Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-11-16
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPmD THE PLow."
immigrants.

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Farmers during the last few year
have been complaining they could ge
no help to raise crops or raise money
from the crops to pay such help a. they
could get, so they prayed for relief.
1t is not certain whether they turned
their faces toward jerusalem or Meccs
or Washington, D. c., when they prayed
but 1t was the last named place which
beard. Like physicians, the authorities
diagnosed the complaint from tho symp
toms, and like physicians they propose
to doctor the symptoms found. Symp
toms are on the surface and 1t 10 easier
to do surface work than to 60 deeper In.
to cause. II man has headache, why
give him headache powder 90 he will
forget Ii, no matter whether it 10 caused
by eating too much, smoking too much,
drinking too much or staying out too
late nights.
The doctors st Washington have dag
uosed the complaint as two jobs to q
man and concluded the remedy must be
the reverse, two men to job, so they
have let down the bars to immigration
and the United States is receiving
through Ellis Island alone some 5000
persons day from the slums of Europe.
II the stream continues there cannot be
much doubt but what the two-man-to-a-
job condition will arrive with conse-
quent depression of wages; but the ques-
ton arises whether such q condition is
advantageous.
Extravsgapce, no doubt is q bad and
extreme condition. but the reverse Is
just as bad. When a person has to
economize and cannot purchase what be
really wants or needs be is drugging the
market and curtailing production, which
cannot be considered an ideal condition
from any viewpoint; and that is what q
two-man-to-s-job condition will bring
about. y,
1t is hoped these immigrants will be
gentle, patient peasants, but nobody
knows but what they may turn out to
be Bolsheviks, or become such II con-
ditions should not prove to be pleasant.
II the country gets too many Of the
former class 1t might have to build more
poor houses to take care OF the second
man out of job, and should they prove
10 be the second class, who are credited
with wanting the earth and the fullness
thereof, the poor houses might come In
handy as jails for the dispossessed as
they have been In Russia.
This is the trouble in doctoring symp-
toms and ignoring causes. 1t may re-
lieve for time but the disease goes
right on.
The above are not the only immigrants
We have been receiving during the warm
October days just passed, or even on
pleasant November days. II one gazed
upward toward an Indian summer sky,
be or she might see long silver threads
extending through the shining atmos-
phere, and II one has eyes rs sharp as
those of bird they might also see dun
objects attached to one end. These
dark specks are small spiders. They
are mostly of the genus evigone-adven-
turous little insects who on these warm
days climb to the top of fences or other
elevations, turn their spinnerets to the
blue ether and send forth long threads
into the air currents until they are COM
pletely lifted of their feet and the solid
earth and set out on voyage OF dis
covery TO some distant country and 30
become immigrants. Most people con-
slider any kind Of spider - Bolshevik,
but perhaps they may be mistaken In
their character. Any way they are fully
as pleasant immigrants to contemplate
as the human variety at Ellis Island,
and probably at their worst will not do
rs as much damage.
AQJARIUs.