The Delta independent., 1910-08-05
THE THINKERS.

Parson Twine.-When 1 don't feel
we'll, / know what is the trouble:
worry too much, l eat too fast and
smoke too much. Why don't l
take better care of myself? because
my ancestors were fools for hun
dreds of years. My father ate too
fast and worried too much. / have
his faults and cannot get rid of
them. Heredity is terrible thing.
Charles w. Bishop.-One year
with another an alfalfa farm will
pay ten per cent investment on
every acre of land worth 500 an
acre. This is a fact and no mistake
about it. l doubt if there is any
farm land in any state that one
year with another will pay any such
dividend on grain crops. or course
alfalfa is a little better some sea-
the seed crop occasionally. This
brings up the average considerably
as seed sells very high, sometimes
$3.50 an acre. Three years ago
bought 500 acres, paying $3.50 an
acre. At that time it looked like a
pretty high price Today will
have no trouble at all selling it for
$50 an acre.
l. B. True-The homesteader of
the present has wonderful advan-
tages not possessed by the home
steader of the past. He is in a
position to profit by the mistakes
OF the western homesteader of
thirty or more years ago and one of
the old homesteoder's greatest mis-
takes was his frequent neglect of
the COW. How often we hear old
Colorado homestcaders say, IF it
had not been for my cows could not
have stayed through the hard times
and dull years. l would have lost
my NAaAAA AtAh II nut nave bttAA AOi
the revenue from my cows" 1t is
q safe assertion that no man who
went through the critical period
would homestead west of the Mis-
souri, river without placing his main
dependency upon the COW.
c. H. Woods.-Any young mHn
who is bright and industrious can
own a ranch OF his own in a few
years if he will be content at first
to cultivate the land as tenant
In the old countries, especially in
England. agriculture is carried on
by a thrifty class of tenant farmers,
and 1t will some day become a part
of our system. 1t is not down
ward step to cultivate rented soil
but on the contrary. the one who
does it with patience and close study
will. before many years. be able to
buy ground of his own. The pro-
ducts of the farm are going to con-
tinue high in price because demand
and supply are about equal now.
and hence the poor tenant can
easily develop into the prosperous
land owner. Land is yet so abun-
dant and cheap that it can be rent
ed on the most favorable terms.
Senator Bristow.-The conflict in
American politics today is based
upon the same fundamental princi-
pies as was that which proceeded
the civil war. The corporate in
terests of the country have domi-
mated the affairs of the nation as
completely as did the slave inter
ests in the days of its greatest
strength. Just as every effort for
the restriction of slavery was resist
ed by the slave power by every eff
Tort made to protect the people
from the injustice of corporate
greed is resisted by the great cor
porations of this time. The repre-
sentatives of the slave power had
seats in the halls of congress and
now the gigantic monopolies of to-
day have representatives whose sole
purpose is to promote their inter-
ests and keep open the opportunity
which they have now to plunder the
American public. This was forcibly
demon ST rafnd In Aha ,a.isr IL.