| Show KEEP OUT OP DEBT we Q cannot commend the advice of apostil merrill ni nicais cars in the Confer conference enco proceedings 0 to strongly such sermons are arc too loo rare veil even ninon among is as practical a people us its the iho latter day faints it is ia the bane of the american people that hint they will go in debt and mortan mortgage age their farms for luxuries uri they can ilo without in states like kansas and nebraska ra ka where there are years of droun drought and plagues 0 of locust there is often ark an enforced necessity to go into debt to buy the necessaries of life but in an irrigation country where the seasons never fail anil and the god rl of plenty always smiles mile on bounteous barviks barve harvests ks there is no excuse nor mitigation for it we ve understand fully well liow how plausibly pla usably the alic agents of kansas and nebraska loan comp companies anies after bein being n starved out of these states by the inability of tile tho farmers V to pay the interest let alone the principal talk to the farmers of the many nice things they can buy if they will but put their dignat signatures tires to a piece of paper but every firmer farmer who loves to live in independence will shrink from signing away liia ilia rio rights lits to his hie home as much as lie he would from setting his bis own house on ire fire there is also a great deal of needless extra vagen cc among farmers of this val valley ley which is no less lesa than reckless waste they buy expensive harvesting harvested machine machinery and let it out in the winter to rust and rot frequently you see mowers anil and reapers readers that cost several hundred dollars used for no letter better purpose than lien tell roosts durin during the idle months of the year farmers are arc also given to buying for eighty acres of land enough machinery to harvest four hundred acres this machinery can call only be used for a few lays days in the summer and the rest of the year it is left to rust and decay whilo while the prom essory notes which the farmer lias bas given for it keeps eating sway away his substance it is not two weeks since we were informed by one of the agents of these great implement companie who persuade farmers into buying costly machinery that they can all pt get along wit without holit that if the farmers of cache valley were to pay all their outstanding promises it would take every dollar of if personal property they have lave to their name the best plan to get on in the world is to keep keel out of debt |
