The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-06-26

the ninth successive good harvest /.
practically assured 10 the American
farmer and that the crops of 1905 viii
he worth nearly 5000, 900
Elgh. billion dollars would pay the
net Understanding national debt nine
time, over or would pay the mel
national debt and leave enough e
. buy at par the stock of all the rail
roads in the country. ltwould nearly
% pay of the entire bonded debt of every
b American railroad. At assessed val
uatiOns il would buy every acre OF
land in New York city and replace
every building In 1t. with little rem
nant over eQuallug the combined as
-cssed valuations of Chicago, New
Orleans, ST. Louis, Seattle and san
Francisco
Corn does not travel far from the
place where 10 is raised which Is
lucky, as there are not railroads
enough 90 carry TO- A crop of 100
, uOO. OW bushels should load 2J2O,OOO
thrty-tOn ears. 5lO,OOO more freight
cars than there are in the country Of
& every sort The freight ears of all the
world would not carry our wheat and
corn IT there were cars enough and
if the " heat and corn were loaded into
ihiriy-ton ears, forty to train, and
s trains were run at twO-nile intervals
at "a speed including stops of thirty
mile, AN hour night and day, II would
take nearly -iN months for the pro-
ceS~ion tO pass review ing stand. \
biu built the size of a city block, 500
feet by 2uO, would need 10 be more
than six miles high To hold this wheat
and corn alone. The hay and cotton
crops and the stupendOus annual egg
WELD of the American hen are in bulk
and value equally amazing.
There O., little 100 these facts Ia justify
pesslmism. II there are rats in the
nations granary IL is the nations
cuisines, t0 drive them ont and keep
them out. but the material basis of
prosperity is broad and firm ia the
maichless abundance Of nature New
/ York World.
This reads like romance and vet we
presume the figures don't lie. What
inSolcnce then ON the part Of little
New York To dictate the policies by
which this imperial army of wealth
makers are To bee governed. Arise in
your might We sons of the soil and as
sert your rights and demand fair play.
g.. o. r. was once made TO read
Grand old Party, but the latest
translation runs, Great ON Promises.
Ihos. Nelson Page shines out in
new role He is not only master Of
prose but Of panics a. well. Would
that he could try his skill on the
National variety.
Delegates to conventions 90 in the |
capacity of public servants, and why |
not instruct them? Servants obey
your masters has heavens sanction
and there should be no mistake as To
orders.
40 Democrat should want 10 be
Governor Of Virginia who isn't the
choice of "a majority of the Democrats
OF the state. That "straw vote" at
Roanoke indicates hopeless div ision.
II the tobacco farmers of Kentucky
prefer not toassociate with their Viz
ginia brothers because they could not
persuade them 10 become "Night
Riders" it's well that the bonds Of {
brotherhood have been broken.
"lucle joe is rarely quoted that he
isn't represented as "cussing.u Time
TO quit, old friend, now that you are ,
Y. 1t was, howev r, sup enc folly
ever 10 have taken up the useless and !
habit.
"Frank" Woodson's pen and the
photographers are uniting to keep I
Virginia well in the public eye. This ,
Is good work and should be appreciate
ed, and no doubt it is. We beg 10 ex-
press our obligations to writers and
10 pen and pictures. O
Bob rumbull is good fighter ,
and better fellow" but ne has :,
.ense TO know when he has "enough."
Prince Edward may have a racer in .,
he ring next time, and if so he will +,
'e in at the finish
Congress and convention alike "
would "reduce" things in the South. !
md even the negroes are kicking. J.
Why not make of tia province aud b
'ut "Uncle joe in charge? True he II
mokes and swears but will not smite Il
Is. il
Why this talk about guarding the fl
judiciary" Let our Judges look well u
d the spotless purity of the ermines o
hey wear and they will need no b
.latiOm protection. We are simply Al
lex of the ive-bcat-four decisions of II
ur highest tribunal. N
"You was" sounds bad anyhow 81
We will let the Landmark and Times ~
dispatch fight it out. The question y
most concern just now is, sis you "
'r Bryan or "are you agin him?n "
uit your grammar and get down 10 -
="
Hill. Of New York, waited until he W
as about TO leave the country before TIA
e sung dirge over the grave Of dead "N
emocracy. Wanted 10 take the glad us
ews to the potentaies of Europe In
0w colossal is the check of some ne
en-. "Afler me the deluge" ba
While Governor Hughes is fighting
lmblers his aged father is conduct
g a religious campaign in the great Wi
~ Of New York with the assistance pic
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