The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
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ngs Of the tendency Of our British inan-
,ial system, and the da.. ger it threatened
10 industry, and the freedom and independ
ence Of the people. We again raise our
voice and tell the people that the
storm is near at hand. Their ruin is al
ready plotted, their manacles are being
forged, and the day of their enslavement is
set
With the country burdened with debt
daily increasing, whose interest absorbs
every dollar of the nations surplus, and |
with set of hireling robbers and assassins
at the head of our financial afaira who ,
are burning up millions of the peoples /
money every month, they are prepared TO (
tell with mathematical precision how long /
the life and liberty of free people can hold !
out. The following from the New York !
Weekly Times, is bat a feeler thrown out 10
prepare the minds of farmers to meet their
fate with becoming docility. Ii is the cul-
mination of a deep laid plot which the
money aEistocracy have had in view ever
since they usurped control Of our Govern
ment.
Formerly farmers worked hard, but bor-
rowed no trouble on that or any other ac-
count. Now they are care ridden and wor-
ried and worry is a far heavier burden
than work How TO procure money 10
make their ends meet, is the burden Of
their minds, and nothing comes TO ease it.
This is the general condition of things
among those who cultivate the soil. Ia
there way of deliverarcc? There seems
to be but one remedy, and that is a slow
one, and not Immediately effective. To
reach it both farmers and capitalists need
to be educated to it, bnt it seems 10 be
inevitable that it must ccme about in
couree of time. 1t is change of owner
ship of the soil, anG the creation of a class
of land owners on the one hand, and of
tenant farmers Oh the other, something
| similar in both cases. to what has long ex-
/ listed and now exists, in the older countries
of Europe, and similar, also, to a system
that is common in onr own State of Cali
fornia.
Those tdrmegs who are land poor. must sell
aud become tenants in place Of opners Of the soil
The boarded, idle capital must be infested il
these lands and turned over to the poor farmers
,rho aciU at opce be set upon their yteet-not tc
go and loaf about towns and Villages. spen
ding their money while it may last, but I,
buy with this money stock, fertilizers, i'm
plements and machines, and go to work t
cultivate the soil proftably. Instead c
} their money being sunk and dead in UT
t productive acres, it will beinvested in cows
= aheep, swine of improved breeds; in guam
: and fertilizers, by which the crops will b
I doubled or trebled. 1t will then becom
active and productive, and capable Of dont
D ling itself within the wear. The farmt
1 will DO relieved Of the burden of bad il
g vestment Oh which he now makes no inte
J. est, and his money will be placed where
e will do the most good. He will at once
4 lifted from poverty to financial ease, and
J. place of an unstable farm he will have
q realize all that it is worth at public SO
n at "a houres notice.
Very much more than this is implied
the change, that it is so obvious to Il
10 practicularized The owners Of money nc
s9 unprOductive, would, by thus inves.iI
= their idle capital, become possessed of re
y, estate OF The most valuable kind. In pia
" of an anxious, speculative business, full
J. of risk, they would have one OF an eas
'e agreeable character, which would drs
u them-to the country to care for the
- property, in the midst of rural pursuits a
VI pleasures The improvement of .bair la
by draining, building, fencing and cleariI
ne would increase it in value and iargaly a
" to its productive capacity. Their mon
al thus invested would find employment
u" themselves, as yell as set TO work ma
men now only half employed In eve
way there would be gain. Our moral
&c cial system would be improved, the s
=, would be made largely more prodncti
and money that now lies idle. folded a
hidden in a napkin, rs it were, would i.
r, put in circulation, and givin life to lab
-, would increase itself 1t would in fact 6
-, twice blest," blessing him that gives a
him that takes, and would fulfill its prof.
work in our social economy.
=" Ii would be attracted toward agricuit
e" as the safest investment, and farmers wol
e'e be relieved from what is now the source
-" bitter complaints, VIE: That capital avo
'N them. 1t ia very certain that Ameri
agriculture is on the eve of serious chanl
and of great Improvements. This must
for it cannot 60 back and il cannot S
ew where il is The greatest industry of
ich country cannot remain in an unprfita blt
ad unsatisfactory condition, nor can it long
on main without the use of adequate capita
cry invigorate it and give it full scope. Th
en- sands Of persons now idle look to it
ch, employ yment, and If there were farms
owe it for employment, and if there were fs
tly, to rent there wonld he plenty Of tenants
ssi, them.
niie Everything ,eems ripe for the char
ter, Half the farms in the country are read
Inc be sold if buyers would only appear.
IL hundreds that can now be bought for
N than their value 90 or 80 years ago, u
re- only some judicious ontlay TO make Il
aH- as productive as ever. Few farmers
ing hope to provide their sons with farms
re- their own, and there is no place for Il
"e young men in the overrcrowded cities.
to stock q rented farm is not difficr
rec matter for father intent on -tarting a
pFst in life This would he easv t" do if
ced. farm could be rented on long and :,
az factory lensr. But before this be done
on" owner of the land must hold ii as a
7" M manent investment, and not as prop
M" 70 be offered for sale to the first col
mes When farm land is 80 held by the ow
'AhS there will he some probability, If not
o'- tainty, that IL will be permanently imp