Show WHERE THE PEOPLE LIVE According to the census report fifty per cent of the people of the United States live lIe in towns and cities And nothing Is reckoned as a town or city unless it have at least five fie thousand inhabitants In when the first census was taken a little over three per cent of the people lived in cities clUes At Atthe Atthe Atthe the time the civil war broke out only sixteen per cent lived in cities Think of the difference now when half the population must mu be fed ted while it pro produces produces produces duces no food The armies of ot the nation were ere stron stronger stronger stronger ger in than armies of like number would be if recruited today Those men were home owners and self supporters They were Independent They fear any anyone one because they had proved they need not be depend dependent ent on any anyone one As Dr Swing once said Men en do not shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding hous And they dont fight for tor a rented house as asI I they would for a home either The grade of citizenship has deteriorated because so many of our people have quit the farm and made themselves wage earners in big Industrial centers I slaves and abject slaves at that Congress many magazines and countless Individuals and associations not to forget our own local Inquirers are asking what is the reason for the high cost of ot living The answer to all allot of ot them is Not enough people producing producing ing food l And the solution of ot it the only true solution solutionis is for the government to help its now dependent but willing citizens to return to the farm where they can make a living where they the can support I and educate their families where they I Ican can get back the proud independence I of the early American citizen Farming pays better than titan anything else in the world and It pays In man manhood manhood manhood hood as well as in money |