Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-08-13
FARMERS GREATEST NEED

and use him as a brother. Give him
your work and pay him we'll. Never
tell him you can hire some worthless
fellow for less than he charges. 1t
will only cause him to take less
interest In your work. Very few
farmers raise enough fruit for family
use. Why don't they? 1t is not
difficult task If rightly managed. We
have right to live on the fat of the
land. Then why live on "pork and
tatersS" You feed your stock for
special purpose, while you neglect
the food for your own children.
Never consider yourself too old
to set fruit trees. Life is uncertain.
You may live many years yet. At
all events, a fine fruit tree will make
better monument to commemorate
your existence than shaft of the
finest marble.
There is oGs thing the farmers need,
though the majority of them do not
seem to realize it. We need better
roads. The old system of working
/ out the taxes never built good road
and never will. Let us pay cash tax,
and let each one pay his share. Why
not set our prison birds at work and
have good roads at a low costY In
our county Jail at Towanda we have
an average of twenty five male prison
ers all the time. These beauties
are kept in idleness. while the honest
taxpayers pay % cents day to board
each one. Why not furnish them
with good stone crusher and give
them job? Within twenty five
years every rod of the roads in this
county could be macadamized at very
little expense.
We farmers need to take more
active interest in politics-not the
partisan kind that yells for this man
or that, but the kind that affects our
pocketbooks and welfare. Pay less
attention to the 'tward heoler'' and
more attention to the candidates,
join the granger or Farmers Allan
ce, and use your influence through
that. Individually one can do little,
but collectively we can work won
ders. If we were as we'll organized as
we should be we could control the
laws of both State and nation. We
constitute nearly one-half tho pop
}.-l--sl----l--s sA-a.n ov~mury. Tho other
half contains large part of the low,
illiterate class, whose vote is more
often influenced by little cash or
beer than by their own interest.
The farmer should buy his goods
where he can buy the cheapest, and
buy for cash. | do not mean that we
should try to beat the dealer down
on prices. That is too low and
contemplate for any honorable per-
son to attempt. Always pay the pri-
ces asked without grumbling, but be
sure those prices are the lowest you
can find. Do-not hesitate to send
your orders to some large wholesale
house in the city whenever il will
pay. If You buy of your local dealer
he must send the money for those
goods, so the only difference il his
profit; and if that profit is in your
pocket instead of his, what thenY
Never let any dealer think he onws
you. Our commercial conditions are
such to-day that we can be entirely
independent.
In conclusion, | want to advise
every farmer to stick to the farm un-
less there is special advantages offered
in town. This is true among all
classes. The prices of farm products
have been depressed on account of
the cheap and fertile land in the
West, but these conditions must
change, and the time is at hand
The rapidly growing cities of the
West will take part of their pro.
ducts, while the foreign demand will
absorb the rest The wealth and
population of our land are rapidly
concentrating in our large cities.
These people must have food, and we
must feed them If possible. The time
must come when the question of
food will become serious one.
The trade unions will keep wages at
a point whore the masses can buv
food after paying toll to the rum sell
Ter, and the rich must have the best,
regardless of cost. Let your neigh
Dor move to town if he likes. He
VIII become a consumer instead of
a producer. His children or grand
children will come back in search of