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Subject: JEFFERSON DEMOCRAT May 29, 1890 Part 2 volunteer transcription
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:36:02 -0600


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Jefferson Democrat - transcribed by Linda in MO
Thursday, May 29, 1890 part 2


Washington Letter.

The Republican leaders have rushed through the conglomeration they
nicknamed a tariff bill amid the imprecations of their political
friends and the jeers of their political enemies. McKinley, the father
of the measure, might well say with one of all: “Another such victory
and we are undone.” such a bright partisan as Ben BUTTERWORTH openly
declared that enough Republican votes would have been forth coming to
defeat the bill had they not full confidence in the Senate and their
political brethren to endeavor to make it a little more respectable as
economic legislation. The Democrats are perfectly satisfied they say
with the bill as a specimen of Republican handiwork, and want nothing
better with which to appeal to the people in the approaching campaign.
They say that it will take more fat than was ever fried out of the
monpolists to gain a political victory with this tariff bill for a
platform.

It is queer into what troubles the christian politicians of the
Republican persuasions got through their brothers-in-law. Almost every
administration for the “grand old party” brings forth a scandal in
which the aforesaid ?????tion figures as a scapegoat and the injured
individual suffering for his wife’s relations, is generally a
presbyterian deacon. Unlike Artemus Ward, who was willing to sacrifice
all his wife’s family to put down the wicked rebellion, these good
deacons, perhaps under home influence, endeavor to protect their
kindred by marriage.

The last instance of civil services Commissioner Lyman and the theft of
examination papers by brother in law, is fresh in the minds of the
public, so nothing need be said about. But it has, perhaps, been
forgotten that under a former Republican administration another
brother-in-law raised a stew through the larceny of papers from the
post office department. His name was

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Channel, and being a brother-in-law to Chief Clerk French, like Lyman a
deacon, it gave him the opportunity to enter the department after
office hours and steal copies of the bids on numberless mail contracts,
which information he sold to their contractors for a small
consideration. Undoubtedly it would be advisable for the good
Republicans in leading positions to keep their wife’s family in other
than public office.

There will occur during the coming fall a first class opportunity to
test the popularity of Ex-president CLEVELAND, not with the politicians
with the people. This ch??? will be afforded by the tour of the
country, which of course, will be unavoidable, as much as Mr. CLEVELAND
dislikes display, made necessary by his a???p?ance of the invitation
tendered by Governor ROSS, of Texas, to visit the Dallas Fair as the
guest of the citizens of that banner Democratic State.

It is desired, Mr. CLEVELAND willing, to have him go by one route and
return by the other, so that he would travel over every southern state
and nearly over the West this side of the Mississippi River. There is
no question here of the popularity of the late President with the
people, both north and south although the politicians don’t hanker
after him over much, and it is predicted that his excursions will be
triumphal tour rarely equaled in this country. It must be said, though,
that Democratic Congressmen, as a rule, do not class CLEVELAND ad their
favorite, but they readily acknowledge his great strength with the
people, and at the proper time they will fall into line and join the
procession which will put him back in the White House.

Senators on the Democratic side in the Senate say that Mr. CARLISLE
will be a valuable addition to their number. In the House the
Kentuckian was out of place, as he is eminently fair and courteous in
debate, and not at all aggressive. But he is a mental giant, and, in
the Senate where decorum and order are the chief features, he will
prove and invaluable aid to the party. Mr. CARLISLE will make the first
set speech of his in the Senate when the tariff bill comes under
consideration. It may not be generally known that the older Senators
consider it presumptuous for a new man to take part in the proceedings
of that body within the first year after entrance,. Let a newly elected
Senator jump into a discussion and a horror stricken look will cover
the faces of all his seniors. Indeed, it is precarious for the
reputation of a new man to do so, as the older men will mark him down
as upstartish, and it will be a long while before they will have
forgotten the initial incident in his senatorial career. Mr. CARLISLE
has been buried because he will not assume that conspicuous position in
his new sphere that he held in the lower branch of Congress.

The battle over the river and harbor bill has opened with the odds at
present a little against the bill. Not that its passage will not be
easy enough in the House, but it will be subject to the same delays in
the Senate which it has experienced in the House, and this, of course,
will prevent its reaching the President much, if any, before the close
of the session. There the snag will be encountered, the friends of the
measure fear, as HARRISON is not much in love with river and harbor
improvements and would rather spend millions subsidizing foreign
steamship lines than in works of improvement in our own seaports and
inland water ways.

Bon.

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Farmers and the Census.

The census year began June 1, 1889, and ends May 31, 1890. Each state
has from one to eleven supervisors’ districts, There are 173
supervisors in all. There are 42,000 enumerators, who in all parts of
the country will begin their work Monday morning, June 2, 1890. Every
farm will be visited before June 30, and the following questions will
be asked, keeping in mind that the figures you are to give nearly all
pertain to the crops of 1889, and not to the growing crops of 1890.

(1) Your name as occupant of the farm. (2) Are you owner, renter for
money, or for share of the crops of the farm? (3) Are you white or
black? (4) Number of acres of land, improved and unimproved. (5) Acres
irrigated (6)Number of artesian wells flowing (7) Value of farm,
buildings, implements, machinery, and live stock. (8) Fences; Cost of
building and repairing. (9) Cost of fertilizers. (10) Labor: Amounts
paid for labor, including board; weeks of hires labor, white or black.
(11) Products: Estimated value of all farm productions sold, consumed,
or on hand for 1889. (12) Forestry: Amount of wood cut, and value of
all forest products sold. (13) Grasslands: Acres of each kind of
grassland cut for hay or pastured; tons of hay and straw sold; silos
and their capacity. (14) Sugar: Cane, sorghum, maple, and beet; sugar
and molasses; acres, product and value of each (15) Castor Beans: Acres
(16) Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, rye, wheat, acres,
crop, amount of each sold and sonsumed, and value. (17) Rice: Acres,
crop and value (18) Tobacco: Acres, crop and value (19) Peas and Beans:
Bushels and value of corp sold. (20) Peanuts: Acres, bushels and value
(21) Hops: Acres, pounds and value (22) Fibers: Cotten, flax and hemp;
Acres, crop and value (23) Broom Corn: Acres, pounds and value (24)
Live Stock: Horses, mules, and asses; number on hand June 1, 1890;
number foaled in 1889; number sold in 1889; number died in 1889 (25)
Sheep Number on hand June 1, 1890, of “fine wool”, “long wool,’ and all
other; “ number of lambs dropped in 1889; “spring lambs” sold in 1889;
sold in 1889 other than “spring lambs”; slaughtered for use on farm
1889 Killed by

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dogs in 1889; died from other causes in 1889. (26) Wool: Shorn spring
of 1890 and fall of 1889. (27) Goats: Number of Angots? and common (28)
Dogs: on farm June 1, 1890 (29) Neat Cattle, Working oxen, milk cos,
and other cattle on hand June 1, 1890; number of pure bred, grade and
common; calves dropped in 1889; cattle sold in 1889, slaughtered for
use on the farm and died in 1889. (30) Dairy. Milk total gallons
produced on farm; sold for use in families, not to creamery or
factory?; used on farm ?????ing for butter or cheese, used on farm in
????? ???? for sale, ?????? for creamery or factory. Butter - pounds
mad on farm and sold in 1889 Cream quarts sold to creamery or factory;
sold others that to creamery for factory. Cheese - pounds made on farm
and sold in 1889 (31) Swine: Number on hand June 1, 1890, sold in 1889,
consumed on farm and died in 1889 (32) Poultry: Number each of
chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks on hand June 1, 1889; value of all
poultry ????? sold; eggs produced, sold and value in 1889, (32) Bees:
Number of stands, pounds of honey and wax produced, and value. (34)
Onions: Field crop - number of acres, bushels produced and sold and
value (35) Potatoes: Sweet and Irish, bushels produced and sold. (36)
Market Gardens and small fruits: Number of acres vegetables,
blackberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries and other small
fruits, and total value of products in 1889 (37) Vegetables and Fruits
for Canning; Number of acres, and products in bushels of peas and
beans, green bean, tomatoes, other vegetables and fruits (38) Orchards:
apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pear, plums, prunes and other
orchard fruits; in each the number of acres, crop in 1889, number of
bearing trees, number of young and not bearing trees, and value of all
orchard products sold (39) Vineyards: Number of acres in vines bearing
and in young vines not bearing; products and grapes and raisins, and
value in 1889.

Besides those questions on the regular Agricultural schedule No. 2,
Superintendent. robert P. PORTER has ordered several special
investigations in the interests of agriculture, among which are
Viticulture, Nurseries, Florists, Seed and Truck Farms, Semi-tropic
Fruits, Oranges, etc. Live Stock on the great ranges, and in cities and
villages; also the names and number of all the various farmers’
organizations, such as Agricultural and Horticultural Societies,
Poultry and Bee Associations, Farmers’ Clubs, Granges, Alliances,
Wheels?, Unions, Leagues, etc.

In no part of the census work have the times? been extended more than
in the direction of agriculture, and if the farms will now cheerfully
co-operate with the enumerators and other officials to promptly furnish
the correct figures more comprehensive returns regarding our greatest
industry will be obtained than ever before.

Census

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