Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-31
DISSATISFIED FARMERS.

| effort Delng made 10 fenuer farmers ulSSat
| isfied with their calling. Dissatisfaction
| leads to dislike. and when a man gets &c
| disliking lis calling the sooner a separation
is effected the better for all concerned. A
man can succeed best alone in that work
which he likes best Into it he throws all
his energies as labor of love He thinks
| about it and plans its good at night, and
| when at his meals, and while at work.
| Work of the brain instigated by actual love,
and backed up by the work of two willing
| hands, is truly almighty. Therefore the
| industrious man. satisfied with his calling.
is Invariably successful IN it, and that sue
| cess prolongs MS satisfaction 10 the end.
How very wrong, then. 10 be ever harping
| on The dark side, as many are doing, often
from sinister motives, leaving the bright
spots unnoticed, or endeayoring to cover
them up from general view.
The man dissatisfied witlrhis work has
no enthusiasm. When he thinks of his work
those thoughts are not of how to put more
OF himself into it. He IS not energetic and
dilligent-how could he be? And thus his
work being neither wisely directed or ami
mated by enthusiasm, is uusuccessful-how
could it be otherwise He is dissatisfied
because of the gloomy outlook for the fut-
ure; ia other words, he is dissatisfied be-
cause he is unsuccessful, and he is msuc-
cessful because he is dissatisfied.
Becoming dissatisfied and Respondent can
never help matters. It will never ill the
cribs, mows, binns and gins. Times may
be little tight just now, or any other year,
but what IS anyone to gain by sitting back
and nurmuring about it? If times are hard
with the farmer, a little study beyond the
farm will show that the depression is gen
eral. Comparatively little money is being
made By the outside masses regardless of
what they are engaged in, when It is a hard
up wear with the farmer The lot of the
farmer. much rs is blown to the forewinds
relative to its hardness. is, nevertheless,
but simply the common lot of all. When a
man is not successful while others are, then
he may well harbor feeling of dissatsfac-
tion-with himself The fault evidently
lies at his own door But if, after having
done his best, he still falls short, and look
ing about him finds every body in the same
fix, he has no Just grounds for becoming
dissatisfied-it IS merely one of those
freaks of the times that must occasionally
fall across the path of all branches of bust
u SS.
y man may well be dissatisfied with his
business when it is patent that he could do
better ut some other character of business :;
but at what other business could a
regular and well-informed farmer hope
10 do better than at farming Could he do
better by joining the ranks of the dlssat-
fed, beiligerent. striking city wage work
ers out of employment u large portion of
the time, especially with his own personal
ineXperience in such things, Could he do
better by falling into ranks with the city'S
business men and bringing his inexperience
into competition with their lifelong train
ing, especially in face OF the fact that with
all their training about four-tifths of all
their enterprises fail sooner or later If
four-fifths of the enterprises of trained men
fail of prominent success, what could an
unframed man with no experience in those
particular lines find to build upon his hopes
of succeeding? Let every dissatisfied
farmer answer these questions for himself,
and in a spirit of reason.
Forsooth, there is nothing safer than
farming, and nothing else so uniformly
profitable under correct management. Land
is safe investment, especially in 4 live
country like Texas. The man whose prop
erty is in stocks and notes is continually
threatened with heavy losses. The man in
trade or in manufacturing may lose all his
property almost any day, but not so with
the man whose property is in q good farm.
II he is Il good farmer and a good man
ager (Which means the same thing, he is
almost entirely safe-the failures of others
are not apt to take his farm, neither can a
clerk or bookkeeper carry it to Mexico OF
Canada
The cases in which careful ana good
managing farmer has lost his farm on debt
are rare indeed Statistics supplied TO Mr..
Edward Atkinson by the various syndicates
loaning money on farms show that during
the past twenty years our farmers have re-
duced their Indebtedness 10 a greater eE-
tent than any ether people, and that
scarcely per cent of all the mortgages
given on farms i'll that length of time have
been foreciosed. No other line of business
can make anything like so encouraging a
showing.
Why, then, all this twaddle about the
failure of farming 10 pay? Is it the work of
the farmers themselves Not much at first
hand. we take it, though no doubt some
who have been farmers, or who are classed
as farmers but should not be. are industri-
ously ventilating the twaddle at second
hand. Our farmers as the people OF a par
ticular calling should down all such; the
Grange rs one of their organizations should
down ii, and the Alliance as another of
their organizations should down it
"A fraud may have fooled US and Joined,
Intent upon doing his best
AL using the order he's Wronged
To feather mis- personal nest.
Such Schelner we speedily pounce,
And him 10 outside OF our walls
We bounce. ana We bounce. AID we bounce,
And that what We GO AT our halls
POTATO FLOUR.
Some OF our consular reports to the
United States department of state represent
that Germany does large business in the
manufacture of -four from the Irish potato
The -four is used for culinary purposes, and