OUR AMERICAN KINGS
FARMERS THE BACKBONE OF
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
FEEDING THE OTHER NATIONS
Greater Need of Study of Economic
Principles by the Tillers ot the
Soil—Building Up the
Towns.
American farmers are the wealth
producers of the nation, in the United
Slates annually the products of the
farms exceed in value all the gold the
country has produced in a score of
years. Tf the term can be used in a
free republic, the farmers are the
American kings. The results of their
labors feeds not alone a single nation,
imt assists in supplying sustenance
for a large part of the people of nearly
all lands of the earth. 'Tis the prod
ucts of the farms that, give the means
of support to the great railroad sys
tems, that keep the thousands of great
steamers plying the oceans, that make
possible the thousands of great enter
prises. While the farmer is among
the most independent classes of the
land, too often he fails to reap full
reward for the work he has accom
plished. He must fight combine after
combine, and pay taxes to support in
stitutions from which he receives no
benefit. This is because of the con
centration of capital in the hands of
a comparatively few in large financial
centers. But is not the farmer to
blame for this condition to a great
extent? Does he not make it possible j
for the concentration of wealth in
large cities? He certainly does lend
his support to the builling up of
trusts, and to capital concentration,
when he fails to patronize enterprises
in his home town, and refuses to help
build up its industries.
There is a “penny wise and pound
foolish" attitude on the part of farm
ers in many communities that is de
structive to their own interests. It is
seeing a profit, quite often purely
imaginary, and in striving to gain it
lose sight of the truth that they are
wielding the sword that will eventual
ly inflict a serious wound to them
selves. This is the practice of pur
chasing goods at trade centers distant
from home. Towns and communities
are made wealthy by retaining as
great a part of the earnings of its
people as possible. The larger the
town can be made, the more valuable
becomes the farm located near it, be
cause the home market is made bet
ter and higher prices are secured for
products.
Money earned by the farmers and
the business men, if retained at home,
generally finds investment in new en
terprises that give employment, to la
bor, and add to the wealth of the
community and assists in lowering tax
ation. On the other hand, when the
eftrnings of a community are sent
away from it, the towns are deadened,
and farm values lowered, taxation is
made greater and the small imagined
gains to those sending away the
profits of their labor react against the
sender, who assists in concentrating
money in large financial centers in the
hands of those who pay no local
tgxes. Generally the monied powers
of those distant cities dictate to the
farmers what prices shall be received
for the products of their farms, and
to the laborer the compensation he
shall receive for his labor. Is not this
proposition plain?
D. M. CARR.
TRADE'S MAGNET.
Virtue in Right Kind of Advertising
In the Home Papers.
There is no apparent reason why
the merchant in the average town
should not be able to sell goods, class
and quality considered, as low as the
large city stores. He is under less
expense, and if he is enterprising and
up-to-date, he can buy his goods at
as low a figure as the retailers in the
large cities. There is laxity observed
in the management of business by
some merchants in rural towns. They
depend too much on trade drifting
their way without making the right
kind of effort to gain it. A merchant
in a western state who took it in his
head to use large advertising space
in his town paper, found that within
three months, by persistently follow
ing up a plan of using a half page in
the local paper for the publishing of
prices and describing goods, increased
his trade more than a third. From the
position of doing about the fourth
amount of business of any store in
the town, he rapidly raised to first
place. He is on the road to prosper
ity, and has been a benefit to the town
in general, drawing trade to it that
was never enjoyed before. This was
done within 30 miles of one of the
large western cities, and with the de
partment stores of the city advertis
ing in the same paper.
A Town Convenience.
Only for the farmers, the laborers
•nd others that comprise the great
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part of the population, the rr. mchants
of the towns would have little excuse
for being In business, and the mer
chant is a wonderful convenience to
people of his neighborhood. One can
not well get along without the other.
The merchant depends more upon the
success of the farmer and the laborer
than do either of the latter on the suc
cess of the former. Between them
there should be greater harmony. In
towns that are noted for activity and
j progress, particularly in agricultural
: sections, it will be found that it is
the united efforts of all classes of
I workers that win.
CITIES AND TOWNS.
How They Are Built Up and What
Gives Them Permanency.
Towns and cities are built where
exist the greatest natural advantages.
Growth and importance depends on en
vironments and conditions. Require
ments are that there be some manner
of employment for their population.
Thus the business of the place fixes its
standing. It is then evident that the
greater are the resources of a country
and the more enterprising its people,
the more important will be its cities
and towns. Some locations have fa
vorable conditions for certain lines of
manufacture, and single industries
support thousands, like the textile in
dustry at Fall River, and the manu
facture of jewelry at Providence, R. I.
Others have shipping facilities that
cause them to become great commer
cial centers. No city can exist within
itself, free and independent of tribu
tary territory, but must depend upon
a large scope of country to supply it
with the products necessary for the
sustenance of its people, and for the
marketing of its articles of commerce,
and its manufactures.
Towns and cities decay when their
business interests are destroyed. In
the west, particularly in the mining
sections, can be found hundreds of ex
amples illustrative of this fact. The
discovery of a mine is sufficient to
gather people to compose a city. With
the exhaustion of its mineral re
sources business is destroyed and the
town becomes deserted. In agricul
tural sections exist commercial towns,
made necessary by the development
of the surrounding country. Such
towns are supported by the trade that
can be attracted from a certain scope
of territory, and industries that can
be established to employ labor. With
development of tributary country, and
expansion of industries, and the exer
cise of enterprise many of these towns
attain the magnitude of cities and be
come important commercial and finan
cial centers. With their growth farms
adjacent increase in value. The truth
of this is in evidence in nearly every
state of the union. While within the
boundaries of the United States proper
there are more than 86,000,000 of peo
ple there is room for millions and mil
I lions more. There will be hundreds
i and thousands more cities pulsating
j with business come into existence.
I Reader, is not your home town one
j that may become a great city if you
| only do your part to assist it toward
! greatness?
HOME ENTERPRISES.
Trusts Cannot WelA Compete with
the Products of Local Mills.
Never in the past has there been
such opportunity for the establish
ment of small enterprises in the cities
and towns of the United States as is
now presented. There is barely a lo
cality which does not possess some
■ advantages for certain lines of manu
I facture or commerce. There is little
1 prospects for over-production as the
| population of the country is increas
| ing at an enormous rate, and new inar
i kets are being opened continually in
J foreign countries for American prod
. ucts. Imports are decreasing ex
I cepting of raw materials, and each
j year shows an increase of imports.
! Many lines are supposed to be in the
! hands of combines, but these so-called
trusts can never prevent the success
of local enterprises in similar lines
i if the masses of the people will close
j ly follow the home trade principle,
i and as far as possible give preference
to local products. The great agri
cultural sections produce the wheat,
corn, barley, and other cereals which
find their way to large mills in far
off cities, are converted into flour,
starch and innumerable kinds of foods,
and in their manufactured state are
returned to the sections where the
grains were grown and sold at prices
that leave a large margin o( profit.
How much more economical would it
be to convert cereals into flour and
other foodstuffs in mills located in
the districts where the grains are
grown. Would not the farmer receive
a benefit in increased prices, the sav
ing of freight rates, two or more
profits that result from marketing, and
would there not be a great benefit
derived from the keeping at home
wages paid to laborers and the reten
tion in general of profits that go else
where?
Strawberries Fruiting Too Early.
It is generally conceded poor policy
to allow strawberry plants set in the
spring to bear fruit the following
summer. Allowing them to fruit will
weaken the plants by pollen exhaus
tion and seed production and perhaps
result in killing them. All newly set1
strawberry plants should be relieved)
or their buds and blossoms just as .
soon as they appear. Pinch or cut
them of and it pays to do it. •
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MARTIN IN TEXAS
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Clarksville a Good Town Surrounded
by a Fine Cotton Country
To The Newark Journal:
After the association had closed at I
Wilton, I decided to visit Mr. Ed j
Edwards and his sister in Texas. They
are chi Iren of mv mother's oldest
* I
brother. ,
I drove to Ashdown October 15th, j
let my horse out with Brother W. L. j
Smith: took the early train the next |
day for Texarkana: spent a few hours
there, and there boarded the Texas
and Pacific for Clarksville, Texas.
After a run of <il miles, we arrived
about ti p. m. I made some inquiry
for Mr. Edwards, and found that he
had been to meet me the night before,
and had arranged with the buss man
to yet me, and take me to his home.
I was soon housed in his comfortable
home. He was not in when I arrived,
but soon came. This was the first
time we had ever had the delightful
pleasure of knowing each other, and
it was indeed a pleasant meeting, i
must now tell you something of his
lovely family. He has a wife, who is
a very pleasant lady and has three
line looking children. Mr. Edwards’
family is filled with so much hospitali
ty, that they made me feel at home
with them from first sight and I can
not help but regret that I never knew
them before.
Clarksville is a splendid town of
about three thousand inhabitants. It
is one of the finest cotton markets
that I have ever seen, the average sale
is from twenty-five to thirty thousand
hales per annum, though they have
fallen short for the last two or three
years. The public square is crowded
with wagons each day, and from what
I can see the people are doing a large
business.
This country is truly a cotton coun
try, and a good deal of the long staple
variety is grown here. Some very
fine hay is raised also. Alfalfa, John
son grass, and some prarie hay is
raised here.
I find that most of the people are
social, and very pleasant. Cousin
Edward does not belong to any church.
His wife is a devoted Catholic, but we
have not had a debate so far.
J. I. Martin.
We do not need money ourselves,
hut the fellows we owe want us to
pay. Pay your subscription and help
the other fellow out.
EDUCATIONAL HINTS
A Few Timely Suggestions by a Pat
ron of the Newark Public School
To The Newark Journal:
If the best work is expected, and it
is, the best equipments should be pro
vided. A school room needs many
things besides good, comfortable
desks, blackboards, heaters and other
furniture.
A globe in the room where the sec
ond and third grades are taught is
almost indispensable. It aids the
teacher in symplyting the lesson and
helps the young student to grasp and
appropriate the same. Then, it has
been wisely said by an ancient sage
that “Pages are not progess. but what
is on the page." This being true, and
it is, long lessons are not best. A half
page well learned, is letter than a
whole page half learned. Little minds
are not capacitated to assimulate only
so much: and this, well understood by
a teacher, the results will be more
satisfactory and abiding.
A teacher generally needs and de
serves more sympathy than they usual
ly get. Criticism is spontaneous, and
there is always plenty of it. The di
rectors need a good and kind word
once in a while. With united effort,
nothing is impossible in school work
and there is nothing that can l*e pro
vided for rapid progress to be neglect
ed.
Our school opens grandly, and bids
fair to la* the high water session in the
history of the school. Visit the school
once in a while. Every child and
every teacher, will greet you with a
smile of welcome, and feel glad to
have you. Reader, do you remember
when a child, how it made your little
heart leap for joy when papa or mam
ma came into the school room? Well,
it will make the hearts of your chil
dren hound, and their faces light up
with smiles that only a child can give.
Try it and see how it works.
This is not writen in any spirit of
criticism, but with a view to help and.
promote a good cause.
“Do right,” said the amiable princi
pal; and that, well observed, will
bring abundant and glorious results,
for which all labor and hope. S»
mote it be. A Patron.
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