Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-04-11
SOME FARMHRs, OPINIONS.
How Many Hssachars are Their
Among Delaware Farnersi


Among Delaware FARMERS
In the New York Estaing Post ~. o."
recently wrote as follows We read in
the report of Congressional proceedings:
Senator Paddock presented a petition of
the Nebraska State Farmers Alliance OF
Nebraska asking that the volume OF money
be increased. The petition says that the
present economic condition Of the state OF
Nebraska and the country generally is
anomalous, inasmuch a., while the pro-
duetlon OF wealth is unprecedented, the
condition OF the producers OF wealth Is not
improving, but Is, on the contrary, retro
grading. While no period has Witnessed a
greater aggregate increase Of wealth than
the past 20 years, at the same time the
farmers OF Nebraska are sinking deeper
and deeper in debt.
At the Revenue Reform Convention in
Chicago last week, listened to repeated
declarations of intelligent Nebraska
farmers which emphasized the last SEN
tence of this paragraph and were in full
accord with the attachments embodied in
this petition. But ii did not occur to
them TO esk Congress to increase the
''volume of money"
How this is 20 be dong does not appear.
As a general thing money is not dlsbursed
| in community unless its members pro-
vide an equivalent for it, Our inform
| ants at the convention told us that this
| was the difficulty under which they
labored. They agreed with those petit
! TONERS that sit ia becoming Eafe to find
farms which sTs not murtgaged. Tenant
| farmers are rapidly increasing, and fail
ures OF country merchants are becoming
more numerous day by day. A conserY.
ntiye estimate places the amount OF farm
mortgages in this state at $150,000, 600,
! which. at per cent, takes Sl0,5OJ, 00J
annually out Of The state"
That is undoubtedly true. These are
igures which, to the sorrow OF farmers,
do not )ie.
l have not the slightest sympathy for
such men. They go on year after year
despite the fact patent before their eyes
that they sell everything on the free
trade principle and buy everything on
tue pEotectionist want Of principle. and
then wonder why $40, 10000 is taken
annually cut OF tho state
And now their senator, who has en-.
oonrsged them in this stupidity, presents
their petition for an impossible volume
of money to compensate them for it.
Ono farmer ut least has had the hon
eaty to write the farmer down as au ass
Mr.. j. Q, Smith OF Ohio, practical
agricnlturaiist, said, in closing his ad
mirabe speech
Year after year the farmer may toll on
hoptnS for better times, and gettlng deepel
: ami deeper 10 debt as millions IRE nov
doing in this great and fertile west. Hi
property may depreciate In value. Fo
MIN the law has no help. The government
does not insure him the original loss OF hi
| land nd lnfaralt q q N tnaura
the lumber lords OF Michigan. 1t Is hi
: business to be taxed and taxed, eternall,
, taxed, to insure prosperity and wealth
ease and comfort to other men. But, a
each recurring election approaches, he |
, ssductiveIy assured IN the bandest tone
that It Is all done for his benefit. If b
cannot sea that, II he disputes II, he is de
: nounced as a sympathizsr with the rebel
lion and q miserable British free-ttnder.
4 We ara told In the Bible that when Jaco
! was about to die he called his sons Rbou
him to give them his opinion Of tneir cna,
, scters and foretell what would bsfall then
! He said OF one of them: "IssRehar is
!. strong ass, COUGHING down between tw
! burdens. And he said thai rest was goo
4 and the land that 1t was pleasant; az
) bowed his shoulder to bear and became
I servant unto tribute" Can there be
1 doubt that lssachar was farmer Are M
the farmers of this country his lineal d
u SCStiltAlS 1uby hTb ny II
= spirit. They take pleasure In bowling the
o shoulders to bear and bv their own dssl
become servants unto tribute,
. There ia NOT farmar in NahrsSbn
wnere eise rho nNg not tine .AGA5,
in rnu6eiE, tIg tGsFa n Gdr
= atsnea tHty " IS per cent G. read
2, made clothing; and thst the Tailnrs' co
@ vention, recently sitting in New York, n
.. conBidering that sufficient protection
a demanded rs per cent Consequently,
~ farmer sends o quantity OF wheat
q corn to Liverpool, and imports the !,
y turns in ready. made clothing for himsI
40 and his neighbors, he must iuevitat
" pay duty of IS per cent, thus sure
~ dering to the cnstops house within
20 small traction OF one. half his crop. I
pa confession OF our domestic tsilors mal
10 it evident that they would charge him
~ equal amount if his wheat is sold in {
- .,home market, and that they are 1
no satisfied with that. The farmers out
is in clothing, in implements and in @
~ sumption. 70 meet this outgo hig
~ cOrae is reduced nearly one.half, wherl
'le bis supplies are obtained at home
su from abroad. The farmers ia the hi
an cent simplicity Senator Paddock's
II the brazsn impotence that appeara
Y tae presentation of this petition for g
so lief
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