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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 8 
equalizing payments for labor. 
Under the new tariff law it is antici¬ 
pated that a much larger proportion of 
all manufactured goods used by the peo¬ 
ple will be of foreign manufacture, made 
by labor which receives much lower 
wages than American labor has for many 
years been receiving. This must neces¬ 
sarily reduce the demand for home-made 
goods until American manufacturers can 
reduce the cost of their goods to meet 
the prices of imported goods. Admitting 
that all raw material can be obtained by 
our manufacturers at the same prices 
paid by foreign manufacturers, there is 
but one way of meeting foreign prices, 
and that is by a reduction of wages. The 
claim is sometimes made that the differ¬ 
ence in wages paid is made up by the 
superior quality of American machinery, 
and that the skill of our workmen is such 
as to produce enough more per day to 
equalize the difference in wages paid. 
Those that saw the foreign machinery of 
all binds exhibited f»t the Columbian Ex¬ 
position, will readily believe that it can¬ 
not be proved. 
Low prices for farmers’ produce re¬ 
duce their profits, leaving them but small, 
if any, surplus over cost, and their ability 
to pay is so much lessened. As the farm 
ing community use much the largest 
quantity of manufactured goods, this les¬ 
sened ability to pay decreases the demand 
for such goods. This condition will com¬ 
pel farmers to call loudly for retrench¬ 
ment of the general and their own ex¬ 
penses in many ways. But where will 
such retrenchment begin ? 
All salaried offices must have the sal- 
aiies reduced. Now a farmer has to 
give nearly twice as many bushels of 
wheat or pounds of butter, beef or pork, 
or dozens of eggs as he did in past years, 
to pay his share of taxes for the support 
of county judges, clerks, sheriffs, and 
other county officers; so their salaries 
must be reduced. He has to give nearly 
twice the labor to raise money to pay 
school teachers, ministers and doctors; 
htnce their salaries and charges must be 
reduced. He has to put forth double the 
amount of strength to produce enough to 
pay his proportion to the judges of our 
courts, clerks, members of assembly and 
State officers. So their salaries must be 
reduced. 
The labor of men should be equalized, 
so that those of equal ability and 
strength, in whatever calling, should re¬ 
ceive equal compensation for their labor. 
The idea that has long existed, that 
those engaged in what are called the 
liberal professions, should be better paid 
than other men, is a delusion and is work¬ 
ing an injustice. Why should a lawyer 
receive $5 or B25 for drawing up a paper 
taking but an hour’s time, or giving a 
bit of information to a farmer, a man of 
equal ability—but who has to work days 
to earn the sum demanded ? Should a 
farmer charge the same price for advice 
or instruction in the manner of doing a 
bit of farm work, he would be denounced 
in the roundest terms. But has not the 
farmer given as much time and thought 
to obtain the knowledge to enable him 
to give the lawyer the asked for informa¬ 
tion, as has the lawyer to obtain his ? 
And is not the time worth as much to 
the farmer as to the lawyer ? Look at 
the capital invested, and the time, care 
and knowledge required in several dif¬ 
ferent directions to produce a pound of 
superior butter ! If taken to the lawyer, 
he thinks that he pays an extravagant 
price if he is charged more than 30 cents 
per pound for it; but for drawing up a 
simple paper taking but an hour’s time 
and requiring no greater general intel¬ 
ligence than it does to produce a pound 
of butter, the lawyer thinks §5 a small 
charge. 
Where is the justice in the two trans¬ 
actions, the labor and ability required in 
each transaction being equal ? Why 
should the farmer be expected to work 
so much cheaper ? Is not his manhood 
equal to that of the lawyer, or the min¬ 
ister, or the doctor, or the statesman ? 
Then why should he not have equal pay 
for his time. The idea cur ent that farm¬ 
ers are a class of citizens having less 
ability than the so-called liberal educated 
class—that their intelligence is of a lower 
order—is a mistaken one. In the present 
day, a farmer to be successful (and there 
are many who are) must be a man who 
has as much, nay, more, knowledge in 
many ways, mechanical, scientific, agri¬ 
cultural, commercial, than is required to 
practice the professions or follow purely 
commercial enterprises. His compensa¬ 
tion for the time given to his business 
should be as great; therefore pay and 
profits in one direction should be greatly 
reduced, or prices for farmers’ products 
largely increased, so that labor offset 
against labor, should be better equalized. 
The time has come when the farmer 
should stand upon bis manhood and 
demand that there should be an equaliza¬ 
tion of pay. Teachers, ministers, lawyers, 
doctors, public officers, railroad officials, 
presidents, officers of banks, etc., should 
be paid less, or farmers more, for ser¬ 
vices rendered for the promotion of the 
business of the country. 
Homer, N. Y. cjias. o. newton. 
THE MT. GRETNA EXPOSITION. 
The season of fall rains began August 
20, with the opening of the Agricultural, 
Mechanical and Industrial Exposition of 
the Mt. Gretna Farmers’ Encampment 
Association of Lebanon County, Pa. The 
grounds of this association are pro¬ 
nounced by exhibitors to be “the model 
fair grounds of America,” being located 
in the heart of the celebrated Cornwall 
Hills, the most spacious and diversified 
wild park in eastern Pennsylvania, if not 
in the Union. Immediately adjoining 
the farmers’ encampment grounds, and 
in the same natural grove of second- 
growth oak and chestnut, are the camp 
grounds of the “ United Brethren” so¬ 
ciety, and also of the “ Pennsylvania 
Chautauqua,” each containing some 50 
acres or more of neat summer cottages, 
laid out in broad, shady avenues and 
streets, which are brilliantly lighted by 
electricity manufactured on the grounds, 
and supplied with cold spring water. The 
latter is pumped by a Rider hot-air en¬ 
gine from a mountain spring with a ca¬ 
pacity of 30 gallons per minute, to a reser¬ 
voir 150 feet above and some 1,200 feet 
distant from the camp grounds. From 
this reservoir it is piped to hydrants 
along the streets and among the cottages. 
A large number of smaller springs stoned 
and walled in true colonial style, are 
scattered around the park. 
This exposition is managed upon a 
different principle from most fairs. No 
admission fee is charged visitors to the 
grounds, but every part of the show is as 
free as the mountain air and water. As 
no premiums are offered, the manage¬ 
ment is under a comparatively light ex¬ 
pense, which is met by charging exhibit¬ 
ors a nominal sum for the space occupied 
in displaying their exhibits, the minimum 
charge being §2, which covers 20 square 
feet in the main exhibition hall, or a 
platform in the grove of 10 feet frontage 
and 32 feet in depth. These platforms 
have been erected and laid out in streets 
and alleys and are mainly occupied by 
exhibitors of agricultural implements. 
The number of implement exhibitors this 
season exceeded 100 ; this feature con¬ 
stituted the major part of the show. 
A vigorous effort will be made another 
year to get stock breeders to join in, as 
well as fruit and vegetable growers, and 
make a more creditable sLoiving in these 
departments. The number of visitors on 
Thursday, which was the big day this 
season, was estimated at 20,000, most of 
whom came from Lebanon and contigu¬ 
ous counties. Perhaps the most notable 
feature in the implement display, was six 
traction engines, which went steaming 
around through the woods, up and down 
quite steep grades, and over ground as 
rough as might be found on any arable 
Eastern farm. These are mainly used 
for propelling large thrashers and clean¬ 
ers from farm to farm, as well as to fur¬ 
nish the power for operating them when 
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