The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-01-29
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FARMING DON'T PAY.

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No sir, farming don't pay. Some
body Messrs. Editors has made bril-
liant discovery, and we farmers and
farmers wives are going to profit by
it. at don't pay" these cold morn
ings with the thermometer at zero to
jump up at day light and hurry
broadcast, feed the poultry and pigs,
milk the cow, wash dishes, tidy the
house, and SO on, while the "gude
mon" hurrys off to the plough and
tolls all day, in cold and heat, winter
and summer, day after day. 1t don t
pay and we are going to quit it
What craven wretch wants to be a
drudge all the years, when at the
end of each one, he can scarcely
make buckle and tongue meet No,
we are going to quit it, and all move
into the cities, and become gentlemen
of leisure, and ladies Of pleasure
Well attend all the balls, parties,
lectures, fairs, Ego shopping" and
wear fashionable clothes and have a
happy time generally. Earning
don't pay"-why persist in it !
We will have a wall built around
Que city high and broad as the
.sChina walI'' and exclude all the
rough unsigbtly farmers, with their
prosy wives, and we will live like
Barnum's "happy family" only to be
looked at and be admired. But stop,
stop-we shall have to make a CON-
promise with somebody, what will we
subsist uponY We must have bread
and butter, and poultry and eggs,
YOU know. What shall we do p
We have taboed farming and farmers
and farmers wives with their little
truck wagons. We are not ETHEREAL
beings to exist on air. o! the rail
roads-they will bring us wheat and
corn and turkeys and chickens and
butter and eggs. They will, will
they9 You forget there are no farm
ers to raise these articles now
Charming don't pay" and the've all
gone at something else that WH
"pay." Now, you're at your wits
end. You've discouraged the farm
ers that took so much pains and toll
ed so hard to produce the accessories
of life, for you, and brought them to
market to exchange for your calico
and sugar and coffee, at a reasonable
rate-but he is discouraged, has quit
it-you have killed the goose that
layed the "golden egg" And what
shall you do nowG Well | don't
know, / never before thought that
the farm was so valuable, and more
than that, necessary to the worlds
subsistence. Think of all the in
habitants of all the cities in the
world"-'' their name is legion" and
then are not farmers-ma of them
never did days work in their lives
they scorn work, some of them
AMI yet they live by, or, on the farm
crs sweat and toll. Where would the
Queen get her roast beef, of which all
Englishmen are so fond, or, our Presi
dent his fine horses, if there were no
farmers to raise the bovine and equine
animals. Abolish farming and see
where we are!
Of what use would commerce,
trade, manufacture or any other of
the arts and occupations of men be,
if there were no farmers to raise pro-
visions, whercwi,h to feed their en-
ployees They may scratch their
heads and call on "lIercules" in vain,
unless we can persuade the farmers
s1to put their shoulders to the wheel"
for our city ladies and gentlemen are
too puny and dainty for such hard
and rough wsrk.
But in all seriousness, think that
the honest farmer, and "honest man
is the noblest work of Cocoon
bine the two, and we have the one
of "natures nobleman." And am
truly sorry to see this endless TRADE
about farmers and farmers wives and
their ''bouncing daughters" 1t dis