Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-12-21
BY Dr. J w, Holland

I It was hard time. Whatsdid they
do? They faced the situation with
hope and hard work; and In few
years their farms were paid for, their
children educated, and they had a
comfortable nest built for old age.
But in 1867 the clouds Of gloom hung
close over their puzzled heads.
1898 the sons. Of those two farmers
were sitting near the same place dis
cussing hard times. They even went
so far as to threaten to move of the
farms. Nothing paid. Those were
black times for the man, who was try
ing to pay for his farm. Those dis
couraged farmers talked the language
Of their fathers generation before.
That was in 1893. Today those two
farmers have good farms, and have
succeeded in giving their children q
better chance IN the world than. they
themselves had, and they, have had,
in all, more luxuries than their fath-
ers had comforts. }$s.,.s; +
Today the grandsons Of the farm
ers of 1867 are sitting in their auto
mobiles talking hard times, and poor.
markets, and low prices. They: are
talking the language of their fathers.
Abraham Lincoln had poem written
by q Scotchman which he. kept over
his, desk in the White House which
read, 1--WE are the same our fathers
have BEEN" We are surely the same.
when depression hits our pocketbo oks.
Time has shown that the farmers
of: 1861. and 1898 did not have all the
facts, for had they been able to fore
cast the future days they would have
been singing instead Of moaning. Bet
ter: days came just as truly as better
days are sure to come to- us. NJ,
r. Now, it might be a good deal worse !!
The: money and gold of the world
might be in foreign countries instead,
Of in our own, vaults. That is some
thing Then, the harvest of the past
year has been generally 60 per cent
to- the good. The prosperity of the
country as. a whole leaves much to
be desired, but it is easily 60 per cent
normal. Some of the foreign loans
will be maturing soon, and that will
start more capital moving. Is
Then we need to remember that
$3.50 wheat, and $1.7O corn, and 30
cent oats were the exception, and
were wartime values. We thought
that that sort Of thing would last
forever, so we advanced the price Of
land far beyond where 1t can reason
ably stay, and bought more land than
we thought We might need, not think
ing that the War was burning up
more wealth than the excessive values
we were adding to tile land. After
all is said and done, it is the land
that stays where It ID and has to bear
the burden OF the taxes for war. In
addition, we borrow q few billions
from the banks which billions belong
ed to the people, just to pay down on
high-priced land or for new cars, and.
now the. banks want their money. IS
It is a bad situat ton, but not 80
bad that we shall not recover. We
are going ia need patience, and char
fty, and optimism, and hard work,
and lot Of other good things, to
tide us over, This War, which was
not Of our own choosing, has still to
be paid for. Taxes are certain to be
high for years to come. We had bet
ter face the facts. People seldom fail
who are brave enough to, face facts,
for it stinens the. spine. The Amer
lean Farmer and his Good Wife are
the very people who are going to do
their part to pull us all out of the
National Slough Of DespOnd.
Just as our fathers and grand
fathers faced the financial chaos Of
their times, and turned it into order,
80 will we. In the meantime there
are two things we can do to help
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