Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-01
Cwristsn Specially for The Busietiu)

I clip the following from Caoper.s Weekly. the paper of Senator Camper of Kansas. /k
 -onIy 10 ger cent. of the farmers got a,fa els their cost of operation in 1921, and ! their returus were oaly per cent. on the outlay. The agricultural confer snce brought out these facts Farm earnings in ts20-1921 represented be- tween s41s and S4e0 family for each working farmer. The striking miners and shopnen all do better than this. The farmers return Hast year was less than the lowest union wage scale''
 In recen. aanress before D gather Ing of Virginia farmers. Secretary Wal lace of the department of agriculture more than confirmed the above quota, lion. He took up the average earnings of the striking miners railroad men, etc. and the average earnings of farmers, and showed that while the strikers rres- ent wares enabled them to buy more farm products than in 1918. the farmers present recepts, | e. thei- average earn ings, were from 25 to 45 per cent. less than in 1913.
 Take for Illustration the miner who | Is paid a certain wage for getting out l a ton of coal. In 1913 the average wage for mining a ton of coal would buy one md One-tenth bushels of corn from the farmer; in 1891 tho same miners wage for mining a ton of coal would buy two and a half bushels of corn from the same farme-. The miners ton-wage would buy sevsn-tenths of a bushel' of wheat a 1s1s nine-tenths of a birshel in 1921. It woad buy seven pounds of pock in 1913; fourteen pounds of pork in 1921. It would buy tree-quaTters of a bushel of potatoes in 1913 a bushel and a quarter in 1921. It would buy two and four-tenths pounds of butter in 1913; three and two-tenths pounds in 1921 The same ratios hold for numerous other products, and run even higher In the case of railroad workers. Summing st all up, the purchasing power of min CTS wages is about thirty per cent Kreater in 1921 than it was in 1913; and he purchasing power of railroad e1n- ployecs' wages is ab0ut fifty per cent. greater, whNe, as has been already stated. the earnings of farmers average from twenty five to forty-five per cent. less.
 Secretary Wallace made no bones of saying. with all the emphasis he could eonvey, that farmers have suffered more by the neressary after-ehe-war defia- tion than other forms of labor. Never theless, he added, they have not Struck. They fave not created dis orders. They have kept on producing. The farmer believes in law and order He believes in government. He believes ln working hard and producing effiAent-. y. He Is disguested with recurring dis putes bgsesen labor and capital espe- stally in essential industries. He sees no reason why such disputes cannot and should not be settled in an orderly and lawful way and without interruptions of services which cost him so dearly He has right to demand that coal be mined continuously, and that N-ains be tepl rcovine-
 And be adIts the significant warning that H thcse various groups continue to Trey upon one another and abandon lr and order for strOng-arm methods 2l far7uer can take care of hfnseh.'
 t,orecL lie can. and by 5fniay, if Ltlp1e contlnue| much longer as in the immediate past and present, he will have toi
 As I see the American farmer, he fs unusually a rather slow-tlRnking, care h1l-acting chap; one who prefers to fol, low the old rut, so long as he can do Q without too imminent risk of tipping his spple-cart over; a rather patient plOdde-, SO accustomed to the naggings and broom-handlings of Step-Mother EN4LuIe LAdI ne DEl1JIutS SLOW 10 resent sne fmpostions Of his fellow-rnen. With Ill this. he is apt to have a fair share 6 the old Adam In him. It takes him long time to get mad. When he once 9oes, however, it take him an even longer time to get over it. Also, when he is mad, he is mad clear through. Ii ls no superficial furry of thin-eadnned Hrzscibihty with hsm, but a flood o4 anger which swens from the toe Of his lrral~N fn Ina f1f haf
 It uass't the Deppery teA-drinkers oi Boston town who laid the cornerstone s A1utrican Independence. though their fznrinF of taxed tea into the harbos h1s become tradition. Rather it was -the smbattled farmers who, by the er4ds bridge which spznned the brook st Concord. fired the shot heard round he world" T. was the farmer armies h their ragged rsgimentals, led by Farm er Washington of Yd-ginia. who achieved she final victory. They bore misgovern- nent and over-seas tyranny without re- volt fer generations. But, when at lasi the.- anger was fully reused, it burned for seven long years of hardship ant struggle and suffering, through defeats Ike Brandywiae and starvation winters iiize that at Valley Forge, till it swepl our shores clean of foreign domination and hurled it back across three thou. EaN4 II1lcS CT Suul11H8 OCeah
 ''Bewa-e the fury of a patient man, said Dryden An old Roman Publiuy Eyras, said much the same thing, twt thousand years ago, An over-taxed pati ence gives wayrto fierce anger.'' Thai sazne wise old Roman added in another Nace. ''The bow too tensely strung is s1siiy broken.'' f.
 It is hardly conceivable. in view o. heir descent and their character ana thsir envircnment,' that the farmers Q. America will always bear with bovIn, patience the dornineering rapacaty ot organized greed, whether 1t wears tn, livery of predatory wealth or the uni form of so-caIled "laborp
 It Is eniy question of how far the bow win bend before it breal1s of how much over-taxstion the patience vii endure before it flames into fury. Tn, limit is not so very far away, either n may not be reached today or tomor' rvw. but it will be reached. sooner oi later, E things continue along the linos of today's unregulated industrial an Rfchy.
 I talked, the other day, about th, short-sighted fooEshness of picnic van 1sss. What shall be said of the short. Eigntedness of the fnilBsons who are to day doing their selfsh worst to bring about their own undoing?
 Can't they see that the farmer hold the keys 10 the food cupboard? Cam they see that, if worst comes to worst ns can at least live on the products ot hE soil, while they can't exist unles hs shares those products with them Haven't they any better brains than tn, idiot who killed the goose which latS ai-n a golden eEg every day?
 Just as a matter of simple common