Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-04
the BIGGEST FOOL IN IOWA.


traded for stock OF goods appears ir
the newspapers. The plaintiffs allie
cations run about tho same in all the
instances He had a cracking good
farm that he and his wife had worked
and saved TO earn. Somebody came
with a stock to trade that invoicec
away up but willing to sacrifice it or
account of i'll health, lack of adaptation
to merchandising, etc. Somebody else
knew the stock and the location and
said il was a snap. SO they traded;
and a year after the farmer wants his
farm back. The stock had beer
marked up the location was bad, all
kinds of things unknown and over
looked had developed 10 show that the
farmer had traded his farm for ex-
perience And experience, measured by
a farm that represents a lifetime OF
toll or an inheritance from those who
toiled a lifetime, is about the most eN-
pensive and unsatisfactory Investment
people make.
Where there is honey there are bees.
The fool and his money and the fool
and his farm arc soon parted. Other
proverbs and axioms applicable might
be quoted largely. They all come to
the same point.
An Iowa farm is not trading stock.
1t is one of the most marketable things
on earth at standard prices. 1t means
real money in the fist. 1t is just as
good and a blamed sight better than
a bank account. If there is anything
that can happen to an Iowa farm no.
body has discovered it. Thieves break
not thru and steal it. 1t never breaks
like banks sometimes do. 1t Is there
with the good living 365 days in the
year and an extra day every four
years. When a man with a good Iowa
farm goes looking or listening to a
chance to trade it for a stock Of goods
it's time TO appoint his guardian.
Some men get swelled on themselves
after having managed 10 pay for
farm. They think they are wise guys
Also they desire greatly to enter into
some easy business, different from
farming. The flow of coin across the
counters of the merchant attracts
them. 1t looks easy. Anybody can do
it, especially a man who has been
smart enough to pay for good farm
Those are the people the trading
shark seeks out. He let's them do their
own trading knowing that they'll do
better for him than he could for him
self. He gets his trap all ready and
bats it and just waits and sooner or
later the sucker walks in and spends
the next year or two wondering how
he is going to get out.
Now it takes a mighty smart and
money in trade. He has to know his
business. The day of the haphazard
merchant is gone So has the hap
hazard merchant. If not he is on his
way. The modern merchant lies awake
nights worrying and scheming. His
competition is something fierce, the
strain on him constant and nerve
racking. Nobody works harder thar
the successful merchant. And wher
any man from the farm gets the idea
that he can run a store with ease anc
success he is making as big a mistake
as the city bred merchant who has q
similar fool idea that he knows how t.
run a farm as we'll or better than the
farmer who hasn't done anything else
since he was knee high to a grass.
hopper
IF YOU have good Iowa farm anc
some sweet hammered fellow comes
along and suggests that he has stocl
of goods in a cracking good town anc
is so enamored Of farm life that he't
sacrifice thousands in q trade for YOU
acres, Just ask MIN to stay to supper
have fried chicken and green peas ant
sweet corn and bring in a big water
melon and when supper is over tel
| him to get to-town-out o that. So
shall YOU hold the firnest anchor OF
| old age and keep out OF the law court
and have something to leave to tn
children. Keep in mind the fact tina
| Iowa farm land isn't trading stock
| that it is representative Of immediate
long, green money like $1,000 bills ant
| that it is yours; that you can go ava,
and leave it and find 1t there when yo'
come back; that when you tickle
| with a corn pillow it laughs at the rat
of so to 100 bushels per acre: that 20,
| are mighty lucky to have it and tina
| other folks want it and you are goin
| to keep it until it is worth $500 al
| acre IL you live long enough, and yo
will not have to live such grea
while longer at that.
The biggest fool in Iowa is the ma.
| who trades an Iowa farm certainty ia
any kind Of uncertainty.
The manufacture of the Missouri
corncoh pipe represents an industry o
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