Pitying The Farmer

BY JACK DIONNE

We are wasting entirely too much vocal lxrwer, and printing paper in t$q '

"o*try tti" ""--.:t;;;;;hg U" t""r fa:rmer," artd-th" "lo* iurchasing power of farm products.tt

Everywhere you go, when business men get to {"g*ling economicr-,_ +rd conditioni and prospects, some one is almost sure to shike his head "ttd t"q you that "we ott't kno* genuine prosperity until the farmer, the bulwark of our prosperity, gets -o""-fo, his iroduct in terms of those otlrer commodities which : he must boy.tt

This has become an almost universal remark.

And it isn't true.

Certainly the,farmer MIGHT come to a condition better than his preren! one, but it ic also mighty certain that there has never been any-pr9JigYs normal time when he wag "..ttv as well off-generally epeaking and all thingr con' sidered{s he is RIGHT NOW.

In the good old days when the northern farmer_gol lfeguhrprice of 50 cents a bag Tor potato"" (" bag contained a burhel and ahalf), and the Southern farurer goifi"" cents a pound-for his cotton, we didn't hear half as much roar about the ttpoor farmerrt' aa we do now.

It is tme that when you consider the price the consunrer payr_for farm atuff, ." ""-prtJ with what ih" f"r-"r gets for it, it looks as tllotgh ttg Y.I. "hold' iig U. U.S" to tome extent; but before yo,t b.g1 iumping with hob'nailed f"-"t" "" tf,ot" terriblc "middlc mcn" who are getting all the money that the "fatmer rhould be getting f,or'hir cropE," and those "robber railroads who get more out of the pril of vegetablcs and fruit than the_producer doesr" iust stop "nj ""*ia.t the iacts of the-matter, ahd it may not look quite so much as though thc farmer were being gougd.

It was these "middle mrjn" and these "robber railroadstt who devised, and created, and arranged the ways' and means, for transP"*iTg'- 91f .greg41ing' .11a i"frigerating, Ittd d"ti""titrg trhere_products _o3t -of their LOCAL TERRIfOntgs,- and iii,erefore not oily madl it possible for Mr. Consumer to have ;;i;;;iufi th" y""t around, bui alpo -.d. it poosible for the farmer to sell iu" ti-"r or a huldred times'ar much product today as he used to be able to sell *liui, h""ing only himcelf to depend -uPon, he could ""JV F"{ a market for his "t"p ilthi" ieach of his farm wagon-deliveryr and then hg had to take whatever the local market would afiod and that wac far less than he is getting- today for the stufi, even though the t'middle men" and nilroadc do seem to be cutting deep into the final pricea.

Think those thingc over, before crying over the "poor farmer.t'--- You will find this poor suffeto d"i"itrg a car, burning up gasoline, s9911s-the-sights with his famitv that he never drearned of seeing in_"the olddays_," living in mych better homes than he did, getting,more cash for his crop than he ure! to, and enioying life much more than-in tli-e davs before the middle men and the railroads began "robbing him""

It'a like a lot of other thittgr we hear cussed in thia country today. The i'c.s1,.epi,grq top'busy.to thirrk, oi'theyld stop clissing' i

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