The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-23
Facts For Farmers.

titCy SuitaO fiOhh ehS. O~
idea of life, and TINT was to be first
a land owner and second to be inde-
pendent. They had been brought
up where II landed aristoacrcy COM
trolled the country. They were but
Englishmen. They had formed
English habits and were educated
to English customs aud English
ideas, and the highest order Of En-
glish life to them was an English
country gentleman. There was an
intense love of home, of perma.
nent home in the country, and this
strong love of home begat the
strongest kind of patriotism. When
a man has a home and Is the owner
of land he becomes q conservative
and is directly interested in the
preservation of. law and order and
good government.
Eleven presidents of the United
States were called from their farms,
including Washington, John
Adams, Jefferson, Madison, John
Quincy Adams, John Taylor and
James X. Polk. We might add to
these the fact that James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce. and Lincoln were
bred on farms. !;
Take view Of the southern
states before the war and you will
find that the farm or the plantation
was the center of power. Cities
meant little. The plantation
meant everything, in politics, in
social and in business life. The
merchants of the city looked to the
planter for patronage and for. in
dorsement. The same view of the
northern states would show that
the most thrifty, the most indepen-
dent and the most intelligent class
of the community before the war
were farmers. 1t is said that in
1s5O,5O per cent. of all the people
of the United States who were en-
gagged in gainful occupations were
farmers, while in 1890 less than 40
per cent. were farmers. In 1850
five men would produce 500 bushels
of grain, whereas in 1890 five men
with improved farm implements,
produced 1000 bushels, so that the
increase per man with machinery
is 200 per cent. The same growth is
shown in the increase Of cottoH..
The product in less than fifty
years has quadrupled. In 1860 the
value of farming tools and mach
ines was $246,oOo,OOo. In 1890 they
were $406,OOO,O0O.
Not more than 40 per cent. of the
bread winners in this country are
tilling the soil. The cultivated
acreage Has doubled since 1850 and
yet the number Of persons employ
ed upon farms had decreased over
10 per cent. The products Of the
farm represent more than 70 per
cent. of the entire value of exports
from the United States.
The census report show that 70
per cent. of all the farms in the
United States are unencumbered.
There can be no doubt that the
great growth Of cities in. the last
twenty years has furnished the
home markets for the products of
our farms and that the prosperity
of our industrial classes is, at the
same time, a source of prosperity
to our agriculturists. The cry
that the farmers would be benefited
by absolute free trade as unreas-
enable as the baseless fabric of a
dream. The country is one. The
old fable of the rebellion between
the different members Of the body
is as true as fate in it's application
to the industries of the country.
When the farmer ia prosperous
the whole country will be prosper.
our. Farmers as q class are the
greatest purchasers that we have
of manufactured goods: ,.Tbeimore
people at work in shops, factories
mills and mines, the more they CON
sumo Of the products Of .the farm
and the more the farmers. sell, the
more they are able to buy, hence,
the policy which fosters allFour in
dustries alike is the wisest and thu
best. To throw down the barrierl
between the thrifty farmers fieldl
and those Of, an unthrifty farmer
and let the cattle go free from ont
field to another. would not be yer,
FproHtable to the thrifty farmer
We should soon find in whose field
the cattle are feeding. They Ger
tainly would not be In the barreI
lands Of the unthrifty farmer. JUS
so in-this county, to throw dowr
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