The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-07
LET Us GLANCE AT THE
BRIGHT SIDE.


country life what it should be, it is
by no means wise to stop with the
CRITICISMS and complaints that have
been presented. To be sure, there re-
admitted that the condition of GER
| tain of the tenant farmers and even,
| of some OF those who own their
/ farms is deplorable They toll from
sun to sun for close living and a
bare subsistence. There Is no other
| line of toll in which as much hard
| we have done In some of the cotton
patches of the south. There is some
thing wrong with conditions that
! bring to everybody else better prices.
thus increasing the burden Of the
cotton raiser who must buy, while
leaving such hard worker of the cot
| ton patch without even a decent
| living for his risk, his investment
and his toll.
While considering all these things
Land while striving to correct the
Inequalities and wrongs as far as
possible. let us not forget that
great many farmers are prosperous
and happy, that many of the farms
and ranches of this country are the
| best equipped farms and ranches In.
the world. They have upon them up
! to-date homes and barns and fences
and stock and cattle and machines.
| The sanitary arrangements are as
nearly perfect as energy, enterprise
and money can make them. There
are a dozen of such places where
! there are thousands of homes of as
prosperous population of farmers
as one has ever found in any coun4
try, and thousands Of tenant farm
ers offlast year have bought land
| and started in on their own hook for
t1909 Indeed. there has not been a
year for half century during which
this same sort Of thing was not CO.
! ing on in Texas--this vast state hav-
| ing afforded homes to more men who
| fore than even a leading nation of
Europe has afforded.
/ While certain conditions are not
| what they should be- let us not over
| look the possibilities or the prospects
of righting the wrongs that exist,
and let us not forget that thousands
Of the most prosperous Texans of to-
| day began as tenant farmers only a
few years ago.
/ There is another thing to remem-
Der, while cooperating in hearty
aud determined effort to correct ex-
listing evils, and that other thing is
! the old saying that there is more in
the man than there is in the land. ;"
Some who fail are themselves re-
sponsible for their failure. They are
improvident, extravagant, unsettled,
and sometimes incident They are
unwilling to dig hard and long, to
save closely, to stick to it until they
accumulate enouGb~to make first
payment and thus get start for
themselves Sometimes it is the wife
and the daughters who stand in the
/ way and spend all they can lay their
| hands on. In other instances it is the
! ffTmness to go to town without
blowing in every dollar he can
raise. There are some of this sort.
OF course there are many WHO, de-
serve to succeed, but who are iyic-
tins of hard luck, like sickness in
their families drouths or floods, boil
weevils or, other pests. dependent
relatives, etc. There are some, of
these who do their parts manfNlly.
but always find fate against them.
Then the unfair and unfaVorable
conditions have brought out in turn,
| the balances against large contfnS
gent OF farmers who, with fair
shake and even break could certain
ly succeed and prosper, but who
barely keep their heads above water
as matters now stand. II these did
,, not have to pay protection and trust
prices with unprotected cotton they
j could certainly come out on the right
side of the ledger and prosper. But,
allowing for all these things, and
approving any effort to improve the
unfavorable conditions that exist,
let u.s. not overlook the cheerful side
OF the cloud, not forget that more
men have risen from peasantry, Pc
onage and slavery on the farm and
pasture lands of Texas than were
ever known to change their condi-
tons so completely and so quickly
in any other part of the world
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