Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1897-08-13
For Clerk of the Circuit Court,
JOHN W. COLLIER.
For Register Of Wills,
II. CLINTON ALLNUTT.
For Sheriff,
HORTON G.. THOMPSON.
For County Surveyor,
CHARLES J. MADDOX, Jr.
PROVIDENCE AND THE FARMER

PROVIDENCE AND THE FARMER.
1t happens more frequently than scoffers
are willing to admit that Providence takes
hand 10 passing events, and there is sub
siantial evidence that the farmers very gen.
orally throughout our entire country have
been made the special benefcisres of spe
cial interposition.
Ia spite of the hard times In business and
commerce the farmers are blessed with pros
poets of magnificent crops of all kinds. At
the beginning OF the season the outlook was
not at all proptious. A late dry spring is
not usually prelude TO bountiful yield Of
field crops, but Providence, by coming to
the rescue, has made 1t so this year. More
over, the hard times which bear with such
heavy cruelty on those who do not have the
soil aud Gods seasons to fall back on, have
taught the farmers new lessons Of economy.
They have pinched here and puckered there,
aud poltered yonder, until they have learned
TO practically do without money. They
have learned to make their farms self.sup
porting. They are raising their own sup
plies. their meat, their corn, their forage.
They have brought their hand looms from
the wood shed, the spinning wheel from the
back room.
This means great deal for the farmers
and their families, but II does not mean
much for those who do not depend on farm
ing Tor living. 1t does not mean much for
merchants and business men. 1t settles q
great many small problems with which the
farmers have been contending, but it does
not settle the great question which presses
heavily and harshly on every interest ex-
cept that of the farmers
The millionaire can rub his hands and
smile at hard times because he has plenty
of money The farmer, blessed with boun :
tiful crops, can smile because his comfort
and his happiness do not depend on money.
In fine, the farmer has an advantage over
the millionaire. For Dives, or Midas, or
whatever his name may be, presently comes
to the end OF his millions, but the mind of
man has not yet conceived an end to the
rich development Of the seasons, or put a
period TO Gods providence.
II is well known that IN the midst Of great
crises and crashes the farmer alone Is indie
pendent and superior TO the events and con-
ditions that bring ruin to business and mis-
cry To the multitude. II is also well known
that the money question is not farmers
question-that though every dollar of gold
and silver and paper In the world were des-
troyed, yet the farmer would dig comfort
able sustenance out Of the ground. Nay,
more-that II every line of railway, every
business enterprise and every industry were
blotted out of existence, the farmer would
not only survive, but would re.create and
replace them.
These are facts that ought TO come home
TO the consciences of those who imagine
that the demands for additions to the vol
ume of money are made exclusively In be
half of the farmers. There is no class which
II forced To do without money, can get alonA
rs well as the farmer. And yet IL is ALSO
lutely essential to the business men OF tn,
country, and to every industrial enterprise
that the farmers should receive annually ,
healthy surplus Of money for their crops
for II is from this surplus that the condition
which we term general prosperity is brough,
about.
We learn that in the West the farmers
have been blessed with good crops, and tn,
wheat-growers are benetiting by the fac
that they are this year called on to supply
the worlds demand for that great cereal
Throughout the South the farmers have a,
fine prospects tor bountiful crops as wert
ever known. Providence has been kind u
our farmers throughout the land, and hs,
placed them beyond the reach Of want and
privation that are holding long and dis
inal holiday among those who have not the
assurance of soil and season to fall back on