The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-04-18
."RUBE" IS NO MORE
FARMER FULLY THE EQUAL or
THE CITY MAN.
March Of Progress Has Done Great
Things In Broadening Out the
pweiier in the Country
Is Nov Leader.


Our comic papers win continue for
a time to represent the countrymen as
person with hay In his hair. double
handful OF beard on his chin, ciothiIlg
with many patches and boots OF COW
hide. This biithering pumpkin is lie
nicted as buying green goods OF city
men. whose wickedness Is supposed To
count IS wisdom Z Il the truth Is
that Tue ecgntFy man u to-day has cut
his eye teeth upon. experience and
keeps them shnrpened on books and
newspapers. for which he has more
ase and reverence than those who have
hourly editions thrust upon them
The rustic can no longer remain the
clodhopper OF comedy. even II he
would. Those material changes that
we fondly count as progress are as in.
escapable among the hills as they are
In the tenement. The village now has
Its telephone. Its electric iight--some-
times as many AS two--its free library.
It's high school. Its Improvement asso-
citation, its health oficer and Its occa-
sional lecturer ON cows aud agricui-
te&s tAt Fuic GGUtGI DL AM-
thority. intellectual endeayor and so
cial activity was formerly the church.
Nor is the farmer distinguishahIe by
bis recent acquisition OF handme-down
clothes, for they are shaped after re-
cent patterns and are made OF as good
materials as are other folks Indeed.
II he lives near one Of those New Eng.
land xrh
cloth that Is threefonrths shoddy tho
chances are that he knows better than
the city man what to avoid and gets
better clothes for less money. Ha
drives a shiny carriage. has meio-
deon--if not a piano---in the house.
takes daily paper as well as a coun,
try weekly and has been to Boston or
New York or Chicago
Differences between the farmer and
the city man are even less In respect
OF ways Of life and modes OF thought
than In these matters OF clothing aud
custom. The farmer has broadened
out OF late. He has a concern In tho
business Of the nation, although he
does not view problems and complexi.
ties at close range, having in his farm
enough for his needs and fewer ex-
penses than the person who IL deep
| In society and whose station or calling
demands a large and constant outgo.
| II Ia the farmer who for years has
been receiving the least for his prod.
net and paying most for his bought.
en-" necessities, and Il IL the farmer
who has been systematically oveS
| looked by the politicians he has helped
to once. The material gains which
have been forced from capital by trade
unions have reused his interest. per
haps his envy. and as he broadens and
becomes increasingly worldly minded
his demands and his needs must be
| nw~nsd-
The sohs OF this riddy faced and
hearty citizen ili the pulpit and the
bench. and they are known on change
and they head companies. When he ii
chosen to congress. aa men Of strength
and merit always risk being chosen.
the once pumpkin will have voice
In the conduct Of affairs.
| And this IL as II should be. Men
must be grounded firmly in nature or
they decay. individually and socially.
All that will lead men back TO the
soil, 10 places OF strength and health.
to calm, TO readiness In self-resourea
makes for the endurance OF the state
and Of the Institutes OF civilization
Crime and discomfort do not pertain TO
| the tiilage OF our fields: envy IL not a
trait OF villages: small places have
small vices. Il In true, OF which tipping
and gossip are the worst. bat they are
nurseries OF men who take the place
OF those weakened by the life OF towns.
And II Is for these men of red blood
nd free speech that place must be
made. The outward marks that pro.
claimed them country men being lost.
we shall the more freely concede those
merits that qualify them for station.
The pumpkin has passed because his
age aud his country have called TO him
TO be not man among cattle. but q
man among men.-Brookiyn Eagle.