The morning news., 1897-08-30

ID bchooveth the farmer, and others, too.
IN cheer up. There is the light of promise
Of better days; the long gloomy night of
agricultural depression it appears is about
10 give way TO the dawn of better times.
There is every indication that the time is
near at hand when the farmer can sing
Inc peon of hope as he goes about his work
rather than indulge the plants of anxiety
and concern that repeated years Of failure
seemed to fully justify of late. There. is
40 lane that has no turning, and when
things are al their worse they sometimes
= mend Let us believe that the farmer of
fe country have seen their worst; that
f1rv have lived through the very seventh
as the Years of scarcity and adversely
Let MS cherish the conviction that We will
enter now upon the seven years of plenty
and prosperity. To this end the signs are
abundant with promise, as they have not
l.5u before in years. They TEEN with in
.,altives 60 hope. They give an inspiration
TO work They promise a fair reward for
honest toll. II behooves us to accept these
ssu- with cheerful hope; to rise up and
60 ont to meet halfway the return of the
stranger who forSOOth is styled agriCul-
rral prosperity. This is the first cogno-
usu of general prosperity, 10 be sure. For
G the farmers prosper all, or nearly all
Others viii prosper This IS an old saying
worldly of our acceptation. This writer
thanks God that we are still an agricui-
tural people. The larger number of our
southern people are still engaged in tilling
the soil Directly or indirectly the best
element of them are dependent upon farm
ing II farming stagnates and proves un-
profitable the greater number are distress
ci more or less.
tTr4rro InOlx n11
prosperity. our manufactures constitute
but small proportion of our wealth.
Commerce can make but poor showing
when not sustained by a reasonable pros
,eriJy of the farmers.
Il is presumed that every man and wo-
man viii do their individual part in re-
neWiug farm prosperity, and il behooVes
our lawmakers to enact every law that
Will in the slightest degree advance this
agricultural prosperity. Being an agri-
cultural people legislation should be meas
ured by the question, will the proposed
law bear faVOrably or otherwise upon
farming? If the former, by all means let
il pass for trial. A country sustained by
prosperous class of farmers will never be
the abiding place of fanatics, anarchists
0r ,eyouuonists. The farmers are con-
serVatve God-fearing class that can be
trusted to sustain a state in the highest
condition Of honor, quiet and contentment
'ili5 IS as true as true can be, despite the
IN assertions of a small class of petit
fo2sers and small merchants of dishonor-
able me- bods The failure to give office
IN The one case and a refusal of a false
account in the other is the cause of some
abuse and affected ridicule on the part of
class or two of individuals that che
farmer can regard with more of compla-
geuaN than of animosity. The great mass
of farmers may not be able TO clearly
Hraso the trend and Specification of GER
tain financial questions chat stand as so
much Greek TO the average statesman o.
iu f1co, but they may be counted upon to
bear thoir ills with all due patience and
io stand as a buwark of strong defense
Jon their country in times of anarchy and
threatened revolution. So we say. Pros
perN To- the farmers! Let them take
heart and sharpen the tools of their cali
ing and go at work with hope and conf
o.uee. S. A. c.