Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-14

as they need immunity rom hln- drance.
 They do not need medicines, half so much as to be made free from the en- forced administration of knockout drops.
 They do not need new laws to pro- tect them, so much as judges and courts unowned by the interests to enforce with fairness existing laws.
 They do not need more rights than they have. so much as protection in the rights they already possess.
 They do not need social ambulances of any sort so much as security against being bludgeoned to begin with.
 They do not need instruction in their business, half so much as pro- lection against .bunco' business itself
 They don't need or want to be cod dled: they want just fair play-an equal chance-a square deal
 Which is something they have not had in the past and are not having now.
 The simple truth is that the farmer of the United States is not yet half paid for his work
 The coal miners strike for better wages, and complain that they can't live on what they are receiving. Rail road men are all the time striking for more pay. Mechanics everywhere are demanding larger remuneration.
 Yet the average annual wages of coal miners and railroad men and me- chanicS are larger than the average incomes of American farmers
 Hundreds of thousands of columns and pages are printed every year about the other workingmen who want better pay. where hardly a line gets into type about the worlzingmen on farms who have vastly more need of IL and better Tsioht tn if
 
 The one simple, fundamental reason why farming isn't as attractive as other occupations is because it doesn't pay as we'll
 Successful farming calls for as much intelligence and skill as professoring in a college. But it doesn't pay as much as a college janitor gets for sweeping off the front steps.
 Successful farming calls for as mrch basiness ability as managing city store. But it doesn't pay as much as the drayman gets for hauling cases to the stores rear door.
 Successful farming calls for as hard work as any coal miner does. But it pays less.
 We've all been so enarossed in fos- tering manufactures that we've utter- iy forgotten the farms. We've nurs- ed the factory baby till it's 8 veritable Dickens Fat Boy" while it's farm twin has been left alone in the cradle to live as it can on catnip tea and mullein stalks. No wonder it's Scrawny and soually.
 We've all been so busy boosting business" into automobiles that we've left farming to walloW in the mud.
 And now the party in the automo- bile looks behind with a sort of supe- rior pity which is half contempt, and soberly' discusses whether it had bet ter throw back a rubber cushion, or a piece of strfng-or go on it's way
 Don't make any mistake about this: when farming pays as well as factory and foundry and mechanic work, they'll be just as many aspirants eager to farm it as there will be for these other vacations. When farming is as sure road to fortune as busi- ness or banking, there'I be just as many applicants for farm work as for positions in banks and stores
 Nine out of ten want money. either for it's own sake or because they must have it to buy the more desirable things they think they need.
 Show them that they are likely to get more money in town and nine out of ten will go to town; show them that they are likely to get more mon ey by going to farm and they'll go to the farm.