Show LINE ilk alil bad UA MYS DAYs m hi 1 BECAUSE THESE TWO ARN EQUAL INkI IN VALUE AUE HARD TIMES AUK ARB UPON US SAYS EDUCATOR HEAD OK university SITI I 1 OV 01 ILLI NOIS GIVES SOUR SOME ST PACTS roil FOR YOUR youil CONSID stati OX BY EUGENE DAVENPORT editors note eugene davenport dean ot of the college ot of agriculture of tho the university ot of illinois believes eveary word that lie lid lias has written to lie be the exact truth he is in closer close touch with agricultural throughout the united states lie he is also a man thoroughly familiar with the laws of 0 domestic economy ills his conclusions clu may not agree with what you believe but to many they will be a revelation A great gulf has hag formed between the country and tho the town due to the fact that the price tor for tare fare products product nag aas dropped to the neighborhood ot of afy war values while the prices ot of dt kaiwi tile idrian T nominally nOlI nallY will buy have rc at ai war timo levels ur or but 11 Lly ibe farber inner lias no means ot of increasing tiiu lite 0 liia illia output ter lor it t depends blithely onti elit iely hely upon the principle principio ul supply mid and tieni alKI aud and tuo inu duil ity of 01 ms ills to pay lie ile lias aias tit upon lardric to liin ilan ule ula elie surplus sui plus and the buying power of 0 that people is growing gradually gia gla dually altisi montii uy oy month la in our own tile unemployment ol of mil lit iii anything like productive on ea WILL tue tile double of many essential industries suell such as mining i ing lias has lurd lufte the elie cost of production of 0 nonagricultural agricultural non goods en out ot of the llie farmers reach wilde buile the barmer bariner is in Lirely d pen doit dealt tor for prices upon the law of su supply p quit and the cullity ol of his bluis tu to pay organized lalor labor has utina d thal thai it would surrender none ot OE tile adval lUtges that it has gained during tuco wari war and it is leaving no stone unturned to main the same pincu pl to it hilj as is tile ino being cital tile coat ol of livius nas 1 ciul L 1118 ail agnor ca c a lite la ial licit a deiy laige element lit in tile lue coat of tian is aho dou ule ul or ludu b liles as in inia aig uig ng anti ami tile very low emcie ncy in pro U atoll tt oll as IQ in buildt building g both ol of v I 1 VALL lit out with y cusi oui lu suil such an all extent that thal the lauril ur himself buy ills his own liol lut the ilio cordial 13 have be amb such that il al luqui Aej an all acie of 0 oats oi 01 a half acre of 0 corn to pay fu r one days daya 14 itil ot of tin the mechanic this being tile case tile the larmer farmer cannot build buildings buil dins or buy machinery chinery ina or any other oilier manufactured product not forced C 1 upon him by absolute necessity auba alkue tiie almost as much as in tue tile war mon months even though a lacad animal is no longer worth skin 11 diug nig when this discrepancy be lauie acute the farmer was forced of 01 fiade what happened W s aliw a buyers it was nut liot a dueis strike it was the ledl exilus iou of that third of our people who live by the laud land and a good buying third it has always been that third is now practically out 0 the lite markels inai hels and the amount of u unemployment Q lust just about corresponds to what wohld bc keened to supply the lite laemers trade if he could to ouy viewed from another angle it re quiles in normal about one la aier to provide provid the goods which a fa farmer riller will coli consume Sume when the farmer is driven out of the markets of baisa the laborer ordinarily supplied lieg him is thrown out of 0 employment and that is what lias has now happened bied it is rather marked coincidence that tho the number of men supposed to ue doo out of employment employ meat is almost cx abaly the number of farmers on A farms 1 Is 14 4 this a there can be nothing like general purity until this gulf between iho 1113 country and tho town is either I 1 filled uj or bridged over the tanner farmer is because lie he has no means af f increasing the iho price of his own pio product duct the city must do it by fore ore going undue speculations speculations by accepting a reavoil reasonable able wage by being willing to work every day tor for a reasonable length ot of time as the farmer does and by turning out a rull full days work for a full days pay no other policy will bridge this gulf no other policy will produce manu manufactured faatu red goods at a price which anybody but a rich man can call afford to pay when labor is engaged at the pro production duelon of necessities at a cost which most men cannot meet then bom something ething is wrong with our economic production and that is the case now the farmer can get along without tile the city but the city cannot get along without the farmer aud and the country a as s a whole cannot prosper until the city and the country work together tile cy to the solution of this im situation is a better days daya work on tile the part ot of people generally engaged in the productive product iva industries and a reversal or of the policy to extort ag 1 S large a wage as possible tor for nominal time producing as little as possible during alitt time in order that tile the work may go around the country has ignored this situation long enough the time lias aas como come when the situation must bo be squarely faced and squarely met doth both prodie tion lion and transportation are now under tho the control ot of organized labor which is being hadly badly led and by mhd same class ot of people which has attempted though unsuccessfully to gain control of 0 farmers As aa the matter stands today farmers aro are going ahead producing for the worlds open turk ets and until labor and capital are willing to do the sanie this gulf between betwee ll the country and mhd town will continue and will grow deeper and wider |