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Vol. XI.
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, July 31, 1890.
No. 31.
MV MOTTO: PROMPTNESS AND SQUARE DEAUNC.
R. F. DAY,
Lidai-nuE. ....
Office in Maeonie Building.
(«-)
Texas.
j, ar. moose.
jyjOOKK, A DUNCAN,
Attorneys at Law,
LaGsanus, • *
J. T. DUNCAN.
Texas.
Will practice in the courts of the 22nd, and
and adjoining districts.
pHKLPB * WILLttXCH,
Attorneys at Law,
LaGhanox,
Texas.
Office—Upstair* Masonic Building.
(22-ly)
w.
U. LEDBETTER,
Attorney at Law,
LaGranoe,
w.
8. KOBSON,
Attorney at Law,
Texas.
Texas.
LaGranoe, ...
Money loaned and borrowed at reasonable
iTato! of interest.
A.
J. ROSENTHAL,
Attorney at Law,
LaGrange, .....
Will practice in all courts. Loans
tinted for large said small sums.
pKRCY FAIHON,
Attorney at Law,
LaG range, ...
Texas.
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Texas.
Land titles investigated ; collections a spe-
cialty. Call at the Mayor's office.
Hall. [88-]
jyjAOUS SMITH,
Attorney at Law,
L aG range ...............................Tex ah.
Office:—Poatofflce Building, up stairs.
(6-iy.)___
M. WILLIAMS,
Attorney at Law,
LaGranoe, .... Texas.
Land titles investigated.
M^Spocial attention given to collections.
Utlleo over White & Bradshaw’s storo.
(62-)____
yy w. lunn,
Physician and Surgeon,
LaGranoe, Texas.
Private office ovor Scan ling’s Grocory Storo.
(No. 2—) ___
jyi. R. A. McKLNNEY<
Physician and Surgeon.
LaGrange, Texas-
Ofllco at T. C. Gregory’s Drug i?tord.
Residence tlio McClellan — Bums pltU'e-
|^R. C. K. SMITH,
Physician and Surgeon,
LaGranoe, .... Texas.
^IBFjOffico—Washburn's Drug 8ti7rp.“Wt
J. 0. B. RENFRO, M. D. O. W. RADFORD, M. D.
[RENFRO & RADFORD,
Physicians and Surgeons,
LaGranoe, — T*Xab.
Have associated themselves together in tho
practice of medicine and surgory and solicit
a continuance of public patronago. Office at
Meyonborg’s drug store, Wost sido of public
squaro.
(Juno 1st ly 1838.)
R. A. MO KINNEY.
Dealer in Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Ac.
LaGrange, Texas.
Watches and Jewelry repaired and warranted by R. F. Day, on tho shortest notioo,
and at moderate rates. Everything sold by mo is guaranteed to be ns represented.
I take pleasure in showing goods to partios wishing anything in my lino whether
they purchase or not. Office west side . f Public Square.
I carry a hill line of Waltham, Elgin and Rockford Watches in gold, gold-illled, sil-
ver and nickel cases. Also, a large lino of solid gold and rollod plated jewelry, and a good
assortment of clocks, solid and plated silverware.
VIRG. 8. BABB.
J. M. WROE.
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Lumber - dealerB,
Winchester, Texas.
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and purposes keeping constantly on hand A FULL STOCK OF BOTH
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Surgeons and Physicians,
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Having associated themselves together in
tho practice of medidno and surgery will
toe each others patients when necessary, free
of charge. (9-ly)
N. MURPHY,
DENTIST.
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JONEPH SHLINGER. N. M. WILLIAMS.
Attorney at Law.
EHLINGER A WILLIAMS,
Land and Loan Agent*,
LaUranir, Texas.
Money to loan st 8 and 10 per cent.
Titles to lend examined end perfected.
Agents to buy and ssll lands. Large farms
and pastures surveyed and divided
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Notionsi, Boots, Shoes, Hats.
Stapl e and Fancy Groceries. fsKi
(agent for White Sewing
THE SOUTHERN GIRL.
[“Poet! Ranchman," Anton, Tex,l
[Galveston News.]
Utr (hoe at oalm as tropic,
Soil in hor olive cheek,
liar eyes suggest pure pensive dreams,
Her allonce seems to speak.
For sometimes silence will exprost
Far more than prattling words,
And yet her voice it low and swoet
At song of mocking birds.
Her ticntive smile it like the kits
Or light on distant hills,
Her wooing laugh it pure and clear
At tinkling mountain rills.
She plays tho tuneful gay guitar
’Neatn mossy bannered trees,
She hums such songs as aophyrs sing
To golden twilight seas.
She’s gontle, lovely, rare and pure,
The poet’a living dream.
An angel, haunting memory,
A lily on life’s stream.
By Lariy Crittonden.
Federal Election Dill.
SPEECH OP
HON. LITTLETON W. MOORE,
OF TEXAS.
In The HousoOf Representatives,
Monday, June 30,1890.
Tho IIouso having under consideration tho
bill (H. R. 11046) to nmond and supplement
the election laws of the United States—
Mr. MOORE, of Texas said :
Mr. SPEAKER: We have wit-
nessed in this House within a few
brief months the most remarkable
revolution that has occurred since
our constitution was ordaiuedand
this Government of States adopt-
ed. It may be instructive to note
its processes and progress. This
session of Oougress found the Re-
publican party in a majority of
three. The first step in the revo-
lution was to so organize the
House and adopt such rules that
this slender and unreliable major-
ity might be increased, by turn-
ing out the representatives of the
people aud placing in their stead
its own creatures, by which you
now have a majority of twenty,
aud yet to be increased by the
same mode as farther exigencies
of your party may demand.
All parliamentary obstructions
to these revolutionary proceed-
ings were to be removed. A quo-
rum is to be counted by the Speak
er. The yea and-nay vote requir-
ed to be entered upon the House
journal to be kept by the House
under the Constitution is to be so
changed as that the Speaker adds
thereto such persons only as he
designates to make up a quorum.
One huudred members, to cons-
titute a quorum iu tbe Committee
of tbe Whole for the purpose of
appropriation, and such also as
make a charge upon the people. A
Committee ou Rules to be ap-
pointed by tbe Speaker, of which
he should be chairman, alone to
present such bills as tbe Speaker
should decide might be consider-
ed, with power iu this committee
to propose tbe previous question,
thus limiting debate and prevent-
ing any amendments.
These, Mr. Speaker, were the
processes to be used, and with
what moderation the proceedings
of this House too painfully will
show.
In this mode yon have increas-
ed the burdens of taxation impos
ed by your tariff from 43 per cent,
to 52 per oeut.
You have defeated the will of
tho people, who demanded such
remedial change in our financial
policy by which we might have a
larger volume of currency, and in-
stead of giving us free coinage of
silver you have utterly demone-
tized it.
Noue of these wrongs and oppres-
sions would have been attempted
until you wrested from the repre
sentatives of tbe people their usu-
al and rightful powers.
All things uow being ready,you
and your party have entered up-
on the final stage of this revolu-
tion, as exhibited in this Federal
election bill. Two days you allow
for general debate aud two days
to consider the same by seotious
and to offer amendments, when
the previous questiou is ordered!
This, Mr. Speaker, is the refine
inent of cruelty, for your mercy
oould have beeu better shown by
refusing all debate aud opportun-
ity to amend a most ooniplex bill
of seventy-three pages, when the
Honse must know such time is
wholly insufficient.
Your party is impatient of re-
straint; your work of destruction
is yet incomplete. The members
of this Honse whom your party
have counted in from tbe South
by turniug out Democrats are anx-
ious to give expression of their
I gratitude,and you may well count
upon them to a man to vote for
any lair that will humiliate or de-
grade the Sonth.
• I regret, Mr. Speaker, that in
n tjmo allotted me l can not an-
Llvzft b111 8nd ®*P0M A** nn‘
'ffigsrous, and unoonstltu-
uoi’al wVMobs bb I would wish.
perst'lon1?!’ N>”i m inaUon the' oo-
ber. deliberate expri'**'®"-
li the condition of
or any of them la auob, d®‘na“d*
ing such radical change >a in®
mode of choosing Beprcssn‘t»**v*
es as is provided In this bill, t.,,•,,
Indeed Is onr Republic in danger.
M orethanaquarfr of a osntury
i Cheatham’s Tasteless Chill Tonic la
ow on the market. Try It and be oou-
xl that It ie the only real ploesant
effective medicine known thet It
hrlU la every ease cure the ehilla and
ago Mr. Seward said onr country
oould nolremalu one half free aud
the other slave. Let his prophet-
io words ring ont in this Chamber
anew.
Th< laws of Congress cannot
aot one way in the Sonth aud yet
different iu the North. Suoh a
state Is repugnant to any aover-
eignty, aud is disunion or an-
arohy I You oan not plaoe tbe
South under surveillance, dishon-
or, and finally overthrow their
governments without a little mis-
rule and oppression to the North.
I thank god this Union Is compos-
ed of indestructible sovereign
States. Their political orgauiam
is so related in twinshipthat harm
to one is an injury to ail. Twin
sisters they are of equal dignity
aud authority, or else their Cons-
titution Is a rope of saud, or,what
is worse, united by sword and
bayonetl
I will state suocinetly the pro-
visions of this bill which, in my
judgment, mar and destroy the in-
tegrity of this Union.
The oircuit court of the United
States appoint in their several
circuits iu each Congressional dis-
trict a general supervisor, who iu
turn appoints an indefiutte num-
ber of supervisors upon petition
of citizens—an indefinite number
of supervisors at each election
precinct. The general supervisor
appoints as many deputy marshals
as he wishes, and oau have in ad-
dition thereto the forces of the
Army aud Navy.
The geuerul supervisors have
unlimited power as relates to elec-
tions for members of Congress.
They make their secret returns
to a board of canvassers appoint-
ed uuder this law, who are far re-
moved from tho people, and the
certificate of election of this board
outweighs the usual certificate of
eiectiou of tbe governor of tho
State, and the person holding the
certificate of this board takes his
seat iu Congress.
Tbe Constitution of the United
States provides that the House of
Representatives shall be chosen
by the people of the several
States.
It further provides:
Tho times, places, and manner of holding
elections for Senators and Representative)*
shall be prescribed in each State by the leg-
islature thereof; but the Congress may at any
time by law mako or alter such regulations,
except as to placos of choosing Senators.
It is uuder this clause of the
Constitution that the claim is
made of the power of Congress to
pass this bill, aud tbe oases of Ex
parte Biebold, 100 United States,
371, and Ex parte Yarborough,110
United States, 051, decided by our
United States Supreme Court,are
relied upon as establishing tbe
constitutional power of Congress
to enact the bill.
It would be sufficient reply to
make to the decision of this su-
preme co-ordinate branch of the
Ooverurnent, as mere authority,
to say that no such law was be-
fore the court,nor no such power
of Congress as in this bill which
the court in these two cases then
considered. They .neither pro-
nounced nor were called upon to
pronounce any such decision as
to the exercise by Congress of any
such power as in this bill, govern-
ing elections by the people of their
Representatives. The court was
considering the sole question of
penalties enacted in the statute of
1871 and the act amendatory there-
of for tbe violation of State legu
intious in the matter of eleotion
of a member of Congress. The
court sustained such power in
Congress prescribing these penal-
ties, and further decided that such
regulations by Congress was ab-
solute and exclusive iu whatever
modicum of such power exerted.
If this be the law, then I ask
where is the authority in Con-
gress to make auy regulations co-
ordinate aud concurrent with that
of the States wherein the people
choose their Representatives! To
make or alter regulations of these
in suoh elections by Oougress,un-
der these decisions, would re
quire of Congress to exercise its
power not iu any co-ordinate or
concurrent action with the State,
but exclusive. If congress does
not do this, then Oongres does
not by law either make or alter
the regulations prescribed by tbe
States.
This is the very vioe of this
bill. It undertakes to preserve all
the machinery of the several
States regulatiDg such elections.
In the language of the report up-
on this bill and the speech of its
author, Mr. Lodge, of Masaobu-
setts, this bill attempts to oo-op-
erate with the States in the mat-
ter of holding elections for mem
bers of Congress. Suoh power l
utterly deny. It is supported by
uo authority and violates the es-
sential priuoiples of good govern-
ment.
No sovereign can exercise his
rightful power oonourrently with
auy other magistracy. Confusion
aud conflict would be inevitable.
The author of this bill sees his
delimma and seeks to avoid so
absurd and dangerous a result by
providing that the certificate of
•lection by tbe returning board
created by this bill shall have pre-
cedence over that issued under
the State law.
Thie only adds to the difflonlty
and the more oleatly demonstrates
the nnoonetitutlonal character of
thie provision, and nnaveidably
To Jive or not to live la a question
Whloh annually confronts the residents
of our low grounds sad swampy dis-
trict* Take Cheatham's Tasteless
produces tbe unnatural aud ab-
normal result, namely, that the
people under the Oonstitntion, by
virtue of tbe laws of their respec-
tive States choose their Repre-
sentatives, do everything aud all
things incident to holding an elec-
tion, therefor, but othes persons,
uuknown to their law, taking no
part in the election, performing
no duty oouueoted therewith,make
the returns and declare the result.
Tbe people do the voting, the
ehoosing,and the returning board,
quite away from them, out of the
district, out of the State, where
ever the oirouit judge holds his
court, makes the return and oert
ifles to the result. Iu what sense,
1 ask, under suoh a bill, do the
people choose their Representa-
tives in the very language of tbe
ooustitution, when a board, not
one of their own creation,express-
es their wish! What power have
I to make my choice and what is
that power worth to me when the
agencies to express that ohoice
are denied me!
The great thing to be preserv-
ed by the Constitution is the right
of the people to choose their Rep-
resentatives. The incidents to
that aot—the most important to
any freeman—are tbe regulations
as they relate to times, places and
manner of doing it. Such regula-
tions Congress is empowered to
make or alter, bat, sir, whenever,
under the pretense of makiu£ or
altering snob regulations,the right
of the people to olioose their Rep-
resentatives is impaired or threat
ened; then you invite fraud,force,
and violenoe, iu a muoh more
grave form than now threateus
the electing by tbe people.
But, Mr. (Speaker, there is yet a
much more serious objection to
this system of legislation. Tbe
language of the Constitution is:
But tho Congi-oss may at any time by law
make or altor such regulations.
Whatever Congress may right-
fully do must be doue by law.
The form of tbe expression aud
tbe term law, here used, imply
that such action as Congress does
exercise must be general,uniform,
liuul.aud binding as the very force
of law upon all the people. It
cannot apply to States, sections
or communities. It must have the
binding force of law upon tbe peo-
ple. Congress has no power to del-
egate its authority to auy portiou
of the people or permit them in
spots to have this law or not as
they please. There should be no
local option as to its enforcement
or ite adoption. All must be uu-
der or none can be.
In what sense is that a law of
Cougress by which oue district in
a State acts under the authority
of the Legislature of the State
while another acts uuder the pro-
visions of this bill! Iu one ins-
tance the State alone issues the
certificate of eleotion and in tbe
other the State in effect is denied
thispowerin another district with-
in the same State.
Let me ask, Mr. Speaker, what
is the real purpose of this bill!
Why do Representatives upon
this floor from the entire North,
East, and West declare they do
not want this bill applied to their
State or district! But one gentle
man from that section has had the
temerity to announce he wished
it for his district, and of him I am
sure his people will say they oau
do both without him aud this bill.
Yet with but a single exception
upon tbe Republican side these
same gentlemen wish it applied to
the South. Why to tbe South!
This bill la trained with tho view that
tho people of the North would not sub-
mit to it nor iu my judgment would
they. But tho Republican party and its
members iu this Chambor bavo pre-
ferred ao many false and slanderous
charges against the States in tho South
that thoy believe tho people of the
North are ready to see placed over
thorn mercenary hirelings ns supervis-
ors and deputy marshals to control
thoir elections.
If this law is passed, nud I have uo
doubt you will be able to do so by voles
of those members from tbo South whom
you oloclod to Congress, then those
States will bear to tho Federal Govern-
ment a much more hapless condition
nud rotation Ilian Ireland does to Eng-
land. Ireland is struggling to retaiu
hor right to local scif-govoriimoiit,
while we of tho South eau only lament
and resoti t tho loss of ours.
You think tt means your supremacy
in tho South and tho perpetuation of
your rtilo in this Uovornmont. Iu both
vou will bo mistaken. Tbo South will
bocoino more solid, and romaln so as
long as sho is threatenod with that ra-
pine aud robbery ami public plunder
which In ovory Stato and county In tho
Booth Republicanism exhibited during
your administering of those Stato gov-
ern moots:
Wo mako uo appoal to you, you are
drunk with your successes aud cxccse-
Your ambition has overleaped It-
HOUSS-TOP GASDINS.
A plan to make onr house-tops use-
ful It sketohed by Dr. Gouverneour M.
Smith, in a paper on “Wasted Sun-
beams—Unused 11 ouse-tops.” The Ori-
ental bos no difficulty In the matter,
lie lives on the top of his house s con-
siderable part of the year, and builds
his roof with au especial eye to that sort
of occupation. Why may not we? By
piiohing our touts npou them, or by
lakiug them as they aro, except that
the roof coverings would have to be
made more solid, we might make our
roofs comfortable eojourulng places
aud inexpensive summer health re-
sorts.
“Roofing,’’ says the author, “oan be
contrived suited to this olimate, and
enduring at pavement. A pleasure re-
sort might ornament each retideuoe,
its limits bounded by tbe area of tho
dwelling: neighborly consent oould
wldeu the range, turf and flowers
brightening tiie plan. Iron-framed
auu glass-inclosed rooms or oupolas
oould be added, which would prove
useful during ail seasons, artificial heat
tempering brumal inclemency. If such
adaptation oi house-tops would be en
advantage to the nffiuout, who can es-
cape city life during tho summer, how
much greator advantage would do so-
cured to the teuement house distrlotsl
• * * For the higher graded teneineui
houses such fresh air facilities would
be bailed with delight by tho iumates.
Tho proximity of open breathing plac-
es to their rooms would endear them
to their humble homes. Summer moon-
light evenings oould have a new as-
pect; aud again, round a family lau-
lorn, groups mightgathor to read, sew,
ur engage iu games, and thus a home-
felt pleasure could quiet restless spir-
its, craviug questionable or illicit
amusements. More true enjoymont
might be observod lu such groups
than ou tho piazzas of fasbiouable re-
sorts. Landlords could arrange for tho
periodical sweeping of roofs, as woll
as the halls and stair-ways, and, among
a very largo class of respectable poor,
pride would stimulate to a tidy and
deebrativo care of thoir home parks ”
By a little alteration iu structure tho
upper stories of houses, now stuffy
places enough, could ho inado light aud
airy, and attractive as rosorts or play
rooms lii lnclemeut woathor.—Popular
Sciouce Monthly.
Truth is Stranger than Fiotion.
Seventeen years ago I lived with ray
father and mother on tbo banks of the
Strungcr river, in Atchison county,
Kansas. 1 was only 7 years of ago, and
one day my youthful fancy was caught
by tbe pretty colors of a blacksnako. I
pulled a small ring off my Huger and a
striuu out of my pocket. Placing, the
ring over the head of the snake, I
started home in triumph, dragging the
snake at my heels, aud feeling as much
a conqueror as tho Romau emperor
who draggod tbo captives behind his
chariots. In climbing ovor a fence my
captive mado its escape, ltlug, string,
everything disappeared.
1 shod a few tears at the time, but
had forgotten the inattor until lately.
I returned to the vlcluity of my old
home in Atchison county for tbo »ur-
poso of buying some sheep. While
crossing a small creok that flows Into
the Straugor river my attention was
called by tbe barkiug of my dog to a
strange somothiug iu a tree. 1 investi-
gated and found there an immense
blacksuake, fully ten feet long. Bo-
twcou tho dog and myself we succeed-
ed iu killing the snake, though I was
obligod to iiso iu tho warfare both a
club and a rovolvor. Tho dog finished
tho snako by giving it a shaking and
toaring it in pieces.
You will hardly believe me, I know,
but you cau bavo my bead if it wasn’t
tbo same identical suako that got away
from mo sevoutoen years ago. Ilow
do I know? Simple enough, That
little blacksnako had growu to be a
monstrous big one; tne little silver
ring arouud its nock had grown until
it was as lHrge as a lady’s bracelet, and
tbo piece of twino had grown until it
had bocomo a good sized rope. Hut
the strangost part of all was that the
dog had shakou out soventeou liulo
blacksuakos, and that oach one was
tho oxact counterpart of the snako
that made its osoapo from me in tho
long ago, while around tbe neoks of
each of the sovontoen young onus were
sllvor rings, and attached to these
rings were short pieces of twine. Aud
upon each one of thesosilror rings you
could plainly distinguish tho initials
of my uamo, Just as thoy had boon
stamped in the silver ring that I wore
when 7 years old.—Kansas City Times.
ho pouy Is the horse of hardships,
i a horseman in an exohaugo, auu
"lat has sprung from some poor
ry whoro he has evor boon purely
illd of nogloct, be and all tbe pro-
lors of his raco. In a rich coun-
self. Wo do appeal to our oouutrvmnn' ui°r« t° d° with fixing
ovory where who lovo peace, lust ice, e- disposition and usefulness ofaTi
quality, and liberty, who plaoo oouu-
try abovo party, and with whom tho
nassioua and animosities of the war
between tho Statos have given place
to a mure perfect Union.
Tho
Hays
ouo
countr
tho chll
doccssors of
try, like tho borio regions of Keutuoky,
for lustauco, his pony characteristics
invariably run out in tbe course of a
few generations, lie is not a distinct
strain, as many would seem to sup-
poHo. lie doubtless spraug originally
from as good a strain of horsea as tbo
world knew of at that time, aud his
present reduced size and characteristic
has resulted, unquestionably, from
local circumstances.
Tbo head hat very muoh.to do with
tho beuuty of tho horso, and oorroctly
read it no doubt ludlcatos his disposi-
tion; but as wo cannot too the quality
or convolutions of proportlou of the
brain, wo are quite as ofteu deceivod
as with tbo humau boad. All have
soou too, that good or bad education
the
owe
than It bas with that of a man. Iu the
horse for fast work, although there
must be largo, olaetio nostrils, most
horsemeu like a small musale, with the
Saved a Life.
I head expanding to a large forehoad
betwoen the eyes, narrowing again as
It annrnaphAa tl»n amps Hu *
Solomon Isaacson—Haf you
heard the newe Shaoob, dot I haf
safed dose life* of Rheuben Cohen
dbis morning alretty!
“Neiu, me frendi, bow vae dot!’’
“He fell off de dock and
couldn’t schwim.”
“Und yon eehumped In and
hellnped him ondf’
“Acb, da lieber! I scream*:
“Gome ond and I peye yoa dot
ten dollar 1 owe yoa,’ nud be
elimbedot water oat like a dooo
—1Time.
It approaches the ears. But la every
description of horse desire the brain
case—that Is the spaoe between the
eyee and ear*—to be decidedly round-
ing and not flat. This ludloates a mure
docile aud toacbable disposition.
An Anthorlt7 On It.
“I hear Ward MoAIIUter to writing
a book.”
“Yoa.”
“la he capable of doing It well 1"
“Oh
ACCOUNT SALES,
GEN. Bt
At tbo re oeut meeting of tbe 1
club, of Boston, Gen. B. “ '
made an address ou the
the American farmer*, from the re-
port of which lu The Boston Globe
the following is excerpted:
How doe* the termer lose hie lauds?
Let us now turn to the second propo-
sition whloh illustrates the facts that
we have set forth in the first as to the
rewards of farm labor which I present,
as well as au Illustration of the condi-
tion of farming interests as a warning
to those who are seeking even the pit-
tances of tbe laboring men and women
deposited for their future In the sav-
ings banks in other states lu England,
excepting Massachusetts. Taking sim-
ply the agricultural lands, the terms
of tbe western states, exclusive of otty,
1
tbe western states, exoluslve of olt
county aud towu property, there yrjj
be found to be invested lu (arm morl
gagos the stupendous sum of #8,460,-
ooo,uoo, at a rate of interest averaging
from 7 to 8 per oeut., to say nothing of
costs and tbe commissions of agents
which have been taken from the term-
for proourlug the loans of the mo-
ney, whloh may be safely said to be
not less, on the average, than 7 per
cent. The humau mind at oqoe does
uot lake in the results of these vast
sums.
To give you au Illustration—the
whole national debt of tills oouutry iu
1866, at tbo close of the war, was #?,-
300,000,000, very nearly ono-quarter
loss thau this mortgage debt. Bat
there is another faot or two to be tak-
eu luto consideration. This country
has boou twenty-flvo years, with all
its Immense resources, engaged in
paying—some time anticipating Its
payment—tho national debt, ana has
reduced it ouly to $1,600,000,000. or 76
or eont. Aud the natloual debt has
ad a muoh lower rate of Interest, and
may bo rofundod any day at8 per oeut.
Thero Is no way or rerundlug or re-
ducing this fabulous mortgage debt,
with its oppressive and destructive
rates of iiiterost. To redeem it, if doue
within the same time that the national
debt has been canceled so ter as it has
beeu canceled, would require the pay-
ment of considerably more thau dou-
ble tho aincuut of tho national dobt at
the ond of our war. So that the pay-
ment of theso morgages is simply Im-
possible.
Tho paymont of the interost upon
them is also Impossible, because, as we
bavo seen, they oall for from 7 to 8 per
oeut., and all statistics show that the
average profits on farming industries
are between 4 and 6 per cent, only—
hardly over 4. These mortgages nev-
er will be paid, If for no other reasou,
because they never can be paid If thb
dobtors woro ever so muoh disposed
WJE them. Bat they will not be dis-
posed to pay them, for by reason of
the deductions of the commissions and
costs at the rate of 7 per cent., they*
was left a burden upon the mortgagors
of over $241,000,000 of debt, for whlclji
they nover bavo received auy value,
which therefore diminishes so much
their ability to pay, aud which they
look upon as having been a cheat upop
thorn.
Wo have the silver bill now on the
tapis in omigross, which is to be tbe
panacea of all financial difficulties, cer-
tainty in tho viows of some west*e?ty
moii. but it would take all the silver
that tho mints of tho United States
cau coin, at the rate of four and a half
millions a month, aud all the silver
that the silver nitues oan produoe ip
that time, to pay ouo year’s interest
on these mortgages, supposing that uo
more motley is borruwod.
A senator, to put hlmsolf in accord
with the Farmers’Alliauoe introduced
a bill providing that the government
of the United States should loan the
farmers $8,000,000 to relieve them from
their financial difficulties. When I saw
tho roport of that bill, as telegraphed
by tho Associated Prose, I made a lit-
tle calculation of results, as I not in-
frequently do, and I found that If It
passod at once, aud the western term-
ors should get the full amount of fhe
money, without auy toll or discount,
they would bo able to pay thoir debt*
to tbo extent of about two-thirds
of a mill on the dollar, on these term
mortgage debts ouly. Or, iu other
i. so a* to get rid of remember-
ing calculations, It would pay the Int-
orost on those term mortgages for five
days.
Several Kinda of Kotharti
Tlio mother represented the family
sovereignty; tbe tether was seldom
soon, and he counted for little or noth-
ing among the outside boys. It was
the mother wbo oould say whether a
boy might go fishing or in swimming,
and she was held a good mother or not
according as sho habitually said yo*
or no. Thero was uo other standard
of goodness for mothers In tbe boy’s
world, and could be none; and a bad
w*nuj castxs wuiu i/o isvuL| nut
inothor might be outwitted by
bovs ci-
io her boy. Suoh a boy was always
ight be outwitted by any de-
vice that tho other boys oould suggest
always
willing to listen to any suggestion, sud
no boy took it hard if the other fel-
lows inado fun when their plan got
him luto trouble at home. If a boy
came out after some suoh experience
with Ids face wet, aud hi* eyes red, aud
his lips swollen, of course you had to
laugh; he expectod It, aud you expeot-
od Film to stone you ror laughing.
When a boy’s mother had company,
ho went and hid till the guests were
gone, or only came out of conoealmeot
to get soino sort of shy lnuob. If the
other follows’ mothers were the/*, hit
might be a little bolder, aud bring out
cako from the second table. But bo
bad to bo pretty careful how he con-
formed to any of the usages of grt)#h
up society. A fellow wbo brushod hie
hair, aud put on shoes, and oamo into
tlio parlor whou thero was company,
was not woll soon among the fellows;
ho wss regarded In some degree a* a
girl boy; a boy who wished to stand
well with othor boys kept In the wood
shed, and ouly went lu a* ter a* the
kitchen to got tilings for his guest* lu
tbe back yard. Yet there were moth-
er* who would make a boy pnt on
a collar when they hailaooiui>aiiy, i
disgrace him before the world by m
lug him stand round
acted a* though they I
no pity; but suoh mot
Peopto. U°We,U Y°UU‘
Whan afflicted
iiorar
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