The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-11-09

A. o CIemsnt, q Eorms- Citizen OF shsr-
man County, Writes About Conditions
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Ol6Isment, foTmeFIy 6 farmer Of
7 Voltaire township, but who removed to
southern CaliforBfa a few years ego,
I sends the following letter to The
/ Repabiic. Mr. Clement lives in Orange
county near Westminister. He says:
sAbOut one year ago We changed our
farming from sugar beets to s dairy
ranch, and. this has been the third dry
year IN succession, four Of the Eve
Eseasons that. We have been in California
have been dry, still one would hardly
think by the crops that have been
raised here thai We had had a severe
Pdronth. It had been supposed that
there was an Inexhausta0le supply Of
artesian water here, but many wells
have stopped flowing aud some have
had TO put in pumping plants. We
have rented a 60saere ranch with the
stock on the place. We are milking
10 COWS. although we have 26 head Of
stock on the place.
There is most all kinds of fruit and
quite q large apple orchard. We have
had ripe oranges and lemons al of the
time since the first Of last January
I'VE are in one Of the most fertile
localities in this part Of the state. We
are about 90. miles from Los Angeles
and eight miles from Santa Ana, the
county seat of this county. We are
one and q half miles from our nearest
toWn-Westminister, This is a town
about % years old, in q dairyiuR CON-
munity- There are two cresmerfes
here that do a good business; three
general merchandise stores, one hard
ware and one drug store, one bakery
and two churches; a good school build
ing with three teachers, and within
four miles there are four other school
buildings that employ eight teachers.
We. are near the noted peat land where
they raise so much celery. Last year
over 500 carloads were shipped and
the quantity is increasing every year.
The farmers get Is and 10 cents per
dozen punches, delivered at the ship
ping points. One man last year thought
be would ship his own. He got quota
tions from a commission house and
they were satisfactory, so loaded a car.
When it arrived at destination he got
word that several carloads had arrived
ahead Of his and there was no demand
at all and no probability that there
would be for some time, so he lost his
carload and learned that he must sell
TO the trust; that they were there to
do that business and intended to do it.
This is only one instance for there is
not q product on this coast that is not
handled IN the same way. There is
even q butter trust. They call it a
board Of trade, but they control the
price Of butter and say to the cream
cries what they shall pay for milk, and
if any one does not conform to their
rules he ain be boyeotted out Of bust
ness. The object of this trust is to
protect home industries against those
east Of the Rocky mountains. That
is-that is what they say when they
incorporate.
r. Il see By the papers that this state as
we'll as Kansas has gone republican.
Well, I suppose it is best to continue
the war for it makes business so much
better, and We must look to the good
of the living, not the dead. The great
est good to the greatest number It is
too bad to loose so many brave boys,
but just think for all the live soldiers
IN the Philippines every thing they
have to eat, drink and wear has to be
shipped to them, and fol. every dead
one a coffin must be sent over there,
and then transportation back, so you
see it means lots Of business-this is a
business administration Cleveland
once said a-gOOd war would help bust
ness IN this country, more than any
thing else, and if be had only brought
it about they could have never got the
democrats out Of power That is just
like them-get every thing al ready
and then let the other fellow do it and
get all the money foredit I mean).
When Tom Reed, as a republican men,
Der Of the ways and means committee,
was helping to make the Wilson tariff
bin be did all ne. could to get every
thing he could on the free list, and the
next election didn't they pound the
backs Of the democrats for that free
trade $50 called measure. But now
their backs are getting it on the Span
ish treaty and how they squirm and
say 1t vas Bryan that did it.
81 have ali my life heard the demo-
Gratis denounced as the meanest class
Of people on earth and ought to be
wiped of the face OF the earth, and
see by the republican speeches this
year they have changed in many ways