Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-09-09
SAILORS VS. FARMERS
Farmers More Deserving Of Subsidies
Than Sailors But0ur Patriots Should
Stand Like Tubs On Their Own
Bottoms. S0ciaIisfic Ten
denotes Should Be
DEPRECATED

| To the Editor few month.
since James j. Hill. of ST. Paul, an
nounced throughout the country tha
our agriculture was sadly on the de
cline, that in few years, at tn,
present rate, we would be importing
wheat, and that something must b.
done to revive agricultural interests
Many editors and others followed
him up advising that agriculture
schools be multiplied that the young
might the more certainly be kept or
the farms. | dropped a hint or two
that the schools of all kinds were
running the boys from the farms ant
that the need of the hour was fewer
schools of all kinds and more work.
| Exactly at the same time that Mr..
Hill was drawing his sorrowful pic.
lures of the farmers, Bernard N.
Baker, of Baltimore, was drawing
some sorrowful ones also of the ship
ping interests, but they by no means
compared with those of Mr.. Hill.
| While Mr.. Hill made no specific
demand upon the Federal government
for assistance to the farmers, Mr..
Baker did make demands for ship
subsidies to aid the shipping inter
ests. Mr.. Hill, not being an agri-
cuturalist, could of course, be ex-
cused for his neglect, but it might
have been supposed some prominent
farmer or agricultural editor would
have been as solicitous for FEEDER al
aid for agriculture as Mr.. Baker
was for the shipping.
The ever present 7. r. comes in
recollection just here. We all know
how his farm commission was sup
posed to shed, with him, crocodile
tears over the farmer. We saw what
fraud and farce the commission
proved to be just something to take
the farmers time and make fools of
them. while helping nothing but the
exaltation of the Roosevelt name.
1t is time that all classes of people
saw through the bombast and incon-
sistency of this man. Happily, the
politicians in Ohio and New York
have begun what can be hoped to be
the beginning of his end. But to re-
turn:
the utterances of Messrs. Hill and
Baker would have seen that the farm
ers were sorely more in need of aid
than the sailors, but that all their
spokesman were too modest to present
their claims in style equivalent to
the subsidy wanted by the sailors.
But band of 5000, 600 farmers now
appears on the scene in demand for
some rights. as taken from the Balti-
more Sun of July 90. Here it is:
Raleigh, N. c., July %. Three
million farmers of the United States
are to be banded together to attempt
the defeat of such members of Con.
gress and other public officials as are
deaf to the demands of agriculturists
for laws advancing their interests.
The announcement was made here
last night by Charles S. Barrett, pres
ident of the National Farmers Union,
who said the organization was work
ing on list of such Legislators which
will be known as the "Doomsday
Book. :" The book Mr.. Barrett added,
will be issued before November. I"
The farmers, it thus seems, want
laws advancing their interests.
Perhaps they are thinking about
something that will be to them the
equivalent of ship subsidy to the
sailors; but should say, Brothers,
you will have enough to do to see that
the Legislators who represent you
kill the patemaIistic and socialistic
measures that are advanced for
others, while you are helping greatly
to foot the tax bills that bring in
the cash for them. You have no
need to depart from the good old way /;
but you can steadfastly resist these
modern encroachments which advance
others at your expense.
An illustration of my meaning is
at hand in this subsidy business pro-
posed just the other day again by
Mr.. Baker in the Baltimore Sun of
August 10. He hoped the coming ses-
sion of Congress would be ready to
take up the question of substituting a
steamship line he was proposing to
run to South America. Now Con-
gress will take it up, no doubt, and
when it does it will find Democratic
Representative William Sulzer, of
New York, ready to do it battle. So
there is the legislator the farmers
need to look after, with others of
his kind. This is just sample.
Hundreds of measures are introduced
at every session of Congress and
at every State legislature that are
thoroughly antagonistic to the farm
ers.
The farmers greatest loss comes
through this legislation that helps
others at their expense. If it is inter-
cepted the farmers and their repre-
sentatives will have their lhands just
as full as they can contain. and it is
in this line that commend the three
million farmers to act. President
Barrett is very much a man after my
own heart. His opinion of agricul-
tural colleges and other fads of the
day is very like my own, and he en-
phasized his view at the late big st.
Louis conference. He lives at Union
City, Ca, where Farmers Union
News" his official paper, is publish
ed. This weekly has some So, 600
subscribers, and seeks the farmers
welfare in a much more straightfor-
ward manner than the average farm
paper of the day.
If, however, sailors and farmers
are alike all going to turn Socialists
and each Crah for all that is nossible