The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-11
RAISE POTATOES.

At present it would seem that the po-
tatO farmers are unable to market
their crop at the price Of transporta-
tion, and that unless something is
done for them q large part of the crop
must go to waste. It is possible, on
the other hand, that rate war may
come in which case bidding for business
among two or three of the lines will
be lively. The farmer would be a
thankful man just at present if one
of the roads would break through the
present tariff with an emergency rate.
Minneapolis Times.
Always the same story. The people
are powerless, but they ask-"Will
not the railroads do something for
us?" Great God! Do the corporations
own this country-or the people?
But where is President Stickney
who held meetings to advise the farm
ers to raise potatoes? We visited
town in Wisconsin, the other. day,
where they were down to thirteen cents
q bushel!
But Pres ident Stickney is on anoth-
er clay" now. We quote:
Chicago Times-Herald: President
Stickney, of the Chicago Great West
ern road, is impressed with the idea
that this country has too many one
horse lawyers and not enough first
class farmers. In other words, there
are too many engaged in raising dis
turbance and not enough in raising
corn and potatoes. Mr.. Stickney be-
lieves that thousands of young men
az hoinr 6nnnuo6 OF oifrh
and narrow path of agriculture into
the devious and crooked by-ways of
materia, medica. Too many young
men are holding the feeble pulse Of
drugged humanity and tickling it's
feverish palate with all sorts of more
or less harmful decoctions, who ought
to be holding the handles Of pillow
and tickling the face of nature.
Mr.. Stickney is right. But it is one
thing to have theories and another
thing to act upon them. Mr.. Stickney
believes in action. That probably is
the reason he was put at the head OF
a great railway. Without action a
railway does not pay dividends, and in
order to have action there must be
crops to haul Mr. Stiekney has no.
ticed perceptible falling off. in the
crops along the line Of the Chicago
Great Western, and he lays it to poor
farming. He laments growing ten
dency Of the farmers to hang around
grocery corners and sow the seeds of
discord and discomfort instead of SOW
ing oats and rye.
In order to give practical expression
to his zeal in the interest of farmers,
Mr.. Stickney proposes to open in Iowa
number OF preparatory agricultural
acade mics, in which the farmers boys
may be given short courses of inStruc-
.tion in the common branches along
lines which will inspire them with
an ambition to enter the agricultural
college at Ames. If the boys get no
farther than the preparatory, Mr..
Stickney thinks they will be better
farmers than if they had no training.
With a new crop Of better farmers
Mr.. Stickney believes. will come larger
crops for his railroad to haul
Again Mr.. Stickney is right. The
country is suffering from an over pro-
ductiOn of doctors and lawyers and
politicians. We need more scientific
tillers Of the soil, more breeders Of fine
stock and fewer breeders Of turmoil.
The trouble is the country has been
misgoverned in the interest of the
money-lending class, and the young
men leave the farms because there is
nothing before them but hard work
and starvation wages. And so they
rush to the cities and there they find
hard times, and ten men scrambling
for every dollar. And thus, squeezed
between the upper and the neither
mill-stOneS, too many are driven to
cunning trickery Ut open rascality,
and they prey, in one way or other, up
on their fellow beings. and crime in
creases and violence and discomfort,
and occasionally horrible deeds are
committed that shock the world. And
a Justice Of the Supreme Court, Judge
Brown says:
"The fact remains that bribery and
threaten the very structure OF society.
Universal suffrage, which, it was con-
tidently supposed, would inure to the
benefit of the poor man. is so skillful-
ly manipulated as to rivet his chains,
and secure the rich man a predOmin-
ance in politics he has never enjoyed
under a restricted system.
The outlook for permanent peace be-
tween capital and lobor is certainly
not an encouraging one. The conflict
between them has been going on and
increasing in bitterness for thousands
Of years, and settlement seems fur
ther off than ever"
And the Minneapolis Times (Rep.-
Dem.) says,-quoting this utterance:
Here are few remarks made by
Justice Brown, Of the United States
supreme court, before the Yale law
school, which, if they had burst from
the foaming mouth of a Lcwelling,
Waite. Donnelly. Coxcy, or any other
Wild-eyed Screamer in POpuliSt con-
ventiOn, would have been accepted as
fitting the occasion and environment,
and would have passed unchallenged.
But such an utterance by member
Of the most agust judicial tribunal in
this, or any other, nation, and being
addressed to the law graduates of one
Of our oldest and NEST prominent in
situations of learning, i'm peratively call
Tor protest from those who believe
in the permanence Of Republican in
stitutions and the perpetuity of popu-
lar government.
You may protest as much as you
please. Mr.. Editor of the Times, but
the very existence Of your paper,
owned by the same men who publish
every day a Republican paper, the
Journal, in the same city, testiies
louder than all your protests to the
utter rottenness Of existing condi-