The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-06-21

west understands that many of the mort
cages upon farms represent the very
money which constructed the house in
which the farmer lives, the barns that
house his cattle and the fences that sur
round bis land. OF couse, the conditions
have changed very much. The railroads
have brought the markets for the great
populous centres to the doors of the far
mers of the northwest, less the cost of
transportation, and the cost is not 50 ex-
tortionate as would seem, when you may
buy barrel of -four at retail delivered at
your house in New York for 81 more
than you pay for the same quality in
Minneapolis, and that % cents out Of the
s. goes to the drayman who hauls it
from the grocer's. The profits in rail
road transportation have declined with
the same and, possibly, with greater ra-
pidity than the profits in farming during
the asst decade Farmers, however, are
very easily led astray, and their worst
fees are not the chinch bug, the grass
hopper, nor the drought, but the pseudo
economic teachers, naturally created by
the class legislation of the republican
party during. the past thirty years, and
who now teach that all the farmers
woes, whatever they may be, may be
remedied by legislation.
The Farmers Are Misled.
"There is no farmer of good sense and
good health who cannot anywhere in the
Northwest, by sobriety, industry and
good management make a living for him
self and an ordinary family, and hun
dreds and thousands of them in Nebras
ka have not only made good living dur.
ing the last ten years, but have doubled
and trabled the number of acres in their
farms by purchasing adjacent ground.
The farmer. aside from being led astray
on money and the tariff, is now being
worked to sign petitions to con gress ask
ing large appropriations Of the public
money with which to irrigate the arid
lands of the plains. That is to say, that
he asks that he may be taxed to create
bis own competitors. If it is a proper
use of the taxing power to raise money
with which to fertllize with water the
arid lands for the plains, it seems to me
it would be equally legitimate to make
appropriations for the purchase Of guanO
and other fertilizers to restore abandon
ed farms in New England. The New
England farms were worn out just as
those in the West may be by nOn-rota-
ton of crops and non-manuring. Under
the memorable law that the regulation of
supply to demand is the sole regulation
to value, the owner of farms in the
! United States have corner on the great
est profits of the coming twenty-five
years, because, while the demand for
land will have been doubled as our pop
ulation has doubled every tw snty-fve
years since the government was estab-
flushed, and the area of arabic land VIII
/ remain the same or OG diminished by
poor tillage, the owners of the land
must more 'han double the present
value thereof if they hang on to them
and till them intelligently. Therefore
[ had rather take an optimistic view fol
the land owners and the land tillers OF
the United States. They own all the
food producing fields of today, and the
government is no longer offering mil
lions of equally good laud as a donation
to all corners from all over the world.
The supply of land is about absorbed,
and the demand for it is growing from
day to day and year to year, and he who
holds land and takes care Of it intelli-
gently as farmer viii twenty-five years
from now have an estate twice or three
times its present value. Demand will
have doubled or lebled and the supply
viii have remained stationary"