The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-15
A FARMERS PROTEST.

THE gentlemen who are doing
their farming, chiefly as verbal agri-
culturists. from the wide and deep in
experience of law offices and college
chairs and farmers'-day platforms,
are forever telling the farmer that ne
must do thus and so, and are forever
berating him for not doing it. They
start with the assumption that II
there is one thing on earth which the
farmer does not know anything about
it is farming. They then proceed
to tell him how utterly ignorant and
inefficient he is, and that this ignor-
ance and inefficiency are maliclously
wilful on the said farmers part.
He not only does things wrongly OF
leaves them undone shamefully, but
his guilty conduct, as farmer Is
"nure cussedness"; it's all Just pc
cause he don't want to do right we
protest and call upon the Independent,
self-respecting, outstanding men ana
women of our farm homes to resent
This insult on the part OF lot OF pop,
in-iavs who mistake the gift OF gap
for the Gift of common sense ana the
value of experience, and who imagine
that because they can out-taik the
farmer they can out-farm him. Let
farmer Cor even an Editor) walk INTO
a GROUP of lawyers and tell them
What he thinks of their way OF law
ing" and watch them mt tne cen
ing" The impudence OF IL! Wnat III
the blazes do you know ABOUT law
ing. Mr.. farmer? Aye, and what IN
blazes do you know about farming,
Mr.. Lawyer? Oh, of course, you Know
some of the simpler, Superficial OF
some of the deeper, theoretical as
poets of the subjects, just as we Jay
men do about law. But what 40 you
know about its practical aspects, It's
actual operations, where the weather
conditions" the ''help problem ana
a multitude of other vital consldera-
tions are entering into the daily busl,
ness of farming where it is pursued
on the farms, instead of in the lee
ture halls or on the street corners. we
fnd in our experience and observa-
ton, that farmers pretty, generally III
these days know more OF what ougnt
to he done than they are able to get
done. 1t is simple and easy for GLIB
tongued orator to point out to 1ar-
mer.audience the things he ought to
do or the things he has left undone.
But the average farmer today, IN THIS
community, at least, needs no such
"pointing out" He knows already the
things he ought to do and daily
mourns the things he is compelled to
leave undone. 1t is an insult, cruel
insult. to his intelligence, industry,
and manhood to assume that ne ooes
not "know better" or does not, want
to do better" We all want 20 do more
"A vast deal more-than we are able
to get done, and while we are mourn
ing over that fact in our own hearts,
it is not very agreeable to have some
perfervid orator invite us to hear MN
denounce us as dolts or sluggards. In
fact, it is so distinctly unpleasant
that here is one farmer who resents
and refuses to tolerate it, Instead,
we call upon farmer- unc farmers
wives to assert the dignity, lntelll,,
gence, happiness of their calling and
their homes; and to assert further
that the work on the farms and the
keeping of the homes l.. rs we'll done,
in many cases much better done, than
| it is by the professional folks who at
TEMPT to instruct and reprove US as
if we were children or fools. Be
hanged to their impudence and eff
f,nptor,y'