The Progress., 1892-07-09
HERES A MAN
Who Does Not Mince Matters, and Says
What He Thinks.
TIMOTHY.

Who Does Not Mince Matters, ana says
What He Thinks.
Greenwood. La, July G. 1892.
To the Editor of The Progress:
| see that almost all of the papers now
days are just ready at any time TO give
the farmer rap. They are eternally
after him to bring his smoke-hou e and !
corn crib nearer home" and all that sort
of thing. Then another paper will say
that n farmer is n man with too much
land and not enough sense.
Now we may have some of that class
of farmers among us who have more land
than sense, but l assure you, reader,
that a big ma iority have more sense than
land. 1t Is said that the farmer Is an
unthrifty, lazy, go-as-you-please kind OF
fellow. with not even enough energy to
own his own farm.
Now that is a fearful failing on the
part of the farmer. Why, my dear peo-
pie, there are great many more farmers
who do not own foot Of land than
there are with land. This Is where the
trouble lies: and some OF them have no
chance Whatever TO ever become the
owners of their homes. The farmer with
out land, who continues TO farm Tor
living OH some other mans place, seldom
ever makes enough to buy place of his
own. There are some exceptions, OF
course. The greatest benefit farmer
can have, or anyone else, as for that
matter, il the privilege Of ofsiuproving his
L
lies. He does not feelnl improvIuGDi
rented place. IL he should do so, IT
would continue to increase in value 30
that he of course could never buy 1t, un-
less by some streak ofluck IL is not so
much the farmers fault that he Is poor.
You will find that those) people among
us who own their farms are as a rule
very independent, notwithstanding the
fact that they wear brown faces and
homemade pants.
One man can't conscientiously blame
another for having the same weaknesses
which he himself has. For instance.
noticed i'm a paper the other day where
merchant bought from farmer barrel
of apples, and when the merchant told
that they were raised right here in ou'
own community, the apples lost then
, ruddy hue, and remained in front of hl'
store several days without single sale
But bright idea struck the man OF gro
ceries and he placarded the ban re
, "B lie of st. Louis" and thus speedily
got rid of his purchase. Now what az
yo,, COLL this? Il IL Iueauness, little
+, mindeduess. crankines,, or whaf III th'
/ Southern people will not buy or use wha
3 we raise, even though IL Is fresh and a
= good as they can get from the North
then what right have they to tell tn
I farmer where his smoke-house and corn
}. crib shall be?
8 was i'm your city recently, and Will
Z making some purchases in grocer.
= store. an old negro farmer came in wit
e some samples of large onions IN his hano
J, saving that be had several bushels o
: tnem. Now those onions, for looked a
them. were just as fine as the Elpos
n silver skin, the big red skins, or any othe
t kind. but he didn't sell them, not !
q that store. The merchant had severe
barrels of onions OIL hand, most OF whic
d were either rotten or sprou'ing; OF cours
,r they came from n distance, and tn
Ia merchant told him that he had mol
k onions now than he could get rid or.
p. And this Is the way you will find it 9
:. reUards all home productions, with
'e onI q smplr exec ptuon. FARMER.