The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-09-05

ton from the articles of export, and there
would be deficit in trade against the
United States" says DR.. Farnum, "of
$3.50, 900, 900 per year. This nation,
great as it is, could not survive single
year without the assistance of it's wheat
and cotton raisers, and yet any effort on
their part to better their condition or
avert ruin is denounced as Populistic
anarchy
I honestly believe that the next few
years must settle the question whether
a vast majority of American citizens,
the bone and brains of the republic,
shall be ruled by the minority or not.
Undoubtedly the horse could take his
driver wherever he (the horse) might
choose to go, but by reason of the riders
superior knowledge, though in the mi
nority, he bosses the horse and will
probably continue to do so to the end of
the world. Now, in all the monarchical
governments the worker yields to the
judgment Of the leisure classes. Shall
this republic demonstrate that those who
feed and clothe the world may also, by
reason Of their numbers, rule the mar
kets of food and raiment?
For myself I cannot unite with this
proposed trust for two reasons, viz:
First.-I am opposed to trusts just as
Twas before began farming. Farming
has not changed my morals.
Second.-I do not grow for export
either wheat or cotton.
ThocQ fhy7o NO, will in
dictate why am enabled as all inteli-
gent farmer to speak without fear or ia
vor Of the merits of this question.
The only crop that have grown with
such success as to create surplus has
been in the cabbage line. Last year I
had over sc worth of cabbages, through
no fault of my own, and as the family
spend the winter i'll town these were
cold, and for few weeks times i'm
proved.
But cabbages do not constitute good
class Of securities for investment. They
are perishable and transitory in their
nature, and no truer text flashes up in
my memory than the one which tells us
that the fool and his cabbage are soon
parted.
There are, geographically speaking,
three great industrial belts in the Unit
ed States-viz, the wheat belt, the cot
ton belt and the champion belt. have
some knowledge of the situation in all
three Of these belts, and it has been
clearly demonstrated that none of them
can successfully continue without rota-
ton Of crops Seriously, the cotton
grower and the wheat grower both agree
that they can no longer make cotton or
wheat their own successors. Other crops
must intervene for two or three years,
and during those years what is to pay
the running expenses Of the Cotton and
Wheat trust? What is to become Of the
cabbage grower? Shall he be made q
wall flower or a caulihower? Scarcely.
From all points of view am and ever
have been in full sympathy with the
farmer He stands closer to the throne
of grace than any other kind of toiler.
He smells the rich and dewy odors at
dawn of day which all the scientific
world tries vainly to initiate. He
breathes the breath of clover sod and
peach orchards and new mown hay,
while the reeking city holds it's vast,
alcoholic nose. He ought to live bet
ter life than anybody else; but, alas, he
does not: Most people have dropped in
at a farmhouse at some time or other,
expecting to get milk and honey and
cool, crisp cuculnbers and Jerusalem ar
tichokes and frogs legs and capons and
cream-cow Greenland wild raspber
ries and muskmelons and mushrooms
grown on the place, but did they ge
them?
Not that I have ever known of.
used to think would like to be con
fectioner, but learned casually on
day while in New York buying m,
winter supply Of green goods that Mr.
Huyler does not come down to the stor