The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-03-26

SCiclce, are as essential TO the wei.
fare OF the farmer as the farmer is to
those institutions.
Then there Is the miner, who toils'
in the bowels OF the earth, far rem
from the genial light OF the sr
the damp, cold a.mospher. ~ "
deep. Iron, coal. and cor :,
results of this hard lab
engineering skill VIII; !. -.
ing possible. Dor
,ha, the farms, - .'':,' any one pre'e"''
plow or wit ., -. =.
could wer' o'' '"e ''o" inach'h'
~ -. " to any advantage
.ersons necessarily engaged il
-" transportation oil produce and
: ,ods-uhe engineer lha; is IN charge
OF the locomotive, as well as the
telegraph op -rator that announces
that the way is clear, are as essential
10. the achievements and comforts OF
society as the farmer.
We do not claim that al, these
grand divisions OF society are nu.
merically wcll adjusted, nor that the
members thereof are alike useiul.-
There are poor lawyers anl doctors.
as well as poor farmers; bnt the
classes themselves are essential to
the attainment OF the highest degree
of comfort, because it is the organi.
cation OF forces which enables the
least expenditure OF labor to obtain
the greatest amount of results.
AgricullurIsls are necessary some
where IN the world, but they are not
esaenta! to any cne country thereof.
England to day, by setting its mil
lions OF spindlcs at day, and It's
thousands OF steam engines, that toll
with the concentrated power of mil
lions OF human hands, aud which is
importing lnoie,y of its food even
now, can exist, if it continues 10 have
the markets OF the world for it's
without any agricult.
are ut all Its miners and manulac.
lurers can set to work the farmers in
Hungary, Turkey, and China, and in
HE turthest corners OF the globe, TO
supply them with the raw products
ot gram ard meat. AS long as En-.
sllsh manufacturers can supply the
peoples OF these countries with the |
OF iron, cotton, and |
wool to advantage, its future is as.
snred, though not n bnsheI Of grain
grows within It's boundaries
,lass OF agitators that IN the country
-ell the farmer che pays for all" make
similar assertions TO the working
nan. In France, and particularly in
Paris, this long continued agitation
ias produced is legitimate fruit III
he Commune revolt, and the world
,ught to be thankful TO France that
I has given an exhibition oi the ruin
mi devastation which doctrines like
t,nco hy,,,yr ~
1t every citizen who has the we'll
are cf the country at heart, and os.
,ecially every intelligent agricul
uralist-and the American farmers
s class possess rare good sense and
his face like a rock
ganst these base attempts to excite
'oslility aud jealousy between tho
lifferent classes OF civilized society.
We take i, that every man in this
'road land who is not directly pc.
u.iarily interested in particular
allway, is in favor OF cheap trans
'ortion. We take i. that the masses
i citizens OF all classes are in favor
i any measure which promises to
esnlt III the conveying to their
ooss their goods end products at
he cheapest rates. Why, then, should
Te not all cooperate to think out
he best possible way?
Another system of denunciation
as been pracliccd against what il
allied the middle man." Far be it
rom US to say that the cooperative
ssoc,ation of farmers for The pur
'ose OF importing particular article
nay not be pecuniarly advantageous,
nd that the experiment should not
20 tried, though hitherto nearly all
imilar associations have proved in
he course OF time to DC failures, OH
ccount OF the rapacity ofthe agents
mploycd. Let this experiment be
ully tired, and II it is successful SO
much the better; but the indiscrilni-
ate denunciation OF retail merchants
MI other classes of mercantile men
] wholly uncailed for.
Suppose the farmers OF particu-
Ar county could organize system
" which single store should sup.
'ly them with all the dry goods,
rugs, medicines, hardware, ,nachin.
rv. and, in tact, with all articles
Iow furnished by twenty establish
nonts. 1t this single establishment