The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-04-11
The Brightest Paper in this Section.
For THE DIsPATCH,l
DON'T GO INTO DEBT.

The farmer feeds them all, > and as
this is so, it is not necessary. that he
should study the science of farming.
OF all men he Should not be obstinately
clinging to the old simply because 1t is
old, neither be like socialist, too
eagerly grasping after the new, be
cause it is new. Both Of these charac-
terIstics make the bigot.
The one is prompted by pride of
opinion, Tut the other by conceit and
vani Y, all of which are adverse to
true and material progress. Labor
saving machines are very good in their
proper places, for by the use of them
one man can do the work of many in
the old manual way; but the excessive
eagerneSs to use those instruments
has its drawbacks. One can scarcely
pick up paper without seeing a tele-
graph news, or an editorial about the
deplorable condition Of the farming
population in most of the Eastern
States. Great many plans are dis
cussed and concocted for the redemp-
ton of those evils, and with few ex-
ceptions the blame Is thrown on to
loan and trust associations and manu-
featuring companies, which it is
claimed have defrau ed the honest,
and unsuspec,ing cslloused-handed
sons of toll.
The condition of many farmers j
the United States is unpleasant; their
farms, houses, horses, cattle and ma
chlnery are mortgaged;high interest to
pay, and the income not enough to
meet the obligations. So there is in
reality nothing that they can by right
call their own, except their half-starved
and half-naked wives and children,
and they do not know in the morning
but that that day their homes and es
tates may beSold under the sheriff's
hammer and that they and those who
are nearest and dearest to them, will be
left without homes, food, or any means
to get any. This Is very deplorable
coudit on, but how was it brought
about? Many loan and machine agents
came along and depicted to the farmers
IN most glowing terms the advantage
TO have machine to farm with: ex-
planned to them in most eloquent man
ner how the farmers dispense with so
much hired help, and could do so
much more work with a boy or two,
With the machinery, than with a host
If hired men without it. That they
would raise so much grain and other
products at so small an expense, that
hey could lift their mortgages at
pleasure. The agents proposed to lend |
he farmer money or machinery and |
axe security on their stock, farms and |
.omes. The farmers accepted but
Guild not in many instances produce
nough on their farms to pay the rent.
ct alone De able to redeem their obli-
.ations. And that is the way poverty
ollows unwise and unsuccessful pur-
hases, and whole families are COM
oelled to suffer in consequence.
The farmers in Utah have to- great
Xtent, been the wise of this generation
n this respect. 1t was not until lately
hat any man in Utah thought of
feakening the title to his home. and
hongh there are a few that have fol-
'wed this Eastern custom, those who
ave not are vastly in the majority.
IS soon asa man is in debt, he is a
lave, he has lost his independence,
specially if he has mortgaged his
ONE or the property whereon or
HEREBY he makes his living. Just.
nagine what pitiful situation it is
} be at the mercy of unprincipled
loney sharksl The man that has no
ONE of his own, how can he be true
atriot? No one ever shouldered
usket in the defense of boarding
ouse, says INGERsoLL. The home
Tners can not bat be patriotic. They
lat own the homes in America own
merica itself, and are the lovers of
-merica as a atherland. J.T.