The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-15

would swell them to an enormous
amount. This is fearful burden for
the public to bear, bent infinitely less
"allied" commercial bandits. These
'leeches" don't confine their depreda
tions to any one class OF producers
but levy on all alike. No longer ago
than the one saddled on them by the
than yesterday, March 3lst, the Stock
ton Independent, in a leader claims
it will pay the olive growers better
to feed their olives to hogs than to
sell them to dealers" (of stacked
cards. at $4,000 an acre, the contract
price offered for next crop. The arti-
Gle says Sacramento Valley olive grow
ers have discovered that olives will
pay 800 an acre when fed to hogs
at present prices" As it costs about
$l5 ton to pick and market olives,
we have the reason for feeding them
to hogs, with the price fixed at 500 an
acre. The grape and olive kings are
only two of legion who reign SUI
premely over the producers of this mo-
nopolist ruled state. From clippings be-
fore me / could quote of potatoes, cab
bages, melons, barley, and other com
mercial kinds who exact tribute from
their subjects the fruit growers and
farmers, restrained only by fear that
their geese which lay golden eggs
for them, will stop laying. ] have now
arrived at the gist of the whole matter,
"the application on it." | have travel
ed the length and breadth of England,
been through France as far as Paris,
and strOlled its streets for week.
lived i'm three of the New England
states nearly ten years been through
fourth from one end to the other, been
in every northern state and all the
southern states bordering the Ohio river
and through Canada three different
ways on the Grand Trunk railroad, but
/ in all my travels | have never seen as
small, shabby, i'll designed and flimsily
constructed human habitations as I
have seen in this land of sunshine,
flowers, fruit, and, well, exploiters and
their dupes. This applies to town and
country alike. OF course, pioneer set
tiers may put mp their little sod
shanties on the plain" but do so with
hope in their hearts, which is soon
realized and they pull down and
build greater" But, as | said before,
this state has been settled longer than
Minnesota, yet most of the farm
buildings are Imprinted, shanties, and
haHu oil -, 4 IL,
a way as it seems possible to put
lumber together. The Californian does
well to cOnfine his Dragging TO what
nature has done for the state, for he
has done very little himself that is
creditable. If he "crowed' of his archi-
tectnral skill and taste it would have
to be over the cliff dweler. mound
builder or the Indians wigwan. for he
would hardly be ii starter i'm the race
with any other people. The farm build
ings here are not to he compared with
those OF either old England, or old
New England, neither in substance
style, convenience or size But it is
their size wish to call particular
attention to here, because it gives
the reason why that San Diego stage
driver got "a mountain of answers
to his advertisement for wife; mind
he was not millionaire, just stage
driver. the houses themselves are
concrete answer, for they clearly
, prove that the builders never built
them for 'hOmes" as. that word is
understood by the English speaking
people. They are inst mere abiding
places, shelters from the weather, like
the tent OF an Arab or wigwam of an
Indian. No one will ever sing "How
dear to my heart are the scenes OF
t my childhood of them, any more thar
/ they would of the "bunks' in min
, ing camp. The spare bedroom" anc
par!or of an old New England hom,
, were more spacious than most of tn,
! shacks, called houses here. The lin.
i in emigrant song of Russell, ITO tn,
west to the west to the land of tn.
r Free which says, where children ar,
!, blessing and they who have most il
V about as far off as it could possibl,
e get to be at the present time, TO
E under present economic conditions the,
: are looked upon as a great burden
n This is not only true of the wae
e worker but of the California farme
e and fruit grower especially Indee.
j. the smallness of the houses prove tina
) race suicide" is an established fact
f" that children are neither expected no
@ desired. Further than that, an increa
d ing number of men will not marry a
d all, hosts of them who do, abandon
|. their wives because of the fierce fiph
n they have to wage to drive the swolf
"a from the door. Within rifle shot O
n one another there are four farmer,
=. staying places" three of them wit
e. not sign of paint about them. an
l. the other with only the shack painted
l. in all of which imam is living alone.
IS And within range of that same riff
n shot, live at the least, six middle ace
@. unmarried men. 1t is not for lack q
he mates that these men don't marry ia
ID there are as many or more unmarrie
he women of suitable age in the neiel
60 tOrhOOd. No one who has a claim I
ID an opinion will say that either wome
5, or men remain single from choice. {
is that it is good for themselves or tt
Ii state that they do so. The Bible. phi
lie osophy and common sense all agree q
is this point. 1t is a pertinent and Wit