Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-06-11

had a valuation Of $3.50 600, 900. Her.
produce had q valuation Of $40, OOO, 600.
Her manufactures netted $40, 1000, 00O.s
One item is passed over in our national
census, that of the cost Of farm labor. It
is not easy to estimate the self sacrificing
toll OF the farmers wife, or the work Of
little children, or of the older sons and
daughters. / admire the Millers' Asscci-
atoms, whatever opinion others may have
OF them, because they take care of their
own interests. They remind one of Jay
Gould, who, when asked what were his
politics said, When I am in a Republican
district am Republican when am in
a Democratic district am Democrat,
and when am in doubtful district am
doubtful, but am first, last and always
an Erie railroad man" This Miller's AS
seciatien, with capital on only $1O5OO,
600, and useing $37, 200, 900, OF raw mate
rial, producing 81 800, 600, of products at
cent. on that capital. We mine $751;, 600,
600, in gold and silver, hut pay $136, OOO,-
600, on imported sugar of which $45, 900,
600, goes for tariff. Every pound of this
should be grown in this country. In 1912,
Napoleon Bonaparte turned his attention
to the source OF sugar supply for blockad-
ed France. He set his chemists at work.
That year 1000, 900 pounds were produced.
Napoleon fell and his splendid empire
vanished, but the sugar industry went on.
10 day FrBnce supplies her own market
and exports one fourth of the sugar i'm
ported into other countries.
We ought to 20 to work and encourage
the raising of sugar growth, especially
the amber cane. Who is paying the in
debtedness of our government? The men
who fought it's battles, largely our farm
ers. Their possessions lie out beneath
the bowling tempest and the bright sun
shine, and cannot be hidden from the
assessor. Many OF those persons reputed
wealthy in personal effects escape with a
nominal tax. We must take greater
interest in politics. The science Of gov
eminent depends upon systematic knowl-
edge. 1t has to do with the relation of
man to man, and the promotion of mans
true interest. In the ballot lies the pos
sibility of great good or great evil. You
can vote up vice and vote down virtue, or
the contrary. What is a vote? The mate
rial represention of mans interest and
principles. What do we mean by repre-
sentation? Thepersonal rights we intrust
to others. We delegate our personal
rights to the man who labors upon our
farms, or the teacher who instructs our
children. We present ourselves in very
few places, at home, church and school
meetings. Now men cannot represent
that they do not live. want some one
to represent my interest. Who will this
or that man truly represent? That which
pays best. That his interests must be
Identical with my own. How much may
depend on one mans vote. One stormy
day farmer rode in from the country
and veted. He was rallied for his zeal.
When the vote was counted, his candidate
was elected by one vote. At the next
session OF the legislature, good law was
passed by one vote and that vote was given
by this mans candidate. So it will be that
in some, great contest in the national leg
islature etfecting the rights of the working
man one vote may decide the day against
him and enact a law wherein the working
man shall have no rights that capital is
bound to respect. And yet farmers are in
the majority. IS per cent of the votes Of
Michigan are farmers. Who are the child.
rem who are to form the body politics of
the next generation? rs per cent of them
are outside of incorporated villages and
cities. 1t is said by competent authorities
that every third generation in the cities
has to be supplied from the country.
They must be educated in the great prin-
ciples of justice, truth and morality. If
we do not walk in the light, our children
will likewise walk in the darkness. We
must build our fabric of present and eter-
nal good upon the bed rock of everlasting
truth