Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-23

would add more than $500, ,OO0, 900 to
TINS sum OF our public Indebtedness.
Ihe funded debt of the railroads in the
United States is Sl,206, ,645, ,06l. The
total debts of the nations of the world,
compiled on the basis of Hubner's sta
tistical table, and probably embracing
only such as are quotable at the London
Exchange. is SlS, 700, 599, 756-more than
quadruple the gold and silver coin in the
world. Add to that already inconceiya-
Die sum the debts of States, counties
and municipalities, and we become lost
In bewildering maze Of figures. The
interest on this vast sum is an annual
tribute paid by the worlds industry to
the worlds moneyed centers and capi-
tails. What a happy holiday the world
would ENJOY, what year Of jubilee, if it
could get out Of debt. Nearly ali the
vast sums l have recapitulated are the
price of wars, and must be paid from the
accumulations of peace. There is no
escape. No nation can afford to incur
the disgrace of repudiation. Capital,
when invested in machinery and material
improvements, adds to the productive
capacity and to the sum of human hap.
piness, but no national debt is a
national blessing" and their vast aggre-
gate Is silent, constant drain on the
worlds productive industry. 1t is that
much of the worlds "stock in trade"
held by dead hand"
Now almost everything produced ON
the farm is sold; almost everything con-
sumed IN the house is bought. Some
times the markets are distant, as Liver
pool now fixes the price of wheat in
Santa Clara. The farmer necessarily be-
comes INTERESTED in the laws of trade,
methods of exchange and price of trans
portation. 1t is important he should
know what kind of weather they had in
England at harvest, how much wheat
Russia can spare, and how many ships
are on the way to his nearest port. 1t is
important the friction in handling what
he has to sell and what he must buy
should be as light as possible, and that
he should not be taxed in extra profits
to pay losses by bad debts. Now he de-
sires to know about where the money is
to come from ''to move the crops" He
needs more capital at some times than
at others; wants banking Accommodations,
and low interest. As moneyed interests,
manufacturing interests and commercial
interests, from the nature of their trans
actions, have their capital and pivoted
centres, and as from the nature Of their
pursuits agricultural interests have not,
but are as necessarily diffused as the
others are concentrated, it is eminently
proper they should organize for their own
advancement and protection. Farmers
living in comparative isolation ought to
feel that there is network of sympathy
each with all. This want
the institution of the Patrons OF Hus-
bandry, through State and subordinate
Oranges, is intended to supply.
FOSTER AND PROTECT THE FORESTS.
Recurring for moment to the period
Of my own recollection to which / have
before referred, l recall with regret the
of trees. Now, it seems al
most wanton and cruel. The spreading
black walnut, the straight, 1.-the hickory,
The tender ash and the hard oak, were
girdied, felled, logged, rolled into heaps
and burned to get them out of tine way.
One-quarter, perhaps tenth, of these
trees left standing, would be worth more
now than the fields from which they
were cleared. Will not the California
State Grange take the trees under their
care, and the subordinate
oranges make it a point of honor with
their members to plant trees? hope
they will, or will establish an honorary
degree for that All value is the result
of labor The farmer works nearest to
Nature and gets most of her assistance.
Nature is his silent partner. But of
what form of value does labor contribute
so little, and the invisible forces of Ma
ture SO much, as in the planting and
growth of trees?
One word and l have done. have
known farmers who toiled all day, and
almost every day, in the field, when
daily half-hour spent on the house and
garden, in making home attractive would
add more to their real happiness than all
their toll. For after all, home is the
true source of lasting joys. Fortunate
they who have happy homes blessed
are they who make them happy.