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THE RURAL NEVv^-YORKER 
January 6 
SECRETARY MORTON AND THE 
FARMERS. 
Not a Very Popular Man. 
As our readers know, The R. N.-Y, 
printed the substance of Secretary Mor¬ 
ton’s famous address at the World’s Fair 
agricultural meeting, and requested its 
readers to comment on it. We have re¬ 
ceived a flood of letters—a few of which 
are printed here. While we cannot print 
all that have been received, we thank all 
friends who have expressed their views. 
Believes in Combination. 
I emphatically dissent from some of 
Secretary Morton’s views in his Chicago 
address. That the farmer will not suc¬ 
ceed better by forming Granges, etc., 
than he will by individual effort I most 
heartily disbelieve. Being thrown in 
contact with each other, with mind rub¬ 
bing against mind, is our need. “Iron 
sharpeneth iron,” etc. I mention one 
point and write on a card so as to com¬ 
pel brevity. I am greatly disappointed 
in Secretary Morton since he announced 
opposition to the anti-option bill. 
Waverly, Tenn. J. w. s. 
Aspinwall Potato Planter. 
The Aspinwall Potato Planter at work in the field, doing the entire Work of Marking, Furrowing, Dropping 
and Covering, all in One Operation. 
A Case in Point. 
Plants six to eight acres per day. Distributes Fertilizer. Plants Corn, Beans, Easilage, etc. Absolutely guaranteed. 
Secretary Morton, in his much-talked 
of address says: “It (Adam Smith’s 
Book) will teach him that the relation of 
supply to demand is the sole regulator of 
value, and that this inexorable law is 
everywhere in its operations, touchin f 
all things produced and sold, all things 
manufactured and consumed.” It sounds 
well, doesn't it ? But let us test this 
poetically rendered statement by the 
logic of facts. Some time last summer, 
the pork ring of Chicago, of which one 
Cudahy was the reputed head, bursted 
and Cudahy became a bankrupt. For 
about a year, the exact time is not im¬ 
portant, this pork ring had kept the 
price of pork ranging from §18 to $33, 
the normal or ordinary price being about 
half that amount. There was no ques¬ 
tion of shortage, the farmer who grew 
the hogs got no more for them than be¬ 
fore, but every consumer of pork in the 
country was compelled to pay double the 
usual price for a year. What becomes 
of Mr. Morton’s law of supply and de¬ 
mand in such a case ? What relief do 
Mr. Adam Smith and his collection of 
axiomatic sayings offer to the victims of 
this robbery ? None at all. We must 
learn how to grow pork at a reduced 
cost in order that the piratical Cudahys 
can get more commissions, put up bigger 
jobs and grind us a little closer between 
the millstones of their greed. 
A GRANGER. 
A Pacific Coast Farmer Talks. 
The address of the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture, considered in its true light, is a 
defense of the railroad corporations, and 
other trusts, and a very poor argument 
for free trade. The farmers of this 
country do not need to study any old 
worm-eaten work on political economy, 
but should rather make a study of pres¬ 
ent conditions, and endeavor to remedy 
the evils which they are undoubtedly en¬ 
during, or in a few years, at the present 
rate of mortgage foreclosures, there will 
be very few of the sturdy independent 
farmers of .whom Mr. Morton speaks. 
They will have to compete as tenants, 
with a continous stream of tenants from 
the old world who never knew any other 
condition. 
As to the “certain members of the 
human family not discernible with the 
naked eye,” called plutocrats, where 66 
persons own property valued at nearly 
two billion dollars, they begin to be very 
visible and also to make this influence 
felt. Do they invariably use their great 
power for good? The Secretary, no 
doubt, would argue that they do; but the 
average American farmer knows that 
they do not. No doubt it is wrong for 
the farmer to combat, by organization, 
their great power. According to our 
doughty Secretary, his way is every man 
for himself, and the devil for us all. 
“THE POTATO GROWERS’ FRIEND.” 
Send for our Illustrated Catalogue of Potato Machinery. 
ASPINWALL MANUFACTURING CO., JACKSON, MICH., U. S. A. 
This rule does not apply to merchants, 
manufacturers, and the great trusts. Mr. 
Morton, no doubt, considers it all right 
for them to combine to get all they can 
from the farming class and others. 
The statement that the farmers could 
sell three times as much produce if we 
had free trade, is the merest buncombe. 
Would Europe buy any more wheat of 
this country than she can use, even if 
we gave them a bounty for sending their 
goods to us? Suppose a grain dealing 
firm in Liverpool wants a cargo of wheat, 
do they get down the statistics and see 
which country buys the most of England? 
No, they find where they can buy it 
cheapest, and there they will buy. The 
balance of trade would cut no figure 
with them. Nations do not deal with 
nations in a commercial way. Individu¬ 
als of one country trade with individuals 
of another and look after their own in¬ 
terests, regardless of the amount of 
produce some other country buys of 
their country. 
As to our “ woefully restricted home 
market ” it is the best market the Ameri¬ 
can farmer has to day. It takes about 
90 per cent of our grain, and practically 
all of our fruit and vegetables Shut up 
our factories, and where will be our 
home market ? Reduce wages still lower 
if it be possible to gat them lower, and 
where will be the purchasing power of 
the American work min ? He will have 
to get down to the European standaid of 
livin g or go and comp ate with the farmer, 
by becoming a tenant farmer. 
Washington State. B. E. m. 
Has Read “ "Wealtb of Nations.” 
In .1. Sterling Morton’s address at Chi¬ 
cago, he advises farmers to read “Wealth 
of Nations.” I have been reading and 
thinking over this book for some time. I 
find things in it that are evidently untrue. 
I refer you, for example, to Book I., chap¬ 
ter V, page 40 ; “ Labor alone, therefore, 
never varying in its own value, is alone the 
ultimate and real standard by which the 
value of all commodities can at all times 
and places be estimated and compared. 
It is their real price; money is their nomi¬ 
nal price only.” “But though equal quan¬ 
tities of labor are always of equal value 
to the laborer, yet to the person who em¬ 
ploys him they appear sometimes to be of 
greater and sometimes of smaller value. 
He purchases them sometimes with a 
greater and sometimes with a smaller 
quantity of goods, and to him the price 
of labor seems to vary like all other 
things. It appears to him dear in one 
case and cheap in the other. In reality. 
however, it is the goods which are cheap 
in the one case anc dear in the other.” 
It appears to me that labor does not 
give value to anything. A farmer gives 
BO much for an ax, plow, or other tool, 
not on account of requiring little or 
much to make them, out because they 
will answer the desired purpose. I can¬ 
not concei/e of anything for which I 
would give more on account of its cost¬ 
ing much labor. Some three months ago 
labor in this community commanded $1 
a day, now it can be nad for 50 cents. 
My opinion is that labor has fallen in 
value, but according to Adam Smith, 
labor is at a standstill and everything 
else nas increased in value two-fold. 
Mr Morton wishes to be told the fol¬ 
lowing : 1. Why farmers should not be 
growing and selling more grain at a 
profit ? Because there is no demand. 2. 
Is it not because their natural world 
market is shut off to them by law ? I 
know of no law prohibiting exporting. 
3. Has not legislation brought down the 
price of wheat to 65 cents ? Do our 
tariff laws govern the price of wheat 
throughout the world ? If, as Mr. Mor¬ 
ton claims, repealing the tariff laws 
would cause us to raise three times as 
much grain, would not the demand ex¬ 
ceed the supply, and consequently lower 
the price? Mr. Morton wants to know 
if it is asking too much to trade where 
he pleases. With equal propriety 1 
might say, would it be asking too much 
that I should go where I please, say 
what 1 please and do what I please ? 
Brownsville, Pa. S- C. 
A CINCINNATI MIRACLE. 
WHY MR. CHARLES B. NOBLE IS BEING 
CONGRATULATED. 
A Remarkable Case of Being Completely 
Carei of Paralysis After Nearly Three 
Years of Suffering, and Emiment Phy¬ 
sicians had Declared Their Best Efforts 
Baffled. 
Newspaper men, as a rule, place little 
'credence in patent medicine stories and 
seldom bother to even read them. This 
is not to be wondered at when it is taken 
into consideration how often they are 
called upon by unscrupulous persons to 
fabricate and publish stories of remark¬ 
able cures, and perhaps print a picture 
of the mythical man or woman supposed 
to have been cured. That all medicine 
advertisements are not mere “fakes,” 
and that all newspaper men are not 
equally prejudiced, is proven by a story 
publisned in the Cincinnati Times-Star 
of a well-known newspaper man wnose 
life was saved by reading an aavertise- 
ment. So remarkable and interesting is 
the story that it is here reproduced as 
published in the Times-Star: 
Mr. Charles B. Noble, the well-known 
literateur, who has been suffering for 
nearly three years w’ith paralysis, was 
upon the street to day, cheerful and ac¬ 
tive and the recipient of congratulations 
from his many friends. There is a bond 
of unity between all newspaper men, so 
that Mr. Noble’s case appeals to every 
member of the craft, as well as to every 
one afflicted as he was. Mr. Noble has 
spent the last three years in traveling 
from city to city seeking skilled physi¬ 
cians, to whom he has appealed in vain 
for relief. Knowing this, a reporter ex¬ 
pressed surprise at the remarkable cure, 
but Mr. Noble, after executing a jig to 
show that he was as sound as he looked, 
let the reporter into the secret of his 
cure. 
“ It was a hard time I had of it,” said 
he, “ but the last medicine we take is 
always the one that cures, and I have 
t'lken the last. I w'as paralyzed on 
March 9, 1890, while in the employ of 
the David Williams Publishing Company, 
of New York City, as their traveling re¬ 
presentative from Cincinnati. I found 
the traveling a great help to me, both 
in a financial and a literary way, but 
suddenly stricken down as I was at 
Somerset, Ohio. 150 miles from Cincin¬ 
nati, I was incapacitated for both writ¬ 
ing and money making. Luckily my 
literary productions had been remuner¬ 
ative, and I bad a snug bank account 
laid up, but these three years have 
made a drain on it. 
“ I sought a score of physicians, going 
to the best specialists in Cincinnati, 
Chattinooga and Pittsburg. Twelve 
Cincinnati d'ctors pronounced my case 
incurable, but I would not give up. and 
after seeking in vain for relief in Pitts¬ 
burg and Chattanooga, consulted the 
f^est medical talent in Chicago. Up to 
January 17, 1893, 1 had spent $3,500 for 
doctors and medicine, and was about to 
give up in despair when I got hold of Dr. 
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, 
through reading the advertisements. 
“From the first week of using the 
remedy I made a steady improvement, 
and on April 12 I put up my cane, after 
using it 30 months. I certainly believe 
this medicine is ail the proprietors claim 
for it, and that it will do all they say it 
will. I take pleasure in recommending 
it to all similarly afidlcted. Like many 
who have tried medicine in vain, I was 
doubtful of its value at first, and only 
used it when I grew desperate. Now I 
can not praise it too highly. It has re¬ 
stored me to health and st'-ength, and I 
feel grateful accordingly. Dr. Whit¬ 
taker pronounced it a hopeless case of 
locomotor ataxia.” 
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are a never- 
failing specific for such diseases as loco¬ 
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ 
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, 
nervous headache, tie after effect of La 
Grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale 
and sallow complexions, and all dis¬ 
eases of the blood, such as scrofula, 
chronic erysipelas, etc. 
They are also a specific for troubles 
peculiar to females, such as suppressions, 
irregularities, and all forms of weakness. 
Taey build up toe blood and restore the 
glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. 
Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in 
loose form, by the dozen or hundred, and 
the public is cautioned against numerous 
imitations sold in this shape), at 50 cents 
a box, or six boxes for $3.50, and may be 
had of all druggists or direct by mail from 
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, 
N. Y., or Brockville, Out.— Adv. 
