Show desert dust by johnston it Is wonderful the amount ot sym pathy that Is being passed out for the i farmer especially by the political speakers they are interested in relieving them but just of their votes it Is different with us it there Is any one we are really in syra with it is the farmer this may be because we tried to farm a year or so in that sunflower state they call kansas we rented a ranch and draped up a lease to give one third of the delivered crop on the nearest market we went in debt for our outfit and stood the merchant oft for our provisions and talked the banker into loaning us enough money to buy our seed corn and oats everything went along very smooth until we got our crop planted and up of course we was like all people are when they start to farm we was going to show a lot of those pumpkin buskers huskers down there how to do things well when our crop came up we had what they called in that country a fair stand we was just getting to the point where we was going to do some real cultivating when along came a freeze and we had to plant it over then we got another one of those fair stands we got along very well until the crop was about half made then we got about three weeks of grasshoppers they was not the big type built like an aeroplane they was the little redheaded red headed type built like a bull pup and was made up mostly ot ambition and appetite when they quit nibbling on the crop we was short about halt of it but the banker and the merchant gave us a little encouragement they thought that if we could make a halt crop it would pay interest and possibly some on the principal then it turned out to be a good year for chinch bugs by the time tha high water got there the chinch bugs had taken about halt of the halt the grasshoppers left this high water Is called an overflow down there it happens when the stream you live on looks and acts like the pacific ocean and you have to leave the ranch in the middle of the night in a boat well the flood got the chinch bugs and it also got another halt of the crop then while we were sitting around singing the carolina blues it came four days of hot winds and we went into what they call now an agricultural crash but we was lucky at that this all happened to what went down in history as tha panic of 1906 the crop would pot have brought anything if we had raised one so we saved the expense of harvesting and marketing but this Is what happened we became so poor we could not stay there op go anywhere thanks to a few friends and relatives and the almighty for that dark and night that helped ua disappear from that country of course banners have changed since then in those days everyone figured them dumb and the farmer himself knew he was dumb now they have learned to strike fight tr ickers throw rocks at deputy sheriffs and get in jail and give bonds but just where ar they going to get with this farm strike they a chance until they are organized the workers of the country are organized into trade unions then these trade unions are united into the american federation of labor if banners producing certain crops would organize in a union then all these unite into one national association such a group would be powerful then they could fix prices in the same way as the international harveston Har vestor company henry ford or any other industrial outfit fixes prices and distributes their products it Is all very simple when you are organized but it is simply awful when you are not there are three outstanding columns you cant help but notice in most any daily paper you pick up one is today by arthur brisbane one is will rogers says the other one is U 8 speeds up belief machine the first two you should read but you had just as well pass up the third one until the heading reads U S relief machine finally attained desired speed in case you have come to the point where you think a first class fortune teller would help you try getting in touch with dunn and bradstreet correct those faults in thyself which thou seest in others and then thou be happy |