The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-09-21
Prosperity Of The Farmer

The prosperity of the American peo-
pie in the last decade has been beyond
the dreams Of the most speculative
minds. Clever as are the writers Of
fiction and the reporters for the Met
ropolitan press VINO are continually on
the lookout for something to startle
the reader. they have not kept pace
with the Director Of the census and
the Secretary Of Agriculture No rec
ord Of fortune building on Wall Street,
or in the diamond mines Of South AZ
RIGA, equals the plain and painstaking
compilation Of facts that show the in
creased values in farm lands and farm
products, and the increase in wages
and output Of the factories where they
are gathe-cu together by the statisti,
ciaE who assemblies the figures and
marks out the simple sum Of addition
to reach the grand total Of our prosper
ity'
Secretary Wilson is not dreamer Of
dreams. nor a maker Of fiction. He is
a practical farmer. No one ever com
pared him to Jules Verne, but what
writer Of fiction ever recorded a more
striking paragraph than this from the
report Of the Secretary Of Agriculture:
Every sunset during the past five
years has registered an increase Of
81. lOO. 600 in the value Of the farms Of
this eountry;every month has piled this
value upon value until il has reached
SOL. 200, 600; that portion Of the Nat
ional debt bearing interest is equalled
by the increased value 81 farms in nine
months, and this increase for a little
over a year balances the entire interest
and non-interest bearing debt Of the
United States
This is the short and simple story Of
the poor farmer as he has been photo
graphed by the Secretary Of Agricul.
ture. instead Of cartooncd in the comic
papers. This poor farmer Of the Unit.
ed States last year produced wealth
aggrigating s., il5,OOO.OOO. and NOR,
than four-fifths Of the materials usct
in our manufactures. Then in turn h,
bought more than one.half the entir,
product Of manufacturing establish
mcnts.
We hear Of the speculative values IL
railroad stock. and how they have in
creased by means Of water. But thcs,
advances in values Of railroad stock,
have not outrun or equaled the incrcas
es in the values Of that one real prop
erty which the single tax advocate rccos
nizes, the land. The average incrcas,
in farm values in the past five year
has been one-third their former value
and in the South and West this aver
age increase has been more than % pei
cent. while in corn and cotton lands h
has doubled.
The products Of the land have doub
ed in the same time. and no property
u the capitalist In this country ha
shown anything like such an iucrcas,
In value. Facts are stranger than fict
Ion, and the dreamer of dreams canno
equal the startling developments o
this country under the Republican Ad
minista,ion In the last ten years, a
shown by the pains,aking compilation
Of the siatistician
The Republican Party through Il
policies enacted into law since is9j h,
consistently protected the laboring MAJ
in hi, standard of living. a. All haz
ards protection 10 ahur must he con
tinucd in order to maintain the stand
ard of prosperity Tor the whole countr
and the entire population. The Repuh
hcan Party stands ready to fulfil tina
task u the voters continue their sup
port Of is candidates Tor Congress.