Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-02-28
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Chronic Whiners.

There several so called agricultural pa
pers that seemingly are conducted on the
chronic whine principle. and so nurse and
appeal to that sentiment IN their readers
and pose their particular and disiuter.
ested friends They howl and whine in the
same tone they imagine tine poor and
souchy farmer has pitched his plant
They are the kind Of helpers % who pro
pose to cure all the ills to which farmers
are heirs, through legislation. destruction
of tariffs, organizations, and fighting
trusts with windmill declarations of what
millennial glories are 10 coagulate around
the farmers when their gaseous notions
have been triturated with their semi-polit
ical rennet, and all captalistic robbers are
dead or in Jail
We suppose 1t pays To cater to such
constituency-for we are not green enough
to impute any disinterested desire on their
part to do good to that class of farmers
They never tell them the Gods truth, that
they are robbing themselves through igno-
rance and neglect 10 learn and practice
better ways, more than many times the
taxes of any administration of the govern
ment that ever reigned since America was
discovered They don't even try TO teach
them to farm it in such a profitable way
They do not talk to that class that have the
intelligence TO see that they get very nearly.
and, in many cases, more than an equiva-
lent for their taxes in the way of schools.
roads, bridges, protection against fire and
theft, ease and cheapness of transportation
etc. But it is get up and howl, The farm
ers are the most robbed and peeled class
living, when it is a lie only in some cases
it is so true, in suicidal sense, that even
the Lord Almighty cannot prescribe a rem
edy for the farmer till he tries to help him
self and gets the intelligence to know what
sils him
The man who learns how to practice the
art OF making two acres of land yield 300
pounds of butter per annum, or one fourth
of a 5000 horse, or 800 pounds of beef or
pork, has done more TO give whining dem
agogism and lazy incapacity BLACK eve
and elevate himself than tones of such ed
itorials as we have alluded to. which nause-
ate the thrifty men who know that this is
the best planet that rolls in space, aud that
the intelligent American farmer has his
ranch on the best part of it,
The following from the Texas Farm and
Ranch hits the thing in the centre and well
supplements the idea we have endeavored
to present above;
There are number of farmers papers
not agricultural papers-which would
have their readers believe that farmers are
the worst oppressed people on the CONT
nent, and that they are, consequently, in
tensely unhappy and ought always to be
armed To the teeth and in search Of some
terrible chimera, the cause of all their
woes. Why not spend this misdirected en-
ergy in an effort to make good farmers of
them Give them good crops and good
stock to eat the crops, and as they get out
of debt and begin 10 surround themselves
with some of the comforts of this life, they
will become independent and contented,
and the evils which they are led 70 believe
50 grievousy Cypress them will depart ON
the wings Of the east wind Hounds Ddj-
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