Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29

in the Digest, for example. an article
in that magazine of April &c, page 81
entitled, For Christian Liquor" stat.
ing that Chesterton claims Cardinal
Gibbons and the organization of Amer.
lean labor, denouncing the prohibition
act as direct wrong to human liberty
and that this is more important than
President Wilson's provisions for a
league of nations.
The above is an extract from 9 Lon
don paper and most of the articles in
the digest are from other papers.
/ I do not think the contributors OF
| the magazine are bone heads or the
magazine is cluttered up with senseless
drivel It is newsy and np-to-date
periodical.
!. Most people, working at job or
engaged in business quit when they
think they are not receiving enough
profit and find something that suits
them better Mr.. Abbott says farmer
cannot quit, yet he is of the opinion
that they should not have any more
privileges than the rest of the world.
workers. If a farmer gives ZIP mis- job,
dreadful things would hapen 10 him.
A crazy mob would relieve him OF all
his food and land So he would be
the first to starve.
There are good many farmers in
the United States and if they were all
to starve and leave no one 10 mourn
their death because of their 'nhuman-
ity it would be a sad affair The mob,
II suppose, is to be composed OF eight
hour a day laborers. / fear the labor
ers would have to work overtime to
bury the dead
A farmer must arise early, no matter
what time is indicated by The clock,
feed and care Tor his stock, milk cows,
feed calves, and get into the fields to
work with his team before laborers,
who have the Sabbath and often Sat
urday p. M in which to rest, are out
Of bed. The farmer cannot say on
Sunday morning: "A little more
sleep. a little more slumber.' He
must be up at the usual time to DO.
the chores which must be done again
at night. This leaves him Tery little
time to rest. I am sure Mr.. Abbott
never lived on a farm if he doubts Mr.
Carron's statement that the farmer
puts in long hours Of arduohs labor.
i know a farmer and his Wife who
have worked from fifteen 10 sixteen
hours a day for over. sixty years. A
neighbor. once. said to them: 7 don't
believe your COWS would stand to be
MIXED except by a lighted Iantern.
/ have. yet to see. the farmer with his
up-to-date touring car travelling all
over creation instead of putting. in his
time Iaboring on his farm | fear he
could go over but q small part OF
creation for there are the ~caores to
do both morning and evening. With
no help to be had, farmer must 90
the work Of two men and there is not
much leasur6 for joy rides unless. in
the winter when the snow is too deep
for him to get into the woods 70 chop
wood for the years burning.
The men who works in shops, fac
tories. or clerks, and work in Offices
have the, advantage of comfortable
rooms. A farmer must WORE outside
ia all kinds of weather no matter
the thermometer registers 20 degrees
below zero. The indoor workers re-
ceve an assured salary, a farmers in
come is much like a lottery ticket. lie
invests his money in a farm with
hundreds in farm machinery horses
cattle, hogs and seed. He soWs MS
seed-perhaps winter wheat and clover
fer which he. pays a big price. The
wheat and clover winter kill. He must
plant the land to something else in
the spring-nay' be corn and potatoes.
A coud wet spring and the seed rots
and the land must be planted over.
A dry hot summer or too much rain
deters growth of crops, nearly freeze
finds them immature and they are
lost. These things have happened in
this vicinity in the last three years.
What is the farmer to do? he las his
family to feed and clothe, horses and
stock to feed, seed to buy 20 make a
try for a crop another year
He must borrow money, pay from
five to six per cent interest and trust
to a surplus on next years crop to
nav interest and taxes. He may get
the surplus and he may not.
The prices of grain and ground feed
for the last three years have been
- ose~sv1 nr1<ys r.
ting a beef, hog or turkey or hen for
market is as much as they bring when
sold at present prices Mr.. Abbott
wants to know when cow or beer
costs $126 to raise and the farmer
sells it for $100 or more, who pays the
bill-who gets the money? He an
swers, the consumer pays the bill and
the farmer gets the money. The farm
er is not considered a consumer though