Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — THE FARMERS' CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

THE FARMERS' CONGRESS

Bome one suggests that if elergynen divide their sermons into two equal purls, and have a hymn or an anthem sung between the parts, it would be a good thing. Doubtless it would be considered a good thing by those Who don't like long sermons; for they could quietly steal out during the singing of the hymn. Some of the morning papers published in Mexico go to press at noon of the day preceding, and all before 8 o’clock p. m. Either they bare so large a circulation that as much time as this is necessary to run off the edition or else the number of subscribers is so email that it really does not make any difference when they go to press. The time made on roads in Belgium, Germany, and Holland is not sos !St iu England and Scotland, for the reason that the roads owned and controlled by the governments, and therefore there is no competition or advertising fast trains on this read or that. These roads have crossings at. tirade, and they have drop gates an 1 watchman at every road crossing their lines.

The Russian nobles arc rushing to bankruptcy in great numbers. Ttie credit bank for lending money to them on mortgage of their lauds, established by the government two or thre-3 years ago, has now tip less than 2,1)00 estates which will have to be sold by public auction for non-payment of interest on loans. The question is, who will buy this enormous amoun t of property ? On t s. of the most conspicuous ns well as one of the most pleasing evidences of the most wonderful development ol transportation facilities during the past twenty-live years is that exhibited on the fruit stands. The luscious product? of orchards, vineyards and pi illations in all parts of the world are now brought to every stq,te of the Union and sold at remarkably low prices. ~ Was there ever such a hiatory as that of. the cotton seed? For seventy years despised as a nuisance, and dumped as garbage, then discovered to be the very food, for which the soil was hungering, and reluctantly admitted to the rank of utilities, shortly afterward found-to be nutritious food for beast as well as for soil, and thereupon treated with something like respect

The royal family of England is not walking well at present. The Queen’s knee-joint is still swollen and she cannot walk without a stick. The Prinoe of Wales still suffers from a varicose vein and limps perceptibly. An affection of the instep causes the Princess at Wales to limp a trifle. Prinoe Albert Victor, who may rule ovei England some day, recently met with an aocident while stalking deer ii Scotland.

They Fmi Resolutions on Various Subjects »t their Montgomery Meeting. The congress adopted resolutions against the repeal of the tax on tobacco; against 1 the repeal of internal revenue taxes; against government aid to steamship lines to Central and South America; favor of a ship can al across Illinois. The tariff resolutions adopted read as follows: Resolved, That, while Congress maintains the policy of a protective tariff, we demand that all farm products shall be as fully protected as the most favored of the manufacturing industries. Resolved, That while, as now, a protective tariff is maintained which substantially protects importations of foreign carpets and many other articles of manufactured goods, we demand that the duties on mutton, sheep and wool of al 1 kinds shall be so increased as to equally prohibit the importation of mutton, sheep and wool of every kind which can, under protection, be sufficiently produced at fairly remunerative prices in the United States to supply all American wants, including the better class of carpet wools, especially as carpets, as luxuries, are entitled to less favor than farm and ranch products. Resolved, That the tariff on wool imported to make carpets should atfleast be as high as that imported to make coate. Resolved, That, if protection to this ex tent be denied, we will call upon the farmers of the United States to assert their power at the ballot box and otherwise to right the wrong and injustice of discrimination against them. If they fail in this, the wool and mutton producing industries will be so seriously crippled that they will be, in a large measure,destroyed, and the farmer will no longer hare any interest in protection for the manufacturers of woolen goods, but will insist that they shall have no larger measure of protection than is accorded to the wool industry, including any kind of wool. Resolved, That the farmers of the* Unitad States are not called upon to support the nomination of any man for President, Senator or Representative in Congress who Will not to his utmost ability aid in carrying out the objects of the foregoing resolutions. —— - Resolved, That we favor commercial treaties whi6h will discriminate in favor of the nations which accept silver as legal tender money, ae well as gold, and aga inst those whl(sh have demonetised silver. * ■ ' The Indiana Manufacturing Co., at ,Per«, atone time the Howe Machine Co., employe 000 hands and Is in a highly pros ,perous oondition.