230 THE BUSINESS OF FABMING 



ness of the city required as large, if not a larger 

 amount of money in proportion to business done, 

 to successfully carry it on. However, it is said 

 the city business man has been able to borrow his 

 money at a lower rate of interest than the farmer. 



If this be true an injustice is being done to the 

 farmer, for if the business of farming is the very 

 foundation of every other business, and the very 

 existence of man depends upon it, it ought to be 

 able to even secure the capital necessary to carry 

 it on at the lowest possible rate of interest. We 

 must safeguard it in this respect or our nation 

 goes into decay and death. 



We are removing the hindrances to the business 

 of farming by better education, better farm litera- 

 ture, better marketing facilities and in numerous 

 other ways, but we must not neglect the main 

 thing, the ' ' sinews of war ' ' of the business of farm- 

 ing, capital. For without capital at living rates 

 of interest, the farmer is helpless. 



The political demagogue in this country has done 

 much to lessen the supply of money for the busi- 

 ness of farming. It seems that most of us have 

 been so busy with our personal affairs that we for- 

 got to attend the primaries or conventions and so 

 we have sent men to our legislative bodies, many 

 of whom were as ignorant of business as little chil- 

 dren, or else were unscrupulous, and so laws have 

 been enacted under the guise of correcting imagi- 

 nary evils, which have actually driven legitimate 

 capital from some of our states to the detriment of 

 the business of farming. 



But the tide is turning and the nation is realiz- 

 ing that capital is a legitimate enterprise with its 



