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

would be Il deficit in trade against the
United States" says Dr. Farnum, "of
$3.50, 000,0 600 per year. This nation,
great as it is, could not survive single
year without the assistance of its wheat
and cotton raisers, and yet any effort on
their part to better their condition or
avert ruin is denounced us Populistic
anarchy"
I honestly believe that the next few
years must settle the question whether
vast majority Of American citizens.
the bone and brains Of the republic,
shall be ruled by tho minority or not.
Undoubtedly the horse could take his
driver wherever he (tho 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 tho mar
kets of food and raiment?
For myself 1 cannot unite with this
proposed trust for two reasons, viz:
Flrst.-I am opposed to trusts just as
was before began farming. Farming
has not changed my morals.
Second.-I do not grow for export
either wheat or cotton
These two reasons thus given will in
dicato why l am enabled as an intelli-
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 i'll 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 a 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 i'll
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 III the Unit
ed States-viz, the wheat belt, the cot
ton belt and the champion belt. I 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 a
wall flower or q caulifower? 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.
lie 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 its vast,
alcoholic nose. Ho ought to live bet
ter life than anybody else but, alas, he
does not Most people have dropped in
at a farmhouse ut some time or other.
expecting 10 get milk and honey and
cool, crisp crcumbers and Jerusalem ar
tichokes and frogs legs and cnpons and
cream-cow Greenland wild raspbor-
ries and EuSkmelons and mushrooms,
grown OH the place, but did they get
them?
Not thai l lave ever known If. l
used to think would like to he :; con
fectioner. but | learned casually Que
day while i'll Now York buying my
winter supply of green goods that Mr..
Huyler does not come down to the store
each day and founder himself before