Show The Best Hope Hop of the Future From his farms in 1914 Uncle Sam produced a yield worth TEN BILLION DOLLARS Could cotton have been marketed as usual the would have been close clos to half a billion more TEN BILLION DOLLARS representing honest work TEN BILLION DOLLARS untainted money And going mostly into the pockets of the workers themselves with little reaching the purses of of- labor Jabor exploiters exploiters' The beautiful thing about this great item of our national wealth next to its cleanliness is the fact that it can be increased indefinitely without Mother l Earth suffering in the process In f fifteen teen years it has been doubled and still on our new soil we farm only a third as effectively as do many foreign peoples on I soil centuries longer in use I The forest cut is gon gone The mineral once mined i is not renewable But on his broad acres the tiller of the soil can take and take again and though he has to fertilize the more he does it the more mere he earns L So come war come pestilence come anything but continent wide Vide drought here is a broad base for our future welfare upon which w we can build and securely The man with the hoe is indeed the best hope of the future |