Year: 1877

and We will try TO give you some &C
count of the proceedings of the day.
1t had been heralded over this county
that there would be the greatest gath
ering there Of the farmers Of the
county that ever was known; and
they would there have an opportuni-
ty to hear from one of the great gran
dees of the national grange, and We
expected the scales would be made TO
fall from our eyes and we should be
made 10 see more clearly the great
beauty and advantages that granger
ism has conferred upon US. But to
our establishment no such person ap-
peared, and what was still more
strange not one of the speakers men-
toned the word grange or granger.
But we had some very fair speeches
and excellent music. The first speak
er was Mr.. ]. s. Church, He spoke
principally upon the financial situa-
ton of Nemaha County. He said he
stood where be could feel the
financial pulse Of this county,
and he represented the patient as
having been in very low condition,
ready to give up the ghost at any mo-
ment, but that he had rallied O little
and there was now a faint quiver of
of pulse perceptible, and hopes of
recovery was possible, If the people
would be patient and take the follow
ing medicine, or pills. These pills are
not sugar coated, but made of the best
material such as this: They must
stop buying on credit; they must
know that their income Is greater
than their expenses they must be
more saving and recovery would be
sure and certain.


Here Mr.. Howe gave notice to ad-
iourn one hour for dinner. When
the time was up he appeared again
upon the stand and requested the
county Independent committee to
meet at small building near by.
Here the people were kept waiting
near two hours longer. Then appear
ed Mr.. Pollock upon the stand. The
first thing he said was that Mr.. Howe
told him he must not talk politics.
He appeared to takea far more hope
full view of things here. He thought
the farmers had great reason for re-
joicing for the bountiful crops, the ad-
vancement that had been made in re-
gard to machinery as helps to them.
He said he could remember when
they cut all their grain with the sick
lie, and actually looked for a scar on
his finger made while cutting grain
with it, and said he did not want to
see them times again. Now, he says,
you jump on to your harvester and
sweep down your ten acres per day.
Now, we think Mr.. Pollock as
we'll as many of our farmers. has got
the following verse of poetry on the
brain, 1t is about machinery and reads
as follows:


I've no muscles to weary. no breast to decay,


No bones to be laid on the shelf;


And soon intend you may go and play,


While manage the farm myself.


Next appeared Mr.. Elliott. of Otoe
county, and he is practical farmer,
engaged in sheep raising. If he had
not pitched the key of his speech
quite so high, and told US something
about his sheep, in the room of going
off on the beauties of the great Amer
ican desert, he would have had the
attention of the people which he fall
ed to get. This is what he has told
individuals about his sheep: Less
than two years since he paid thirteen
hundred and fifty dollars for sheep,
and has sold nine hundred dollars
worth of wool and fat sheep, and has
one hundred head more sheep now
than he commenced with. And we
were very sorry he did not get this In
his speech to the people.


There was two other short speeches
and they all appeared to adhere strict
ly to Mr.. Howe's dictation not to talk
politics. The common topics of the
day, such as the affairs of our govern
ment, that every reading man feels
interested In, wgs not mentioned by
one of the speakers. They all fired
off on the teauties Nebraska, the
bountiful crops, the amount Of grain
we are shipping out of the state &c.
Now we would like to have Mr.. Po-
lock ask Doctor Church what 1t was
that run the financial pulse of his pa
tient so low, and we will warrant he
will tell him that It was a fever-a
machine fever. This fever has swept
over this land and 1t has been more
contagious and deadly than any dis
ease known to the medical faculty.
It has taken crops farms and all, and
is turning the farmers ont to play, or
to shirk for themselves. Mr.. Church
will tell you that nine tenths of all
the debts that has troubled the farm
ers, has been for machinery, 1t Is turn
ing them out to play. We could men
ton several farmers that have been
turned out, and machinery Is manag-
ing their farms for them. Now If Mr..
Pollock had been a farmer. this fever
would surely have carried him OF.
But he has been saved not by faith