The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-03-21

No man in recent yearsh as held
his own so well as Mr.. Bryan. He
has not grown fiat nor stale, nor
gone dry. The enthusiasm for
him is as great now as i'll 1896.
Yet thera has been a change. The
man has aged much in three years
Though he is still under 40 there
are crows feet under his eyes which
were not there three years ago. 1t
is the price of game.
Friday, at the ORIENTAL, Mr.. Bryan
received his callers, among whom
was a special representative of Farm
and Ranch. taking each by the
hand, in a homely Democratic way
and talking simply, unaffectedIy
and Democratically as becomes a
man without conceit, he told of
his early struggles, political and
other kinds. Story after story and
anecdote after anecdOte, timely and
pointedly rolled from the end of
his tongue, each one of the proper
place, serving a useful purpose,
either Strengthening or elucidating
an argument.
(. The talk drifted on to the farm
and farming. Yes" Mr., Bryan
mused, I have a farm of - acres
near Lincoln. Five acres of it is
in wheat, five acres in corn, five
in oats, five acres in grass and the
other five acres in vegetables. In
1896 | only had five acres and |
planted it all in corn. | did no.
know Mark Hanna was going to
create Il famine in Europe in order
to raise the price of wheat i'll the
United States, so i did not plant
any wheat But after Hanna had
got his famine going straight, |
bought little more ground. Then
| thought | would plant Il little of
every thing, so it would make no
difference what the next corner
was on, would be on top. ! be
lieve III diversifying crops. The
one crop farm is at the mercy of
the speculator, while the mar who
raises a little of everything is al :
ways. Independent. The man who
produces everything he and his
family eat, can look adversely IL
the face with a smile and hold his
. money crop till he gets Il satisfac
tory price" "
Farm life is, after all, the ideal
life, > Mr.. Bryan said after a pause.
There is no place like the farm fol
raising pure, healthy God-fearine
boys and girls My earliest year,
were spent on a farm. l lived OIL
a farm till | was more than hal
grown, and | look backward acros.
those years always with feeling
of regret. have wreStled witt
great questions on the sunlit prairie
: and some way | have always fel
that the cOmpaniOnship of the opeI
.. air and sunshine and the birds anC
.. the trees helped me to the correc
conclusion.
1T is indeed hard that the ten
dency of legislation has been t,
rob farm life of some of its sweet
ness and to place burdens on tn
shoulders of the farmer which ma
ture never intended he should bear
The dignity of the occupation O
} agriculture and the dependence O
pretty nearly all the rest of tn
world on the farmer will some da
be recognized, but only after tn
farmer SHALL have a hand in tn
settlement of great public questions
For twenty-five years the inevitabl
tendency of legislation has bee
to drive boys from the farm t
the cities. The lot of the farme
has been made harder while tn
burdens of the city man have bee
lessened. The man who raise
wheat tolls the whole year throug
without sufficient recompense
while the speculator who bet