The Exeter Times, 1889-5-16, Page 3¥er Creed.
No God I No Reeves ! No hope l
The11 groveller ; look around,
WWI gave yon rose its bloom ?
And.ethapped its lovely leaf
With such exc,(uleite skill I
The source from wheuoe outsprung
"Yon Blies" could pour forth
More truth and purity,
More beaatyanti design,
Than gaping nubelief
Could roll into oblivion
Through all eternity.
Gad is an ocean, man a drop ;
But shall the finite drop
Puffed to an empty bubble
Rail at the ocean vast ? '
When stars grow wearisome,
And rugged rooks look tame,
When ternpeets breed no fear,
And -earthquakes no alarm,
When apring's Sweet blossoms pain,
' And moonlight bath no obarm ;
I'll hide my hopeless head
And scorn Jehovait{s name,
When good deeds leave within,
No .virtuous reward ;
111 seek thyelarken'dfade
And learn thy creed of nought.
But never while•a bird,
Sings in a woodland dell ;
Or capering lambkins skip
About a sonny glebe
Beside their bleating dams,
Or innocence ie prized,
Orgeneroue`natures warm
The old world's chilly feet,
While careworn mothers love
And toilworn fathers plod
Grobeller, thon'lt never shake;
A Christian's faith in God,
I will not .own thy creed,
Until the faithful dog
Springs at his master's throat,
And beasts forgeb the hand
That'serveth them their food.
But even then, if thou
Would'et plant within my breast
The bulbs of thy distrust ;
Transport me far beyond
The sight, the touch, the sound,
Of, earth, air, sea or sky,
Lest' some email whisper sweep
The golden threads of truth
And universal praise
Compel me to rejoice.
-EARNEST E. Latex.
Condition' of the Farmer in the States.
If the Nation bas made any progress in
the past twenty.five years it has not beer
through the wise provisions of the law•mak•
ing powers, but rather in spite of the ob-
staoles thrown in the way of labor, industry;
and exterpriae through tae machinations of
the speculators and gamblers who have per.
verted government to their own nefarious
ends. The energies of the American people
axe without parallel or they would long ago
have been crushed, nor is their forbearance
any less astonishing.
In their memorial to Congress the farmers
of Nebraska state that the farms of that
State are mortgaged to the amount of $150,•
000,000 ; that while the production of wealth
in the State has been unprecedented, the
condition of the producers is not improving,
but retrograding ; that they are sinking
deeper and deeper in debt. The annual
'jreport of the Ohio commissioner of labor
statistics shows that the karma of .that State
are mortgaged for $375,000,000. The actual
number of acres in cultivation is only 9,705,-
735, and ib is probable that these mortgages
repreeeut the full value. An investigator
of the, subject` reports, that he found the
farmers of Ohio who were well fixed and
had money in bank 'six years ago are now
in debt ; this is on their own statement.
In passing through Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois; he was impressed with the
depressed condition of the farming inter.
este and the discouraging situation of the
farmers. These conditions are the same in
Kansas, Mieaouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Dakota, and, indeed, alt the agricultur-
al States of the West. Nor is this depressed
condition of agricultural interests and op.
pression of the farmers confined to the West,
but in Pennsylvania the conditions are no
better, and an interested observer in a.letter
from Boston says, in contrasting the condi.
tions of mem:facture and agriculture : "In
a journey of fifteen hundred :miles, I have
found nu, manufacturing village that is not
indicative of. activity, growth, and prosperi-
ty, and not . a single section of agricultural
country, soaroely a farm, where dilapida-
tion and poverty are not plainly visible
on every hand. Oa the farms not one
new barn or house, not a new roof on au
old barn, not a .new shed or windmill
has been seen to indicate prosperity.
Every inquiry made of farmers has been
answered substantially in the same len•
guage. Farming does not pay, farmers are
poor. In the Mohawk and Wyoming val.
• leye, the richest in New York, very few farms
pay expenses, and these are hay.farms not
far, from market," :