The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-30
FARMER BUTLER
The TaEy That Ben Feeds 70 the
Changers.

williams Grove, Pa, 29.-General
Butler arrived to-day, was received
by 5000 people, and escorted to the
grand headquarters where be held
Snort recannion. AT 2 o'clock he
Svss escorted to the grand stand by
a very large number OF people, a
,snd. aud . squad Of ifty policemen.
Az he assembled the steps OF the piss-
form he was Loudly cheereI ana =
few minutes Ia or was introduced
nv worthy Master Leonard Rhodes,
Of the state grange. Gen. Butter, IN
a soesch saiI: "UeuaIIy speech 10
farmers commences in telling them
| how happv they are and how muen
their LOT ia 10 be desired shove al
others, and how excellent a tn'ng II
ia to blow ia the ground and drive
cows and milk them, and to make
but err and have other people eat ID
lam not going to begin my spescn,n
that way. a farmer Coy wss oFought
up in nv esrly youth on farm. not
like these, but so rocky that When
Ithev sent me afte, the cows couia
/ Iump q mile from stone to stone,
and never touch ground. know
something of farm life. 1t Is mars
life il well followed; it is astern lie
If well folio wed IL is an onerous HE
.. liz we'll followed. Tia fumer, as a
!, lrule, does not getrich, but he always
has q comfortable subsistence, sna
i. liz he Is industrious and. frugal ne
a laws IN a competency for his chilo-
!. rem, IL he as taught them to Wo, K
= wi b him, and not let them get the
foolish ,deas that the highest voca-
lion a man can have is 10 measure
: off calico with q yard stick be
= hind D counter. Never do that;
stay at home, Toys, ON the
farm. Let me tell you, one
. or two things, and thiS is politics,
: only YOU doa't know 1t. Ninety
nine men out of every 100 men that
: go into the city and go into busins es
: do not succeed IN high degree, an9
!; more than ninety out OF every IOe
!, fail utterly. The successes you hear
. OF. but the failures sink away into
obscutity. Your sODs who have gone
al into the city End their place az last
n in the poor. house, where history
u does not deal with them to any con
- siderable xtent, and it is as muct
r. worse fer girl as you can think.
~ speak like an old man 30 young men
" Mothers and fathers find goot
!. honest mechanic or farmer Il
-, your neighborhood and mar.
no the girls to them. AM
he let them be happy parents OF lin
children, again to marry with ina
class upon which ltha Eery founda
tion Of government rests. Now.
say farm life il hard life, but VIII
- is il hard life? Because you don
Aa get fair Hhare of the prof tina
, You produce. Look at the agricul
10 turaI implements | see hers. 30
"a "a much has the power of the fatms
- been increased by this improved NJ;
~ chinery? How much has produ'
w ton been increased? More than tV.
nu hund1ed fold. You can pIoonC
.,ia two hundred fold as much in tt
g e same time. Now, why is not tn
"a condition of the farmer two hui
ls dred fold better than it was befol
~ the good gifts of God, in the shsl
' a.. of machinery, were given him
~ make prodnction9 He eth
Us Us ought 80 get two hundred tim
II IA richer or be ought to VOL
Us two hundred times less than form
las erly. But he don't Where hi
as this money gone? Who has IL
~ Voice in crow, "Phe monpoliss
Gu Not always the monopolist, but
gets most OF it. The f4rmer hash
n ~ got it. He has got his land lit
M. " better or a little worse, but alIth
.n great production has gone eom
wy where. It has not been eaten Il
Tee ts it has not been burned; it has n
ne. taken wings and flown awsy Y
w vii see 1t In these immense II
tunes which hays been acquired.
~ am not here to cay one word again
' .S the men that acquire them. |
~ here to arraign the laws OF the cou
@ try which allow tkem go to acc
OS'' mulate the wages Of honest lat
and honest production. (Applaus
ana mere TO say that laws and lie
lislstors that can be 40 manipulate
2ise SO as make the rich richer aud
MAJ poor poorer, ought to. be change
rms There are fifty billion dollars
ton property in this country. Farm
rps. own more than one-iourthr w
:, Rs why have they not got rich? Z
does cause, fret, their riches don't a
sent in piles to them; it Is a stsa
stream, and then you pay all
art, taxes substantially Ii we Co
fos have all this fifty billion Of PFC
erty taxed, the taxes would
u, nothing at all. They would
the only a flea bite; but Mr.. Vanderl
swears thai, under the law, be
not taxable at all for any perso
property, and yet by your laws
had at that time $250000(?1 Of
1erai tional and other securities, and
ON law would allow him to escape ia
Ms ton. DO you say word ab
the those laws? On, no: you get up
er Oh manner o. quarfeis about st
N Id rights and old matters Of any 4
oid thst were matters Of long sge;
Iona will call himself Rspubll
and the other Democratic, and
vexed and angry, and you are |
every day while aua,reling. I
Iuan- nothing more OF nothing less. v
!. the does the far aner pay SO much?