The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
THAT BRYAN-McCl TCHEON CITY MAN
 = AND FARMER CARTOON.

TWO men who know a lot about the fOlkS and how they feel about things colaborated in striking cartoon in yesterdays Tribune. The men were John T., McCutcheon and Will fam Jennings Bryan. NThe cartoon was in two parts the left hand depicting the Farming Population" as giant bearing the City Population" in costume of cent Jury ago on it's back; the right. hand depict ing Farming Population much -shrunken and bowed under enormously grown City Pop ulation. Lines under the cartoon assert that a. hundred years ago the population of the United States was two-thirds farming and one-third city population. To-day the city population is greatly in excess of the country population"
 Now in all matters appealing to the cardiac region we know of no one would rather follow that Mir. McCutcheon and MT. Bryan and our first sensation upon looking at this eloquent pictorial appeal was remorse representative of the city
 Then we took a second look at Mir Me CutcheOns City Population. For one thing he was too large for it happens the city population is not greatly in excess of the farming but only per cent larger But we will waive that. What is seriously erroneous in the McCutcheon- Bryan cartoon is the presentment of the City Population as dead load on the back of the worthy farmer We of course, concede that production is es- sential to life. The farmer can exist without the city man. and the latter could not exist without the farmer But the existence of the farmer without the city man, who includes the mechanic the inventor, the merchant, and manufacturer, would not be an existence which the modern farmer would welcome
 The city is essential to life on a civ iltzed plane as the farmer is to mere physical existence. Without the city population the farmer would be blowing with a stick He would not have the chilled steel blow the reaper, and the thrasher to say nothing of the tractor, the automobile. the telephone, the trolley, the railroad, the gramaphone. books, store clothes, the movie the news paper, or any of those ameliorations of the mere animal existence which he enjoys in civilized countries
 Moreover the farmer is not fundamental to mere existence. Before farmer appeared men existed huntsmen and fishermen He did not till the soil. but took what nature produced of her own initiative We could go back to the cave and the painless forest and steppe
 We could, but we won't unless we im- tate the Russians and mistake reaction for progress, The city means civilization and progress, and the city man is far from riding the farmer with dead weight, as Mir Me- Cutcheon's and Mir Bryan's striking picture argues. He labors in the sweat of brain and sinew to produce those useful and life enrich ihs ue'ices WHlcn the farmer covetS. which mitigate his toll, and raise him above the level of the caveman and brute.
 Yet Mir. McCutcheon and MT. Bryan are right in so far as they regret a tendency to deplete the country at the shortsghted proht Of the cities. Said the late Mir Gold smith:
 I'll fares the land to hastening ills
 prey,
 Where wealth accumulates, and men
 decay"
 If the American nation is truly wise and it will in its collective wisdom es- tablish as the foundation of its system pol icy of fostering agriculture, which is. we freely cOncede. the basis, though not the only essential. of our national welfare.-( Chicago rribune)
 ut even the Tribune's analysis misses the r