The Washington herald., 1911-07-09

Many of them arrange for lectures. In
the meantime the eye of every organiza-
tion is on State and Federal legislation.
We help the bills that are favorable to
our interests and oppose those that are
hurtful. Manufacturers associations and
labor unions are everywhere engaged in
similar efforts"
troduce cooperative methods of buying
and selling among the farmersT'
Joint action was discussed and tried
in the early days OF the organization, but
IL did not work out satisfactorily The
Farmers Union, now powerful in the
South, is cooperative In the matter of
selling cotton, and has. 1 think, had a
good effect on prices. The management
I of stores and machinery warehouses re-
quires special training and commercial
ability. Farmers engaged in planting and
harvesting have all they can do at home +"
A Trust I'm Land IL Impossible.
rs there any danger of ]. P. Morgan
or J. D. Rockefeller getting a monop-
oily CT the fertile lands OF the country"
None whatever. A farm is unlike a
personal undertaking. The history and
tie quality of each field must be known
Necessarily, it requires the individual at
tention Of the owner. Great wheat tri
live stock farms m the West are oper-
ateI by superinteEdents, II IS true, but
such methods are not practical east Of
the Mississippi River The InUnopoliza-
ton of land would require such a stu
pendous amount Of money and be so
hazardous and unwieldly as to flabber-
CAST whole regiment of Morgans,
Rockefellers, and Carnegies. Further
4 Ina fha,, -
rs good land selling for more than
1t is worth in the Middle west?'
Once we have free trade with Canada
In agricultural products, Gov. Bachel-
der replied, land will come down with
a rush in all parts Of the United States
except New England, where II is SO low
that no further decline seems possible.
Americans, when the tariff barrier has
been thrown down, will flock across the
border for the cheap lands, and low
taxes of the newer country. The East,
brought into competition with the West,
agriculturally, was drained of its young
men and women. Land prices tumbied
in New England, New York, and PENN
sylvania. The shifting OF our national
wealth from this side to the other side
of the Allegheny Mountains was one
of the most suggestive and interesting
facts Of our history
THE East, still great IN crop possi-
bilities. had to turn to invention and
manufactures. Stin the newly created
values were not transferred beyond our
boundaries. The value OF much Ameri-
can property was diminished. but the
value of other American property was
increased. Wheat, oats. and barley
lands. now salable at 800 an acre. can
not compete with Canadian lands worth
$40 an acre. or less. Consequently. as l
see the matter we shall witness the
second great American migration. but
this time the emlgranf wagon win cross
the frontier and the Middle West viii
lose its young men and women to q
foreign nation
Land Is q Good Investment.
rs land as good an Investment as are
bonds and sharesg
Yes. in many places. II rightly chosen
The man who puts his money into land
as an investment. however. should be
competent to farm the land himself or
to have It farmed under his own dlrec-
ton. A bond OF standard railroad wei
bought. requires no personal attention.