The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-01


men, neglecting the practical affairs
of labor today that lie just under their
noses, are more concerned about some
expansive arrangement for the future,
involving leadership and power for
themselves. The laboring men of this
country may make some mistakes, but
they always get ONO these big
schemes and quickly let the gas out
of them by ignoring them. This is the
case with the st. Louis meeting, which
is admitted on all sides to be fiasco.
The men there will have their talk
out, and that is all that will come Of
it. The real workers of the country
are busily engaged in solving their own
problems in a wiser and less pyrotech-
mic fashion
THE FAIRS ECONOMIC VALUE.
1t is customary to designate the
man who produces things on the land
and him who produces things in shop
by terms that would indicate that they
are doing work so different in its ma
ture, results and methods that distinct
designations are required for each. 1t
is convenient also to call the one
farmer, and the other a manufacturer;
but the fact, in the last analysis is
that the farmer is just as much man
ufacturer as is he who assemblies ma
terial for the construction of commodi-
ties under roofs apd to the whir Of
machinery. 1t is true that the latter
is the more highly esteemed; for him
parties exist and presidents and con-
crosses are chosen, but that is only be-
cause the man who tiIls the soil has
not arrived at the knowledge that he,
too, is a manufacturer and must use
their methods if he would attain equal
attention.
Aside from any adventurous aid the
manufacturer may get from legisla-
ton, his success is due to the constant
study he gives to the processes of max
ing the things forming his line. His
incessant study runs mainly on two
lines; how can 1 reduce the cost of
making this thing, and how can 1 in
crease the productive capacity of my
plant? His failure is due, as often as
to anything, to the fact that he does
not study the situation on these lines;
and his more alert competitor, who
does, soon takes the market away from
him. Now the same problem precisely
confronts the farmer; success or fail
I,
and the answer he makes to them.
How can 1 make beef or pork or but
ter at less cost? How can 1 make an
acre of ground yield more crop? How
can I get more butter fat out of my
cows? How can I make my acres
carry more stock? These are the ques-
lions the successful farmer finds an
swer for, and the inevitable mortgage
awaits him who neither asks nor an
swers them.
The manufact urer is on the alert for
the piece of machinery that will do
given amount Of work in less time
than the one he has, and when he
finds it or invents it he gets It and
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junk pile. He cannot afford to use it
longer It wastes power, time and
money. Tell him of an Improvement
and he is hot foot after it. The farm
er must do the same The competi-
ton of millions of farmers crowds him,
as the manufacturer is pushed by his
fellows. Here comes in the economic
value to the farmer of state fairs.
There are assembled the best and lat
est products of the things he uses on
his farm. Every laborsaving device
that will diminish cost of production
is displayed there Implements that
make for economy of feed, thereby in
creasing the stock capacity of the farm,
are shown Then there he will have
opportunity to see the various breeds
of cattle. sheep, horses and pigs, the
best results of intelligent breeding,
frames whose machinery Of digestion
and assimilation get out of feed the
most fat, the most milk, the most
butter the best bacon or hams. And
so on through the long line of exhibits
of all the "bests." II stead of going
hither and thither over the country in
search of them he finds them all as
sembled where they can be seen and
compared. This is the value to the
farmer of a state fair and those of the
class who are alert, wideawake and up
to the times will certainly not miss the
opportunity that the Minnesota state.
fair, which opens next Monday, will
afford them.
NJ. j. bowling having sold his interest
in the Renvie Star Farmer, is reported to be
booked for the Granite Falls postofice. Mike
usually gets what he wants in the political
line.-Hutchinson Leader.
The idea that a man who hob-nobs with
a president who turns him loose in his east
room and lets him Swallow the sumptuous
furnishing being booked for a postofice in
Granite Falls any other little affair.
Watts yer given US?
LOST PROVINCES OF FRANCE.
Were the Property of Germany 200
Years Ago, As Now.
To the Editor of the Globe.
In your editorial published on the 29th
inst, THE Lost Provinces of France" you
make the following statement 1.-The Ger
mans had carried for seventy years the MEM
DRY of the spoHation of their empire by
France, and retook from the third Napoleon
what the first Napoleon had wrested from
them" I presume that you mean that Ma
poleon l. had wrested the two provinces of
Alsace and Lorraine from Germany. Now 1
wish to call your attention to the fact that