The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-01-08
Principles Explained.

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to sift out and present leading
points as it sees they will event
ually affect our own county. One
principle that we can detect run
ming through nearly all of the Ma
tional legislation, of recent date,
is the idea that something is
wrong when rural and city inter-
ests conflict.
The soft snap" now being en-
joyed by farmers in the way of
fair prices is, we boldly assert,
an accident, pure and simple, and
its continuance depends largely
on the farmer. Let US prove it.
The seventy consumers opposed
to the thirty food producers in
each one hundred inhabitants of
the United States, being in the
majority, did not, for love of the
farmer, voluntarily put wheat to
a dollar a bushel, nor beef to
twenty-five cents a pound in the
city market. But the high cost
of living" reminds US that our
Captains of Industry" in their
laudable attempts to develop the
manufacturing interests of this
country, made the mistake of the
attacking general who failed to
keep open the line of supplies be-
tween his army and his base.
We can see how the minds of
wage earners have been educated
into the belief that jobs with big
corporations is the cure-all for the
problems of keeping body and
soul together: this doctrine nat
urally converted former food pro-
ducers into consumers, with the
natural result that wages soon
failed to cover cost Of living, and
the necessary raise of wages had
the effect of attracting still more
former producers, again lowering
the source of supply, and in this
way developed an endless chain"
principle, finally involving both
the capitalist and his employees.
We can see how party politicians,
seeing their opportunity, seized
upon the fears of this great army
of wage earners and set them to
fight for their jobs" by listen
ing to the demands of their en-
ployers to vote for the candidate
pledged to legislate in favor of
big interests" carefully keep
ing the endless chain" principle
in the background.
The effect of fifty years Of this
practice was the primary cause
of the great, political upheaval of
1912. This same principle affects
the producers remaining on the
farm. The increase in what they
receive for products is rapidly
consumed by the increased cost
of machinery, groceries, clothing
and all the seventy" make.
We do not expect a miracle,
that will remedy all these ills
suddenly; but we believe if fPres-
ident Wilson receive sufficient
support to break the power Of
the men who, we know, are get.
ting more than fair share of
profit, in comparison with service
rendered, and more genuin e
Christianity find its way into our
legislative halls, life in the coun-
try will rapidly become as popu-
lar as that in the city.
However, it still remains for
the would-be participant in this
new order of things to see that
he does not fall behind in keep
ing Lis mind limbered up suffi-
| ciently to keep pace with prog
ress. When more of our readers
absorb the idea of community in
terest, and social relations in the
country improve, drudgery will
disappear, and that old fogy no.
ton that the 'smartest" boy
must be educated and sent away,
will be reversed. Under the old
rule can we blame the city man
for calling the remaining ones
"Rubins" when we deliberately
invited the slur?
The farmers inning" is at
hand. Let US score" by MAX
ing individual efforts to practice
every known improved method
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