Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-11-09
The American Farmer for November

The American Farmer FOR November
is on our table, filled, as usual, with articles of
interest TO the agriculurist. This number
opens with an ably written sketch of the life
of Benz. Hhllowell, from the able pen of VIM.
II. Farquhar, of this county. Italso contains
the first series of an article from Dawson
Lawrence and Wm. j. Scofeld, Of Brighton
Grange, of this county, on Political Econo-
my, )" well written, and from which we make
the following extracts:
"All necessary callings for all the voca-
tons of men are not necessary some are even
injurous-are equally valuable and impor-
tant and honorable, and the members thereof
ar equ ally honorable so far as the calling in
ITSELF is considered for the conclusion Is east
V and logically reached that the necessary
labors of the members Of the (so-caled) infe-
rior vocations would have TO be done by men,
beis of other vacations, if classes could not
be found for their performance"
1.-THE farmer, under complete and highly
developed social conditions, is no lon. or the
'independent' farmer When his wool and
cotton and flax were prepared and made into
garments in his house, and his crude imple-
ments wrought into shape on the farm which
| furnished the necessary supplies for his house
| hold, he was the ''inderendent" farmer but
so great has been the change effected by the
growth Of society that now there is no indie
| pendence in the callings, but dependence the
farmer is as dependent on the tailor and the
blacksmith for their products as they are for
| his Clothing and implements are now as i'm
! portaut as bread and this rule holds good cou-
cerniug the other vocations. in his hour Of
need, the farmer is as dependent on the other
pursuits OF his fellows as they are on his corn
and supplies and his peculiar isolated position
has rendered him the helpless victim of the
of the steps which other vacations have taken
| tor their own advancement: hence his subor-
/ dinate position hitherto and hence the i'm
portant and vital need of such knowledge of
! his relations with other vacations, as shall
lead TO proper adjustment of those relations,
| that the reward Of the labor of all may be
equally distributed among ALL to each accord
| ing 10 his merits and need-like the refreshing
rains and the sparkling dews, and the bright
sunshine and grateful shade; the odor of
flowers and the song of birds, and the splen-
dor that rests on ten thousand fair spots to
charm the children of Him whose widespread
| benediction crowns them with the abiding
evidence Of His impartial love, and all this
would follow the execution of the principles
of The science of social intercourse, political
economy for all these control and secure The
basis Of mans intercourse with his fellows
and through that necessarily bis peace progres:
and happiness. But such is not the condition
of things now the rewards Of labor are ia.
equiiably distributed, some are willing and
| anxious to work, but cannot obtain il some
are toiling constantly in deep mines in close
| and uuwholesOme factories in hot fields and
dangerous places; while others are enjoying
| disproportiOnate share of the product of The
labor of the toilers; oppressors on one side