The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-12-30
rlEEs PILOT.


s Few Words with the Farmer.
Steady on the faro,f
From the country, and especially
rom the west, comes a wall OF despair.
Wheat dogn-down-down
Everywhere the farmer and producer,
omplain and suffer because of the alarm
ng production in the price of wheat. One
'ear ago they sold for dollar aud half a
oushel, and made nothing. Now they can
! get but little more than fifty cents!
This is what the Western farmer gets
or giving Lis vote to the bondholders, to
he money gamblers, and those whose policy
is to heap high upon the shoulders Of
he mechanic and farmer the crushing
Weight Of taxes and tariffs
And here comes this distress and disas-
er even before Grant has been year
resident. One year ago bushel OF wheat
would have purchased three pounds of
coffee now it takes bushel Of wheat TO
ouy one pound eff coffee, aud two or three
bushels to get pound of tea, and nearly
hundred bushels for suit of clothes.
What shall IRE doP
The evil is upon the farmer, and the
farmer must take the best means to get
most quickly out of it.
Be steady, and cool, and determined.
The farmer is monarch of the land. He,
With the aborer aud mechanic, makes tne
wealth of all countries. He must know
and understand this.
If it were not for the farm where would
be our cities where would be our railroads
and steamships? where would be our pros
perity and greatness?
Steady, lhen, on the farm
Surrounding him the farmer has all
the attributes Of greatness. He has his
cattle, and horses, d.sheep. He has bis
home and his family, who constitute a soy
ereign state within themselves He has
his pethoric eranaries loaded with the
wealth of the land and he has the pure air
Of heaven as it comes to him over wide
fields, fresh and iuyigorating, as 1t is not
vouchsafed to the city.
With all these the farmer can live. No
famine or starvation can reach him here,
and the bony grip Of hard times need not
disturb his quiet
Hold back yo,U uAeat!
While you can get but fifty cents per
bushel, while you are getting less than it
costs to raise it, do not bring it to market
By bringing it in yon only put it in the
hands of spectators, and make wealth for
for those who ruin you.
You are r,ch-you do not need to sell.
This wheat is your wealth, and you mast
not part with that wealth that others may
get rich upon your hard earnings.
You cannot buy that which you want for
less than you could year ago, and the
best wa! is not to buy at all.
You get only one third rs much for your
wheat as a year ago, and the best way is not
to sell at ALL
You can live upon the products Of tie
faru, and need uei bay. Il YOU 90 not sell
you can control the price Of your wheat,
because the people Of the town cannot live
without the farmer.
La tie TURNER osaIe lis o1gn terms.
IT we we're farmer we would DO this.
We would live upon our own wheaton
bread, upon aleaming buckwhcat cakes,
and hutser and milk, upon mutton from
our or N fold, and choice steaks ami Juicy
roasts from the young cattle Of cur pass
lures. These. we could have without tie
city aid, and we would make that city give
US decent reward for our hard earnings,
for We never would sell one bushel Of wheat
until we could get a respectable price for it.
We would create a famine, and terrible
suffering in the cities Of the country before
we would submit to being robbed as tie
farmers of this country are being robbed
to-day. We W Juld make others as they
would make, us suffer, and we would learn
them that the farm and the shop
produce the real wealth of the land instead
of bonds, aud that the farmer and the me,
chanic are the real monarcbs, instead of the
bondholders. Pon,crogs Democrat.