Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1892-12-20
"now TO OVERCOME The PRESENT
hARD TINES"

L NOW " ONtNSoNc tWe FNSo&Ns
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AppEkss 90 z. n. rERRy nrroRE riik
SUMMIT COUNTY (ouio) rARsERs'
i>srirurE.
Hard time. are they heret In look
Ing AZ the we'll dressed assembly aud the
hunsir,xis of handsome carriages In the
grv,e beyond, q stranger might ssy no :
ye, they are hsre tsyond question. They
NAV not prr.. quite so heavily upon
the intelligent farmers of sammit Coun-
lty A. In some Other sections; hat there
Il no doubt that thsre sr~ many farmers
In Ohio Who can barely make a living,
lrt alone paving interest or principal on
their mortgages. What Il the cause of
the h.ri time-s II can b. answered In
one ewor,i-o,cr-pr-iucti Millions of
,cr,. Of new land In the West have
leen sudienly brousht under culti,s-
tion, and the crops thrown upon the
market Ia compete With the productions
of Ohio. These land. did not have 10 BE-
cleared, bat were ready to BE- used as
.oon q. railroad extension opened them
10 settlement.
can rccollec, when Texas cattle we're
.lsu ght.rc,i for their hides and tsllow |;
nov they come into daily competition
slih ohio cattle. and their dressed car
casses. brought In Refrigeration cars, Arc
off.r,Si for sale In every EASTERN village.
the can have M adequate conc~Ttion of
the posslhiliiie. of the West for cattle
until he Ia. ben therr and seen them.
.tooi on the bo'ders of the Indian Ter
riiory aud ssw a single roundup that
riyaloi In magnitude the herd. of bufis-
/ lo that formerly roam,i over the same
ground. There we're enough cattle In
sight Ia lcsi train every fifiecn
minutes for DAYS. The extension OF
/ railroad. and the Invention of lsbor-.sN-
Ing machinery have largely help~i To
Increase production, and have made dis.
trlbuilon into every corner II the land
easy.
What are We going To do about IL
/ There l. bat one way to do. Accrpt the
situation and mect the competition. We
cannot shut out Dakota wheat or Texas
wheat 90 Wisconsin butter and cheese.
Legislation cannot help us. and the
farmer Who .uplnsly folds hi. hand. aud
asks for u will lose much ,aiusbl. time.
and in the end D. laughing sicck for
his fellows. IN the last twenty year.
half a dorcn badness men In Hudson
have failed heavily as know a. nv grief
What causes IN. failure.s simply the
comps,ltlon of Akon and Cleveland.
IT'D these ruined merchants ask Tor
| .pecial legislation To retrieve their scat
tered fprtune.s po manufacturers ask
for a two Pee c.ut loan when th"y ar.
crowded By cumpstitiont scarccly
/ They bring every mental power 10 the
study of the prohlsm-hos to diminish
/ the co.i of production. | am here To-
/ dav I'm IN. inter-t. of home missions.
am talking Ia summit County farmer.
a. Ia What they can 10 To Overcome the
hard times, not to give tsfiy OF gl0ss TIE
/ situation With hoOeyed words. fer.on-
ally I have met competition and con
auers,i, aud each one of YOU can do the
same " you ~ill.
Governor Hoard interviewed Que hun
dr~i farmers, and noted down their
an.sers a. a. the hard times. Not Que
of them owned that hi. Isr-ouAl manage
msnt had anything Ia do With w.
| bot each had an outside cause for agri-
cultural depression. With one u Was
the tariff. With another oppression 81
monopoli--. railroad extorti'n, and az on.
Agricultural hard time. could not be the
rr.ult of class legislation, bccsuse neat
/ In al cla..e. from IN. labor,r to the arts
tocrat ~err also lamoring for legislation.
l Farmer. Ncrc taxci more la proportion
than other classes because their property
Mas al In sight but take. formed bat
| small item after all. have often fals~i
a crop on a quari.r-acrr frog pond had
drained that paid my tANes, or good
proportion ci thsm. II certainly VAS not
high railroad fr,ights In Ohio, although
thsrv might be plsccs where fr.'ghts
wer, oppressive. I could send WHEAT io
Cincinnati for .lx crnts bushel, ani
thi. was hat little more than " co-t y"
draw BY wagon % Akron.
Adultsration ~ss claimed to De
prominent cause II agricultural dePre--
lion. There was much dairy butter that
adal,erailon With Oleomargarine would
positively improve. IL sas the making
| of wagon-grease butter that opsnsi a
market for oleOmargaribe. In. piblic
\ U.nt.,i a bsttsr article. aud thicszv met
IN. demand. Twenty-fi,e-cent bgiter
/ toapd a ready sale IL was th. eight-c-ni
.rtirI, that cloggrd the market and
brOughi poverty "a the maker. We an-
nually .hip a good many millions OF
/ POUNDS of butter to England Ia BE- made
into toilet soap, aud New York shipper
.tate- that good deal !. so poor that he
wond-r. hos they 90 make soap OF u.
\ Aiultsratlon of food products was tn.
result of IN. demand for an extremely
cheap article. n farmers would buy
nothing hut what was pure, their groccrs
would .oon cease "a keep the sdulteratsd
,o.,d.. The speaker refused To purchase
.daltrrated goods. so the fact that therc
~rrr such sold affected him but little.
Consumer. had th- matter of sdulteration
In their own hands, when they ceased
to buy th. manufacture would cease: He
believed II the dsirymen of norhe'n
,ummit County wouhlgo into the private
manufactur, of high grade butter They
could lii the combination between lac
tory owners aud city milk dealers.
There va. a machine called the baby
ssparator. that took the cream cut ot the
sweet milk. The experiment had teen
tried of feeding the refuse milk 10 CALI,
while another Of the same weight was
FED on whole milk. At the end of two
mnuth. the caly.. we're within q pound
II the same weight.
Ibsr, are some Who think that con-
Sumption l. going to oosertshe production
and thai priccs Ill rise In consequence
Iiis the speaker considered doubtfui'
The world sas whie, aud much of " ~s-
still producing bat little. Probably the
opening of ne~ field. and better facilities
oi transportation would keep prices
doNn. some would k-ep prizes uP by
legislation. This would not be right II
IL acre possible. The general raising Of
the price % provisions that farmers might
get rich would bear hard on every other
class. and would not be tolerated a
/. minute. More than all this, there are
!, farmers ~ho max. money a, present
prices, aud Il might BE- difficult To prove
that prices ara two low.
would we have the farmer economiss
by living cheaper than now Most Ger
lt.inIy not. lie should, and can, live bet
Ter than h. nov does. How then meet
m. ca.es BY doing a. the manufacturer
do@.. diminish the coat of production
make everything count. farmers must do
m. ..me. The Creator ordsined thai
the sweat OF the brox was the only method
to obtain dominion. The brow must,
ho~e,er, sweat lnwardly A. vel
a. outwardly. Th- brain must also oe
made 10 sweat. We admire the power,
fal locomotives that drs~ long trsins oi