Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-20

knowna man to get Rich renting. on.
the other hand men a!Ypnd me who be-:
gan life as poor as any renter. but who
secured a piece of land and stuck right
to 1t, after few years became COM
Portable and Independents. In many
cases these men paid down but little on
the land they bought, but they wisely
considered that they might just as we'll
pay interest as to pay rent. and the
Ioutcome has proved the soundness of
their Judgment
One advantage Of owning the farm.
one lives on is that it gives one a per-
manent home. This is no small advan-3
tage. for IL a man can count on staying
on the same farm year after year he
can lay his n!ans for working 1t to bet
ter advantage than If he was liable to;
be turned of the place at any time. He
also escapes the sacrifices that always
attend the moving from place to place
Another advantage is that such a
man has good place ever at hand in
which to put his spare cash. He can
use 1t either in paying off his indebted
mess on the place, in improving 1t or in
the purchase of stock toEenrich the land
land himself at the same time. 1t is not
so With the renter. He can not keep
much stock. for he is not sure that next
year he Will be able to find a place to
Trent where he will be able to keep 1T.
Many a renter squanders his few spare
dollars in foolish INDUCES, when il he
had payments to make on piece of
land he would save UP the dimes and.
put them where they would count in
the days to come. He might seem to be
more cramped for the time than he was.
renting, but he would be laying up
lsumething for rainy day and old age
| Another advantage is that in the
newer countries the owner of land;
makes more money, as rule, from the
advance in the value OF land than from
The profit of his oWn labor. This ad-8
Vantage the renter loses altogether. "A
Large proportion Of our wealthy farmers
have made much of their money IN just
this way-by the advance i'll real es-
| tate. In the Vest whore land is cheap,
say from Sl0#to $20sa acre. think IT is
limuch better for a man With small
capital to buy a farm even ii he can
lpay but little down. than To rent land
| from another. a man feels more indie
pendent: feels that he has something To-
work for worth while; that the work
he is doing is being done for himself
land his family; and this feeling makes
| a pleasure of much work that other
wise WOULD be distastefu!.
tn live on a farm Of ones own tends
- the formation of habits of industry
and economy. 1t tends toindustry be-
l4cause a man living on a farm of his
own can always lind something to do in
/ the Way of improving the place. where
as. If he was "A renter he would have no
interest in such work. and would often
he idle when he ought to be usafully
lempluyed. 1t tends 10 frugality in thai
/ a man On place of his own can all
Ways find a good pla,s 70 put his spare
I|dolars. In the west should say that
fully nne-tenths of our farmers buy
ltheir places on time. They have their.
fragments TO make annually; and
knowing this, they naturally plan how
lthes will meet them. All this tends t.
ECONOMY and good management, and
leads to thrift and ulti
Innate Independence.
In conclusion ] would say to the
1 Young man or renter: Get a piece8pf
Hand Of Your own. pay down what YOU
]are able; b. careful always To provide
flor the payment Of interest promptly on
ltime: be Industrious and economical,
1 and there is every reason to believe
4 that Won Mil succeed.
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