The San Francisco call., 1905-04-09
KING FARMER.

Department bring prominently
ngsp the American farmer lh DAY OF rest
church. dim religious light that through
the stained glass window and we go to business IN the
send to lar lands
great ships temples OF religion and of trade and the
ships that down the were all first plO~ed out OF the earth
Last year the farm Of the crops of this country
soooooooo value Of the crop alone would have paid
the left surplus The value OF the food
1904 the capital stock of all the national banks and
crops the other secondary products OF the
soil added the OF value vast that the minds tails to
grasp Mines pinch manufactures fall stock obbers
pass auence beggay but king farmer abdcates
puts his kingdom under regency fails in his annual
output -
Without him would not be- With the tonnage supplied
missing railway could wheel He is the dictator
organizations which limit
put with prices competition and affect great power
the financial and commercial destiny OF the world But they
and weakgs compared what the farmers could do they
decided that for only they would limit
bank rarooad
trust manufacturing establishment the whole country The
commercial community would disappear and would be IN VAIN
community life seek the of and profit the
forest in the under the earth
When known that the farm value of the agricultural products
this country the last than the yield of all
importance brought srikngly before
the mind labor strike New York Bay off the supply Of
there is aine But farmers strike against the production Of
surplus market would month drive employer mpoye
their own boothees and live on the broth
Politicians and there organizations The. take
their second hand from this that organization They let
shut out classes and OF immigrants according to the dec-
should and combine their where politicians
merely bend their knees they would crawl their bellies The
valuable that States compete Tor him. In California
this striving lure merchants bankers,
mechanics lawyers doctors preachers We after farm
coaxing from the older of the To
this end exploit climate the fertility of SOIL the
tions of
We know that when the farmers thousands
chants bankers mechanics lawyers doctors and preachers will
without requiring tourist the railroads fetch them
The farmer live without them, but they live without him..
He may be haysed and chew plug tobacco but he king His
intellectual below that OF the professions California
especially learned He does grow field crops
and fruits by hap and by hazard Others business by e
thumb but the amers guided by science the agcu
He ntomoogist soil chemist and knows the functions
soil the productions of his He builds
his plOwshare and pruning hook In battle be
without him. prosperity unless he wills and it
from the ground.
Give California this farmers the land
holdings their needs, and the State will feel impulse
than be impaired by the bringing of hundred millions
capital The farmer capital 1t with his
seed and is gathered into barns a harvest
Ne who live cities and seldom the fields will do we'll
seek knowledge of this king He kindly and sometimes
and appreciate him but little if
and make giants of his power would sup
pcate him Peace be his farmead plenty
his fields.