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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCT. 25 
SUFFOLK STALLION JOLLY BOY. 
The picture shown at Fig. 317, is re-engraved from the 
Mark Lane Express. Jolly Boy took the first prize at the 
Buenos Ayres exhibition this year. The photograph from 
which this picture was made was taken when the horse 
was between three and four years old. He is considered 
a typical specimen of the breed. He is described as a 
“ burnt chestnut ” in color—which, as the Mark Lane 
Express says, “ is a popular color abroad.” 
Suffolk horses are not yet very numerous in' this country, 
owing, it is said, to the fact that the supply of the pure¬ 
bred animals abroad is limited. Some of our large horse 
breeders keep a few ; but we do not think any one has yet 
attempted to make a specialty of them. We frequently 
see, both in the city and on farms, horses with unmistakable 
evidences of Suffolk blood in color, shape 
and action. But for the fact that the pres¬ 
ent fashion is for size and weight in draft 
horses, it is probable that the lighter, ac¬ 
tive Suffolk would be well thought of. 
The Suffolk is smaller than either the Per- 
cheron or Clydesdale, and is nimble and 
quick—a fast walker and an honest, per¬ 
sistent worker. He is like a bull-dog when 
“cornered” with a heavy load on a bad 
road. He will pull honestly and steadily 
while the harness holds. The Suffolk makes 
an excellent animal for general farm work; 
but we have little hope that he will become 
popular with breeders while the demand 
for big horses continues. 
secure to ourselves the proper benefits of good government 
by causing the repeal of all class legislation hurtful to our 
citizens as a body, and in an administration of the govern¬ 
ment for the common good obtain all the reward of our 
labors to which we are justly entitled. This is the creed 
of a fast growing class of Ohio farmers. They would have 
all take a sensible, business view of the situation, accept 
their responsibilities as American citizens and cease to be 
mere partisans and serfs. 
Locating Evils.— Some evils have been located, and 
remedies have been agreed upon without difficulty. In 
State affairs there are some unjust burdens. No longer 
will a legislator dare become the pliant tool of rings and 
monopolistic corporations that have been imposing upon 
the public. In State affairs we are well agreed, and will, 
THE FARMERS’ MOVEMENT IN 
OHIO. 
The Principles.—” The farmer is suffer¬ 
ing from the dominance of human greed in 
government, and as long as human greed 
is dominant in government the producing 
classes are going to suffer,” so says an 
honored friend of the farmer in Ohio. 
Here is the truth, nearly the whole truth 
in a nut-shell. Some of us are inclined to 
sit down and grumble and get very unhappy 
and make our friends miserable with much 
lamentation over this condition of things, 
but what does such a course profit us ? 
Others relieve their feelings by fierce and 
loud denunciations of all corporations and other combina¬ 
tions of capital. Against all who are not producers they 
are at war, and bring railing accusations—a thing, we are 
told, that even Michael, the Archangel, durst not bring 
against the devil himself, in an ancient contention. An¬ 
other class of us—and it is the largest—do not profess to 
know much about government and the regulation of pub¬ 
lic affairs, and, while we have lost much of the faith we 
once had in our old political party’s ability to make the sun 
of prosperity shine gloriously, and doubt whether the 
opposition party is as bent upon the ruination of our fair 
country as we once thought, yet we are disinclined to try 
to fathom the supposed mysteries of the situation, and 
prefer to try to raise better crops and live more economically, 
and trust that matters will mend. Here 
are three classes that embraced nearly all 
the farmers until within the last year. 
They still contain the majority, probably, 
as farmers are slow to move; but there is a 
class, growing fast, who, seeing the error 
of their former ways, are standing on a 
different platform. Until the millennium 
comes, until human greed ceases to be a 
dominant factor in human existence, no 
class of men can give over the reins of gov¬ 
ernment to other classes,sink into a peaceful, 
bovine state of supposed security and ex¬ 
pect their interests to be guarded carefully 
and jealously. Why should they be? Are 
other men made of better clay ? Have they 
escaped the effects entailed upon the human 
race by Adam’s fall? Are they so much more 
full of love for their neighbor than we that 
they can be trusted to take no advantage, 
when every opportunity is given ? Let us 
examine ourselves. Are farmers exempt 
from a desire or, at least, a willingness to 
receive class advantages ? Of course we do 
not do so to any such extent—we have little 
opportunity—that is all granted ; but, after 
all, it is only lack of opportunity that keeps 
us, as a class, from accepting benefits. We 
may glorify ourselves—and no one honors 
the integrity, the industry and the well- 
earned self-respect of the American farmer 
more than I do—but there is enough 
acquisitiveness in us to make us ready to 
accept whatever comes lawfully, if it does 
not bear the brand of fraud, asking not too many questions 
for conscience sake. Many of us areeageriu the chase after 
“ robber barons,” enthroned by a tariff that we proclaim 
“iniquitous,” but I greatly fear no men have been more 
prominent in tariff committee rooms at our national cap¬ 
ital than some organized Ohio wool growers. Let nothing 
be said in censure of this. So long as protection is our 
policy there is no danger that the farmer will get more 
than his share of the plunder. 
Lessons to be Learned.— But the lessons we would 
learn are these; That we must accept human nature as it 
is, and waste no time in lamentations that avail nothing, 
or in denunciations that fall harmless, or in habits of 
thought that lead to servility ; that we should accept the 
guardianship of our own affairs instead of persisting in 
living it to others with childlike simplicity; that, in an 
age of combinations, we should use organized efforts to 
EUPHORBIA HETEROPHYLLA. Fig. 3 16. 
in time, accomplish all that justice can demand. Our only 
weakness becomes apparent when we touch national ques¬ 
tions, and on these we are in the main agreed. It could 
not be hoped that we could agree in all things. That 
selfishness, that greed, which come in for fierce condem¬ 
nation when found in other classes, are at home among 
us. Draw a line parallel to the Ohio River and 50 miles 
toward the northwest from it in Eastern and Southeastern 
Ohio, and in the territory cut off from the rest of the 
State you will find a population taught to believe that a 
high protective tariff is the salvation of our country. 
Iron, salt and coal interests dominate the sentiment of that 
region. The farmer accepts without question the high- 
tariff ideas put afloat by the protected interests, and, if he 
growers have never been envied their little share of pro¬ 
tection, and have had the sympathy of the tillers of the 
soil, but they have become a powerful factor in the settle¬ 
ment of this question on account of their organization, 
and whenever there are attempts by Ohio farmers to give 
expression to their views, this interest will be able to con¬ 
trol, for its organization is effective. I seriously doubt 
whether the wheat and corn producers of our State ever 
will have an opportunity to give true expression to their 
views except in local Alliance resolutions and individual 
statements. 
What is to be Done ?—There are, however, evils that 
we see, feel the effects of, and are fighting together. No 
longer will the Ohio farmer sit still and see our currency 
contracted. We do not know all about the effect of the 
free coinage of silver upon our financial 
system; but we know that we want a 
proper expansion of our currency by means 
of silver. The present coinage act will 
suit us well if continued in force ; but we 
would feel safer if this coinage were com¬ 
pulsory for all future time instead of being 
soon left to the discretion of a public 
official. Still, Ohio is a pivotal State, and 
woe betide the administration that is not a 
friend of silver. We have had a habit of 
rebuking party leaders in State elections, 
while never failing to vote straight in na¬ 
tional ones, but the hold of the politicians 
is breaking, and times are changing. We 
are not ready for a new party—a farmers’ 
party—in the State. We are organizing 
rapidly and working in old party lines; 
but farmers are being nominated for Con¬ 
gress and other high positions; and men in 
other walks of life who carry elections for 
our legislature and other positions will be 
watched as they never were before, and a 
man found to be the tool of corporations 
will be retired. The idea is that in the 
future, in State affairs we will not seek so 
much to punish a party that is responsible 
for iniquitous legislation by retiring it, 
and allowing another equally bad to take 
its place, but we will hold each man per¬ 
sonally responsible for what he has done. 
Our oiganizations will tell him our needs, 
and, if he is slack in serving us, we will see 
that his political career shall end speedily. If neither old 
party heeds us, then we will not hesitate to put a local 
ticket in the field and stay with it. We have almost quit 
fighting the civil war over and over again, and are turning 
our attention to matters of moment. ALVA AGEE. 
Gallia County, Ohio. 
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SUFFOLK STALLION JOLLY BOY. Fig. 3 17. 
has a few sheep grazing on the hills of that section, he 
knows that any reduction would be paralyzing to our 
“infant” industries Ohio raises more wool than any 
other State in the Union, and its wool-growers are well 
organized. [In 1S80, 4,908,486 sheep were sheared in Ohio, 
yielding a clip of 25,002,756 pounds. California came next 
with 4,152,349 fleeces, weighing 16,798,036 pounds. The 
other States were away behind these.— Eds.] When they 
see other organized bodies securing legislation to pull 
money out of the consumers’ pocket, and they have con¬ 
tributed to the building up of colossal fortunes for other 
men; when they see money going out to others without due 
compensation under cover of law, what blame if they try 
to get a portion ? But what of the farmer who has no 
sheep? some one may ask. Well, he adds his brother 
farmer who raises wool to the list of those to whom he 
pays tribute and is thankful that he still lives. The wool- 
A CANADIAN ON THE McKINLEY BILL. 
WILL FEED BARLEY - INSTEAD OF CORN. 
The McKinley bill will doubtless have an injurious 
effect On Canadian barley, for a time at least, until our 
barley growers can find some other way of disposing of 
their product in place of shipping it to the United States. 
The Canadian Government imported from 
England last spring a quantity of two- 
rowed barley, which is considered by the 
brewers far superior to the six-rowed for 
malting. It was placed in the hands of the 
farmers for seed as an experiment. If it 
V / should prove as good as the two-rowed 
kind grown in England, we can ship our 
grain to that country, and do better than 
we have been doing in the markets of the 
iffefPt States. If it will not prove a success, I think 
* our * armers w iii have to turn their atten- 
i.7 ; 4’?’ tion to some other coarse grain for export, 
and feed their barley to their cattle instead 
i of the kinds of grain they have been in the 
habit of feeding, such as peas and oats, 
and then they will require less of the West¬ 
ern corn which many of our farmers have 
been using for a number of years past. I 
notice, on looking over the Trade and 
t j I | Navigation report, issued by the Canadian 
7 j Government, that we import for home con¬ 
sumption somewhat over 3,000,000 bushels 
j ( annually. I believe our barley can be sub- 
,/ (l stituted for your corn in every case. I 
think that in the course of two years we 
’’j.) can so shape our affairs that we shall be 
a'/ i relieved of any little inconveniences we 
may be put to by the enactment of the 
McKinley bill. Those among us who are 
somewhat nervous in the matter of the in¬ 
crease of the tariff need only reflect upon 
the effect of the abrogation of the reci¬ 
procity treaty in 1878. Then we had among 
us those who thought that we would be ruined; but I am 
proud to say that instead of being injured by the abroga¬ 
tion of that treaty, we were benefited by it. I much 
regret the late action of the Government of the United 
States. It savors much of retaliation, which is very un¬ 
fortunate. Nations lying side by side as we do, should 
so legislate as to show a friendly feeling towards each other. 
With our very complete systems of railways and canals, 
I think we are altogether independent of the United 
States, and we are very indifferent to any changes that 
may be made by our neighbors in their tariff. 
In this part of the world we take no stock in the preach¬ 
ing of Mr. Wyman. If he were to gag the press of his 
country and prevent the publication of his speeches, then 
he might blindfold some of the Canadians [Mr. Wyman is 
a Canadian.— Eds j In the States he advocates an expan¬ 
sion of the commerce of the country into other lands; in 
