Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1895 — What Kind Of Horses Shall We Raise on the Farm. [ARTICLE]

What Kind Of Horses Shall We Raise on the Farm.

The president and secretary of the Pilot company published a card last week stating, plainly enough, that although the Pilot was henceforth under leased management, the threat of a boycott of merchants and business men who did not patronize it, was still in full force and effect In this connection we copy herewith what the same issue of the Pilot says, editorially, about business men: The “Business men” of the country are principally autocratic machines, repeating after the bankers words that mean their own enslavement as well as that of the wageworkers. The business men will find out t where they are at when the bankers get through using them as tools and begin to squeeze the blood out of them.

In a letter to the Indianaplis News, Senator McDonald, of Noble county, says: “I think that the election laws should be so amended as to make it easier for the voter to scratch a ticket. I will intro* dace a bill to change the large square around the device to a circle, to substitute a pencil for the stamp and to provide a new system of marking the ballot I think that the voter should be al* lowed to make an “X” within the circle containing the emblem for a straight ticket and then a cross (x) upon the square in front of each candidate upon the other ticket for whom he wishes to vote. The law as it now is, was intended to make independent voting as intricate as possible, and I believe that it should be made as simple as possible. The use of the indelible pencil will cheapen the method of marking, will make it easier to understand and will make the mutilation of ballots much less liable.” These suggestions of Senator McDonald as to (changes in the election law meet the views we have long held. We hope these changes will be made, and while they are about it, why not abolish theusless pictures at the head of the tickets and use only the plain circle? Also dispense with the still more useless as well as entirely ridiculous and undignified cattle chute. It is of no use on earth, and an inconvenience always. Below we copy, verbatim, a number of editorial paragraphs from last week’s Pilof, being fair samples of several columns like them. What do the honest, patriotic people of Jasper county think of a political organization which teaches such principles as these? They teach anarchy, repudiation, blasphemy, treason, and revolution. Bead them, study them, and say if we have not characterized them justly and truly. Here they are. Face the devil! Hurrah for Debs! There is certainly a hell. Grover is preparing the way. The Baltimore plan proves that there ought io be a helL What would Jesus think of the Baltimore plan of salvation? Debs behind the bars is a better (man than Grover Cleveland guarded by soldiers m his palace. ■■■■* That’s right, increase the army and navy, and when you get ready to fight we’ll oome and get it for me on onr .ide. ■J 'Debs in jail will teach Popuyjsm as eloquently as though he addrebsed sixty million people

face to face. All the democratic cuckoos have done to the old republican cuckoo’s nest is is to make it a little dirtier. If the children of the next generation refuse to pay the debts of present, who could blame them? Why, you chump, don’t you know that they have already issred bonds for the people. There isn’t a man in the country so poor but gets some of the bonds—to payThe Rensselaer Odd Fellows have practically decided to erect a fine brick business block, this year, on their lot opposite the pub, lie square, just east of the Stock-ton-Williams building, and upon a part of which now stands the, wooden building occupied by Mrs. Lecklider’s millinery store. The building will be large; 50 feet wide, and at least 100 feet long, and three stories high. The first story will be for business rooms, of course. The second for office and ware rooms, the third for the lodge rooms. And just here, we would like to take occasion to remark, that we hope the trustees and brethren of this most excellent lodge, will arise to the full magni-

tude of the occasion in erecting this building. They are building not for this year, nor for this decade, but for fifty years. They are building not for the lodge alone but for the community. What they should build then, is not only a large, solid, .well made, well lasting structure; but they should also build a well looking one. A few hundreds or even a thousand dollars will be well spent, simply for

architectural effect Let us have at least one building on our principal business street that we can show with pride to the strangers that come to our town. Let the building be worthy ot the town and of the noble order that erects it Be worthy of them now and, what is more, be worthy of them 25 years from now. It will always occupy a very conspicuous location. Let it be worthy of it, even after the court house square just opposite is adorned with a large and handsome twentieth century court house. The brethren can afford such a building, even if they have to go in debt for it. They cannot afford a common ill-looking structure, if it were given to them for nothing. And architectural attractiveness in such a building will pay well in the long run, even from a .money point of view. Such a building will always draw better renters and higher rent. Think, also, of what a favorable impression it will give every beholder of the strength, high standing and respectability of the lodge which built it! Such a building will, infallibly, have a constant tendency to draw new and desirable membership to the lodge, and in that way, alone, will amply repay all the extra money that is judiciously expended on architectural appearance.

Some mention was made last week, of the fact of numerous persons from Rensselaer having been treated by the so-called faith cure of • 4 Rev." John A. Dowie, of Chicago. NoW we want to say, what wo have in effect said before, that we do not believe Mr. Dowie is, as he claims, "an instrument in the hands of the Almighty healing all manner of diseases.” We do not believe there fare any such "instruments” now on earth, in point of fact. We do fully believe that many wonderful cures, of certain classes of diseases, are effected by means of some mysterious, psychic force or agency, the real nature of which science, as yet, can not fathom. These cures are effected by people of various kinds of religions, or of no religion at all—the clairvoyants and spiritist mediums seeming to have the biggest bulk of the business. The class of diseases thus cured, so far as our observations have extended, seems to be those of a mental or

nervous nature mainly. In any case, if these faith or mind cure people really have the power of the Almighty behind them, they can just as easily replace an amputated limb, make a new mouthful of teeth, or a new outfit of lungs to the wasted consumptive, as to relieve a sufferer from paralysis or St Vitus’ dance. There is no well-authenticated instance of their ever having performed any of these miracles we have named, we can assert with positivness. On the other hand, we do hear, every few days almost, of people, children especially, dying for want of proper medical treatment, on account of a reliance upon the reality of the faith cure. And herein lies the principal mischief of this matter; and herein also lies the duty of the better informed or more calmly balanced minds, to warn the more credulous or the more excitable ones from being carried away by it In this connection, it may be of value to some one, to state here that this man Dowie is now involved in legal proceedings in Chicago, which, when they come to trial, may throw a light upon his character aud methods, quite

unexpected by those who place trust in his professions. These proceedings have already developed the fact, by Dowie’s own pleadings, that he charged a Mrs. Stafford and her sister $4,000 for the instantaneous cure, by divine power of ulceration of the bowels in the first case and of dropsy in the second. He also figured out a board bill of $4040 against the two women, which looks as though they had to wait a good while for his instaneous cure to take effect, and that cures by divine power, vicariously applied, come very high. The Chicago papers of last Thursday stated, further, that at the in** stance of Dowie’s neighbors, that effective proceedings for his suppression would soon be instituted by the legal authorities.

Certainly not stand ard or thoroughbred horses. The former as now bred is either very uncouth in appearance or very small, the latter too slender linked and light bodied for anything but the race track. Such animals as these must compete with these cheap western horses that can be raised at a profit and sell for sls, at three years old. Farmers, how many of you in the last five years have been raising this kind of horses? In almost every instance I will venture the assertion your colts will not today sell for enough to pay stallion service. This will not do. You must have these four things in view to intelligently breed horses at a profit, viz: size, style, action and color. If you have a horse that contains these four qualities you can sell at a good price. If you have not such a horse why have you not? One of two reasons probably, worthless scrub mares or “Trotting hoss craze” has attracted you as it has hundreds of others to their financial loss every time.

We find by careful investigation that these light horses in three years have shrunk 75 per cent, in selling value while the Percheron and the Coachers only 26 per cent. These horses combine style, size and action in an eminent degree. But bear in mind that you cannot raise a colt worth over $25, from that old slabsided knock-kneed mare of yours, no difference what the breeding of the sire. Yours Fraternally, Fabmbb.