Show A TYPICAL under the above leading heading tho the inta kain coples copies apato angly from the alio oakland ill III ledger the iho following 8 saiyd ays it ik if farmers area etro a ta ridda clui alth their fabin littell y mortgaged Is id it not heir 0 own u fault in 11 to do blo their ures lures intend of g tile tho product baeb mere acre u may nilly lio lie done or lit udd add 1 ing dionio c co buil dlag tile ailt aelter r has boa haid bud in un al a an gillya gilly A antro to annu liu ito was MIA able to nil t pa nil ord ordinary luary billed filially cimenti labute lil blikre to ilia iho support of 0 tho ind and for churi tabla nod and lily by a little every for u adny on this annii wits was lwirt banty athi COWK COMI bli bl homes lioi oue olio oku of oen und forty clogs jn in ain tit evil day lie do wits to liar hahoun in adjoining furm farni of morl culig ful ig hla 1 farni for E nt hi 10 per vent interest fur tn ten t n years t to help pay for ihli I 1 farni ater it hard years toll us lo be and lil limply had never tolled before there wua wits barely enough to PRY lined lilied kielp interest and support lei if no more ilage unwieldy farms nor nop enort rugoo geigus on fill ills on my lily plate tho the date am thing in judging the foregoing when did lie acquaro tho first so 80 seres whon did lie tile acres if hu bo owned tho 80 acres prior to 18 73 it vias po possible sible for or him to lily lay up a little money it lio lie bought tho alter after 1883 it was not only not flat po pol bl blo for or hlin him to lo wake make any money molicy but ills hia mail und and everything lie ho 1 I out it steadily s oil fell lit in price As to lite size sio of 0 aguia farms hat that depends depend altogether on oil clio armar some aro are lost on oil a I 1 ainu of 0 IGO acres others would want three thatis that much land at lol tit in order to it economically but tho ilia statement of 0 tills this man makes it clear liow low pitiful la Is the farming bubin business at tho lite present time line with learns stock of all kind farming implements ind ever thing elo clo cl o needed tills this man with wife and children to help liim him could not lit in tile tho great state of illinois sate sale enough money to pay the little hired hibrea holp help needed and interest money annually on oil such a farm prior to 1873 the mail inan could easily have produced annually bushels of vil sheat icat 1200 1200 bushels of corn cori and made mada 2100 2500 pounds of 0 butter with the help of three nion inon during eight months in the year tho the men would mould hav havi cost tile wheat would have brought atoo the corn elie butter to this coil could id have broil been added on account of tho sliced and siou lor for the pigs or A total of S ISO deducting tho the o of marketing tile lle wages of the nien men the iho household expenses and thora theare would have been left the same yield won would ld now bring brine him less than 1400 and there would bo be nothing left the a difference Islar Is what hat tho the a of sill that one barnier far ariner nier tile the ng ag brogato Kro gito tor for thorn them all to much moro more lit in the alio last seventeen years than ibo elie national debt amounted to at the cloo of the great war when the iho law vi as lansed the farmer did not na ko ally 33 per tent cent profit not more than halt half of 33 per cont cent but front the tha proc proceeds eods of the tariu farni and from tho the farm fann itself 33 percent per cent in value cibas lus been becu taken away ay on oil a good sized farni anil that ill means eallis moie iloie than ilia building of a tine line lionso every year moro more than a 1000 mortgage it Is most strange that tile farmers farmer themselves do not bee tile injury anti and make such a demand tor for justice that cong congress resa will cease its aness and I 1 its ts delays and pass tile needed leglia toil llon alic in congress may lak talo o tills this thought homo home to them it if they do 10 not flat put through this le legislation and any ibry great delay they will never again havia have control of at tile tion llon of country there will not nol of 0 their part parly bo be enough loft left to mako make mourners for a decent funeral |