Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04
DISS FARMERS.

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isfied with their calling. Dissatisfaction
| leads to dislike. and when a man gets TO
disliking his 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 il 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 his satisfaction to 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 endeavorirg TO cover
them up from general view.
The man dissatisfied with his 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 MISREPRESENTATION
| could it be otherwise! He is dissatisfied
| because of the gloomy outlook fer the fut-
| ure; in other words. he is dissatisfied be-
cause he is unsuccessful. and he is unsuc-
cessful because he is dissatisfied.
Becoming dissatisfied and Respondent can
never help matters. 1t 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 murmuring about il! If times are hard
with the farmer. a little study beyond the
farm will show that the Oppression is gen
erat- Comparatively little money is being
made by the outside masses regardless of
what they are engaged in, when it is hard
up year with the farmer. The lot of the
farmer, much as is blown to- the forewinds
relative to its hardness, is, nevertheless,
but simply the common lot of all. When
man is not successful while others are, then
he may well harbOr a feeling of uisSatisfac
tion-with himself. The fault evidently
lies at his own door. But if. after having
done his best, he still fails short and look
ing about him fluids everybody in the same
fix, he has no Just grounds for becoming
dissatisfed-it IS merely one of those
freaks of the times that must occasionally
fall across the path of all branches of busi-
ness.
A man may well be dissatisfied with his
business when 1t is patent that lie could do
better at some other character of business;
Int
regular and well-informcd farmer hope
10 do better than at farming? Could he do
better by Joining the ranks of the dlSSat-
fed, belligerent, striking city wage work
erS out Of employment a 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, especiallg in face of the fact that with
all their training about four-ffths of all
their enterprises fail sooner or later2 If
four-ffths of the enterprises of trained men
fIl 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. ard nothing else so uniformly
profitable under correct management. Land
is a safe investment, especially II a live
country like Texas. The man whose prop
erty is in stocks and notes - 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 a good farm.
If he is 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
clerk or bookkeeper carry it to Mexico or
Canada.
The cases in which a careful ana good
managing farmer has lost his farm on debt
are rare indeed Statistics supplied to Mr.
Edward Atkinson by the various syndicstes
loaning money on farms show that during
the past twenty Years our farmers have re-
duced their Indebtedness to a greater ek-
lelt tndI any Otltef people, ana IildU
scarcely per cent of all the mortgages
given on farms in that length Of time have
been foreclosed. No other line of business
can make anything like so encouraging a
showing.
Why, then. all this twaddle about the
failure of farming to 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 iudustri-
ously ventilating the twaddle at second
hand Our farmers as the people of par
ticular calling should down all such: the
Grange as one of their organizations should
down it, and the Alliance as another of
their organizations should down it
"A fraud may have fooled us and joined
Intent upon doing his best
At using the order he 5 wronged
To feather his personal nest.
Such scnemer We speedily pounce.
And him to outside OF our walls
Ne bounce, ana we bounce. ana We bounce,
And thar what We do 4 our hal &c
POTATO FLOUR.
Some of our consular reports TO the
United States department ofstate represent
that Germany does a large business in the
of -four from the Irish potato.
The -four is used for culinary purposes, and |