Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-12
: AGRICULTURAL.
MATTER PREPARED SPECIALLY FOR
TEE RECORD UEIoN."
Combinations against Parmsrs-caiifornis
Kops-The Peach for Canning
Zeal and False Butter,

may say almost all the business Of the world.
The farmers produce that which gives bread
and butter, and clothes, and furniture for the
their houses, sni almost every Bscess SKY
and luxury 80 themselves and the rest of
mankind. OF ssever class or business.
But while the farmer stands at the threshold
of the move towards universal Industry
and universal civilization, he is the
goose FROM which numbsrs OF every
other class assm to think tbey have
an unlimited license to pluck the richest aud
nost valaabEs feathers. Combinations are
maze by whcat-3uyers TO get wheat from the
producers 1t the very lowest figure at which
j. eau be raised and put into the rnarket,
regardless CT the profits OF the pro-
ducsr and regardless of the wsgss Of the
laborer. Combinations are made by trans
p1rters OF wheat by land and water to take
al that the product of the farmer can pcs.
sibly pay for the service and not completely
choke OH or ssarve out production, with per
feet indifference as to the fate Of those too
condding classes of peepls who are content
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brows. Traaesnei of every description seek
every opportunity as individuals, or combined
in mutual protection leagues and dissertations,
to make the most off of handling the produce
Of the farm-so make it honestly, IL they
can, but TO make it-without ever thinking
or caring whether the horny-handed
Granger taat produced it has any
thing left on which to support and educate
his family. Middle men of every description
have SO blocked up the road between the pro.
Queer aud the consumer, Ia whatever part of
the world either Is TO be found, that there ara
q thpussud-zld-one toll gates, at each Of
which there is q heartless tolI-gatherer, with
ir0n-bound instructions TO gather the last
can't OF toll shat any article Ia transit can
pay and still continue on towards the con.
Eumer, and TINS there always has been and
probably always will be a comparatively de-
pendent class az each ED Of the tolI-road, or
combination OF toli-ro8ds, between the pro-
Queer aud the consumer.
Notwithstanding the almost innunersbls
Inventions Of society, by " hich individuals
c1ntrive directly or Indirectly to get q living
out Of the producing classes, on the other
hand the increased intelligence of these class.
es, and the greater facilities for produe.
hADu -s-AApiFlNA b1 idDOE-SAfAlB machines,
have enabled them Co maintain their
Position comparatively well on the
onward march Of mankind toward a
higher stRse Of civilization. We ara not
among those who profess to see in the rapid
strides the world is making in scientific dis
coVerles anG the practical uses TO which man
Is applying them in the economy of general
progress, preponderancs of evils or disadvau.
tagss to the masses. There are, It IL true. a
fsvU iaA -usz- -r.Ios fo IL,
would have hawilderedthe world century
ago; but while few have become richer, we
deny that the InGssss of mankind have not
keps pace with the general movement on.
ward and upward. La other words, we deny
that the poor in any Feuse have become
poorer while tbs rich have b scome richer. We
do not believe that such Is the tendency Of
tbs age. a huadred years ago, it is true that
the rich lived in houses comparatively plain
and insignificant when contrasted with the
palaces supported by the classes that fortune
has smiled on at the present day. But what.
were then the hahitations of the Door as COM
pared with the comfortable residences afforded
by those in the Eum0legs circumstances
among us nov? We know that the private
livery establishments OF to-day's rich private
ci5iZens far exceed the mest glittering turn
outs Of the kiDgy or queenly rulers a the
grestest nations hundred years sine but
do not the poorest OF 20 days people com
mand and freely use floating pslaces, com
Portable and richly-fGrEished railroad and
street cars, and easy and rapid stage.c0sches.
in their frequent j1urpeyin from plaza to
place, and indeed from country TO country or
from continent to continent? l. is true that
the daughters of the rich are clad in fine
linen and silk, even as the Queen OF Sheba of
another age, and that they do not weave.
neither do they spin; but how is it with the
daughters of the poor as compared with their
grand andgr at rAndmothers OF a century pas
Few of our poor working girls of to-day weave,
neither do they spin, but they wear finer linen
and richer silks, more elaborately spun and in
geni0usly woven w.tamoiern machinery, By
aid of which one single operative can accom-
plish more and do it better in making SUBJ
stantial and elegant wearing apparel than
thousand spinners, weavars and seamstresses
could accomplish hundred years ago.
While Eve, who ruled over the destinies of
all mankind and melted the heart Of the first
man of the world, appeared on great occa-
sions in fig leaves, the humblest Of our
daughters are clad as the lilies of the valley
snd the sunh )wers of the field.
1t is true that the tables of the rich are
losdsd with the most costly Injuries from all
parts of the world, but IS it no. True also
that the poorest among US are daily in the
enjoyment of a hundred more dslicacies and
luxaries than were procurable by the rich of
one hundred years since? Indeed, the hum
hlsst of our citizens regard many articles of
food as among the nscessa,ies or their tables
which the rich could not obtain but half a
century ago. Then the very rich are
but few, while those il medium
and humble circumstances constitute
the great mass of mankind Modern civil.
izltion, while it may make it possible for a
few to become millionsires. gives To tie
many the means and facilities Of erieyment
and betters the condition Of each one in the
same ratio or degree that it does the condi.
ton Ct each one CT the few that becomes itch.
The small farmer, therefore. who feels the
pressure of the hand of combined capital and
the greed Of the rich, is still much better off
than he was century or half a century
ago. Farmers must learn the power and adj.
vantage there is in union of interests and
union of action. Farmers now are intelli-
gent compared to the farmers Of even guar.
ter of a century ago, and they must learn TO
use that intelligence, not only in the cultivs.
ton OF the soil and the securing of their
crops, bat they must lesra to uss it in the
way Of marketing their crops and in coun-
teracting every aud al efforts, whether
made by individuals or by corporations,
to take undue advantage of them.
It is not necessary that farmer. to make
himself secure against oppression, should be
large wheat grower, large stock grower,
OF, large wine or wool grower; but it is
necessary that he should so place and con.
centrate his produce with similar produce OF
others that it will be SO object to the dealer or
commission merchant to handle it. When q
large amount of good wheat or other crop or
crops are concentrated at one point, aud tie
disposal of this wheat or other produce is
placed in the hands of one person as agent or
trustee, then it becomes an object for dealers
or commission merchants to secure it for the
profits or commissions that may be made or
it, and the dealer will give the highest price,
and the commission merchant will handle ami
sell it ct the lowest rate of commission. So
the transporter inland or on the sea will
transport large crop at lower rates than he
can AFFORD to a small crop. Farmers must
use their intelligence to secure benefits TO
themselves and their associate farmers. It
does not pay the farmer to be selfish, or to
keep himself aud his interests separate and
apart from his fellow farmers. While we
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