The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-09-01

ed stick candy. He keeps these for sale,
but prefers good porterhouse steak.
once wished that might be an olive
tinted Italian fruit vender, with dark
and rolling eye. bu5 when found that
he lived on his own decayed fruit and
that he only had enough to eat when
business was disastrous / did not yearn
to promote the sale of the banana
So, too the. farmer grows various
good things, but he has to sell them.
His milk goes to tho cheese factory ev
cry morning, and his choice beef is eat
en- by the PARKWAY gent who gamblcs
on the farmers wheat. Thus the agri-
culturist lives upon skinned milk, that
those who bet their ducats ON his dusty
sweat and tears and agony may eat his
Attorney cream.
That is a fact.
The remedy lies in union, but not in
that alone. Farming is and always has
been open to competition. 1t always
will be.
Whether the farmer is renter or an
owner and taxpayer, unskilled labor
will always be competing with him. Sc
the American farmer is too good for his
job. AS rule he is ambitious, but con-
stantly muzzled by class of rival farm
ers who can live on 30 cents q year ;
whose wives and daughters hoe in the
field, break steers, chop wood, skin
mules, sleep in the hay, eat sour milk
and bran mush while the chickens have
their backs turned, and who do not
know that through sin death came into
the world. Does Dr.. Farnum believe
that this class of foreign farmers will
unite intelligently i'll trust of any
kind?
DIR. Farnum thinks that if the farmers
would hold their cotton and wheat until
certain price could be realized and
unitedly stand for it all would BIO we'll,
but would not the farmer OF his repre-
sentative on the board Of directors yearn
for even more than this price when once
he had his hand upon the throat of his
old rival, the capitalist? Would he not
fail in wrath to remember mercy? Would
he not rejoice when he heard his enemy
squeal? Would he not, while holding
his old antagonist in corner or in the
door, as wheat men say sometimes, and
while watching the purple features and
extended tongue or listening to the ster-
torous breathing Of the capitalist, turn
the screws little tighter or give the
monkey wrench another turn, forgetting
the poor in cities who are hungry and
who sew on pantaloons, getting as high
rs 30 cents dozen for it sometimes?
Wo arc told that the producing class
IN this country can lose but little more,
and that is true, but 1 have better
method to suggest, and it is honest. 1
am farmer myself-a poor farmer /
do some OF the poorest farming, it is
said, that this country has ever seen.
Twice l have competed with other
farmers Mt the state fair with my prod
ucts and carried off the BOBBY prize for
battering rams
Therefore I am entitled to word at
this time. have an idea which con-
slider valuable. 1t will mako times bet
ter with the farmer and at the same
time drive capital into an early rising
grave.
This is 1t:
l. Let every farmer borrow every
cent that he can, securing tho capitalist
on farm and stock, tools, hay, grain,
feed, growing crops, bees, hornets,
fruits, timber lands, hereditaments and
appurtenances thereunto belonging or in
any wise appertaining-everyt in
fact, of which he is lawfully seized,
whether i'll fec simple, fee tail, in es-
crow, escheat or possession, expectation,
reversion, felony nttainder, champetry,
forfeiture, dover, eleemosynary rights,
inheritance, by tenure or at sufferance,
by conquest or grand larceny, freehold
or for life OF during good behavior, or
by the courtesy, or by hook or crook, or
shifting use, or by remainder or quo
tient, or for the cigars, or on the side, or
sub rosa, or vi ct armis, or ad interim, OF
willy nilly, or nunc pro tune, or outside
the city limits, to have and to hold for
ever
O. Go on farming.
3. Farm some more
4. Farm until the COWS are seen to be
in the act of coming home
8. When asked for principal or inter
est, simply regret in gentlemanly
way that you are unable to pay same,
which will be absolutely true if my own
experience amounts to anything what
ever.
6. Do this patiently until foreclosed,
and then hire ont by the month to farm
the place, as the capitalist, of course.
s. a.,