Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-01
M1sFIT CONCEPTIONS AND REGULATIONS

resent local interests but because | they know and will represent local<in- i grindstone for this. that ori the other interest-if, in short. they won't use their own brains and their own votes in their own service, then they have no right to kick if they are not 1 served f-tts =. l Take, for instance. the latest illus tration of this contempt of rural opin- 1 ion and need+ as shown in President light saving repeal. As a matter of fact. daylight saving is a mispofner | for the law. It was originally piece Of autocratic tyranny, first adopted by Germany, and later initiated by other nations as a purely war measure to i meet supposed war exigency. .ss No l law can save" daylight. any more than a law can dry up es the Atlantic | ocean. The daylight is governed by higher authority than that inherent in any congress or kaiser So far the law affects country people, it's principal purpose seems to be to make them get up before it is light and go to bed before it is dark l have read of a few self designated farmers who support it. But I have never yet met a single working farm CT, whom I knew to be dependent on the farm for his living who didn't re- gard it as hardship. endlrable only in an emergency when the government wanted to conserve kerosene oil and gas coal. .t.s-
 Farm sentiment. as collected by farm papers, bears out the contention that fully nine-tenths of the farmers of the country are both inconvenienced repeal it is vetoed. The farms wanted it repealed because it makes farm work, already hard enough. still hard CT; and farm expenses, already too ties didn't want it repealed. because it gives them more time for motoring and go1fing and, occasionally, for am ateur gardening.
 Now there's no need to asperse the presidents motives or to denounce his action as tyranny. He probably knows just as much about farming condi- tions as you and I do about the in terna1 affairs of Shantung or the sew craze of Seoul. He knows the cities and the suburbs and his -sympatnies are with them. Naturally he acts ac- cordinS to his lights and his preju- dices- It isn't necessary to assume that he is deliberately hostile to farm the head with stick. Neither he nor his advisers know the facts, as we farmers know them. What he does know that for fifty years Congresses and legislatures and governors and presidents have been in the habit of herding us in the way they. think. we should go, much as we herd struggling sheep towards the pastures we've se- lected for them-and that we've stood for it and kept on electing and re- electing our drivers
 don't want to see "farrt>rs' par ty'' in politics, any more than want to see a firemen's party or a dry goods clerks party or a dress makers party. Such fne-drawn class dis tinction in politics would lead to dangerous complications.
 But farmers must realize that so long as they continue to put their in terests in the hands of city-bred men, so long will city ideas rule and so long will the cities in the saddle ride over them on occasion. What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh" If we put our affairs in to the hands of men who are densely ignorant of all that concerns them, we --"-- expect that they will be muddIed.
 -Wnat we need is a government, from highest to lowest, composed of fewer grabbers and more grubbers.
 But we won't get it till we make it. That's cock sure.
 THE FARMER.