The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-04-22

with a certain product to turn your
whole attention to that product and
hasn't the result been disastrous to
you? Take potatoes for example:
Where there have been two seasons of
profit there have been several of loss.
If you had not depended too much on
this crop and given part of your at
tention to something else you would
not have suffered so great a loss. OF
course the indications are for a better
price for Northern potatoes this year,
but what if the season proves un-
favorable? If your crop. fails the
high prices will not benefit you.
Wheat has fully as excellent pros
poets as potatoes. The supply at pres
ent is much less than atany like period
for many years and with an Eastern
war it has even better chances for
profits. Do you know that there isn't
enough wheat raised in this section to
keep our own mill running and that
wheat has to be shipped to Princeton
to supply our own breadstuffs? This
insures a near market, which is worth
a great deal to the farmers of Mile
Laos, Sherburne and Isanti counties.
Now understand the UNION doesn't
advise the raising of wheat to the ex-
clusion of all other crops. Raise sew
\ n ~; IL
son proves disastrous for one you have
another to fall back on. Another mis-
take which some are making is the
selling of young stock. The purchas-
Iers buy your cattle to feed for beef. It
there is profit in this for them there
must certainly be for you. You have a
great advantage over them for you can
raise your own grain, they must buy it.
! You can market your crops to a greater
| advantage by feeding to your fattening
stock than in any other way. The
farmers in the more thickly settled
\ portions of the State, where land is
more expensive have proved the truth
of this. Need we say more on this
subject? If you consult your own in
; terests you will agree that diversified
farming is the kind that pays.
W.C.T.U.
The agitation of temperance dates
back through number of decades and
after all these years of labor to sup
press its wrongs we find ourselves here,
in the. closing days as it were of the
Nineteenth Century, still confronting
the drink evil.
Il The time was when the work of TEN.
,,5perance had tosbesdone ia thesfaee %
& 1.-THE bitterest opposition and scorn but
] such batteries are now silenced, and
! 1--we can press forward and overthrow
t land destroy this death dealing mon
y ours the loyal American people have
: become aroused and are fully deter
a mined to procure the most thorough
9 destruction of the liquor traffic con
) sistent with the preservation of thai
l liberty which our institutions estab
r lished. While our legislative bodies
h foster and permit the existence O.
e licensed saloons, the chain of evils
7. which now exists must be continued.
I'll Intemperance is emphatically thu
e great stone of stumbling and rock o
If offence and its suppression is impera
e tive, if moral, social and religious re
If forms are to advance and triumph. S,
} many homes have felt its whitening
d blight. Almost all the crimes ant
If miseries that disturb the peace Q
J. States and poison the happiness o
e families is traceable to drunkenness
a It depraves the character, impairs tn
j. strength, Skaters the health an,
d nerves, bringing thousands to an earl,
$ grave. The evils of intemperance ar
e not only harr owing and humiliating
n but so widespread as to almost def
@ computation. The knowledge of al
IS evil does not furnish the essentia
g knowledge of its remedy. The victim
e of drink fully realizes the evil he ha
} entailed upon himself by such in
), diligence but is powerless to retriev
~ his mistaken course. Hence the ne
J. cessity OF law that will protec
= humanity from such a condition 9
# depravity So let US, irrespective 9
il sex or party, feel energized to go for
y ward aggressively and aid in suppress
II ing this enemy of souls
n Let US educate the young, teachin
4 them to fee from intemperance as the
= would from an approaching pestilence
G. Much depend upon the instruction an
N training Of the rising generation. Th
y child of to-day is the man or woman {
= tomorrow and to them will be CON
= mitted the future Of our great republic
= Therefore much depends upon the GU
s. tivation Of a high moral sentiment
Il and power OF conscience enlightene