The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-10-27
Total cost PER bushel...

Considering the straw and pasture
worth the wear and tear of tools,
harness, etc, the above I consider 4
fair estimate OF the cost of one bush.
el OF wheat.
The land may be estimated too
high. But that very fact, taken in
connection with the inflated condi-
tiOn of the currency. is a strong one;
in evidence Of the distressed condi-
tion Of the farmer. Oa the other
hand; he puts the average production
of wheat 70 the acre at twenty BUSH
els. 1t is not much more than one.
half of that.
Now, that dollar the farmer re-
ceives is not q gold dollar, nor is il
even q paper dollar. The farmers as
3 class are, perhaps, the heaviest
consumers in the country, and in re-
turn for their wheat, they are paid
in articles sold on an Inflated cur
rency, aggravated, or rather sustain
ed, by the tariff. Let Us see. While
he sells on q gold valuation, he pur-
chaseS on paper basis. On salt he
pays a fearful bonus to the salt man.
ufacturer, that never reaches the
Government, and is, therefore, not
considered taxation. The same is
true Of iron; that enters 80 largely,
through machinery, into the business
OF farming. TO benefit the pig iron
interest Of Pennsylvania, he Is forced
TO pay heavy 5onus. This is the
same OF his hat, his coat, his panta-
looms, his boots and all that his wife
and children wear. This is what he
gets in return for his wheat But,
you say, look at corn: see what he
gets tor his corn. Corn is high be-
cause 1t is scarce and if we average
this article, a. we have the wheat, it
will be found that it fetches less, al.
though considered the better crop in
this section of theSeouQty,
Nor will it do to assert that any
of this loss is TO be attributed to bad
management. Here IL my neighb Dor
John Enoch. He has over eighteen
hundred acres of the best land in the
world. This is the accumulation OF
his own hands, and the net result OF
his own head. And yet 1 will ven
ture to assert, that for the last four
years Mr.. Enoch has nothing to show
for his heavy Investments and labor.
He has probably kept out of debt,
which is more than his neigh bors,
who had to borrow money 10 pay
their losses, can assert. w.
THE LATE ELECTION.
Small wonder then that the farm,
era begin 10 look uneasily upon the
Republican organization, that per
mitS, 1t does not cause, this robbery.
took no part in the late canvass,
other than to stand of and indulge
in philosophical view of the sftua-
tion. There never was q fight SC
tiercely contested by our party as
this. The land ruug with speakers
and was flOAted with documents.
AS Ice GvOt0ed ourselves clearly and
distinctly in fdUor of the 6nnkers ana
6Ond6OtderS, tce had an unlimited sup
ply Of money. On the other hand, the
Democracy did nothing or worse
than nothing, and yet look at the
result. ga '.'
The farmers, mechanics and labor
ers, like Bully Bottom, are slow OF
study, but they are sure. The loss in
the late election indicates the coming
defeat, unless we take a new depar'
ture. And this we want do, because
we were victorious. 1t was q case, on
both sides, where q victory was fatal
Had the Democrats succeeded, they
would have been tied to Pendleton,
greenbaoks and the negro. Success
with US means devotion to bankers,
prOhibitiOnists and bondhOlders.
And, as the Fifteenth Amendment
takes the negro out of politics, the
future issues will be of a financial
sort, and then where are We?
Put your house in order, my Re-
publican friend, for to-marFOW you
die.