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Show FARMING OUR NATIONAL, GREATNESS With wheat and cotton advancing, Thanksgiving time will see the Americtu farmer farther along toward normal conditions than the manufacturer manu-facturer or wholesaler or retailer. The Burlington, Iowa Post says: "While wie do not accept statements as to deplorable farming conditions con-ditions unreservedly the fact that agriculture, our basic industry, should often be suspected of insolvency, is sufficient to excite wonder. "There was an "unconscious wisdom in the failure of congress to legislate for the relief of the farmer; for, if the farmer is in such a fix that legislation only can save him, then there is little use for the American Amer-ican people to make any further efforts toward National greatness. "The farmer has his period of fat and lean, but there never has been ft time when he was justified in being discouraged. He may need, new organization, a change in methods, or access to new markets, but he cannot be placed in the way of prosperity by legislation or by government loans. The farmer who starts from the- bottom can rely upon himself; his industry thrift and frugality are proof against all sinister circum-etaices; circum-etaices; the l'arjn is a steady mine of production in excess of all normal requirements; for it to be otherwise would mean that civilization itself is a failure! |