St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-15
THE FARMERS STANDING
As Compared With Trades and
Professions, as Considered at a
Farmers Institute

Professions, as Considered at a
Farmers Institute.
Mr.. Inter said: "The time was when
the farmers and their families were
plain, thrifty people, living within their
means. But of late the young people
have notions OF dress and style which
the income of the farmer can
not keep up with. If the farmer
is going to have good COM
mercial standing he must live within
his income. He can not have as fine
carriages and turnoutS as Vanderbilt or
Gould. and his sons and daughters must
not be allowed all they want for fine
clothes and decorations of the house.
A farmers son or daughter does
not reed gold watch and chain and
diamond and jewelry to give him or her
standing. If they have not intelli-
gence and culture and refinem emit, no
amount of glitter and outside show can
help them. No, it will injure them.
Mir. Elliott said in the olden time the
Scripture promise that ''Seed time and
harvest should not fall was comfort,
and an assurance of prevention from
want ana poverty; but now the harvest
does not amount to much, so long as the
markets are manipulated by the bulls
anu U6dTS anu COlHUillcS. 1H6 ldl liltl ,
success seems to be in learning
TO LIVE ON LESS
than other people. If he has nothing
left after he has paid taxes, repairs and
doctors bills, his family must wear
their old clothes another year, and live
| on salt meat and corn bread. The fact
| that farmer can dig living out of his
garden and field seems to be a warrant
| for the lawmakers and spectators to
make him bear the burden. The single
tax theory is an illustration.
Mr.. Harris said farming compares
! favorably with other callingS, taken in
the long run. The delinquent tax list
tells the story. There are fewer
| farmers on that list than tradSmen and
professional men. Farmers, as class.
| debts beyond their ability to pay: and
for this reason, the merchants and bust
ness men are ready to have them run
| bills. They know such bills will be
paid as soon as the farmer turns his
| crop iuto money: and because he
| cannot ripen his harvest to a day,
or turn it on to the market to a
| day. as can business men, in cities on
| paved streets OF beside railway tracks,
| these same business men know the far
| mer is dependent Oh roads and weather.
| These two things-the condition of the
| roads and the weather-make it impOs-
sibie for the farmer to realize on his
products as promptly as can the people
| at business centerS. Aside from such
| drawbacks, the farmers are reliable as
class. a smaller per cent of them
fail in business than of merchants and
| manufacturers.
The farmer makes his money slowly,
| and il he has economy and industry he
is sure to succeed if he will
KEEP OUT OF DEBT.
The merchant and implement meI
are always too ready to trust him, ane
here is where many farmer make;
l debts which give him trouble.
Mr. McClintock said every man know:
his own troubles, and imagines other:
are not afflicted as he is. Every bust
ness has its back-sets and difficulties
and perpleXitieS which beset the
business men and their families they
would not envy them. These very mel
have a respect for the farmer of fruga
life. The simplicity of the farmer:
mode of livingi is attractive to the maj
overwhelmed with the multitude of de
tails of vast business, and they ever
hope. some day, to find rest in The
quietude of a country home.
Amateur farming, as these city mer
| fancy IT, is altogether different thins
from the grinding drudgery which
| comes to the farmer of little means.
is difficult in any business to conduct i
satisfactorily without capital. Thu
farmers who are in distress now ar,
men who for years have been trying II
do bigger business than they hat
capital for A man who goes int
manufacturing, banking, real estate
merchandising, without capital ade
Gnate, is sure to come to grief when tn,
times are depressed: and the farmer i
no exception to the rule. Too many
FARMERS ARE IN DEBT
| for their farms. They bought farm
hoping to pay for them out Of earnings