The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-04-17
COMMUNICATION.

he made himself felt as power in
the land, 1t grew to be the fashion
for young men striking out career
for themselves. to so and ask him
what they had better do, and his al
most invari BILE answer was, so west,
and grow up with the country, land he
would kindly lay aside his own work
to explain the many advantages that
would accrue to man in taking that
course, and l we'll remember that he
wrote and printed In the n. Y. Tri-
bune lengthy and elaborate article
as an answer to all young men seek
ing his advice on that subject. But
the fashion grew until it became
nuisance to the busy editor, and 1T
fually so sourei his temper that it is
said that when young man called to
ask the stereotyped question, that
Horace without so much as stopping
his busy pen would answer Cd D-n
it go west. Now take farmer that
has the NnSolVable problem constantly
! before him of how to continue to
raise farm products,that costs more
| to produce than he can sell them for.
and then to Lave every nincompoop
i'll the land, that knows no more about
farming then Jack Ass does about
preaching, din into his ears morning
noon and night, the stale advise that
has met his eyes in every paper he
has looked into since he was baby,
and that advice of such q character
that if he was not an utter fool he
would not need 1t, say then II there
is no new solution to offer to the
problem that confronts the farmer
let the matter rest, lest the farmers
temper becomes as uncertain as was
the immortal Greely's. Now the old
formula of advice is something like
this; make more manure, compost it
better, apply it scientifically, pillow
better. put more narrowing on to
your grain fields, be more particular
about your seed, cut your grain as
soon as it will answer, get full blooded
sires for all your stock, have better
rotation of crops, work harder, be
more prudent in expenditures, house
your machinery. pay the printer,
fight shy of the saloons, keep out of
politics, and thank God if the hydra
+ headed hosts that live off the farmer
allow you to exc out a bare and
Scauty existence. The old saw that
has been sawed uutil the teeth are
worn off as smooth as the back, that
he who made two blades of grass to
grow where only one grew before,
was a public benefactOr, to my mind
IS the reverse Of true. If the world
could produce a person who could
compel The growing of only one
bushel Of wheat where two are now
gr0wn.u:tn d he would exercise his
it might prove the farmers
! salvation. But we find congress
h'mmerlng away year after year to
force the Indians to surrender what.
ever lands that have been left to
hem, that 1t is possible to grow
wheat on, and as fast as they are
secured they are surveyed, and given
away TO any one white or black
native or foreign born that will Gull
tlVate the land, and thus produce
more wheat, and that is the kind of
,, protection the farmer gets from the
best government the Sun ever shone
upon. We also find plenty of men
arguing long and earnestly that the
) government ought to furnish large
sums of money to irrigate the desert
lands of the west 80 that they would
, produce more wheat;tak the money
> that the wheat raisers of to day have
been taxed to produce, while raising
wheat at a.price that has impoverished
them, to still further depreciate the
price of wheat. Why it would be us
good sense, and as just, for the gov.
eminent to come to Minneapolis and
build as many more Touring mills rs
q are there now, equip them in the
r best manner, then turn all the people
! in the country loose, and tell them
+ the first man that fled on them should
own them if he continued to run
them FIVE years. What would the
I millers say to the government taking
q that course, but it would be in every
way similar to the course that they
! are pursuing with the farmers year
after year. l have an instructive
dread of the farmer attempting to
right his wrongs, if he has any that
= other people are bound to respect;but
it seems to me he has pretty nearly
I exhausted every other means OF
: securing himself even an existance,
!, and must OF necessity resort to poll
! Tties. IL is certainly thing 10 be
: deplored when class Legislation has &c
be resorted to. to secure the rights OF
= the producers, but suppose that class
: legislation need not of necessity
a 5e unjust legislation but when by q
desperate effort any Class as class,
secures the control of the law max.
y ing power there is always grave cause
r to fear extreme measures; measures
that will trench upon the rights OF
i; Others. Now it is not to be supposed
that the farmers as a class are any
7 more honest than people following
other walks in life, and the practice
of farmers and farmers papers, ex-