weather. that's what it Isl re-
turned the Iowan. The weather has
been dead against lis for three straight
years. The most cantakerous spell of
weather l ever saw in the state, and
/ was here before the Northwestern ran
train over the Mississippi. Specula-
ton? Why. gentlemen, all the money
hot ot,f IF Tow 20, 1av =
laion wouldn't have paid years tax
bill. You DON'T know Iowa. It's the
money we have had to send to Nebras-
ka and Missouri for. corn, and the
money we failed to get because of three
partial failures of the corn crop That's
what's aliing us. The steady drain
going out and nothing coming an; the
stupendous losses we have sustained
by reason of our inability to make beef
and pork on the kind of corn we have
had to pay fancy prices for. Specula-
ton! Why, some of these calamity
howlers make me tired. Iowa has
made lot of money on South Dakota
land, more perhaps than 1t has sunk in
Canada"
and the remedy?' asked the guile
less youth.
"A big corn crop" was the response
"A great big bumper corn crop. That's
all we need, and It's coming sure as
fate. We staked big bet last year
and lost. This season well try it
again. One big corn crop will put Iowa
on its feet"
There is something doing" all over
the Hawkeye state just now. Corn and
- svx-i11 n a.
anything like favorable crop conditions
the whole state viii be In clover next
fall. True, it is a case of hope deferred,
but in Iowa the wheel of fortune Is
less tickle than in less favored regions.
after FL make sure OF my fuel before
buy a stove.'
Notwithstanding this violent reversal
of form caused by the weather mans
perverse determination to handicap
King Corn with unfavorable meteoro-
logical condi tons, Iowa is in prosper
Gus condition. TIE towns are growing
and unlike Illinois, the country Is max
ing lengthy strides along the highway
of progress. Here the renter has not
gained the same vantage as east Of the
mississippi. On the other hand, thou
sands of Illinois farmers, selling their
holdings in the Sucker state at fancy
prices have migrated thither, bought
two acres for the one they held in
Illinois, and are adding i1nnlea surably
TO the wealth of the state. The old
farm in Illinois has fallen to q renter.
here the man who sold it is ting
the balance of his capital in buildings,
dotting the landscape with comfort
able homes and capacious barns. in
fallble Indications of a progressive
community.
An almost miraculous change has
occurred in western Iowa during a dec
ade The landscape has lost its bare
treeless appearance, windbrakes dot
the hopiZon and many farmers are in
blissful Independence of the coal trust,
the wood lot furnishing abundance of
fuel. Thing has converted swamps
into arabic land, and only the hard
road is needed to complete the picture.
And the day of retiring the muddy
road can not dn the nature Of things
DO far away. -.