The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-27

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vas recently read by Hiss Gene
We've Kinsell before a farmer in
stitute at GresnwIch, Ohio. It Is
welcome to the columns of The
STAR. and commended to the care
full thought of It's read ers. It is
truthful, logical ana forcetul.
WHAT Ts THE FARMERS FUTURE?
The payment Of all expenses for
our social, civic and com merciaI
establishments falls upon the far
mers, nc matter by what process its
collection is made. BY any and
every process ultimate paymen is
made from and by an appropriation
Of farm products, and the farmer
has what is left.
When Columbus set foet on
American soil no taxes we're levied
because in the state Of nature there
was no surplus of labor's produce
ton and land in q state Of nature
needed ne care and would not pay
taxes.
AS men lAbored thereafter they
first consumed what their needs de-
manded of their products and when
a surplus accumulated which had
to be protected land guarded. and
the expense h o
paid, taxatiOn came.
As time passed the laborers and
surplus increased, and sx expenses grew
until TODAY the single item Of ex,
pense Of civil government in the
United States, in town, county, city
State and Ratisn aggregate per year
about $50 for each man, woman and
child in the natisn.
The collection fer general govern.
ment, besides its income from the
public domain is ever 100000
q year.
The City Of New Ysrk Ievies over
$50 per head for city govern ment
alsne,
The &36, 900, 900 levied by New
York for city expenses is collected
from the country through IT'S inter
nal co0merce-by levy in one
way and another upon the farm
prSaUcts sold there snd upon heces~
saries coming from there"it is
deducted frsm the price paid by the
consumer Of flour which goes there
and levied upon tea, coffee and 10th
er goods which GENE frsm there
The cost Of all city living is paid by
the country.
When we reflect upon the fact
that tea, which is landed in New
York at d cents a pouad, costs the
farmer IS cents, and that the flour
which leaves the farm at So. so
reaches the mechanic at IS, we
can understand that somebody at
the transfer house Is taking large
toll. and that his mill grinds as the
tide runs--beth ways.
These things ws see, but there are
more and still worse things which
we don't see. Thirty years ago Jay
Gould and Williau RocklIe fer
were men working in the City OF
Cleveland on salarY-the one IN
the Cleveland and PittsbHrg Rail-
road ss superinten dent and engineer
and the ether with Hubby, Hughes
q Co. as boskkeeper-neither
having anything but his wages 70
live upon.
To-day both are IN New York,
each one wsrth 500, 100000, be-
cause the income on the stocks
they hold is ave millions a year to
each,
Can anyone tell or see hsw this
vast sum las bean produced or
earned by these men as bushel Of
wheat is earned sr produced by you:
There are seven millions eff far.
mers and farm lab0rers in this coun-
Try who produced that wealth-and
these two men have it
tits the old fable of the 10000
little bees cooperating with one big
man. They gathered the honey
into box for their share. and he
carried away the box tor his share.
Hsw many such men are there IN
this csuntry'
It Is estimated that 1000 men
exist in the United States who, coll
lectively, own and ENJOY more
wealth than the whole 7,000,0 600
far N ers.
All this has come to pass lawfuIs
ly.
As in the ease of Gould and Rock
teller, so with the 1000 All this
marvellous growth or ambulance
Of wealth has occurred during the
past thirty years, under laws
then existing or enacted during
that period.
Look IN another direction at pub
lie expenses. Take up the salary
and fee bill of any county, city and