The Independent . ght crop also; one of myfriends used to go to a cider mill and getall he wished for nothing; this year he gota barrel of York State apples. Michigan beans used to sell here for$ per bushel: current year they ,(). Yield is light. Cattle used to seek markets; now mar-kets seek cattle. Farmers cannot grow beef(ii land at present prices; many cattle willnot feed profitably which makes moat< ost more. Cholera has caused death ofquite a number of hogs. Mainly, it is a law of nature that themasses be kept down at the producingpoint : dealers have discovered that thea
The Independent . ght crop also; one of myfriends used to go to a cider mill and getall he wished for nothing; this year he gota barrel of York State apples. Michigan beans used to sell here for$ per bushel: current year they ,(). Yield is light. Cattle used to seek markets; now mar-kets seek cattle. Farmers cannot grow beef(ii land at present prices; many cattle willnot feed profitably which makes moat< ost more. Cholera has caused death ofquite a number of hogs. Mainly, it is a law of nature that themasses be kept down at the producingpoint : dealers have discovered that theaverage family is determined to expend allthe earnings and establish prices accord-ingly. Again; all papers, including The Inde-pendent, are engaged in discrediting farmlife. Wits, jesters, asses, seem determinedto carry the day by ridicule, Sour kind just gloat over vast fortunesmade in the city : the unwary are caught inthe net and lured to destruction. High priests of all cults do not seem to. <4^ /*? THE SALARIED MAN We have planned with courage and managed with prudence, but it has overcome us know that there is any country life any-how ; the bishop, the doctor of various rots,the learned, all have a horror of the coun-tryside unless it be the park or door is ever open to the capitalist, theinstigator, the exploiter; the latter drivethe poor operative in the thills with in-cieasing energy. May their tribe diminish!Dayton, Ohio Now that really was the last thingwe expected to be scolded about. Wepublish Tlhe Countryside for the ex-press purpose of making country lifeattractive and the editors of The Inde-pendent most of whom live outside thecity are always trying to induce othersto follow their example. It means that I spend half my time, halfmy energy and all my spare money tryingto show my friends and neighbors that rentand taxes, but principally rent, constitutetwo-thirds of the price of everythingwe buy, and, that the whole increase in
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