The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-12-04
THE FARMER AND WAR
he Path of Armies the Producer sHecor,as He3ptess
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| On the top Of all this comes the
burden Of the costliest and most hor.-
rible war that was ever Yough9. = Even
Ito the farmer who lives away from the
battle lipe the burden Is crushing. His
tsods are called to the slaughter on
the pay Of 20 cent or twojsa d day, ;2e
cents am0nth In the French army, 90
cants q month In the Greek, the 9TH
eEsi In proportion. /. And IL he is near
the firing line everything else goes.
He may be thankful to be even a Fefu-
gee. 81 .t ,.5.:
j'eOnly two years ago the Bulyarians,
with the Servians and the Greeks,
rushed to the liberation OF Macedonia.
And when the war was over the Mace
donian farmers swarmed up in Bull
| geria.' a.i.
The Bulgarian farmer said to him:
Why don't you stay in, Macedonia ?
| We went there to set you Efrae. Now
j.yoii come hers,to crowd 0ar!z houses,
to take our Jobs. to die In our beds.
Ny brother died In Macedonia. We
can not support you. Oh, 60 back
4 And the Macedonian answers: .IIillo
told you TO come down to trample our
| vine. to destroy our fields, to kill our
cattle and sheep, ito leave our houses
for the Greeks to burn? I d0nT care
lf yonr brother ssfss 4ssSstls Z Mine IA dead
too. and we are alI .dsiyg.",
Why Food Is Chsa5 In England.
The farmer of America gains moth
ing through the losses Css the farmers
Of Europe. We. are all> In the same
boat. and whatever harmn the pros-
perity of one perr OF the yvrlda In.
lures US all. For some or Els .products
the American farmer mar gt,t q little
more. For other articles al cotton.
In. wartime, he may have rS market AT
ALL; Whoever. buvs Of him must have
money to buy with. / fs,od ia ,Ubcen to-.
day in England because so many 20
without their usual foId. bhying 'oniv
the cheapest articles. I'M Lnndon n
month ago the finest fruit was' sold
for next;ito. nothing. No one. would
eat Sussex peaches or Devon grranes
while the continent was bii,.rtnp s %
| It Is s+everywhere. !. ~. 2 y -
III war there is no demand for my
| nries, no care Tor comfort 40 con.
tinaity OF Industry. no. demand to buy
and amonr nI5ilinna, M IL nanniS M, ,SSn s;
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