The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-27
ADVICE TO FARMERS.
There IL Good Time Coming and
How to Hasten 1t,

HOW 10 hasten It,
II is painful to hear aud see the
expressions of dependency now
nearly universal, aud fondly hope,
with the kind aid of the Commercial,
to lift the gloom from the faces, the
hearts aud the homes of some.
A far as the south is concerned,
the ills arc exaggerated. Manufactures
and commerce are suffering, but this
means the north. There are the
great finsncial centers; there most of
our financial reports are formulated;
there is nearly all of the actual suffer
ing, and we are, a:most without cause
echoing their groans aud. rcflecting
their doleful lprehensions. The
south Is, by an immense Freponder-
ance, agriculturai; and If | wish TO
know how my friend Patton, for in
stance, farmer twelve miles out in
the country, is getting along, | don't
turn to the financial page OF great
daily, nor to the proceedings OF con-
gress; | go to his mouse.
Now, let us apply this test to the
south. Let us forget tor awhile that
there is such thing as congress, tariff,
currency or financial reports, and go
TO the farms and homes Of the south
ern states. What do we tind? Crops,
OF cotton, tobacco, corn, rice, sugar
wheat, oats, hav, to the value of near
lY 1000, ,00O, 900 have been secured!
"Yes, but we are i'll debt" 1ruc
But this years crops pay of fully
$400. 0.000,9Q0, of our debts. My dear
doleful friend, would you ask moref
You do. Well, we have it. The ag-
grcgale product for this year of veg
etables of all kinds, fowls and stock
of all kinds, has never been surpassed,
Note say the aggregate of oil. And
as a con edaence $300,UC0,000 less OF
credit will De required to carry us
over next year than was necessary
last year. | will venture TO aver thai
there is not q country on earth today
of anything like equal extent, that is
SO happily situated as this.
OF course every body feels that
thert is shortage, and some will fee
it severely. Bul, Fortunately, i'll the
south it is a shortage of money rath
er than the necessities of life. We
are not like our bretheren in the east
the northeast---Whose bread, if pool
whose business, if rich, depends OIL
cash received from week to week
Our task is simply to grin and beal
ii" awhile. But | humbly conceive
tina: two things would hasten the re
turn of the still better times.
Help one another. Smile. Yol
| 40 shat S,,,ilo rr;x = I,
lock jaw. Talk checrfullv. You car
reinforce anyone you meet; aud any
man can accomplish so per cent mor'
i'll good heart than he can if he give
way to dependency. Think how
many things you have to thank the
Lord for, and ii you want a blessing
don't act like silly child who throw
his buttcrcd biscuit away because i
has no sugar on it.
Help one another. Don't crush til,
poor man for what little he owes you
when you can get along for awhil
without it. DON'T be hog; consul
together, cooperate and cheer VI
Say, eve are all stuck in the mud" !
yOuwill; but assure everybody tina
we shall soon be on solid grouno
Tell everybody such things as these
I'VE shall get through next year wit
less expense for supplies" "We hav
had q nice fall, and more bottom Ian,
is be6ded up than ever was known.
''Everything indicates n hard shor
winter, and early spring aud goo
crop year." "The country has ha
crashes, in '37, ia '57 and 73, out c
, them all the good Lord and the fal
mers have delivered US, with preciou
= little aid from politicians, and as wi
be SO now" Let such thoughts b
the burden of your song, and if
were all the Vanderbilts / would nC
fear to stake my wealth on gran
era OF prosperity before the end {
il894.-Memphis Commercial.