The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-02-04
|HY NOT GIT
| TOGETHER? :?
|InOn Interest Of the Mu-
lhantS and Farmers Should
tduse Them to Cooperate.

~ Xhe country towns and the farmers
Af0Mhd them remind us very much of
fWo beighbors. whose social and hD-
~ Mal welfare require that they
'ps 6eh be on good terms and pull tn.
eEzpT, and yet they insist on max
- Aces at each other and working
,Alal DsS purposes. The country town.
MNie there's no mines or large fact
Isl or schools, exists only to supply
ged YII0 krade and social wants OF the
Pea ers in the neigbOorhood within
comA &yfitOry that may extend from
Alik4H to eight or ten miles around 1t,
~ Ading on the competition of 9TH
, e M us with like railroad facilities.
y. e country town, on the other
: ll Is reat beneiit to the farm
PuHef lDund It, Their interests, when
" ti ome TO think it over seriously
ldaaiiA eason together, are Identical.
~ ~ TIE IowrsWan complains, however,
! rtiIae the farmer buys his supplies at
: oa lhnce, and pays cash for them
forta ffeights. while he asks for credit
ncoroa me- home merchants and forces
IN :, Them 10 DO more or less OF a credit
to uhusInesS. The farmer replies that
q the Merchants buy their agricultural
for supnfss from distance, They bring
reafn Iof example, carload of potatoes
roI Minnesota or Wisconsin, or ap-
!, Splea ffom New York or the Pacific
COS and refuse TO pay more than
a8Mnal prices for potatoes, apples
ana hch like, that are produced in
Inntla Immediate neighhorhood. The
Ken aFNhant tells the farmer that he
O faoe not produce potatoes or apples
-in uunntity, that he does not grade
them. that 1t is often better TO get
A4Atage eggs than to buy eggs from
NJ iaPmer, because there is less loss.
TiH farmer compains that the mer-
. ntiisni pr other business man, while
Csxce6dingly friendly when he has po-
iEicaiambitions tc further, or some
: lnmediate end to gain, IN anyth ing
= nf friendly under ordinary condi-
AJions
Ana SO you have it of and on from
ne YEARS end to the other, just like
1-ft nelghbors who don't like each
!, ther, but really cant tell why they
= don't They make us think of the
: ipid colplet:
DO not love thee, Doctor Fell,
~ Yne reason why, | cannot tell;
But tbis alone | know full we'll
do not love thee, Doctor Fell.
IheFe is some reason in some Of
the con- plants which the merchant
makes against the farmer, particular
IS with regard to the grading OF po-
tat0es or apples or eggs, or anything
else sle may have to sell complaint
which 1t would be to the interests of
the iNgmer to remove. On the other
hand, the merchant has no right to
eompihin II the farmer does does pre-
\ riselN what he does himself, in the
ANwag 81 buying where he can get the
Amna6 for his money.
XII II 81 ms to US that If our country
4 W3Wns are to prosper land they are
Il mot plDspering now. speaking gener-
II lally. bu' just about holding their own
Iln nopulation and 10 business) IL
! they re to prosper, they must cOn.
slider more carefully the reason why
- they e1ist, which is simply to facili-
tate hssiness and friendly intercourse
hetWHen the farmer who support
them aud who must supnOIt them,
If the1 are to be supported at all
Ihe prosperity of the merchants in
any tnwn is guaged by the prosperity
of th8 farmers In the country around.
Hence anything that they can DO Ia
stsmsIlate profitable farming, and to
furnish the best possible market 70.
clliNee, should he done. Other n Use
,1Ikthe toAn must sooner or later becou {
adeaa one. For in the corn belt al
. leaat he farms are increasing in
size Nhich means that they are de.
erea41ng in numbers, aud this de.
creaB must he felt SCORER or later ir
everg country town.
Tbs first manifestation Of declin:
Is III Business blocks for rent. That
me4aa that unless occuDants ara
found. rent will fall Another mani
festatlUn is houses 10 rent. wheT
ts.efe Are few more houses in
coanfry town than there are occu
rarf ftauf5 then rent must fall.
Insss are the beginnings Of decay
Case town has feeling that i
Is 1tEaying, sort OF pail comes owe
~ the Inhabitants. They don't pa
Ia1tH the energy they utherwis,
woulE.