The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-05-06
FARMERS AND lNsuRe ~:
fsy,
leather-lunged Retormers Advise
mer to Vote for Low Prices.

mer to Vote for Low Prices. e
Bismarck Tribune: The Other
night candidate for office on
the insurgent ticket in the
state declared loudly against
the tariff bill, and republican
policies as laid down and car
ried out by the party for the
past ten or fifteen years. The
object of that declaration
against the party leaders and
management was, of course, to
create prejudice in behalf of
insurgency" and to make
votes for himself.
And in the next breath the
same candidate declared that
he was not politician or
speaker, but a farmer. But
it seems to us that the farmers
of this state have done pretty
we'll under republican rule, as
the development and prosperity
of this state for the past gener
alton amply indicates.
Apropos of this kind of cam
paigning addressed to the
farmer, we quote the following
from the Aberdeen News, which
publishes this statement from
the Sioux City Tribune:
The farmers of the United
States are getting rich.
The output of the American
farm is doubling in value every
ten years. According to statis-
tics given out by the agricul-
tural department at Washing G.
ton the value of the wealth
produced on farms in the Unit
ed States in 1899 was 81, 460,
900, 900.
Ten years later it was 81, :
III, ZOO, 600. Ten years later, or
last year, it was So, 76O, 600, 900.
In our fierce scuurgine of
the trusts and in the nation
wide movement to enforce legal
restriction Of big business it is
well enough to keep in mind
that the farmer is doing pretty
well himself. These figures
from the agricultural depart
ment take no account of the
tremendous increase in the
value of farm lands. With the
country doubling in population
every 80 or 40 years, and the
demand for food growing more
and more, there is no good rea-
son why the bread and meat
producing lands in Iowa, Nebr
aska and South Dakota should
not double in value within the
next twenty years.
These cattle and hogs and
corn and wheat lands that are
worth 500 an acre now will be
worth 5000 an acre in a few
years. Why should these lands
not advance from that to $500
or $500. as the home demand
for food advances?
The outcry of twenty years
ago for justice to the poor,
-trodden farmers is not
heard any more in the land.
The farmer still has something
coming to him in the way of
lower and more equitable
freight rates, and the like, but
taking it all together, he is
pretty comfortable and is not
asking for sympathy. He has
really become another class of
Americans with sufficient re-
pose to think, and thinking
makes him a governor and
government is getting better as
he governs.
But" observes the News,
the Sioux City Tribune. while
rejoicing over the farmers
prosperity, is quite active in
advocating the passage of mea-
sures which will make that
prosperity thing of the past.
The Tribune, nominally a rep
ublican paper, rejoices over the
defeat of a republican candidate
for congress in a district where
the campaign issue was tariff
because t he manufacturers
want free wool. The Tribune
is made happy every time some
leather-lunged insurgent gets
up in the house or senate and
howls for tariff revision and
denounces the tariff law which
has helped 50 largely to make
the farmer prosperous. Not
that the Tribune has il in for
the farmer, particularly. It
makes it's living, largely, off