Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-29

and hang over you. Ii you would just
go on voting as you are told by the
Il am greater than thou" organs, you
would not be a political farmer" and
would be allowed to subscribe for the
Great Family Paper" (Dingley fam
ily) at Sc a year. if--here comes the
rub-if you will allow free paper from
Canada and pay for it about one mil
lion times over in your produce.
OF course your time isn't worth
anything compared with that of man
who sits in an office and drivels
idiotic hash of broken brain cells from
I A. NJ. till noon, every day.
1t isn't work to maintain existence
on farm-it's just living among the
birds and the flowers. with permission
TO read at your leisure the truth about
Judas; that he was a much maligned
gentleman and was only illustrating,
1000 years ahead of time. what sort of
people would inherit the earth: and
how Elisha licked the devil with his
satanic majesty's own tail.
With all these blessings you should
sit tight and murmur the Lord loves
a cheerful giver' while the suffering
publisher saves few thousands a year
to replenish his stock of motor boats
and island homes.
1t is awful to be political farmer"
when you are such in the meaning of
the term as it is applied below. Re-
pent and return to Your birds and
flowers and silence, and then you will
be just one of our dear subseribers"-
at So per annum and a few potatoes
and chickens to help pay the paper bill.
The following from the Lewiston Jour-
nal will tell you how it is:
The Politician on the Back Lot.
The political Changers who are leading
farmers in the Grange contrary to the
hon-paftisan demands of their order we
peHeXe, Will live to regret the perversiOn
OF power embodied in political grangers
IKE Baehelder fighting with the trusts
PRESIDENT Taft. One point made by poll
teal farmers is that reciprocity means
the reduction of farm values and all farm
fproduets, ana no reduction in what the
farmers nave to purchase. Now be IL
borne in mind that the lumber trust the
Worsted trust, the sugar trust, the paper
ana other trust-sheltered statesmen and
leaders are q unit against reciprocity
Not only this, but they agree to hold
UP all tariff revision at the present extra
session or Congress, although were they
as fond OF the farmers as they profess to
De, lhere would be revision of the farm
schedules in harmony with the demand of
Tafts platform of 1908. In other words
the political misleaders of the grange
would induce working farmers to assume
that reciprocity is against their interests,
while at the same time they cooperate
with the trust-sheltered statesmen who
are bound that the high tariff schedules,
contrary to the well-being of the farmer
shall be perpetuated If possible, until
after the people again vote in 1912. When
the plain farmers get the hang of the
facts there will be revolt against parti-
sanship in the grange which now is chief
danger of body that has done great
work in promoting farm cooperation.
Such unsound and divsive programs If
persisted in. will drown the grange in the
turbulent sea of Bachelderism. Bachel-
der divided the National Grange at its
annual meet. In Maine he tried to per-
vert the Grange against revival of Maine
shipping His policy raises the cost of
farms in Canada-and to that extent
handicaps the small American farmer
who does not enjoy land monopoly and
speculative high price for lands The far
mers buneoed on potatoes will finally
recognize Roosevelt, Taft and See. Wilson
to be better friends than Hale, Aldrich.
Cannon and Lorimer. These feactionary
Bourbons are doing all possible to arrest
the policy of tariff revision as demanded
in 1908. We shall get reciprocity; and at
bite of good fruit will bring the political
palate of sincere men to appreciate the
fPlI4 saV,aAf aglE1 INr
Wilson and to cast out the windfalls of
The System.