News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-16

present commanding position as a
manufacturing country.
THE THREE RS.
The farmers have always sustained
the principle of protection for man
ufacturers, believing that their
growth would create home markets
of far more value than any foreign
possibilities. There are now import
ed into this country yearly articles
worth over $500, 100000, the direct
product of the farm. If by intelli-
gent legislation this money could
find its way to the agriculture of our
land the benefits would be incalcula-
BILE. The farmers organization
should inscribe upon its banners the
three Rs Reciprocity, Retaliation
and Revenue. We have made re-
markable strides within the last year
in the direction of the practical ap-
plication of the idea of America for
| Americans We have been brought
I into closer relations and have bette-~
understandings s-uiEh---tlaa--e o1IitialsS
upOn the North and South American
/ continents BY wise and judicious
! application of the principle of barter
| and exchange broad avenues can be
! opened for our products into un-
known markets. So long as we
maintain the protective policy we
cannot object to any tariff which
may be imposed equally and impair
TALLY by other governments, but
when Great Britain pretends to dis
cover pleuro-pneumonia in our eat
tie. when France and Germany claim
that there is trichinosis in our pork,
and by these subterfuges keep out
our live stock and provisions. while
they freely admit those of other
countries, the duty becomes impera-
tive for us to show them the
application of the familiar rule, one
good turn deserves another
1t is easy for us to declare that the
wines of Champagne, Burgundy and
the Rhine are adulterated, and the
metals of Great Britain and Ger
many alloyed Let us establish a
rigid governmental inspection at our
own ports upon our exports and then
say to Great Britain, to France, to
Germany, to Belgium, to Holland:
9 1t is either the acceptance of your
official certificate or tit for tat But
before and beyond the slow processes
of governmental assistance there
must be the immediate application
of the beneficient rule of self-help.
The iron, the wool and the cotton
manufacturers combine and have
each their own stores and depots.
| There is only minimum Indifference
between the price of manufactured
steel, cotton or wool at the mill and
in the market, but the unorganized
farmers are plundered beyond all
rhyme or reason. The combination
of middlemen keep lowering the prices
for him; lowering them for the trans
portation companies and maintain
ing them for the consumers. The
output of the fields present differ
ence so wide that it is absurd be-
I tween the amount received at the
+, barn and in the store.
HOPEFUL FUTURE.
In the experience of modern com
N petition the rule of the thumb has
!, seen its day. Success is impossibl,
in any vocation without the severest
and most methodical training. The
technical school has made impossible
the engineer or the mechanic of the
olden time. Agricultural education
has been the salvation of the German
farmer. Our farmers should inteli-
gently know the condition of mar
kets and the character of their soils
and their proper treatment so that
when they find they have been rails
ing that with which the market is al
/, ready over-stocked, they can change
to those articles which are in greater
and more profitable demand. This
is the most important lesson in the
practical duties ofthe American farm
er.
In my Judgment we are near the
bottom of the grade of agricultural
depression and will soon begin to
climb up the other side.
Mr.. Depew said he belonged to the
New York Farmers Club, and spoke
of the disappearance of Mr.. Way
back of the Caricaturist. The fierce
competition among city men for an
existence left little time for reading,
while the farmer used his long winter
evenings in storing his mind with the
doings of the world, so that his
urban cousin is no match in arguing
the great questions of the day.
THE PLNDULUM's VIBRATION.
We must take into account always
J in our country, in calculating the
| economic forces, the swing of the pen
duum. 1t swung towards state
: rights and brought on the civil war;
: it swung back TO nationality and
/ saved the Republic; it swung back
to honest currearv aud restored Ma
tional and individual credit
For the first rhrep-quarters of our
century the tendency of our popula-
, ton has been TO farms. With the
! enormous activities and splendid OPP
portunities which invention and dis
covery have given to enterprises in
industrial centers the rush is now to
! the village and city. This result is
! going on not only in this country
but also in Europe. London, Paris,
: Berlin and Rome are increasing al
: most as rapidly in population as
y New York or Chicago. The percent
/ age of increase during the last ten
Z years in our Amer+essn cities has
, been without precedent. During this
y period the country has remained sta
II II tionary, or actually fallen off in pop
= = ulation.
Thus the ranks of the consumers
> are being enormously recruited, and
> out of all proportion to those of the
: producers. 1t is the inevitable result
" that within a brief period the farm
: ers of the country will again find
y within our own borders and about
:, their own homes, n profitable market
:, :. for all their products.
y The English farmer first pays the
- landlord, then the parson, then tn,
,e Government, before there is any lef
ie for himself, but three-quarters of th'
a American farmers own their owl
- land, and most of the remainder farm
= upon shares, which is much bette
~ ~ than ownership, because, from my
- own experience, it gives them all tn
"a profits and imposes upon them non
- of the burdens.
af With agricultural prosperity be
:: - fore us, so certain and so full ofprom
- Use, the country can be confident G
~ its growth in wealth and happiness.
~
~ REMARKABLE RESCUE Mrs Michael Gu
IL tain, Painfed, ILL.,, makes the statemeI
TIL that she caught cold, which settled on h,
Mt lungs; she was treated for month by h,
bo family physician, but grew worse. He tol
ny her she was hopeless victim of consumpto
as and that no medicine could cure her. HI