The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1908-08-20

up thirty luounhuu Aullllou uOlldIb'
And he would have to sell HIS farm
on credit; for there is not enough
money in the whole world to pay him
half his price.
Talk OF the money-mad trusts!
They might have reason to be mad
IL they owned the farms, instead of
their watered stock. When we re-
member that the American farmer
earns enough IN seventeen days to
buy out Standard Oil, and enough in
fifty days to wipe Carnegie and the
Steel Trust OF the industrial map, the
story Of the trusts seems like "the
short and simple annals Of the poor. {"
One American harvest would buy
the Kingdom Of Belgium, King and
all; two would buy Italy; three would
buy Austria-Hungary, and fye, at a
spot-cash price, would take Russia
from the Gar
Talk of swollen fortunes! With
l the setting of every sun the money
= box Of the American farmer bulges
with the weight OF twenty-four new
slillions. Only the most athletic i'm
aglnatlon can conceive of such tor
rent OF wealth.
Place your finger on the pulse Of
your wrist, and count the heartbeats
.-one-two-thre With ev-
cry four of those quick throbs, day
and night, thousand dollars clatters
into the gold-bin Of the American
farmer.
, How incomprehensible It would
q lem to Pericles, who saw Greece On
her Golden Age, II he could know that
the yearly revenue of his country is
now no more than one days pay for
the men who till the soil OF this in
FAINT Republic!
or, how it would amaze a resur-
rected Christopher Columbus II he
were told that the revenues OF Spain
and Portugal are not nearly as much
as the earnings Of the American
farmers hen!
Merely the crumbs that drop from
the farmers table otherwise known
as agricultural exports) have brought
him in enough OF foreign money since
1892 TO enable him. If he wished, to
settle the railway problem once for
all, by buying every foot of railroad
in the United States.
Such Is our new farmer-a man for |
whom there is no name in any Ian
guage He Is as far above the farmer
OF the story-books as 1908 touring
car is about a jinrikisha. Instead of
being an ignorant hoeman in barn
yard world, he gets the news by daily
mail and telephone; and incidentally
publishes 700 trade journals Of his
own. Instead OF being a moneyless
peasant, he pays the interest on the
mortgage with the earnings of a
week. Even this IS less OF an ex-
pense than It seems, for he borrows
the money from himself, out of his
own banks. and spends the bulk Of
the tax-money around his own prop
critics
Farming for business, not for a
living-this Is the motif OF the new
farmer. He Is a commercialist--a
man of the twentieth century He
works as,hard as the old farmer did,
but In a higher way. He uses the
four Ms,-mind, money, machinery
and muscle; but as little Of tbs latter
as possible.
Neither is he a Robinson Crusoe Il
Of the soil, as the old farmer was.
AS hermit days are over; he is
Van among men, The railway, the
roliey. the automobile and the top
buggy have transformed him into a
suburhanite IN fact bis business has
become so complex and many-sided
that he touches civilization at more
points and lives a larger ne than II
he were one Of the atoms Of a crowd
ed city
All American farmers. Of course,
are not OF the new variety The
corptry. like the city, has IFS slams
BH after haVlns made allowances Tor
exceptions Il IS stili true that the
United States Sc the native land OF
the new farmer. Hs Is the mos typ
zeal human product that this country
has produced and the most important /
for M spite Of its egoiistical cities 4
the United States Is strl farm-bassd ,
aatlon. -, {
Our YARNS the Basis Of rfosp ~.
There could be no clothIIls nrf-
out the wool and cotton o liha iarn
no sugar factories witiouAIstls ro
6anr mills without wheat 4'
0acklnF Industry without c4oe IAf
eaI business ltal ID now sr|oe|uf
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