The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1910-01-20

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y aires who have produced nothing Il
eisher the use or the comfort Of III
'e WoFid; but II fails to snow one ma
~ great wealth, out OF the vast nun
4 VsF, VINO has produced the thina
when the world must nave, it's foo
= What is the secret OF this create
success IN other lines Of business. fo
lalk as much as you will, fatter 1
YOUR hearts content the fact stI
s'ares us IN the face, that no farme
J sias ever become a millionaire b
: farming the soil while many, yer
many nave become milIionaires b,
farming MIN. =
!, IN the industrial world we find grea
uIVergence In the matter of wages pait
IoF slnliiar services, and find agair
snat custom rather than scientific dis
uhction mas had much to do witt
Iliaih tanning differences. The brick
aver IN our great cities receives from
nLy 70 eighty cents per hour for his
iapor' With his plum line and Ievel
REQUIRES far less skill to erect a
prlcK wall than 1t does to build a grain
Stack That will shed rain and at the
sdlhe tiIne not tip over. And vet If
q farmer were to estimate his skill at
the rate or fifty to eighty cents an
hour' with his average Of from twelve
70 nIteen hours per day, the world
would be astonished at his audacity.
ooes Not Fix Price of Wheat He BUYS
or Sells.
why is his labor estimated so much
loWer than tnat OF the artisan or even
plOlesslohai man? 1t Is because his
vocatlon mas heretofore brought him
less wealth. than any other vocation.
anu custom seems to think that it
shouid remain SO. know some of YOU
1nay nave TINS answer in your mind:
Inc doctor or lawyer must spend
IN securing the education that
wiz nt MIN for his profession, and
helce shouId be entitled to greater
remuneration for mis- services there
aLter. true, but did 1t ever occur to
you that your doctor can graduate AT
least three times over while tbe for,,1
er is paying for his land? 1t requires
the farmer three of four times Is Iorsr
as 1t does the lawyer to become the
owner of the capital which Is n he
the foundation of his future income
1t seems impossible to get the n,IbIic
10 understand that it takes long wears
price at $40 or $50 per acre with the
best of prices and no failures Mr.
RakoW, member of your equity So
ciety of this state. pIIb1ished = soo.+
tlme ago a farmers account based nm
on the average cost of a farm IL a
were purchased today. the eompen-
sation for the farmers services a.
much less than the average paid fine
artisan. the allowance for depreciation
IN buildings stock and machinery
keeping such account in the Same
form as the manufacturer or merchant
or banker keeps mis-, and on that basfs
ne found that every farmer In tba
United States would be running he
MD. That he has kept ahead is dua
to mis- most rigid economy in living
and the lower estimate which he is
compelled to place upon his own labor
and that of his family often on the
negative side.
The secret of all this display of
remuneratio is that the doctor de-
termlnes mis- own fee. The LAWYERS /
pen ndttes upon the ledger his own
cnarge. The merchant fixes his own |
prices. The farmer fixes the price of 4
neither the thing he sells nor the thing n
ne buys. This is the foundation of L
all the wrong, of all the injustices. of
all the inequalities you have suffered
ror centuries. Right that wrong and
new world will open to you and
yours.
The differentiation of Farm Products.
This one-sided transaction naturally
'esults In the UNDERWRITING of the
aoor expended by the farmer upon his
and the consequent under
yaiuing of the products themselves.
Mr.. Chairman. this world is a world
II barter, of trading one thing for :
mother. The money used in the trans
Lction is only the medium of measure
nent of things traded. The inherent
'alue of each article traded should AL
ways be based upon the amount of
luman energy and brain EMPLOYED in
Us production. Therefore any two art
cles' each requiring the same amount
4 intelligence and labor in its pro-
uctlon, ought 60 always trade equally
ne TOT the other and If a system has
roWh up custom whereby one of z
uch articles Is exchanged for two +
thers, each requiring the same ex- !
ehded energy in its production, then 2
omethlng Is wrong In our commercial
and that something ought to .
e corrected. Am / not right? !
Ii the thing which the farmer sells :,
epresents twice as much expended en- :
rgy as the thing he buys with 1t. =
mere Is a commercial wrong to be !,
lghted. | am going to do what can :,
right 1t, and the first question is =
neither this is the fact. That it is
ne truth can be demonstrated on
very article that the farmer produces. I
1hen spoke here last year I illus Z
'ated this truth by showing the diff =
srence between the cost of a busheI =
tomatoes when 1t left the farmers u
ands and when 1T was sliceyf for use :,
! a restaurant. think the illustration =
hich | gave showed that 1T increased y
value, after leaving the hands of the
user, about 6400 per cent.
What Farmers Loose on Wheat. II
But you may see that this is an ex- til
eme case. Well, will give YOU pi
1other illustration, one which repre- k'
nts the least margin of difference. til
e staff of life. Probably the average tv
Ice of a busheI of wheat in this be
ate during the last year has been TIL
nety cents. At the present price of ia
nd, about two-thirds of the working hs
e of man is spent before he can fo
come the owner OF his land. free h;
ON any mortgage indebtedness. 1t w
en- becomes his capital invested. 1t m
needless for me to 60 over all of Ire
g details of the work upon the land
ON the. plowing until the wheat is Ike
'llvered to an elevator the chances WI