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Show Farmers' Lot In New England. Anybody who thinks tho farmers of Now England aro living in solitude, out of touch with tho groat world and Indifferent to the advantages of organization, or-ganization, is destined to a rudo awakening If ho subjects his Impression Impres-sion to tho test of fair-minded Inquiry Much "pity" Ib patronizingly bestowed on the farmers, who resent it and reject re-ject it Their winters aro said to be depressing, whereas that season Is In reality tho period of their social gay-etles, gay-etles, grange suppers, neighborhood sleigh rides, festivities within tho reach of moderate purses and moderate moder-ate desires. Taken as a whole, tho farmer's lot Is not an unhappy one, any more than that of tho hired man. Tho hired men. havo not been "unionized" "union-ized" yet, and that accounts for a great gap in tho ranks of organlaed labor. Boston Transcript. |
