The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-05-04
The American Farmer.
"A Prosperous, Independent and Happy
Race of Men,"

D.. ,f Morn
Representative samuel W. McCah re-
Gently made strong speech in the House
in. snnport of tho Canadian roc;nrocitv
"sieeneh'' uui.he WHICH ne was repeat.
eddy applauded by both Democrats and
Republicans. What he said of the Ameri-
can farmer was especially interesting.
According to his eulogists, said Mr..
Mccall, The American farmer is very
serious individual with his wife and
numerous progeny gathered about him,
and observe that these eulogists usual
ly bless him with a bountiful offspring,
desperately and with great solemnity en-.
deavoring to hang on to existence. These
orators lament over his rugged qualities,
they almost brood over his virtues, and
as for his faults, he has none, for he is a
being to whom it is impossible to sin.
KNOWN FROM EXPERIENCE.
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farms in northwestern Illinois-a $500
an-acre farm-one of those prairie farms,
not the fiat farms that you have farther
to the west, but where you have the bill
lows of the prairie tumbling about you.
And one of these farms when it is under
cultivation presents as beautiful a scene
of pastoral beauty and of fertility as
can be found anywhere in the world.
''Now l have seen farmers actually
burn corn for fuel, as has been so dra-
matically spoken of in this debate. Why,
it has been presented here as if it showed
the restitution of the American farmer
and his straitened circumstances that he
actually burned corn for fuel.
Il have seen him burn corn. Some
times he was overcropped with one grain
and could not sell 1t protitably, but he
was pretty sure to get even on some
other grain; and what l remember most
about the burning of corn was that the
farmer would sit cheerily smoking his
pipe in the light of its blazing fire, and
his sons would rejoice that they did not
have to chop wood. That is the con-
clusion that | draw from that PROPOSE
ton.
EVEN UP ON HUMAN NATURE.
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ovod n,ons+ras;t11 aI1,a,7s 10 sta, nv, ny a.
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were a prosperous independent and
happy race Of men. l have known many
farmers, and l have known some men
even on Wall street, and | have made
up my mind that they both belong to the
same race, and that there is about as
much human nature in the one as in the
other.
81 have sometimes thought that if the
numbers were reversed and that if we
had 5,000,0 900 of voters on Wall street
and only a few hundred farmers, our
statesmen would sing the humble viz
tues of j. P. Morgan and his crew and
would bestow upon them some of these
lugubrious eulogies of which the Ameri-
can farmer has been so long the patient
victim. And their worst enemy could
not wish them harder fate.
Representative Mccall controverted in
some detail the assertions that "iust as
the opening up of the western States
depressed agriculture in New England.
so the opening up of our markets to the
Canadian produce will have the same
effect upon the agriculture of the coup-
try, and especially upon the agriculture
Of the West" He said there was no
between the two cases.
RAILROADS. AND nppppss1oN
Co.. 900 Zoo ZOO i1' '|i'>'''.UN'
rom le1o 10 le9o, you VIII remem-
oel' ne salu, we punt fallfoaos SIM
P Ri 1Ir .ne SAKE OF puliolng railroads.
w .h[ew solne'l1nes IN single year
tio''sanus VI nllles Oh fallfoaos
a de US 'ne nlost lerIlie lana on the lace
" the siope' laho mat was absolutely
"Railroads wont in .du.,oo If +ho
and, in order to get bust
ness, they sent agents all over Europe.
immigration, and it so hap
pened that the financial and CONNER
cial depression from 1873 to 1878 threw
of men out of employment in
the East and they found places upon the
western farms. We had brought under
civilization and thrown upon our markets
almost, as it were, in day. great
States of this Union. and in order TO
permit the farmers to live. the railroads
gave them unnaturally low rates to the
of the country and abroad"
Under these abnormal conditions Mr..
Mccall said a man from Illinois could
get into the markets of Boston more
cheaply than man who lived in Worces-
ter county. Massachusetts ."Tba 20