The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

ton from the articles of export, and there
would be deficit in trade against the
United States" says Or. Farnum, cot
$50, 900, 600 per year. This nation,
e; eat as it is, could NOT survive a single
year without the assistance of its wheat
ard cotton raisers. and yet any effort on
ii sir part to better their condition or
avert ruin is denounced as Populistic
a, arcly.
l honestly believe that the next few
yers must settle the question whether
a vast majority Of American citizens,
tn, 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
ch oose 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
thu 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 / cannot unite with this
Or, posed trust for two reasons, viz:
lirst.-I am opposed to trusts inst as
Twas 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
hic'te why am enabled as an intelli-
ger farmer to speak without fear or IA
vor Of the merits of this question.
he only crop that have grown with
sue success as to create a surplus has
bee in the cabbage line. Last year I
had over Sc worth of cabbages, through
40 fault Of my own, and as the family
spe ID the winter in town these were
cold, and for few weeks times i'm
Pre- ged.
Tut cabbages do not constitute good
cla of securities for investment. They
are perishable and transitory in their
o., ire, and no truer text flashes up in
my memory than the one which tells US
thaB the fool and his cabbage are soon
par ed.
There are, geographically speaking,
three great industrial belts in the Unit
ed .;tases-viz, the wheat belt, the cot
ton belt and the champion belt. / have
some knowledge of the situation in all
tire of these belts, and it has been
Gle. rly demonstrated that none of them
can successfully continue without rota-
ton of crops. Seriously, the cotton
gre Yer and the wheat grower both agree
tiis,5 they can no longer make cotton or
WI! sat their own successors. Other crops
IA; st intervene for two or three years,
AND during those years what is to pay
the running expenses of the Cotton and
vi eat trust? What is to become of the
c.. 5aee grower? Shall he be made
W. flower or a caulifiower? Scarcely.
rom alipoints of view am and ever
have been in full sympathy with the
II, ner. He stands closer TO the throne
OF grace than any other kind of toiler
be smells the rich and dewy odors at
d. IN of day which all the scientific
weld tries vainly to initiate. He
byJ athes the breath of clover sod and
p. CHI orchards and new mown hay,
vi lie the reeking city holds its vast,
al oholic nose. He ought to live a bet
ter life than anybody else; but. alas, he
co not Most people have dropped in
at farmhouse at some time or other.
eN 'ecting TO get milk and honey and
C !, crisp cucumbers and Jerusalem ar
tlo lokes and frogs legs and capons and
crC am-ccw Greenland wild raspber-
ries and muskmelons and mushrooms.
grown on the place, but did they get
til m?
Not that l have ever known of. I
esd TO think l would like TO he a con-
.ecnoner, but | learned casually one
IL. while IN New York buying my