The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1911-02-24
TIE FARMERS
UNION DEPARTMENT.
The Farmer, Who Is He2

And BY the farmers, slet u.s. con
slider who is a farmer.
Webster defines the term farm
ersfo Be; Zone who cnltiyates a
Farm a husbandman whether
tenant or the proprietor 4" We,
see fronfthis definition that a
farmer issone who tills the soil
and not one who has il TILED,
Who wsS the first farmer and
when. did farming beginl Turn
ing to Gen. 3 :23, we find the fol-
lowing from q historical source,
viz: ''Behold the man is become
as one of us. to know good and
evil and now lest he put forth his
hand and take also of the tree of
life. and eat and live forever
therefore the Lord God put him
forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the grounds from whence
he was taken.
"Till" here is from the He
brew "Abad" and means TO
work. Hence the command then
was to work the ground. He
was not commanded to form q
trust on the land, or TO monopo-
lie it for speculative purposes
but to till it or work it,
$50 if farmer is one who. ln
or works the ground, and Adaft
was sent on that mission. We
may readily conclude that Adam
was a farmer.
"yThen if Adam the first man,
was a farmer, farming must Alsve
been the most essential oecupas
ton of the human familyR'
"And if the tilling of the sod
was then the most essential thing
to the existence of the human
family, and the human family
still subsists, upon the same pro-
ducts of the ground that man
kind did then, farming must now
hold the prominence of all other
occupations of life. Wv. T.
Flowers in the Farmes.
In view of the above reason
ing ask; is not the farmers jus
tilted in organizing to protect
in their occupation,
and secure the products OF their
Iabors to themselves and FAM.
liesq
From this brief historical fact
Of man it must be admitted by |
al men that every farmer is en-
titled to the possession OF enough |
and as his personal presence !
may render necessary, and this
right of possession follows his
body and attaches to the land up |
On which he stands in all places.
and after death even to rest
ing place for his bones. This is
m inalienable right" that has
always been recognized and one |
hat must ever exist, and be CO.
extensive with life itself.
Therefore the laws of gov
or any social orgaria 2
ion or division of society relat-
ng to land should regard same |
rs the property of the whole pso-
pie.
The farmers produce nea 'ly |
,eventy-five per cent OF the |
wealth of this nation and they |
IAN by organization and cooper
alton in production, distribution
md exchange have everything |
heir own way. if they would.
There are also some 400O.0lO
nen engaged in mining and man
ifacturing whose identical IN
erests are identical with the
'armers. These two classes G -
lists of rwo-thiris of the voters
II the country
These two classes produce all
he wealth. pay all the taxes but
,xcrcise little or no influence in
the policies of the gov
,rnment, or in disbursing the
inst sums they annually contri-
lute
These privileges have been
isurped. and are exercised by a
lass of non-producers, who make
politics profession, and Office
IN occupation To be exercised IN
he interest of clients who will
pay the largest fees.
The Congress of the United
United States and legislatures OF
he several states, have become
political bars, supported at the
expense of the people, to engi-
leer and pettifog measures
through tc final Legislative jndg
nent in the interest of capitals
lie stock jobbers and financial
I.oolr nj the LEGISLATION for the