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Show Some Good Sense. "Let congicss encourage deep culture of thu soil to conserve moisture hy pay-Itlg pay-Itlg a hotjnty of $2.fiO per acie," w.is the suggestion of a correspondent in our last ' issue. This everlasting idea of asking congress to do w hat people ought to do for tliemeelyes makes us tired. This "rullyimj for an appropriation" I as already been earned so far that tho poor taxpayer is overburdened. It is this spirit that has helped to create the era of public extravagamioihat is now being continued in rpite1 'of closer tinfes. Whatever niily be out of joint in the body poUtic. itr will never bo wholTy mended until public retrenchment ia secured. There is not a farm or a busi-nurfS busi-nurfS in tho country -to-day that could make money if run on the basis of tho expenditures of five or ten yeara ago. Tho publid business must employ liko economy. And oor people must get ov6r this idea, that the state legislature .or the federal congress should "tnko care" of them. On the contrary, let 'a take care of ourselves,, with as little law making as possible and aa few officials. As one of the sturdy co-operators yf England said to tho writer: "We only ask parliment to let ua alone. Outworking Out-working men's savings are piling up so rapidly that within fifty years co-operators co-operators (that is, tho peoplo) will have acquired a controlling interest in railroads rail-roads and other public industries." Orange Judd Farmer. , . , |