Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-02
THE NORTHWEST
TALK TO THE FARMERS.
HON. JOHN H. THOMAS, BY RE-
QUEST, ADDRESSES THE STATE
GRANGE.
The Attempt Of Certain Prominent
Republicans to Prevent This Comes
oNaught-Given a Vote of Thanks
for His Faithful Remarks.
Daily Democrat, Springfield, 6.

Daily Democrat, Springfield. o.
At the public meeting Wednesda
forenoon to tender fitting welcome
the members and visitors of the Stat
Grange, there were long and loud cal
for Hon. John H., Thomas. ,Presiden
Fried, of the city council, who was pre-
siding. and who is always up to som
small, contemplate trick politically
had no ears for these calls, and, aide
by Mr.. George H. Frey, another small
sOuled politician, did succeed in ad
journing the, meeting without MI
Thomas having an opportunity to b.
heard.
The Grangers, among whom Mr.
Thomas has friends and ardent ad
mirers, were justly indignant at thi
treatment, and pressing invitation
was sent to Mr.. Thomas to appear be
fore and address them, which he did
AT the conclusion of the address Z
hearty vote of thanks was rendered the
speaker. The following is the address
in full: .I.fg .f... .,.
MR.. THOMAS ADDRESS.
No speech from me was on the orlgi.
nal program for this occasion. The call
for remarks from me is m afterthought
and If, from lack of time for preparation
it maynOt be as suggestive to you as il
might otherwise be-, it is nevertheless
an honor to me, which appreciate.
Tam glad you have called me, and
thanked you for it. 1t is always a
pleasure to me to meet an assemblage
of farmers. am bound to them by
many ties, and every tie is a tie, Of
pleasure. tE #EF4 tEt
Twas born and raised farmer, and as
the love of ones young life is always
the strongest, this is to me the strongest
and most lasting tie which binds me to
the brotherhood of farmers, and l call
it the brotherly tie.
Ever since have been in business
have made goods for farmers use, and
what little money have made, made
from you. have made you good goods,
as you are all no doubt willing to con-
fess. You bought literally and paid
promptly. This is the financial tie
which binds US together. ,zef . q. Al
After working hard in business for
many years, and after having made
little surplus money, / felt like turning
to my first love; and l bought farm. /
haven't found farming profitable, and
that brings about another tie between
us, which 7 call the tie sympathy and
confidence. i-NA H sDlGif#'# }F'
After having made the discovery that
farming was improbable, / set about
thinking why it was so and how its
prosperity might be restored, and that
has called forth another tie which now
try to establish between farmers and
myself, and which / call the tie of CO.
operation. This is to me, as well as to
you, an important matter !. Important
to me because / want 1 some
revenue from my farm, and more i'm
portant still because l want more reve-
nue. from my factory, which I can't get
until the farmers make more money
and have more to spend than they now
have. . s.a5 a.. 't u s.
It isan important question with you,
because your living, your comfort and
your independence all depend upon it.
: haven't time to tell you in detail
how our prosperity may be restored;
and besides, if attempted it you and /
might not agree about the remedy. AS
I understand it, you are here to teach
each other how you can raise more
bushels of wheat and corn to the acre,
and how you can cheaper the cost of
raising beef, pork, etc. Iwould aim at
securing, instead, better price for
what l did raise. before l would try to
raise more. Ifother people would not
pay fair living price for what they
live on, they ought to be forced to do
without it until they better appreciate
what II costs us farmers to raise these
things. And instead of raising more, I
would raise less; and thison the theory
lift does not pay to raise what we do,
we would be betteraoff by raising less.
d If 1 thought there was no way to in
crease the price Of farm products, /
would call farming failure-fOr fail
ure it certainly is in this last half OF the
nineteeth century, 30 far as making
money is concerned. But what COM
mentary It would be upon our civiliza-
ton and political economy to pro-
nounce that great industry q failure
which was success in the thousands OF
years that have proceed as, with civili-
zation ard industrial policy which we
are accustomed TO regard as much worse
than our own! m R
But no, farming is not Q failure. 1T is
etter done and more cheaply than be-
fore, so far rs the farm has anything to
do with it. The failure Ia not because
the farmer Is lazy, wasteful or extrava
CANT. So far as he 10 concerned 1t Is all
right. The failure is not In the result,
of his labors or prudence, But II II
produced by reason Of matters which
farmers have been overlooking whilt
seeking for the cause, and which is no.
SO much their fault Us the fault of 9th
ers. -.
But right here am reminded that
approach ground npeA which II woult
be ont of placeto enter at thistime, ami