Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-26

art, and ten ether darkies viii be
found hoping for a revenue from
backing shoes in places where the
men 60 barefeoted. But how do
these whitewashing "darkieso of the
South differ from the whites in the
North who desire to be book agents
in towns where shotguns and cross
dogs are awaiting the canvasser7
How different from the whites who
wish to shovel 100 tons of coal for
the family which has had difficulty
in paying for few baskets full of
'slittle eggsin Virginia would supply
hountiful table for million of
these hopeless seekers of something
for nothing. Going to the land for
support they would find how much
better it is to expect something from
something.
Ohio could take millioa, Indiana
million of these persons who are
carrying some form of industry for
which there is no demand. In Paris
there was a reason for a procession
headed by a girl, carrying on ban
ner the omineus word, Bread. !"
Then industry had been long defraua-
ed by political crime; but in America,
where industry has made great blun-
ders only, and has made ten clerks &c
one farmer and ten girl canvassers
for one girl gardener or girl farmer,
the procession ought indeed to march
once again, and should carry once
more the device, Bread" but the
march should move with music to-
ward the idle fields where bread is
wont to grow.
money. But they do not need money.
Ii they he'd it they would spend it for
food and clothes. The crisis is met
when these persons have resolved to
raise bread and clothes out of the
soil. Money then ceases to be ne
cessity. Many of us older men re-
member when in all the pockets,
trunks, drawers and old stockings in
the farmhouse all the police in the
world could not have found a dollar
of money, but memory recalls ia 5le
loaded with abundance, and with
even such delecacies as coffee, sugar,
and molasses. purchased by barter.
Most of the clothing was made at
dome. In those days money was not
a god. The great fields of wheat and
corn, the garden, the chickens, were
the forms which the money god took
forty years ago Some currency was
needed in tax paying time, but the
schoolmaster boarded around, and a
part of all salaries and wages was
paid in things from the land.
| When one looks out upol the vacant
millions of acres in the nation, and
then look at the number of poor, the
feeling comes that they need not be
poor. the mental care and the actual
walking about TO seek work invole
more real labor than would he requir-
ed to entice a good living out of the
fields The officially OF the case is
that of causing the millions who are
almost breadless to turn to the grows
ing OF grains. Farming is not only a
science and an art, but it is also taste,
and hence to carry new millions from
town streets 10 the fields is heavy
task. But many thousands can pass
from city life to country life, and
should do so in these years of mechan-
ical and clerical excess. The farm
offers support, home and happiness to
many millions besides those now liv
ing among plows and hoes. For I, 1000
years to come, if the climates of
earth remain what they are. to day,
the agricultural life will stand as a
refuge for millions who may desire to
flee from social wrath to come.