Kansas agitator. [volume], February 11, 1892, Image 7

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The Utopian Farmer.
Come here, mjr dear; I want ter say a word or
I wo ter you
'Bout what I thiuk's the proper thins for me
'n yon ter do.
Ye'vegave me mighty good advice Hence we
was wed that day
'Way back in sixty-one, 'n now Pd like to have
ye say
Ef you don't think I've got a right to do us
others does,
'N sell the crops before they grows, just like
them easterners.
Why, Men, a man out in N'oo York hen bold a
lot o' i-oru
Tbet's several thousand bushels more then
what the country's borne
N got bin money, too, I'm told, 'u didn't have
a peck
Of grain of any kind in hand to back his little
spec.
He cleared a hundrid thousand cash! 'N.
Meg. that's more'n we
Have cleared at farmin all our days, or ever
will, by geel
N I can't say I sees the use o' workin day by
day,
'N only sellin what we raise for mighty, little
pay.
When them as hasn't any grain can sell up
there in town
A million pecks of wheat 'n corn, 'n git their
money down.
The modern plan's a dandy. Meg, 'n ef we
makes it gu
I'll get you that planner, 'n the trottin bone
for Joe.
We'll raise the mortgage off the roof 'n paint
the old barn red,
'N send the gals to Paris, France, and buy a
rosewood bed.
We'll get new carpets for the floors 'n keep a
hired tr an
Ef only I can go to town 'n learn to work the
plan:
'N mebbe, Meg, I'd make enough ter run for
governor,
Or get sent down to Washin'ton.a full fledged
senator.
I tell yer, gal, this is an age thet beats creation.
Say, ,
What would yer father've said, d'ye think. If
he wuz here today,
Ter see folks sellin wheat and corn, and hvil
cars full o' rye,
'N Meven-twelfths of all they sold nowhere but
in tleir eye?
How he would yell ter think of us a-makin of
a pot
O' gold at sellin fellers things we haven't really
got!
What's that ye say? It isn't straight to sell
what ye don't own?
'N if I goes into the Bpec, 1 goes it all alone?
The music on the planner ye think would
drive yer mad.
If it was bought from sellin things ye never
rightly had?
Waal, have yer way: I'll let it go: I didn't
mean no harm:
But what is straight in cities can't be crooked
on a farm.
John Hendricks Banga in Harper's MagaiMw
A "VOICE FROM CANADA.'
pressed condition of our agricultural
interests."
This emasculation of the report with
the reference to "the depressed condition
of our agricultural interests" speaks
louder than words. In plain English it
means that the conditions revealed were
so damning that official authority inter
vened to prevent their publication. Some
figures, however, which Governor Ab
bett allowed to go in are to be found on
page :i20 of the report. They prove that
in ten years farm values in New Jersey
declined from 10 to 50 per cent, in nearly
every quarter of the state, with very
few exceptions. Annexed are the figures
of population showing a falling off in
ninety -two townships of New Jersey.
This much of the truth is allowed to
come out in 1890. If we want to know
more we have only to turn to the report
of the same bureau for 1889 and find
(page 836) that there were then at least
27,000 farm mortgages in New Jersey:
that over 80 per cent, of the farms were
mortgaged, taking no account of "sec
ond mortgages:" that the total mortgage
indebtedness on New Jersey farm lands
was about $20,000,000, or an annual in
terest burden of $1,800,000; that there
was an average depreciation of 40pei
cent, in farm values in ten years.
These are the simple facts transcribed
from the official records and publica
tions of the state, and until the advo
cates of unrestricted reciprocity can get
over them and explain them away, it is
worse than foolish to ask the Canadian j
farmer to vote for a policy which prom
ises no more than to put Ontario agri
culture in the same condition as that of
New Jersey or any other heavily bur
dened state! -Toronto Empire.
A Toronto Taper Discusses Reciprocity
and Ouotes New Jersey Statistics.
Seven or eight Ontario constituencies!
of a largely agricultural stripe are aboul
to cast their votes primarily to deter
mine what the trade policy of this coun
try shall be. The farmers are entreated
to vote for unrestricted reciprocity so as
to put themselves on the same plane oJ
prosperity as their United States neigh
bors. Well, what is that prosperity?
Let us take the very latest testimon)
on this point, which comes to us in tht
recently published report of the New
Jersey bureau of labor and industriei
for 1890. If any farmers on earth shoulo
be successful the New Jersey farnien
should. They are close to the greai
markets of New York and Philadelphia
Part of the state contains the most skill
fully cultivated and productive lands it J
the whole Union, and the central dia
tricts, with their ability to grow ali
kinds of grain as well as fruits and reg
etables, have been termed "a vast mar
ket garden for supplying the neighbor
ing cities." What does the report saj
of the agricultural possibilities and con
ditions of this marvelous region?
In the introduction to the before men
tioned report for 1890 we find the follow
ing: "The larger part of the chapter oi
abandoned farms, farm values and tht
depopulation of the rural districts of thit
state, constituting Part II of this report,
has been omitted therefrom by direction
of Governor Abbett, who has referred sc
much thereof as related to the subjeel
of abandoned farms to the state board
of agriculture for further investigation.
This inquiry was a continuation of thai
begun, by the bureau in 1889 into the do-
Increase In Taxation.
In the house of representatives the
other day, Mr. Livingston, Alliance
Democrat from Georgia, said that there
was more distress and suffering in this
country at present than at any previous
time in its history. In my state, he said,
farms that eo3t their owners all the way
up to $175 an acre are being sold undei
the hammer every court day, from the
earliest hour to the latest that the law
permits the cry to be made.
The cau.-o for this condition of things ,
is taxation. In 1800 the expenses of the
government were $.J:J,000,000, with 31,
000.000 of people, an average of $2.08.
Twenty-one pounds of cotton or 1
bushels of wheat would pay my part of
that national tax. In 1891 the expendi
tures were $:!05.000,000. an average of
6ix dollars per capita. In addition, the
protection of private industries made an
additional tax of $2.75 per capita upon
the producers, so that now it requires
100 pouuds of cotton or 8 bushels of
wheat to pay my part of the tax. The
total average amount of tax assessed
against the residents of this country
national, state and municipal is over
seventeen dollars, equal to a voluma
greater than the total amount of circu
lation of the country. The ultimate
condition of taxation is the sweat of the
face. The people of this country look
for relief to this Democratic house of
representatives. Shall they have it?
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