Show A DEFAMER ER OF OP HIS OWN STATE governor bales who aspires to succeed ce ed himself this fall in the executive chair of iowa and whose ambition is said to leap still higher for the fateful year of 1802 1892 has an extraordinary way of winning popularity from hia his constituents he belittles their cornmon commonwealth wealth sneers at its products and instills In stilts bis his peoples intelligence some weeks ago be attended a banquet banquot in new york daring during the progress of which he made a speech his remarks were evidently not intended for iowa ears of corn or otherwise but they have nevertheless got back there in all a altheir their original purity parit yand and beauty he told the new york ban bueters that the entire value of the corn crop of iowa when marketed had averaged for five years 67 cents an acre less 1683 than the actual cost of production when the growing corn h heard eard the echo of that falsehood it shook with anger and the hardy farmer dug bis his beel heel deep into the mellow soil in rage at st the aspersion on himself and his great staple but bat governor boies went further he made detailed explanations the actual cost ol 01 producing this cereal e 11 the most profitable of 0 all that ii Is W raland td within that elate state ha has during that same period exceeded the entire value of 0 the c crop ra p when harvested barrel led saying nothing whatever of income from rom the capital invested in the land required to produce it what ti Is true of 0 the product production ioa of corn la in iowa la is equally tnie true of all the great staples raised on her farm the plain logic of which ia is that the more farming the iowa man does and the larger his crops are the poorer he becomes it ia is too bad that gov boies ia is only running for one office this year we should think the iowa folk folks would like him to come before them at once for all the offices be he ever expects to gain it would be so satisfying to them to lay him out once and forever I 1 |