The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10
will grow here, as it should.

which has been established in ali Of the
most advanced communities, and it
will grow here, as it should.
The Faimer<--Two Views Of a
Question.
Some weeks ago l ventuFcd 10 offer
few suggestions 10 the farmers Of
Texas, which were fortunate enough
to meet approval. Being thus en-
corraged, | again solicit place in your
column for such ideas as have more re-
Gently occurred to me.
CITY PEoPLE-TR-ALs AND VIBRATIONS.
1t is too much TIE custom, when
comparing country and town life, for
the denizens of the former to contrast
their lot with that OF the wealthy re-
si1ents of the town. The plain, hard
working farmer comes into the city,
clad IN his old-fashioned jeans or
home-spun suit, which has perhaps
done service for years. His business
affairs lead him first to the spruce, &C
tive merchant, with his neatly dressed
clerk, all working under shelter in
large, cool, airy storerooms; thence
he proceeds to the lawyers office to get
title deed drawn up or have some
boundary line established between him
sci and his neighbor. Here, too, what
seems to him the acme of luxury greets
his eve. The lawyer, in his broad
cloth, lolling in his large armchair, his
floor carpeted, and in winter blazing
fire roaring on the hearth, and in sum-
mer in his cool and spetless linen coat,
near him the water cooler with its ice
cold beverage; he, as we'll as the ner-
chant, carefully screened from the howl
ing blast of winter and we'll protected
from the burning heat of summer. He
gets his deed andlis charged (from his
point of view a most extravagant
amount for the labor apparent. He
hears discussed around HIM almost
fabulous sums, large fees for what
it goes through all his rounds in the
city. If he needs prescription
for one his family he finds the ctor
even more delightfully."- situated than
the lawyer. He sees before the Office
the handsome Cquipage in which the
disciple of Esculapius makes his
rounds, and with an enSious heart COM
pares it with the old numbering wagon
in which he came to toWD, If he
goes to the court house to have a
brand rec ,rded, he finds the clerks in
their pleasant offices, surrounded wi h
every comfort and convenience. Agar,
if he brings IN farm products, butter,
eggs, chickens or potatoes, and
drives around among the residenc 8,
his discomfort is even greater. Nicely
dressed, smiling ladies come out with
patronizing airs, too dainty to touch
with the tip of their little jewelied
finger any of the articles contained in
that old wagon, many of which We
placed there early in the morning by
the careful hands of his good wife.
He completes the labor of the day, but
all the way home his mind is busy with
the thought, "How much better time
them town fellows have of 1t than We
poor, hard working country people,
But there is another side to the picture.
COUNTRY PEoPLE-PLEAsUREs AND IN
DEPENDENCE.
The farmer little knows how much
care and anxiety turks under all this
seeming case and comfort, how many
aching. weary heads are nightly laid
upon sleepIess pillows. The lawyer,
the physician, the merchant, all are
forced by the tyrants custom and fash
ion, and by the necessity of keeping
up their credit, to maintain a certain
outward shown short are the veriest
slaves to the necessity of ''keeping up
appearances" The dainty, fastldious
looking woman who pa'roniz d him SO,
retired, perhaps, to some shabby apart
ment at the rear of the house to prac-
tice petty economies, so that when she
appears in public she may be dressed
as her position in society demands.
OF the wretched, debasing expedients
to which many VINO make a goodly
show resort, our farmers and their fam
lilies are happily ignorant. He little
knows the envy and malice engendered
in the hearts of those who ia tho
crowded thoroughfares of life mingle
IN the great struggle for existence.
The weak and defenseless mass go to
the wall. Ia the country there is room
for all; dear old mother earth makes
to all who cultivate her generous re-
turn for their labor.
THE LORDLY FARMERS.
The hardworklng farmer who prIdes
himself on his love of equality, etc.,
will doubtless be very much shocked
and quite indignant when 1 accuse him
of being really very aristocratic, at least
in his town associations, and it is from
this very cause that have arisen those
erroneous ideas of the superior advan~
tsges of town life. Do you not find
him, when in town, with the profession
al men, the lawyer and the physician :;
with the men of capital, the merchant
and the banker? and it is with them
and their surroundings that he com
pares his situation in life. IT he has
business with blacksmith, saddler or
other mechanic, he enters with an air
quite as patronizlng as the dainty
danes mentioned above exhibit toward
him, and gives his order in lordly style
as becomes an owner of the soil. Does
he once compare himself with the hun
dreds of toillng hands around him2
With the steady stone mason, boiling
in an August sun with his never-ceas-
ing ''chiP," "chip" on the dazzling
white stone? Does he ever go, in i'm
aglnation, to the narrow homes of these
hard working men, note their scsnty
break fast, at which he sees not the
golden butter, the fresh-laid egg and
sweet, nutritious milk, which every
farmer can have at a trifling cost! The
fare upon the table of working man
in town seems, to one accustomed to
the abundance of a rural board, to
border very closely on starva
t on. Observe him hurried off early
in the gloom of cold winter morning
by the shrill, exacting whistle, which
calls for so many hours of thorough
labor each day, and demanding each
hour the full exertion of every muscle !;
no shrinking, no resting by the way
from summers heat beneath some
friendly shade; no lingering moment
10 the winter by the Preside with wife
and babies, or the manager will de-
duct from the wages, for first time,
and if the offense is repeated, the man,
with perhaps numerous family de-
pendent upon him, will find himself
dismissed from his place with small
hope of regaining II.
When the blessed Sabbath comes,
the day of rest, how gladly would
these pale, care-worn men, who have
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