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

sCttnCc, are DIS csSetltlal " TIC WEI
fare OF the farmer as the farmer is to
those institutions.
Then there Is the miner, who toilr'
in the bowels OF the earth, far rem
from the genial light OF the o. !:
the damp, cold atmosphere &c !.
deep. Iron, coal, and cor :,
results of this hard lab ~
engineering skill VIII; -,
ing possible. Do, 49,
,ha. the iarms, - any one p'e,e"'
plow or wit. ' wv 10
20 " Aout the iron machin,
to any advantage?
.,ersons necessarily engaged il
wy transportation OF produce an,
Jods-the engineer that is IN charg.
OF the Locomotive, as we'll as the
telegraph operator that announces
that the way is clear, are as essential
to- the achievements and comforts oil
society as the farmer.
We do not claim that al, these
grand divisions OF society are nu.
merlcally web adjusted, nor that the
members thereof are alike useful
There are poor lawyers am doctors.
as well as poor farmers; bnt the
classes themselves are essential to
the attainment OF the highcs, degree
OF comfort, because it is the organl.
zation of forces which enables the
least expenditure OF labor to obtain
the greatest amount of results.
A griculturlsts are necessary some.
where IN the world, but they are not
esaentia! TO any enc country thereof.
to day, by setting its mll-
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 noiety of its TODD even
now, can exist, if it continues to have
he markets OF the world for its
without any agricult.
Ire at all. It's miners and manufac.
.nrers can set to work the farmers in
Hungary, Turkey, and China, and ia
he turthest corners of the globe, to
supply them with the raw products
If gram and meat. AS long as En-.
slish manufacturers can supply the
peoples Of these countries with the
OF IRON, cotton, and
WOOL to advantage, its future is as.
nred, though not bushel Of grain
grows within its boundaries
~ ..,.,
lass OF agitators that IN the country
ell the farmer he pays for all make
lmllar assertions TO the working
nan. In France, and particularly in
'aris, this long continued agitation
las produced is legitimate fruit III
he Commune revolt, and the world
nght to be thankful! to Franco that
has given an exhibition Of the ruin
nd devastation which doctrines like |
hese bring to the popnlaee.
LIT every citizen who has the we'll
arc CT the country at heart, and es.
eclally every intelligent agricul
the American farmers
8 a class possess rare good sense and |
his face ike a rock
gainst these base attempts to excite
ostilily and jealousy between the
iffercDt classes OF civilized society.
We take it that every man in this
road land who is not directly pc.
n.iarily interested in a particular
allway, Is in favor OF cheap trans
9rtion. We take it that the masses
{ citizens Of all classes are in favor
t any measure which promises to
esnlt IN the conveying to their
oors their goods snd products at
he cheapest rates. Why, then, should
e not all cooperate to think out
he best possible way?
Another system Of denunclation
as been practiced against what is
allied the "middle.man." Far be it
rom us to say that the cooperative
ssociation of farmers for the pur.
ose Of importing particular article
nay not be pecunarly advantageous,
nd that the experiment should not
% tried, though hitherto nearly all
imilar associations have proved in
he course OF time to DC failures, Oh
ccount OF the rapacity ofthe agents
mployed. Let this experiment be
llly tired, and II it is. successful so
,uch the better; but the indiscrilni.
ate denunciation OF retail merchants
nd other classes OF mercantile men
, wholly uncalled tor.
Suppose the farmers OF partlcu-
" county could organize system
y which a single store should sup.
ly them with all the dry goods,
rugs, medicines, hardware, ,nachin.
ry. and, in tact, with all articles
ow furnished by twenty establish.
aents. II this single establishment