, 1872-11-25

ening up Of credits is gradually doing good, and
| when re have reached the cash basis, these
fluctuationg will have little effect on us or the
| products may be, unless there is an unusually
| small crop, We shall be able to get along quite
comfortably but to pay debts with corn at %
cents, when We have made our estimate
at Ao cents, and ran in debt
When tie farmer gets behind, Or thinks be
needs more re capital, he is too apt to make forced
loans OF his grocer, his dry-goods merchant, the
lmplement-dealer, and others Of whom he makes
his purchases. Now. this is wrong, as is shown
e. th'S time the farmer can Pay e9nh of doF f al
Liable to get more than he needs He may 90
without many things to which he may have been
accustomed, but this is better than to run into
debt.
The usual remedy for hard times is to shorten
up our expenses and this We are enabled to do
for in good times the most Of us live rather fast.
We wear out our old clothes, use the old cook
stove, scour up the old plow, and repair the
old wagon; but, if We keep out 20 OF debt, and buy
present pr ,outgoes. This Is one Of tho frst points
to be considered, and cannot fail Of laying the
foundation of success. "But," says one, what
shall ne do to get out of debt, and to compel
the world to pay US the same rate for the pro
ducts of our labor as that VIC pay for the labor
OF others ?" "By forming a ring, as among
the trades" say several of our wigeacres in tia
agricultural journals. ssLet US form ring, and
not sell our products at less than the old prices,
Or cqr1espoa1ding tG the prices Of iron, 1eatheE
lumber and similar goods" That is all
very fair and just not only to our
selves, but to AZ Others. But can
we make 1T work? . Of course We can. Don't
we hold more pork than Young d Co.; and have
ne not more wheat and corn than al the grain
dealers combined? Just let us sell to them
few million dollars worth of our staples long,
and see how BOOB they will find themselves
short. Let our ring swallow up all other rings
and break them, and then We may have things
our own way. Let us refuse the railroads q
bushel OF grain, carload of hogs or cattle, and
stay at home ourselves. That will bring them
to terms, for their rolingstock will then be idle.
In short, this ring OF the farmers can be made to
dlctate terms to all other departments Of trade.
1t the press fights us, VIC can stop the
paper and starEe the editors,-not as in former
times, when We took the papers on tick and did
pay Tor them, but By refusing to pay for them
in advance; TINT will do the business" This is
the line OF argument dealt out by many Of our
farmers, and is their remedy for the present
quent low prices OF farm-crops. If re look
back a few years, VIC will see that we have
passed over worse times than these, before the
time Of railroads, te1egraphs, and mammoth
commercial newspapers.
But how shall ne form the ring is the first
must be paid as far as possible.
Even with the low price of corn,
taxes must be paid, for they arc
o lien upon our homesteads; new dresses must
be had, for the new baby, and new ones for the
change OF SEASONS that demands warmer clothing;
in short, we cannot suspend our real needs,
though we.may dispense with many Injuries. It is
therefore impossible to form ring that will
compel the world to buy our products at our
prices
We ought not to complain that the soil has
Welded Us those beautiful crops, for our own
skill has had something to do with it; but we
should be thankful that such is the case. forit
gives millions Of people what they do not
always get cheap food; and in time we shall
have our recompenge
This low price Of farm products and the ad-
Yancing rates for manufactured goods and wages
of skilled labor. must, in o short time. change
position, and ne nav hope to see them approxi-
mating each other in the course Of few years,
for revolution must come to change the pres-
ent rings of labor and of trade.
Farming paws so poorly that there is no en-
couragement at present to enlarge it's extent;
but there is a disposition to curtail operations:
and this will of itself increase the price of many
articles now below the real cost Of production,
Then we must reorganize our operations.
for the want of help in the kitchen and the labor
on the farm. The fact is, ne have no help in
the kitchen, beyond what the wife and dauebters
can do; and It is, therefore, almost impossible
to board farm hands. And this, il continued,
must lead to the