Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-12-19

state OF Tic ulaI hetS. aIfI gives ittfoi liza
ton ofsdrautlis and q bods,so that he far
mer maybe enabled to secure the fall adj
vantage of the tiines,i also essential. A
family paper, which is the heroid of both
Joy and SORROW, and which, by instructs
ing the youth, keeps them out of bad so~
cities, is paying its way thousand fold.
We venture TO assert that no family can
either become or remain prosperous that
IS deprived-of itg newspaper. Real estate,
and ali other descriptions of property
would deprecate if an organized county
should permit It's local papers to anguish
or to die. In fact, we know of no class of
men who pay the:r way SO fully as the
conductors of the five thousand weekly
journals in the United States.
Powerful nations alone are respected.
What makes It more desirable TO be a
citizen Of the United States than a citi-
zen Of Mexico or Vene2gulaf It Is ba-
cause The American citizens is member
of Republic Of 40,O00,000 of intelligent
men, who know their rights, and. know
ing them, dare maEdain them. Without
amilitary and naval power we would De
at the mercy of other nations, to be plum
dered andravaged. Quiet recently our flag
was Insnted; American citizens were shot
~iihout due process Of law, and at once
the entire people looked to its army and
navy to right this Insult. Thgs, scienti-
fieally trained army and navy officers,
with schools Of military science. are as
essential to the farmer as the farmer Is te
those institutions,
Then ,hare is the miner, who tolls in
the bowels of the earth, far remote from
the genial light Of the sun in The damp,
cold atmosl here of the deep Iron, coal,
and copper are the results of this hard
labor and of the engineering skill which
makes mining possible. Does anyone
pretend that the farmer without the iron
machine could work to any advantage.
All persons necessarily engaged in the
transportation of produce and goods
the engineerlthat has charge of the locomo'
tive, as well as the telegraph operator
as essential to the achievements and com
forts of society as she farmer
We do not claim that all these grand
divisions Of society are numerically we'll
adjusted; not that the members thereof
are alike useful There are poor lawyers
and doctors, as we'll as poor farmers but
the classes themselves are essential to the
attainment of the highest degree of COM
fort, because /: is this organization OF
forces which enables the least expenditure
of labor to obtain the greatest amount OF
results.
Agricultnrists are necessary in the
world, but they are not essential to any>
one country thereof England to-day, by
setting it's millions of spindles at work,
and its thousands Of engines, that toll
with the concentrated power Of millions
of human hands, and whieh is importing
a moiety Of its food even now can. exist,
# it continues to have he'nsarkets Of the
world for it's manufacturers, without any
agriculturer at all. It's mining and manu>
features can set to work the farmers IN
Hungary, Turkey. Fand China, and in the
furtherest corners of tbs globe, to supply
them with the raw products of grain and
meat. AS long as English manufactures
can supply the people of these countries
with the manufactures of iron, cotton and
wool to advantage, its future is assured.
though not bushel Of grain grows within
its boundaries.
In Our seaboard cities this same ass of
agitaters that in the country tell the far
mer she pays for alp make similar asser>
atoms, TO the working man. Entrance.
and particularly in Paris, this long con :
tinued agitation has produced its legitimate
fruit in the Commune revolt, and the
world ought to be thankful to France tina t
it has given an exhibition of the ruin aud
devastation which doctrines like these
bring to the populace.
Let every citizen who has the welfare Of
the country ct heart, and especially every
intelligent agrIeulturaiist- and the Amegi>
can farmers as class possess rare good
sense andjudgement-se his face ike a
rock against these base attempts to excite
hostility and ieaously between the differ
ent classes OF civilized society.
We take it that every man in this
broad land who IS not directly pecuniarily
Interested in u particular railway. is n
favor of cheap transport ton. We take
it that the masses of citizens of all classes
are in favor Of any measure which promi-
SEES to resultEln the conveying to their doors
their goods and products at the cheape :
rates. why, then, should we not all
0perats TO think oct the best possible way?
Another system Of Remuneration has
been. practlced against what is called the
" middle man." Far be it from us to say
that the cooperative association of far-
mers for the purpose of importing par
ticular article may not be pecuniarily ad,
vantageons; and that the experiment
should not be tried, though hitherto near>
ly all smIlary associations have prov ed in
the course of time to be failures, on ac>
count of the rapacty of the agents emplys
ed. Let this experiment he fully tried, and
If it is successful so much the bette but
the indiSoriminate denuncat.on of retail
merchants, and other classes of mercan~
tile men, is wholly uncalled for
Suppose the farmers ola Earicular county
could organize system by which single
store should supply them with all the dry
goods, drugs, medicine, hardware, mas
chineiy, aud; in fact, with all articles now
furnished by twenty establishments. If
this single eStablis hment were to Supers
cede the others, 1t woul! drive away the
doctor. the minister, and blacksmith and
and mechanic, andsreunce city of Ave
thousand inhabitants to perhaps twenty
families. What would the farmer gain |?
Suppose he should get his goods ~ MY
ave per cent. cheaper, he would still be
the loser. And why VIII: will he
have his market for wood fruit, vegetables
butter, eggs. and other pershable pro-
duce a Samnle of this system ean no