Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-05

and absolute loss OF the hard-working
local business men who are doing
their best to build up their own com
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
and bodies that inhabit these United
States of America q 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. It is the work of those
who lives in the cities to figure out
how they can obtain that which is
produced by the country people-how
they can juggle the values of this
product-how much money they can
make out of 1t, etc. They do not
produce anything.
They are the parasites. Without
the country people there would be no
cities. There would be no occasion
for cities because there would be moth
ing to support them.
So it is the plan of the universe. as
laid down by our rules and laws, that
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 profit sufficient to
the toilers toll on, continuously.
1t is not the toilers and spinners
who take the trips to Europe. 1t Is
not the toilers and spinners who get
up in the morning at nine o'clock and
who spend their evenings at the thea
ters, cafes and cabarets, drinking
wine and playing cards.
The toilers 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 case of hustle" all the time. 1t
is vital that every working hour in
the day shall be utilized in order to
produce" that which the scheme of
our life in the present day provides
must be produced to 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 sched-
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 happene There would
not long remain any citizens because
they would starve. these parasites, II
the source Of supplies should be cut
on
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 ordel
houses. with the cash.
1 Thorc d rtro--o ~
tween the people Of the country anC
the people of the city. partnership
which, carefully analysed, shows tn,
following working agreement:
The country people shall delve ant
dig and toll and then hasten to shit
their product to the city partner, whit
takes possession and disposes of th'
same to the best possible advantage
Ito himself). He then hands out Il
the country partner, begrudgingly an,
frequently only in case of a suit a
law, small part of the proceeds
Then you. the country partner. sem
this pittance back to the city, to tn,
mail order house with an order.
Such is the result of a bald, an,
unvarnished analysis Of the partner
ship between farm and city, afte
applying the acid test.
Individual exceptions do not chang
or alter the general rule. You hav
citizens whose prosperity and al
fiuence eloquently refute the foregc
ing statements but ordinarily. you will
discover that these prosperous mel
: who are the exception to the rule ar
likened in character and motive :
the old tories" of Revolutionary days
They will be found to be affiliated il
some manner, not to the general In
terests of the community, with tn
financial wolves Of the big cities.
And it is such tories" that hel
to insure a continuance of the cond
tions in the country towns and vi
lagos.