Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-05-05
4 NEBRASKA WOMAN'S VIEW.
By c. S. NJ. DAWSON Co., NEB.

Dl u. -. NJ. DANSON w., NED.
(PuBLtsIIED ny REQuEsT.l
1 suppose it is because ] am a wom-
an that I am unable tosee how "class
legislation" or any other kind OF leg
islation is likely to make any per-
cent ....e difference with the financial
condition Of the farmers in this
country. To me it looks like sim
pie matter OF supply anu demand
When more grain is raised than is
wanted, it is natural, inevitabless
that grain should be low in price.
When less grain Il raised than is.
wanted, it is natural, inevitable.
that grain shonl,l be high in price. In
q country like Nebraska where the
people are generally engaged in agri.
culture,it is natural, inevitable, that
all kinds OF farm produce raised IN
this latitn,lt should be cheap. How
could it be otherwise? How couh!
''legilation'' either for classes or
masses, produce any zeal or per-
manent change?
| am myself farmer or homestrnd
er. have II 1liiim OF my own OF.
which have lived for five years Ii
is a hill claim, and therefore not ~
easily cultivated as some others. My
father, Il man over sixty years Of age,
farms it tor me, and has done almost
all the work on it up till the present
time. He has converted it from a
wild prairie into a valuable farm.
There is no mortgage on it ns yet.
BY living in Il very plain way and
avoiding all unnecessary expense,
we have managed to keep out OF
debt. We raise good crops; but, Of
course, cannot get much money ont
OF them, berause good crops OF the
same kind are SO abundant in this
part OF the world. Every week get
on the back of an old plow-horse,
with only II blanket between my per-
son and his TOR | have no saddle),
and ride to- the np;ti'est village, which
is about six NIL y away, to sell two
pounds OF butter and, perhaps two
or three dozen eggs. At this season
OF the year l get twenty cents a
pound for the butter and twe:veand
a half cents Il dozen for my eggs.
/ should like to get twice Or three
times as much, but I can't see how
the government is to blame in the
matter 1t seems to me a very sim
pie thing; there are SO many people
in Nebraska who keep COWS and ponl-
try should like a scalskin coat,
but as that is out OF the question, |
am glad to be able tn get "a cloth
jacket, and l don't see what "class
legislation has to do about it.
| shonld like to live in pictur-
esque, rambling old gray farm house,
with IL weeping willow to- lash the
shingled roof on stormy nights and
q flower garden full OF roses and lilies,
but rs that sort of IL thing is denied
inc, Lam thankful for my warm, COM
Portable dnyout, Will, the wild, free
prairie sweeping to the sunset from
my quiet door. And fail to nntlpr-
stand in what way | am being or
pressed or robbed.
OF course, it is very hard for me to
ride bare back twelve miles to get
siXty-fvt cents, or at least it would
he hare! ii I wasn't used to it and
ditln t mi JOY it; but who is to blame?
Would it be right to force Il free
people to cat more eggs and butter
than was good for them? Is that
what is meant by lcgislating for
the masses 2" You will say that this
is Il most absurd question. But
surely, until some means can he de-
vised OF making people pay II high
price for things they don't want, it
il difficult to sce how Il continuous
stream Of money can be made to flow
into he pockets nf tho "honeSt old
farmer And inst here let me- add
that the honest ola farmer of the
Western Staras, SO lar itl know him,
is NOT usually much OF Il Farmer, and
tx moi i Whit more honest than
CT hc!. ia X. Il H.. w..rr, h.. would lOt
mora ynot his claim Ia, three. ,i,.as
rs l,,s,,, rs he could sell i, Tor, IL. Il
tilrI, run OF and leave it,
Ne ll,ipk "A Nebraska Woman's
View is I lac correct one The hrp,;
es that sweep over the prnirirs have
cleared her brain OF cn|wrbs. and it
wound puZzit. our modern lu!itic,,l
economists to nj, sWi.r i.tr III: IL
questions, rt...-!.!
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