Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Wool-Growers Are All Right. [ARTICLE]

Wool-Growers Are All Right.

So it seems the wool-growers were deceived all the while when told that free wool would be the death of theni. Now that free wool is seen to be inevitable, the alarmists of other days are telling the farmer that he is all right, tariff or no tariff. The Chicago American Sheep Breeder asserts that “the most intelligent thinkers do not apprehend any such dire results as tbe calamity-criers would have us believe,”’ and says the “muttonraisers have nothing to fear,” as “the consumption of mutton is on the increase,” and “the mutton business is paying better than any other branch of live-stock raising,” so much so that sheep, “without a pound of wool,” are leaving “a golden track,” and are “mortgage-payers. ” Even more striking are the added comments of the Boston Journal of Commerce:

“Sheep husbandry and wool production! will be an important occupation in this country for generations to come, either by itself or in connection with general agriculture, whatever the tariff policy of the United States may be. The style of sheep husbandry anay change somewhat, from the merino to the English type, in case of free wool, but It is bound to play an important part in the vocation of tbe farmer. The merino sheep is but a pioneer sheep at the best, and is always succeeded by the mutton sheep with the advance of the higher forms of agriculture which accompany the progress of population. In a thickly settled locality no farmer can afford to raise merino sheep in preference to mutton sheep. These conditions affecting sheep husbandry are not disturbed by the tariff policies of the government” —New York Evening Post.

Isn’t it most singtiilar that not on* person in five h.undred ever consult* a physician except when overtaken by Illness. If every n*an and every woman, even in perfect health, would every sixty days consult a skillful physician, submitting to such examination as may be deemed necessary, the results would be most salutary in preventing the slew and almost imperceptible inroads of disease. Preventive work should be by Car the most valuable service of the true physician to any mortal. Yet all avoid consulting him except for curative treatment. Give your physieiaa * chance to keep you in good health, and not stupidly wait till you are ill, and probably hopelessly so, before you ask his professional services.

The Associated Press said recently that Yonkers would have a new carpet factory. Yonkers now has the largest carpet factory in this country; but, of course, with free wool in prospect new factories must go up to supply the great demand for carpets that will follow general prosperity and cheap carpets—but these Items are hard blows for the McKinley “demnitton bow-wow” prophets. The great and modest Sir Isaac Newton, with his vast attainments, once likened himself to a child who had only gathered a handful of pebbles on the seashore. His knowledge was very little, in his own view of It, yet his varied attainments seem almost to transcend the known capacity of man.

There are people in the United States who don’t realize that an election has occurred. Trust-makers may continue to ply their trade until next March, when the new administration will curb their powers. Good passenger locomotives which develop 1,200 horse-poyer cost about •10,000 apioce.