The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-12-10

local business men who are doing
their best to build up their own com
munities; all OF which work benefits
and adds to the prosperity Of every
resident of the home town; at the
same time adding most materially to
the value OF every foot OF real estate
In the community.
or the ninety-odd millions Of souls
n bodies that inhabit these United
States OF America a very large pro-
portion live In the country and In
small towns and villages.
These people are the producers.
They raise the grains and foodstuffs
and the wool and the meat, hides. etc.
Those who live In the big cities
are practically all dependent upon the
efforts Of those who live In the coun'
try. and IN the small towns. They
do not produce anything In compar.
ison with the work OF those who wrest
from the soil the bountiful offerings
OF Nature. II Is the work OF those
who lives In the cities TO figure out
how they can obtain that which Is
produced by the country p~eople-how
they can juggle the values OF this
product-how much money they a
make out OF Il, etc. They do not
produce anything.
They are the parasites. Without
the country people there would be no
cities. There would be M occasion
for cities because there would be moth
ing to support them.
So II Is the plan OF the universe. as
laid down by our rules and laws. that
n certain big proportion OF the people
shall toll and spin while the smaller
proportion shall exact the greater
part OF that which is produced by the
toilers and make a profit sufficient TO
enable them to live in luxury while
the toilers toll on. continuously.
II is o the toilers and spinners
who take the trips to Europe. II Is
not the toilers and spinners who get
up in the morning az nine o'clock and
who spend their evenings at the Q
tiers. cafes and cabarets. drinking
wine and playing cards.
The tollers and spinners get out OF
bed when the family alarm clock out
In the hen.house tells them day is
breaking. They have no time for the
theater or the cafe or the cabaret.
It's a case Of hustle" all the time. II
is vital that every working hour In
tho day shall be utilized In order to
produce" that which the scheme Of
our life in the present day provides
must be produced 10 keep the whole
machinery Of civilization in motion.
What would happen to the people
| IN the cities II this whole scheme
should become disarranged-if there
did not arrive in,the cities, on SEIZED.
ule time every day. the train loans
: OF cattle, grain. milk and all sorts OF
country produce. And the mail bags,
: filed with orders for the mail order
? houses.
What would happen? There would
? not long remain any citizens because
they would starve. these parasites. II
the source OF supplies should be cut
off.
And all Of these supplies come from
! the country, from the people in this
community. You do your full share
: toward supplying the cities.
Especially do you send your share
: OF the orders for the mail order
, houses. with the cash
There Is n strange partnership be.
= tween the people OF the country and
the people of the city, n partnership
. which. carefully analysed, shows the
following working agreement:
= The country people shalt delve and
i dig and toll and then hasten to shin
! their product TO the city partner, who
takes possession aud %disposes OF the
same g. the best possible advantage
Ito HIMSELF. He then hands out &c
the country partner, begrudgingly and
frequently only In case OF a suit al
law. n small part OF the proceeds
= Then you. the country partner. send
q this pitt"nce back to the city. to the
mail order house with an order.
Such Is the result OF a bald ant
unSarnished analysis OF the partner
II ship between farm and city. after
applying the acid test.
y Individual exceptions do not change
or alter the general rule. You hav,
citizens who's, prosperity and af
o nuence ~eloqueatly refute the forego
ing statements but ordinarily you vii
r discover that these prosperous met
who are the exception 10 the rule ar
= likened In character and motive L
the old tories" Of Revolutionary days
u They will be found TO be affiliated II
some manner. not to the general in
t~erests OF the community, with tn
9 financial wolves of TIE big cities.
= And II Is such tories" that hell
; 10 insure a continuance of the condi
u tions in the country towns and vii
lagos.