The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-12
OMAN'S PLACE ON THE FARM.
Continued from Eighth Page.)

sra long. 1t makes a veteran like my
self smile to hear you pirate about free
frade or the tariff, silver and gold, BIZ
metallic conferences and war with Spain
a. an excuse for depression in business
and low prices. The fact is, if farmers
will raise the stuff that commands good
,rices, they will get ready sale for it,;
hut if they glut the market, they won
GET ANYTHING for their labor. We glut
tbe market with cotton and it goes down
On cents We glut the market with
horses and mules, and they don't bring
enough to pay expenses. There is no glut
on bacon or lard, or good butter. Cattle
hiring a good price and corn will never be
elut in Georgia, so long as people love
hog and hominy.
II believe you have overlooked the most
inDortant factor in farming, and when l
ind a farmer who cOnsults his wife, who
helps her with her work and divides
profts with her, or gives her liberty to
spend enough to make her family COM
Portable, nine cases out of ten you will
ind him on deck, ready to sail with a
light heart and free. OF all tiresome
things in this life, deliver me from a two
bv-four farmer or renter, who gets up be-
fore day to start his wife to getting break
fast. and makes fuss enough getting the
bows out to the field with the mules to run
a threshing machine, but who goes to
court or SDGnQS every SATURDAY dllGllOOAA
in town-or talks politics on the road, I'M
iii his wife gets sick at heart and out of
heart with the whole business of farming
When these small men-prate about my
crop" my house" my farm and such
like l wish ! had the power to put them
over the cook stove and wash pot until
they would be willing to say 'our crop"
"our house." "our farm and "our" every
thing else.
Pray what would he amount to- if he
had to hire cook, a nurse, a washerwo-
man and a seamstress to do the work that
his wife does-and never expects to be paid
a dollar for il? If he did not have one
slave-he couldn't thus spread himself like
a green bay tree, and bray like a son of
thunderi 1 have seen some of these women
slaves in my time-martyrs in feminine
garb, who have served their would-be
masters all their days-without the chance
Of a free Niger for themselves and who
are never dollars worth of expense to
these masters, unless the doctor is obliged
TO come-Or the undertaken provides her a
coffin Her work is never done, and be-
tween child-bearng and household drudg-
cry, she is in actual and peremptory bond
age all her life. 1 don't know which feel
ing dominates-disgust for the mascu-
line tyrants or modification al the slave
women who accept the yoke without a
protest-when I look at such people
This is plain talk-but 1t is the plain
truth These household drudges are the
best workers on the farm. They never
strike or quit for better wages. I have
seen such a woman work herself into a
slow fever and nobody ever the Wiser-un-
til she is taken out in her coffin. 1 always
take satisfaction in thinking they will be
sure to miss her then. if they didn't ap-
preciate her before. When the goose that
laid the golden egg is thus killed 1 take
comfort. that goose grease viii be scarcer
in that burg, and the borrowed plumes
will show that the woman goose once had
some feathers! But suppose she is tough,
and keeps the same tread-mill trot all
her life what sort of a husband is it,
who does not put little more ease and
comfort in the life of the mother of his
own children?
"Oh, you needn't tell me that a woman
of right principles is so ambitious to have
a nice house and nice things in it, that
she will actually work herself to death to
keep up with other folks in the neighbor-
hood. Yes, 1 know that to be true; but
nevertheless, she has a mighty poor stick
of a husband, who can tell it, and look
alter it.
Among the needs of a farmers wife
place appreciation, and sympathy as
need No l, in token of her loyalty. her
endurance, her industry and self-sacrifce
Tor other people, who get all the credit
ana VINO own and pay taxes on what she
naS earned and asks no pay for Next
"HeH the average farmer plants his crop
ne pants so much corn to feed horses
ana hogs, so much 10 seed the land again
50 much OF oats to bridge the gap between
~ duu new corn so much wheat to pay
4oI Hour already consumed, so much cot
ION 10 pay debts with, but l never heard
vi painting a corn patch for the wife who
NooNed all the bread, that she might feed
en- en- extra pig or colt for market. did YOU?
a. ~ IofeSo the help of her little chill
- 70 let them drop corn or hoe cotton
WI herselt into a leather string to get
slie outdoor work DONE with the Their
,i-oiIetef IN the ninetes- to save the hus-
DSi' 'He hlre for extra help; and some of
80 martyrs have been known to take
HuIslhs babe to the field after dinner
Gnu, uaI noe cotton until the sun went down.
&, 'nout expecting a dimes worth of help
pet 'oi,4 "olie' unless she was too sick to
puD OF ned to wait on the family.
now many women have Won known
1 "''o uiuI get a good pair Of shoes and
u1 V4o1hes at the end of the vear-for
Il "tNe months of the hardest Worx-witb-
Il ~ uay mtermission from January
tbti e0eiuDerF l tell you, the necessity Of
The country lies in and about
49, ''uilA lnUS inflicted on
e mothers of this nation
use use health, happiness and inteII,
IN nv. are IN the balance, TO be perpetuated
|,rbi'. 'e 5. HVes Of those who come after them
AZ 5o 4reatIon mas assumed national as well
aoliesue Importance. A mothers we'll
"e Is necessity for the welI-being of
nor. 'H .,.n and this hopeless toll does
IN s,t .nJuIy to the mind than to the BODY
.sfa,4 cases as have instanced. In
M. a,,,-l turning the point Of view towards
b tbe IISiue world, it should be turned 70
iric,s ,..,i, ana farm life i'm the rural dis
|rlsyi,,"" an continue to be difficult ana ner-
fori5l5 uhul the mothers are made com
,'oIe IN mind and In body also Nobod,,
H., me stock from half-starved had
II,,. Ior mothers OF colts or calves
healt,' ouia we expect intelligent and
Conditions? present untoward
lne time has come when ovorv Doo,
. rr,r should arrange TO give bia viz
hsIf ,a l own. Whether there Is only
M, ' acre or five acres. She ehonld kno,y
H. 'i ana showers being grant.
Boz va. III not be penniless at the end NJ
r,t''I' brought this matter 10 ~
5t.. . OF farmers some years ago bnt
omo,,s 'e consuming the nation. so The
ee..'.' case went by default Won -.
.'H lhelr toll bv the 49,. N" ~ u'N