Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-11
SOME FARM.
forest CITY Summit

road is left open most OF the year ana
people drive thru this land usually in
greatest wonderment and admiration
Of what they see. For instance. re-
Gently, you would see forty-fi teams
and cultivators going thru in field
Of section of corn Another whole
section of land is devoted. perhaps. to
oats. another to wheat, perhaps. and
then more corn The machinery on
this ranch would stock the largest i'm
plement house in western Iowa. Eleven
and one-haif sections Of land com
prise this which was formerly the
Wheeler ranch, and on which Wheeler
went broke twenty-five years ago. But
Adams is rated as seven times a mil
lionaire. and his farming operations
seem to be adding to his pile altho he
does not raise much Of any live stock
on the place.
PROHIBITION IN THE CAMPAIGN.
[Des Moines Capital.1
The question of prohibition should
not be uppermost in the coming state
campaign The last legislature is sup
posed to have settled the fate Of the
saloon men when it repealed the mulct
law and passed the prohibitory amend
ment The people. speaking thru their
representative. declared by good ma
jority that they wanted Iowa to be a
dry state
Every candidate for the republican
nomination for governor should pub
licly announce that he is in accord
with the sentiment expressed by the
Thirty-sixth general assembly and
then proceed to build his campaign
around issues much more vital to the
welfare of the state. Better roads
ought to be the campaign cry and not
the saloon because the saloon is al
ready doomed
AS long as a candidate allows the
Impression to prevail that he is kind
ly toward the liquor interests the sa :
loon is going to play part in the pri-
mary. The fact that Lieutenant Gov
ernor Harding has never openly de-
clared his position does not help the
situation. His nomination at the pri-
mary would revive hope in the minds
of the liquor forces and result In again
bringing the question before the peo-
pie.
The Capital urged during the last
! session that the drys attempt to unite
on one candidate. Attorney General
Cosson and state Senator Joe Allen
agreed at that time to go into con-
ference. We will not state positively
that they agreed to abide by decision
| Of committee as to which one should
| withdraw from the race. Mr. Allen. IN
a statement recently issued. declares
| that he will go before a committee and
present his qualifications providing
General Cosson will do the same.
The primaries are a long way Off
It is not too late to unite on candi-
date who is known to be in sympathy
with prohibition out Of the campaign.
TENANTRY AND LAND VALUES
[Sioux CITY Tribune.l
The Alton Democrat, in a recent is
sue. referred to the owner Of farm
near that city who was offered So an
acre, cash rent. and turned down the
offer 1t was stated that his farm
would be only 3 per cent basis. al
lowing for taxes. insurance and re-
| pairs.
| To bring net returns Of per cent a
| 5000 farm would need to rent at about
4 to bring about SIS an acre. These fig.
1 ures are above the range OF renta
| prices, even on attractive farms
l.
such students Of farming problems a:
Henry Wallace have been calling at
tention, and against which they arr
! warning not only Iowa but all thu
richer agricultural states.
| Farm tenantry is growing and at thu
rental owners Of land must charge IL
order to take even s per cent on tnei
investment, 1t is resulting in two yer,
disastrous things: First depreciatio,
/ Of the land due to its being overworket
by the tenant in his desperate neces
sity of making his rent and a meage
living besides. Second. a steady de
/ crease in the character of the tenant
and a consequent lowering OF tn
standard of communities where farm
itenantry prevails.
Both Of these processes are killini
the goose that lays the golden egg i,
HORTICULTURAL states. The evil effect up
on the land is apparent. The evil ef
feet upon cities and towns dependen
upon farming communities for thei
trade and jobbing business should b
equally apparent. as a hand to mout
existence for tenants necessities cut
ting down store" expenses to min
inum and is ruinous to the implemen
business.
Land owners will have to modif
their terms OF tenantry, go back I
the land and work II themselves. o
reduce the prices they have been ask
ling. Farming cannot be made to pa
on a basis OF fictitious prices any NOR
i, than boom city can keep on boom
!, |! ing The laws Of nature and eco
Monies are inexorahle and all things
} even land values-must seek their ow
! level.