THE WEALTH MAKERS.
July 4, 189$
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And who that hath a heart would dare prolong
Or add a aorrow to a atrlcken lonl
That aeeki a healing balm to make It whole?
My boeora own the brotherhood of man,"
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Inequity is the iniquity on which all
oppressive power is builded. ,
"Judge" illustrates the silver question
with a wife's remark, Got any change,
John?
When the voting machine becomes per
fected the party machine will be inter
fered with.
Public ownership of monopolies, or
monopoly ownership of the public, the
people. Take your choice.
0 politics, politics! To what hypocri
tical and corrupt depths has the divine,
unselfish public service fallenl
Give us the Initiative and Referendum,
good people, and deliver us from the
power of professional politicians.
The great Englisn jurist, Coke said:
"The bread of the poor is the life of the
poor, and he who dofraudeth them is a
man of blood."
Thk young Republicans of this country
seem to be entirely without principle. A t
Cleveland they dared not declare them
selves. The new attorney-goneral, like his
predecessor, Olney, is a railroad attorney.
The railroads will be takeu care of by
him, as Olney took care of their interests
a year ago.
When we went east on the Rock Island
the 18th, Iowa corn was ahead of Neb
raska. When we came back the 28th,
Nebraska cornfields had jumped ahead
of the Iowa crop.
The Chicago Times-Herald is certainly
making a grand onslaught on the legis
lative and municipal boodlers. It is a
pleasure to see such good work from
whatever source it may come.
Send to the Commonwealth Pub. Co.,
28 Lafayette Place, New York, City,
'or a copy of "Merrie England," only ten
cents. Seven hundred thousand copies
Lave been sold in seven months.
If we must choose between "goldbugs"
"silver-bugs," straddle-bugs," and green
backers who advocate government banks
to regulate the volume and value of the
currency, give us the latter every time.
They' are the only sound currency men.
What does it mean when a convention
places a 16 to 1 man on a gold platform?
Does he belong to himself, or the conven
tion which nominated him? If he allowed
himself to be nominated by the majority
whose platform he does not believe in,
where does his honesty, personality and
manhood come in?
The New York Reform Club the old
free-trade organization is doing nothing
on the tariff question, but is carrying on
the most vigorous agitation for "sound
money." Up to a few weeks ago it had
published twelve pamphlets in support ol
the gold standard and a bank note cur
rency, aud had sent out 832,000 copies
of them. It also publishes broadside
supplements which are being used bj
200 local papers. It is also sending out
plate matter to 155 other papers. The
bankers doubtless supply the funds for
thisuEsrtrs'TTOMiranda. ;
THE F0REMO3T COLLEGE
It is a fact known to men who are well
informed regarding the work administra
tion and directing (financial) force of the
colleges and universities of America that
plutocracy has secured control of tbem,
aud that the sociological and political
truth that the young men of America
roost need to know, the troth on which
our existence as a nation depends, is be
ing in almost every institution of learn
ing suppressed. The recent action of
Rockefeller's Chicago University faculty
in dropping such a man as Prof. Bemis,
because of bis strong teaching against
the private ownership of municipal
monopolies, is an indication of a disposi
tion and a power that perhaps not more
than two strong economic teachers are
now able to stand against. Prof. Ely of
Wisconsin University, and Prof. Com
mons of Indiana University are the men
we refer to. It would call too much at
tention to the power every where en
throned to retire these men. Both Com
mons and Bemis were Prof. Ely's pupils,
by the way.
The endowed institutions of any con
siderable importance are not and cannot
be free. The new application of bid prin
ciples is not agreeable to the men who
make aud hold the money on which these
colleges aud universities must depend.
And state institutions are not less en
slaved, because they are run by regents
elected by the corporation-owned, mono
poly subsidized parties. This is, when
considered in all its bearings, a very seri
ous situation, and the people, especially
thoBe of our political movement, who
are arrayed against monopoly rule and
determined to spread the truth, should
deliberate upon it and see what can be
done.
There is one college in the country that
is yet free, and it has a professor in it of
commanding geni s, the man by all odds
most feared and hated by our rich rulers.
We refer to Iowa College and to Prof.
George D. Herron. Iowa College has also
a perfectly fearless, uupurchasable, un-
suppressible president in George A.Gates,
a man of such ability and reputation
that two of the great universities have
tried to get him, one to be its president
at $10,000 a year salary. The other in
stitution that was after him is one of the
older and richer of the great New Eng
land colleges. It seems that he preferred
to stay in Iowa on a third of the salary
where he could be free to throw his full
influence for righteousness. He is a man
who sees the great national danger, that
concentrated wealth will continue to
crush out American liberty and character,
and make us a nation of plutocrats and
paupers, or landless dependents. He is
inspired by a clear vision of human need
and oppression, and he sees that salva
tion can come to this nation only by in
troducing righteousness into politics and
business.
Iowa College should be supported by
the people whose faithful friend it is, and
especially because there seems to be a
concerted effort to prejudice the entire
nation against it, because of Prof. Her
ron's Christian denunciation of mono
poly greed and organized, aggressive,
socially corrupting selfishness. The New
York Nation and Washington and Chi
cago papers have lately virtually called
upon Iowa peaple to dismiss Prof. Her
ron from his chair in Iowa College, and
the plutocratic press is doing its best to
poison the people's minds ugainst him,
and the college, by representing that he
is a dangerous anarchistic agitator. He
is a most Christ-like, faithful man who
loves the people and has greater power
to Bervethein than any man in the nation
today. Therefore, we say, stand by Iowa
College. If you have sons and daughters
to educatesend them to the oneunfetter
ed institution in the land, to sit at the
feet of a man whose unequalled greatness
of soul and intellect the world of evil,
always alive, is the first to keenly realize
The opportunity to sit under the instruc
tion of Prof. Herron is worth more than
all other educational opportunities offer
ed iu the wide world's institutions of
learning. He will carry the mind farther
and fill the soul with nobler stronger
aspirations than any teacher that can
be elsewhere found.
"THE NOBLEST WOBK OF GOD"
In the lower forms of creation there is
found everywhere plan, relation, use, an
unbroken connection and an ascending
order of things which lead to and sub
serve man. The earth with all its natu
ral treasures and tireless energies, the
moon with its calm splendor and grasp
of power by which it lifts the ocean tides,
the sun which lights and warms and
vivifies the globe and balances the clouds
of beauty and of blessing, which also
with its vast power projects aud holds
the ponderous sphere in an elastic orbit,
now near, now far, and gives us with
ecliptic change the ever-varying proces
sion of the seasons, the stars from the
far spaces with inter-locking forces hold
ing all that none may wander and no
heavenly influence be lost, these all are
one, and made to carry forward the un
finished work of God in man. A per.
fected humanity is in God's mind, a hu
manity whose individual parts have one
spirit and nnite in one work, to discover
and utilize Jto the utmost the good gifts
and inflniti forces of uature.that we may
know Godin the abounding fullness of
His love iwid wisdom, and that we may
delight ieach finished fragment of the
divine Creation iu one another, in each
r
and all.
The idea that we are whole, indepen
dent individuals who may selfishly con
good, is a delusion. There is no gocd
apart. The spirit which says "mine"
destroys the value of what is possessed
Communication is the law of life. Un
obstructed intercommunication will give
fullest, richest, unlimited life to all, and
make all life divine. The great mistake
which the individual parts of humanity
are making is the failure to recognize
that they are parts, and that the spirit
of the whole must rule. The spirit of the
whole cares for the interest of each and
every part. It reveals the social interest
in which the individual interest is found
merged and infinitely multiplied. But
almost everything is yet to be learned
and received regarding the social interest.
The earlier civilizations were built by or
rested on slave labor. And our present
civilization is so far made and sustained
by force, by hired service, by individual
self-seeking. It is a civilization of wealth
whose power binds men together. It is
not a Christian civilization.
We have got to learn as individuals,
communities and nations tbatwe cannot
keep what we have and gain more. To
gain we must give. To gain all we must
give all. Buying and Belling do not unite
men's hearts, the contrary rather, be
cause the individuals bargaining do not
each regard at all, or equally, the other's
interest. Buying and selling takes away
the very foundation of union and peace
by assuming that wealth is an individual
product, and that the earth and its con
tents was sold by the Creator in sever
alty to the settlers, or the nations, or
given to them absolutely so that men
could rightly buy and sell and monopo
lize it by means of exclusive fee-simple
land titles. If the Maker of the land had
sold it a clear title of absolute owner
ship could , have been given, it Would
Beem, but He did not do It, and the pres
ent absolute exclusive land titles and a
large disinherited class, shows fraud.
Buying and selling is logically predicated
on the idea of self-ownership, separate
production and separate self-interest.
Self-interest contends with self-interest
in the commercial world, and it is per
fectly clear that the civilization of force
that commerce has builded cannot be
one of peace," cannot long endure aud re
main mercantile. Its tendency, its move
ment, is an increasing concentration of
land, capital, wealth and power in the
hands of a few, resulting inevitably in a
violent overthrow of such power. Rea
son, when it considers the matter, can
clearly see that the prophet was right in
predicting the final downfall of Babylon,
that is, of a commercial civilization.
The civilization which must be builded,
which alone cau endure, is au actually
Christian civilization. The truth that
shall build it is the truth that there is no
separate individual interest, which can
be bought and sold, but that there ia a
social interest, a spirit of the whole, the
noly Spirit, which will harmonize, enrich
and pour infinite good into all. To be
honest, and so to find and follow the
leadings of this Spirit, is to be workers
together with God, and to unite and per
fect the sons of God in a redeemed, in
separable, earth-conquering and heaven
inheriting humanity.
GOV. WAITE'3 IDEA. CONSIDERED.
In view of the gravity of the situation,
it behooves all lovers of humanity to
make most strenuous exertion to over
come the differences which keep us di
vided. Is there not some basis of agree
ment by which we can unite? Are the
Populists willing to concede anything for
the silver cause? We believe they are;
and in that belief we suggest the follow
ing to the voters, and the People's party
for their consideration : If the "reform
elements will unite with us in the nomi
nation and election of men who are
pledged to the enactment of laws that
will give us the initiative and referendum
and proportional representation, we will
let them select, from any party, nominees
for the ticket, only asking that we be per
mitted to examine the candidates and
their record touching these proposed re
forms, and that our objections, if any, to
the men proposed, be respected, to the
end that we may know that when the
nominees are elected they will vote and
work for these measures. Now, if our
friends want fusion in order to attain
party success, we believe our party is
great enough to forego partisan success
for the sake of triumph of principle. So
we put this proposition beforeourpeople,
and challenge our friends, the enemy, to
accept the terms, or "shut their gab."
The Nation's Crisis.
We are of the opinion that this is the
only feasible plan to unite the people, and
God knows there is desperate need of
honest men who care nothing for the
offices coming together. Give back to
the people the reins of power and every
wrong can be quickly righted, every re
form enacted iuto law as soon as a ma
jority can be made to see its value. At
present we have no power to vote
together, because grouped in parties that
divide and control the people in tho in
terest of spoils of office. Party fusion is
folly, is a betrayal of principle in case the
party really has any; but a united effort
to destroy all party machines for all
time, is an issue that involves all issues
and all unsettled social problems. The
initiative and the referendum is this issue,
Shall the people or the politicians rule?
It is the only question on which all hon
est men can unite.
A vote of the city council of Chicago
June 24th, to give a private corporation
some very valuable Lake frout real es
tate showed that 48 councilmen were
boodlers and 20 honest men. The city
was greatly aroused by the vote. The
daily papers even are denouncing the
official thieves and bribers and intimat
ing to them that others like them have
been sent to the pen.
QUESTIONS OOHOEBNIHG BIMETAL
LISM It is not an agreement or a law com
pelling sixteen dollars to be exchanged
for gold dollars, or vice versa. It is not
a pledge to keep gold and silver on a
parity, or possessing the same intrinsic
value. It is simply coining either metal
or both metals as they may be brought
to the mints without discrimination in
favor of either, and making such dollars
full legal tender. If more silver is mined,
more silver will be coined, if more pro
portionately of gold is mined, more gold
will be coined. If the demand or market
value elsewhere for either metal makes it
worth more than the coined value, it will
cease to be coined and withdrawn from
circulation. Prior to 1873 silver was not
beine coined, because worth three cents
more as bullion than when coined.
If congress were to pass a free coinage
act with the 16 to 1 ratio, would the dol
lar be reduced in purchasing power to the
present bullion value of silver and the
gold coin be withdrawn from circulation?
Many honest students believe this
would result. It has so resulted in
Mexico. But Mexico is a very small
country as compared with the United
States. If silver from American mines
were freely coined it would increase the
demand of the mines for goods of all the
sorts they enjoy using and consuming.
This would be a good thing directly and
indirectly for all. If silver were to be
shipped in from other countries, coined,
exchanged for gold and the gold with
drawn, it would not reduce the value of
our silver dollurs or increase the number
in circulation. It would take awayour
coined gold apid leave us an equal num
ber of dollars of coined silver. But the
silver coin of other countries could not be
so used, because such coin now passes
current at the rate of f 1.29 per ounce,
and is even light weight at that. Only
silver bullion could be advantageously
brought to us, coined aud exchanged for
gold. And when the gold should be thus
taken from circulation it would no longer
be speculatively profitable to ship silver
here, because if brought it would have to
be exchanged for goods, and the empty
ing of the markets would stimulate all
industries and increase the wealth of the
country. Taking the gold out of circula
tion would do us no more harm than did
taking silver out of circulation by means
of a foreign market three cents above its
American money value. ' If both metals
were to be retired and full legal tender
greenbacks used for all money purposes
they could be sustained without appreci
ation or depreciation by the simple de
vice of making them full legal tender and
preventing monopoly control of the cur
rency by a system of government banks.
CAN MONOPOLISTS OPPOSE MON
OPOLY? From au article iu the Forum by Presi
dent Charles F. Thwing we gather some
very interesting facts regarding the in
vestment of college funds, and have
something to say by way of comment.
Dr. Thwing estimates that at the pres
ent time our colleges have at least $ 100,
000,000 invested from which they draw
income. He obtains his information
respecting the nature of their invest
ments from between One and two hundred
reports of representative colleges, and
from reports of presidents and treasurers
of these colleges. From these reports he
judges that at least four-fifths of all the
income commanding funds of the colleges
are invested in bonds and mortgages.
A few colleges only have stock invest
ments, and a few, notably Harvard and
Columbia, have invested largely in real
estate. Cornell has $4,000,000 in bonds
and $2,000,000 in mortgages. The Uni
versity of California has $2,000,000
equally divided between bonds and
mortgages. Wesleyan university has
$1,125,000, of which $81,000 are in
real estate, $260,000 in bonds, $77,000
in stocks, $086,000 in mortgages. The
university of Pennsylvania has $2,500,
000, similarly invested. Harvard's
eight or more millions is more than half
of it in railroad bonds and mortgages.
The various colleges own large amounts
of the best railroad bonds and the bonds
of waterworks and street railway com
panies, also the bonds of the counties of
western states. The rate of interest runs
from 5 to 8 per cent.
Our comment is, that all oppression is
now a per cent tribute to monopoly
power and that the $100,000,000 of col
lege funds is $100,000,000 of permanent
per cent oppression, a fund compelling
tribute from the workers whose children,
except in rare instances, receive no bene
fit from the usury that is forced from
them. The colleges are in their financia
interests on the side of the railroads, the
water works companies, the street rail
way monopolists, the mortgage shy
locks, the land absorbers and makers of
an increasingproletariatclass. They can
not clearly and faithfully teach the evils
that flow from monopoly tribute with
out condemning as immoral their own
sources of income. It cannot be expected
that a college whose funds are invested
in railroad bonds will vigorously attack
transportation monopoly. Or that a
college whose faculty is dependent for
pay on street rail way profits will attack
the power that supports it. Or that a
college whose income is drawn from farm
mortgages and county bonds will dis
cover any economy and justice in gov
ernment banks which might reduce in
terest to one per cent, or the labor cost
of loaning. Yet it is along these lines of
reducing per cent tributes that relit I
must come to the oppressed classes.
Sentiment saves nobody. Charity at
best ia no remedy for injustice. Our re
ligious and educational institutions will
be moral failures and economic and so
ciologic misleaders so long as they are
supported by tyranny, by monopoly
power and oppression.
The college, religious or sociologic in
its teaching that takes up any phase of
monopoly oppression and faithfully
analyzes and shows np its immorality or
its tendency to absorb all power and
destroy all liberty, will find itself grap
pling with the whole body of intrenched
selfishness, and will, by being faithful,
reduce its own support to an unmonopo
listic basis, to voluntary labor support.
TBU8T P0WEB WITH HONEST MEN
There is a man in our party who be
lieves that in order to "get there," it is
necessary for us to stoop to all the dirty,
low, contemptible tricks of the two old
parties. Such men should have no fol
lowing. Deviltry is deviltry, no matter
by whom committed, and any party that
stoops to anything dishonorable does
not deserve success.
At the democratic state convention
last fall, a man who calls himself a Pop
ulist, and who was holding at that time,
aud is now holding a prominent position
in the party, sneaked down ono the
floor of the convention where no one but
delegates had any business to be, and in
the confusion that prevailed, moved that
certain candidates on the Populist ticket
be endorsed.
In the midBt of the uproar it was not
noticed that he was not only not a dele
gate, but was not even a democrat.
Some one seconded his motion audit was
put and carried. Thus, the endorsement
of some of our men by the democrats,
whether valuable or not, was stolen, and
that by a man who now holds, and then
held, a very responsible position in our
party. This same thief is now writing
letters to various papers over the state
in which he seeks to 'throw suspicion on
the editor of this paper. A few of the
papers have published the letters, but
they are the half-breed demo-pop sheetsj
and will have no weight with' true Popu
lists. We must get rid of such men before we
can expect to make much progress.
. There will be some renovating to be
done at our state convention this fall,
when our committees are elected.
"LIBEBTY" WHEBE 18 SHE?
Has American Liberty fled? Pueblo
State Guard.
No, she has not exactly fled. She was
thrown out of the front door, kicked
down the stairs, pitched head first into
the gutter, aud the last seen of her, with
battered face and blackened eyes, she
was hauled up in a municipal policecourl
on a charge of vagrancy, fined for con
tempt of court, and sent to the work
house till she could find friends to bail
her out or pay the fine. She's there yet.
Chicago Sentinel.
No, American Liberty is asleep, or mes
merized. Some time she will be aroused
and then let tyrants beware. Time was
when a trifling tax on tea stirred her to
proud resistance. She has been put to
sleep by Fourth of July oratory and
ceaseless assurances that she is free and
happy. Sometime her poverty and mis
ery will waken her to act in self-defense.
She now dreams that sho must bow to
the divine rights of monopolists, just as
she formerly did to the alleged divine
right of political rulers.
There are two religious papers in Ame
rica which we can heartily com
mene for honesty, ability and value as
teachers of truth. They are The Out
look, published in New York, Dr. Lyman
Abbott editor in chief, and The Kingdom
published in Minneapolis. The latter is
the organ of the religious social move
ment led by Prof. Herron. It is edited by
Rev. H. W.Gleason (manager), President
George A. Gates of Iowa College, Prof.
John Bascom of Williams College, Rev.
George D. Black of Minneapolis, Dr.
James Brand of Oberlin College, Prof.
John R. Commons of Indiana University
Rev. Thos. C. Hall of Chicago, Frof.
George D. Herron of Iowa College, Prof.
Macy of the same, Rev. B. Fay Mills the
great evangelist, Dr. L. L. AVest of
Winona, Minn., and Dr. Josiah Strong of
New York. It is in its application of the
teachings of Christ to social questions or
the broader questions of righteousness
the leading paper of the country. No
Christian family can afford to do with
out this paper. The price is only $1.50
per year. The Outlook costs twice as
much as The Kingdom, and isau excellent
family paper.
Ed Hall, editor of the Grand Island
Free Press, and deputy oil inspector un
der Gov. Holuomb, says in last week's
issue of his paper, "It looks too much as
though it was a mutual understanding
between Mr. Bryan and the gold bugs to
keep the democrats in line by false pre
tenses." That is the way it has looked
to The Wealth Makers for a long time,
but some good honest populists, and
quite a number who are populists for
revenue only and were afraid the party
would lose some democratic votes, criti
cised us severely for saying so. They
even said we were " middle of the read
ers 1 " Look out, Bro. Hall, or some fel
low who thinks the party owes him a liv
ing will get to calling you names. These
fellows that want "harmony" fusion
won't stand such talk long; they may
even threaten to start a rival paper in
Grand Island that will not "stir up the
animals," and if they should do so wbal
willjoado?
The big 5,000 horse-power dynamo jf
the new electrical power works at Ni- j
agara Falls was set in motion and tested
June 26. It was a great success. The j
time is not far distant when all the labor '
necessary to abundantly supply all the
needs of all the people can be reduced
to not to exceed three or lour hours work
a day. But if the tireless, infinite ener
gies of God are to be monopolized by the
capitalist class it means simply greater
wealth for them and less work at the
same scale of wages for the great work
ing class. The natural power at Niagara
and elsewhere belongs inalienably to the
entire people. The labor it will freely
perform should increase the product and
decrease the toil of every worker. The
only way for the workers to preserve
their natural rights, or claim to equal
benefits from use of the forces of nature,
is by means of political and industrial
co-operation.
- The editors of the Fullerton Post,
Madison Reporter and Fremont Leader,
are the plainest examples of total de
pravity it has ever been our misfortune
to meet. Mr. Kelley of the Leader, we
supposed a fair minded gentleman and
took it for granted that a false state
ment he made in his paper concerning
the men who conduct this paper was
made ignorantly. We forwarded to him
the simple absolute proof that his state
ment, that we had been silent under cer
tain charges, was contrary to fact, and
asked him as a fair minded man to pub
lish a correction of the injurious state
ment he had made. He had not the
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iiiuuiiuuu. tteif-reajjecb, ut' ueceuu.y 10 uu .
it. He and the two others we have
mentioned above are diabolically malev
alent in their efforts to assassinate our
reputation. And there are three or four
more running Demo-Populist fusion
papers who are anxious to do us harm.
We are sorry for them.
THEstateof Illinois, thanks to Mr. John
W. Ela and Governor Altgeld, has iu the
last legislative year secured the enact-,
ment of some good laws and escaped tho
evil of certain very bad measures. Among
the laws passed were: an act providiugV
for the establishment of public kinder-1
gartens for children between four and six t.
years of age, whenever a majority of the
voters eo declare; an act extending the
application of civil service reform priuci
pies; an act imposing a one per cent ta
on all direct inheritances when they ex
ceed $20,000, and a tax ranging from
two to six per cent on all collateral in
heritances; and an act establishing what
is known as the Tori-ens system of land
registration when counties so elect. Tho
public imposes a small registration fee it
the Torrens system and guarantees all
titles. The first registration becomes
conclusive after five years.
" The bimetallists claim that the rise in
prices since February is due to the
marked increase in bimetallic sentiment.
The monometallists claim that it has
been due to the marked decrease in silver
sentiment and the growing confidence
that the currency will not be increased
by the use of silver. The Republican
party says the rise is due to the prospect
of a return to Republican rule, and the i
Democrats declare that the country ii
now being saved from the ruin precipi
tated by Republican tariff legislation.
Altogether, it seems to us that the
Psalmist, if alive today, would be forced
to say, deliberately, too, that "all par
tisans are liars."
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Thk present outlook for the rapid
growth of the Populist party is bright.
The best outside conditions for us as, a
party would be for the old partiesto ,
each be torn with dissensions over the
silver question, and yet be held togiWier
in convention by the goldbug and d-'Y
ministration power. The fight in Ken
uiun.) Biiuwu uiau uouiiug less man
thunderbolt from heaven can split tht
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Uemocratic machine. And the Republi-CA-
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uuii iiiHcimie is so sure 01 omce mat lieu r"k-1
yawning at its feet would not deter it
from the objects of its desire. Neverthe
less the tariff can no longer be used to
fool the people, and the Populist party
will gain large accessions from both old
parties if the old tariff song is again
Bune.
The American plutocrats who rise by
plunder to princely power and get too
high for American society, whenV they
settle in England invariably join the Tory
party. William Waldorf Astor and his
family, Mrs. Hammersly, Lady Randolph)
Pl it-ii! T i i . -
iiiuix-inii, milium ijenman Asnmead
Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, Louis John.
Jennings, the 'Boston Endicott whose
father fought the Brittish Tories in the
war of the Revolution but who herself
has helped to turn her husband, th
apostate Radical.into a Tory, these are
some of the Americans who have revert
ed to the Tory type, left their counti-v
aud rejected the American idea of demo
cracy. This crops between here and theensfrern
part of Iowa are in fine condition. TjLre
has been an abundance of rain ainm.
rain began. In Iowa we saw from the
car windows last week solendid n
fields, with straw too rank to stand in
some places. The corn we saw all along
was a good stand aud color. Prof. Cora
mons of Indiana Universitv told na '
therehad been only local rains beyond the
Mississippi, andthat Indiana especially
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