The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-22


father a member of our church at l."
naming the place, and the boy an
swered, "Well--yes, guess he is,
but he is not working at it much,"
If farming is our business, and we
have our way to1nake, we must work
at it. One other very important thing
in farming is to use real economy
and to know how to spend the money
made. In. talking with friend
Jew days ago in4regard to one whom
we both had known some years ngo,
he said, 'Oh, Harve is in the town of
B in the store business, and is sue
ceeding now, though at one time he
came near going under, but his wife,
saved him. How, was that? said 1.
Well, Harve hadlnever run store,
and he did not know where to put
the money from the goods, he sold,
so as to make the store pay. But his
wife'sfather had kept a store, and
she knew, and on the verge Of flnan-
cial ruin, she said, we can make 1t
pay, and as the dollars came in. she
saw to it that they were placed to
bring in more dollars, and to day
they are doing well. What to buy
and what not to buy, has been the
wrecking place for many. We are
not to buy what our neighbor buys,
Just because he has it, nor to be in
swim. Many family has pulled up
charming ingram carpets, which
they could afford, and gone into debt
for partisan rugs, Of unspeakable
ugliness, simply because their neigh
bors had them. Again what might
be economy or allowable in one case
might not in another. Mrs. A. whose
husband is out of debt, and ownes a
home, buys a new spring bonnet and
Mrs. B. whose home is under mort
gage and the interest over due says,
L have just'as good right to dress
up nice, as she. and goes ahead on
that line, the result is plain. A
church society gave poor mother
$500 with which to buy some COM
forts, and she went and bought a
pair of kid CATERS. A family of flood
sufferers were helped to the sum of
$400, and they braced up their cabin,
with poles and went and bought a
buggy and second hand piano.
And we Say those things look fool
ish and we can hardly believe
them, can hardly believe people
would spend money so foolishly,
especially when it came as this did
But while do not know of those
two instances just sited, but read
them, we have their counterpart in
Hooking county, it would seem to
me, when we read that the official
records in our county show, that OF
about $1,000 which was paid out to
outside relief OF poor money collect
ed from the people, only about one
fifth goes to buy the necessaries OF
life and provisions.
And now to, sum It all up, if we
as farmers see TO it that our farms
are kept as they ought to be, tha
they show culture and that we ust
them for our best good and oul
families, thattRey are cropped and
stocked to thesbest advantage, that
they are large enough, and not too
large and that we use intelligence
industry and economy in theil
management. think the farmer
will have about covered the grounC
of individual eff6rt. But there We
, remains IL something, that, 1t seems
to me, the farmef as an individual
alone has failed 70 accomplish ant
that is ID make himself felt as
, power in the body politics. TIL
5 farmer is the most independen
citizen in this great independen
nation. He, by his isolation from
others has from his youth beer
taught to depend on his ow
!, efforts. Built seems, the day ha
= come when the lone efforts Of tn
), individual are paralyzed throug
) united organized Efforts Of othe
i industries, not to speak of thos
n other organized efforts Of gambler
y and robbers united together fo
}. robbery, either legal or withou
sanction of.law, and so have mad
. . it necessary that farmers too o
ganize, toMnh one vSfGei deman
9 that these rsibberies stop. But
g get farmers to unite, or "hang Il
n gether" is the pbfht.s Aad as / d
S not wish to 90 toto the discussio
g of this subject al le lgth, 1 do !. M
If see that | can do better than to r
!, late a little story on the point
g Changing together" Way bac
9 during the times of the Revolution
= airy War there were, both in tn
:. country and in England, those wh
T favored The struggle of the Colo
# lists, who were called wigs, and II
1t Torys who were with old Kin
IS George the 8rI and thought tn
Ie therevolution ought to be squelche
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