The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-27

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Promising that he was more accu; toned
tn speaking on medical than agricultural
subjects, what he had to say would be Il hash
of what he had read, seen, felt and heard.
lie would consider the relations ofthc farm
pr to other classes and his social and poiti-
cal status First, then. they claim that they
are oppressed, and the claim cannot be
talked down, written down nor snpered
down (mark that wcll) Good authority
says that the best farms, well managed, do
not pay 3 per cent They COMPLAIN that
they work hard live poor, dress poor and
are seen by their servants, the officials, on
ly on election days; that their hard hands
and thick boots meet with cod reception in
the parlors of the opuent, and that all other
industries are better paid than theirs lie
had not been long Il farmer but long enough
TO know that there is some foundation for
these complaints.
There is something wrong in the United
States, as well as rotten in Denmark lie
had heard a bullet headed man in st Albars,
whom they called Judge" pass a snecring
remark about the farmers, but having prac-
ticcd medicine among them more than TWEEN.
ty-fiyc years, he was satisfied they were as
good as other pcoplc. All classes of la
borcrs, except farmers. have their Unions.
their compacts and methods of protection,
and Just in proportion to the benefits they
receive therefrom are they aggressive upon
us. Not Il strike made by the miners of
PENNSYLVANIA or the sh0cmal,crs of Massa-
chusetts but hits the farmer in Vermont.
Every hour taken from the artisans dav of
labor adds two to ours, and every dollar
added to his wages takes as much from ours.
Can we afford to stand idle spectators of the
consolidation of evory interest but ours
without an effort Mt self defence? These
combinations must be resisted with their
own tactics or we must succumb, as does
every dsorganized force when coping with
organization and discipline. While we are
feeding others for less than half the former
cost, they, by their compacts, are compel-
ing us to pay as much or more. All the con-
cessions made to the exigencies of the timss
are made on the cost of raw material We
pay as much for clothing and agricultural
implements as we did when it cost the
workman twice as much to live as now.
1t is stolidty to suppose that no one is
concerned in these things but the corpora
tons. Their trouble is only to adapt them
selves to the altered circumstances. Either
the consumer or farmer always pays the
added cost We sometimes CONGRATULATE
ourselves on living in a country where we
do not have to pay 10 per cent. tax. or
$500, for laying 80 feet of street. but in fact
we have to pay it. An assessment is laid
on the business that we do in these villages
to pay expenses. The real estate owner
charges it to the rent, the merch Mt on the
cost of his goods and so with every stately
cdiGce. public building and Measure rroun1
we nav the whole hill. onci1ls urotcs
sional men and tradesmen are the sheorors
and farmers the sheen. But. saws one. do
they not patronize us AS well? Are they
not as essential 10 our sunnort ne we ia
theirs? Is no, the thing mutual? Mutual
it may be. but not canal. We may need
cities and towns but NOT ot Il ruinous rate
We need middle-mcn, but aside from their
husincss eypenses. there is M Good reason
why they should be better maid than our-
selves. That they ratronize us i, true.
lat not as we patronize them Their
whole system is based ON profits while we
rarely evcrgct cost They live by
iraiiicking in the products of labor !;
we iv labor alone. Profits flow MS n1tilr-
ally to the city as streams 10 the ocean
Everything is higher there and has to be
well paid for The producer of ANYTHING
there finds it extensive to live aud adds the
percentage to what he sells. The purchaser
pays the bill and so the wave rolls back I'M
Ill it strikes the farmer and there stops, a.
it must, for when all these extravagances
ace referred to the committee on agrcul-
lure, where shall they refer them?
II j. wholly wrong when farm product,
do not bear II just relation to the products
of other labor, 1t can therefore he RENE
died, tor right, not wro ., is omnp0tent.
The cost of the table is two-thirds the cost
of the household and there is no other stan.
dard so proper by which to adjust scale
of prices as agricultural productions. No
matter what the price is, ii we make a fair
exchange. But when the odd are from two
to twenty against us-when we give "A bushel
of corn for box of pills, MS they do in the
West, and the pills cost five cents, the Joke
is too severe. We have to sustain ourselves
by working more hours and enduring great
er prvations. or depicting our capital. as
we are now doing for our farms are wear
ing out and we are getting nothing but the
value of our own labor. Now let us see
what kind of bargains we are getting with