| Show THE LORDS OF CREA CREATION TION The farmer is often by hy his fool friend told that he he is the most downtrodden of American citizens trickster the charlatan the demagogue whose time is spent wrecking old and erecting new nely parties par parties ties bewailing ills iUs that exist not and refusing to profit by good things at hand baud too often finds the thc farmer a l' l ready listener Th The truth is that in the American economic dispensation the farmer is the lord of creation H He is sovereign a all 11 others are arc his subjects The strength scope and endurance of his sovereignty 80 increase year ear by bj year Jear His ills dominion dominion domin domino ion and power and possibilities cannot be described in figures gures These simply stagger and fall down when they attempt to set forth the fundamental wealth of America which is agricultural b We Ve cannot take in that wealth at one glance It has tobe tobe to tobe be viewed again and again and studied to be realI real real- I One section of the Harpers Harper's Weekly says sacs view yiew is the information entirely accurate that the farmers of Minnesota ota and the Dakotas have hav received received received re re- for fOl their products this year ear Another is that the corn COln crop clop of the State of Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas this thiR year yeal will be he blU bushels bels Still another another an an- other that at the lowest estimate fellin fell fellin fellin in one soaking rain rail in the single Territory of Oklahoma t the he other day the day the rain ruin having checked the growing gloin menace of a fortnights fortnight's ht's dry spell Ina In a single year rear the milk cows of the United States yield a product equal in value to one half of the of the steel trust trust and and there capital are ale more cows at the beginning of the new year Jear than there were before the agriculture is the H agriculturist and the American farmer is iR gaining in intelligence in mastery master of his soil and in fitness s for political power quite as rapidly as his products are increasing increasing increasing ing in magnitude He may be hc merely waiting to be organized into a vast east find and irresistible public force Or again he may be slowly and sadly reconciling himself to the knowledge that he hc is a passive for fore force e only like his bis own fertile acres which by intelligent cultivation tion and exploitation ar arc arc made to yield rich crops for fOl those who know how to 10 get et them Time The American farmer is the lord of American condi conditions of life We e bow to him and recognize his mastery maRtery He TIe is the happiest man on earth What I with rural free postal delivery electric railway lines running to his door everywhere l' l the suburbs of our ur I great cities extending out ont their arms to touch the verdure the vegetation the fragrance and beauty beauty of his hiR vast domain the farmer is no longer isolated but right in th the raids midst of or q ery grace and benefit every convenience and vantage antage of the highest forms of civilized life Every improvement of our adl ad- ad I 1 l civilization serves es only to solidify and enhance en cn hance bance Ins s sovereignty |
