The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-06
THE CITY AND THE COUNTRY.

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try people against each other promises
success in some particular places which
are distinctively rural after the fashion
of the famous settler in Arkansas to
whom the traveller appealed for lntor-
nation, but the country people and
the town people who will cast the
controlling votes in this contest are
too intelligent to be controlled by
such a sentiment. The farmer of to-
day knows full we'll that for a market
for everything outside Of his wheat,
oats and cotton he must depend upon
the city. He cannot sell bushel OF
potatoes for shipment, nor his fruit
nor his milk or butter. He has striv
en- all these years to put away little
something raising cotton, but the price
goes steadily down and as the years
90 by and leave the farmers poorer and
poorer, it becomes more evident that
some other crop must be relied upon
for money. How shall we change the
condition of things? We cannot do
it by killing the towns or crlppling
the cities. The people in the cities
and towns, afford market for the
various products of the farm. Vegeta-
bles, milk, butter, honey, fruit, ber-
ries, everything produced in this eli
mate could be raised proftably if there
were bigger towns than there are. The
only possible redemption for the farm
ers is to obtain a market for these
things which will pay better than cot
ton. Cotton at cents is out of the
question yet unless we encourage
class of consumers of perishable pro-
ducts it is impossible to reduce the
production of cotton, the only remedy
vouchsafed for the ruinous prices.
The condition of the farmers of a
country is measured by the size and
number of the cities in that country.
In New York state, Massachu
sets, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
and some other smaller states the
farmers are prosperous and happy,
because they find ready market for
everything they raise, and the ready
market is in the magnificent cities
which dot those grand old common.
wealths and contain the wealth and
enterprise of all of them. The men
who push are in the cities, They are
the restless, adventurous, pioneers Of
modern civilization, inviting the world
to come on to grander achievement,
more sublime and loftier purposes
They are industrious and sagacious,
but they are liberal with their wealth,
They are not to say more charitable
than their country cousins, but they
are free in their investments. They
are ever on the watch for some new
enterprise to employ their capital and
supply labor with the opportunities
necessary for its maintenance. The
more OF these kind of people we have
the better times for the farmer, for
they make a market for his products.
He does not have to raise a non
perishable crop which, because of its
quality of preservation, is always a
glut upon the market The interests
of the farmers and the town people are
identical. When poor crop is raised
the man in the city suffers. When
the city ispvisited with financial strin.
gency the farmers suffer. When trade
is paryllzed and enterprise is stiff ed
both suffer and that is Just what is thu
matter is today in Texas. If TIL
source of the evil has been discovered
sooner by the cities than the countr!
il only proves that the effect upoI