The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-10-08
DEPEW ON FARMING.
He Urges Farmers to Combine, and
Thus Have Voice in the
Government


The PR sident in New York { en-
trails "A many>sided mau. He ca
quiet n strike or convhlse II far
mers' club-alI in ono breath.
Put DIR. Depew always say
something. AT Syracuse he utter
ed "many things that We're gon,
and many things that were true.
The prosperity, prominence anC
power OF the republic, ne declares
rest upon the farm. or the Sc en-,
teen millions of bread winners in
the land, including the profession,
and those engaged in the CONNER
clals pursuits, ten million. six hun
dred Thousand are farmers, and o
the thirteen millions whose labor
create our productive we 9TH, a!
may he assigned to agriculture ex-
cepi two millions and half.
Every mile OF railroad, says DR..
Dep"w, brings into cultivation
1000, 600 fresh acres. A half cen
tury ago there were four
thousand millions OF dollars inves
ted in agriculture, and now there
arc eleven thousand millions.
There were then one milii1i
farms, aud now there are between
four and five millions, Within
the last thirty years the acreage
devoted to corn has increased from
fourteen million 20 seventy-eiglit
million aud the amount produced
from five hundred millions to two
Thousand millions of bushels
while wheat in the same period has
ex@ndSSd III rqyyseel fire" f mlffH'iSns 80
acres, and the amount produced
from one hundred millions to five
hundred millions OF bushels. Since
1910 the land improved and uu-
der cultivation has grown from
one hundred and thirteen millions
to threee hundred millions of acres.
Our population since 1910 has in
creased from seventeen nilliors
to sixty five millions.
DR.. Depew said the railroads had
opened the Western prairies ana
given free farms to the settlers
from Europe. Thee pee pie in
troduced no variety in agriculture,
but entered without exception iuto
the planting and harvesting of the
same cereals. We have become
the largest agricultural nation in
the world The output of our
farms "has become 80 per cent.
crater than the absorbing power
of the country. We produce 80
pei cent. OF the food of the world.
DIR. Depew wants farmers to or
ganize TO hit the combines.
Capital organizes in corporations,
labor organizes in trade unions,
manufacturers or-anize tor protec>
ton. Fan mers alone have tailed
to unite in any efficient and prac>
tical way. Their agricultural So.
cielies are purely educational, their
Alliances are largely the cppor.,
tunity OF the village lawyer to ex-
pilot crude ideas upon corpora
tions and capital as the first round
OF the ladder upon which he hopes
to climb to the Legislature or to
Congress. But the farmers should
he so banded together tnat they can
impress upon the government with
commanding voice their needs,
that they can so educate each 9th"
er in the rotation subdivision Of
crops as to relieve a surplus ofany
one product, that they can escape
the middle man who is now sap,
ping the lite of their business.
Our farmers should study the
condition of markets aud the char.
acter OF their solls and when they
lind that the market is 0verstocked
with their products they must
change TO those things more in
demand. To-day there are 200
agricultural papers published IN
the United States,fifty schools ahd
colleges teach practical iarmin
Country boys are focking 10
towns in the West because inven.
ton and discovery have given rise
TO enterprise in industrial centres.
Thus the ranks Of the consumer:
! are being enormously recruited