Show FARMERS protection if we visit a farming village where mostly all are farmers and producers and thoroughly investigate its 9 financial condition we find at the present time that only in part are they able to make ends meet their average expenditure for food per capita i Is not much above 7 cents per day the utmost economy is needed to make a decent living for not a few it is a hardship to pay our excessive taxes our ou r food and raiment are of the simplest kind our houses have no signs of luxury y public buildings are very modest in appearance pe arance many are in debt to stores and I 1 implement clement in sellers besides having in the shape of mort gages in short un on an average we w are poor if we visit some of trade etc we find jutte the reverse here everything has bag an air of money and plenty fine palaces grand structures and everything else in proportion why this difference Is it because the producers producer Ps production makes him poor and the consumers consumption makes him rich la Is it because the prod producer beer should be poor and the consumer should be rich out here we are of thit that humble opinion that producers have neglected to unite and protect themselves financially and commercially and we have to suffer for it until the remedy to is applied we are simple enough to think that our main financial trouble to is caused from getting too little for what we sell gel and paying too much for what we buy the way out as we were told iasi last spring is to buy as little as possible and hope for better times C A M |