IN DAKOTA. 93. 
and experience to carry it on successfully after it is 
started; and not all the men in the world are adapt- 
ed to farming, any nore than all are adapted to engi- 
neering, painting portraits or preaching. These fel- 
lows who are always advising workingmen to ‘ go out 
on a farm and become independent,’ seem to think a 
a farmer can grow clothing, groceries, wagons, har- 
rows, threshing machines, feeders, sulky plows and 
doctors’ bills along with his other ‘garden sass.’ 
They are mistaken. He can only possess himself of 
these necessaries by exchanging the things he can 
produce. Somebody must make the clothing, thresh- 
ing machines, etc., and supply the farmer, taking in 
exchange the products of the farm. If all the cloth- 
ing and threshing machine makers went to raising 
wheat the farmers would have to go without clothes 
and the wheat*would rot in the fields for want of 
means to turn it into flour. Are those people who 
advise all the workingmen to go west and get farms 
prepared to show how a poor devil that is barely able 
to buy bread and pay the landlord, can become pos- 
sessed of the $1,000 or $1,500 that is necessary to 
take him and his family out there, put up a shanty 
and support them until a crop can be raised, to say 
nothing of buying tools, wagons, horses and seed? 
Are they prepared to show all the workingmen of 
the cities the exact location of those same rich lands 
that are not already held by railroads or other land- 
grabbers, and to gain possession of which a few hun- 
dred dollars more will be required?” 
