The Way Business Looks 
N EWSPAPER MISINFORMATION.—I read the 
following in the New York Daily News Record. 
It was sent from Chicago, the grain belt market, by a 
regular business reporter: 
The United States is now entering a new era—the 
era of $1.25 wheat, 70-eeut corn. 9-ceut hogs and lu¬ 
cent cotton. A monument will mark the Southern 
dream of 40-cent cotton. Farmers will not murmur $3 
wheat in their sleep, but will say “Thank you” at the 
elevator for a little old $1. The farmer has collapsed. 
The peasant is punctured. 
After the reader has digested this pabulum from a 
bare brain that never dreamed production and prob¬ 
ably would not know how to grow a radish, let him 
listen to a common old farmer who. as farm boy, 
band, renter and owner, has grown food for the 
human family that, unfortunately, has too many 
members like that glib writer. Listen to an old 
“moss-grown son of the soil" on what the city broth¬ 
ers have done to their relatives in the country, and 
the back action. This country has become finan¬ 
cially diseased, and if the real trouble is not diag¬ 
nosed and a remedy applied shortly it will become 
ga ngrened. 
THE PRIMARY NEED.—Man must live from the 
gtowths of the field, and everything else he handles 
or is associated with is secondary compared with 
food. When people lived in caves, tents and huts 
and rustled to get things to eat. they were vigorous 
he should do this' regardless of any kind of condi¬ 
tions, and while he plodded they organized to compel 
him. Like a good fellow, he did it for awhile. While 
they dawdled a few hours during the day and en¬ 
joyed the bright lights by night, the farmer mem¬ 
ber of the family stayed in the furrow. While the 
aim of the city brother was to get a lot of money for 
very little work, the farmer and his family were 
toiling to grow food for the Allies so they would 
keep the Huns off themselves and the city members. 
Money was of secondary importance with the farm¬ 
ers, and "save the world” the first. After the armis¬ 
tice. listening to the slogan promulgated by the urban 
brothers, “The world needs food.” and with a pros¬ 
pect of remuneration, and needing to make some¬ 
thing because prices had been set on their produc¬ 
tions during the war. they invested past savings, or 
borrowed from bankers who cheerfully lent on the 
prospects: paid awful wages, bought machinery, fer¬ 
tilizers and seeds at cut-throat prices, and now if 
what they grew will sell at all, it is at about half the 
cost of production. 
THE PROFITEERS.—During the war. and since, 
the city members have been gouging each other and 
everyone scandalously, and have totally disregarded 
the Golden Rule. The way a well-known banker 
[tuts it, “I have never known commercial morality so 
low.” Also a clothing manufacturer: “The retailers 
at the Farms 
will be put in circulation by corn, wheat, cotton and 
wool growers, partly because they are short, and also 
because they reconsidered their plans. While they 
economize they will still eat at the first table, and 
study the causes that brought about these conditions. 
A CHANGE OF VIEW.—Last Winter they planned 
to produce food for a famishing world, but tonight, 
when three-quarters of that exploited enormous yield 
of corn is in the fields buried in snow, wheu wheat 
is waiting for that “dollar.” when wool is worthless, 
they are planning something else. In the daytime 
they are coming together to change their own manner 
of working and marketing so nothing like the present 
condition will ever hit them again, and it is safe to 
prophesy that the Chicago expert will never rejoice 
at the “collapse of the farmers.” Do the city broth¬ 
ers think that country brothers have lost all inherit¬ 
ed intelligence? Take the wool “scald,” for example, 
which would get a man out of bed unless he was 
dead. Here it is. [tiled away in little Ohio alone, 
after costing the nice sum of $14,000,000 to grow it. 
The interest alone on that for the six months it has 
been ready to sell is $420,000, gone forever. A New¬ 
ark (Ohio) man marked a dollar, and theu kept 
track of it for a day. It paid, or partly paid. 23 
debts, but this $14,000,000 and the interest lost, 
$420,000, has paid nothing for 180 days. 
CONCERNING WOOL.—What city brother ever 
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if they got enough, but if they failed they pined or 
perished. When man was created he was given 
orders to get busy and grow food, and the principal 
economic thought since that day should be either to 
make a hand at that work or to help the brother who 
did it by ample remuneration. No member of the 
human family should ever forget that food growing 
is the most necessary and noblest work any brother 
can be engaged in. 
THE SHIRKERS.—The tendency among relations 
has been that the one who got a little more education 
than the average, or who imagined himself of finer 
caliber, or who was a shirker, deserted the growers’ 
ranks and shunned what he considered an ignoble 
calling, and present conditions give evidence that the 
number was legion. Every member, no matter what 
his occupation, should realize that he is there to do 
bis duty and do it with the welfare of the whole 
family at heart, to magnify his calling and make life 
better for all. but facts show that city brothers en¬ 
tirely lost sight of duty to members who kept their 
first estate, and expected them to produce food abun¬ 
dantly. under any conditions, and hand it over to 
them at any price they chose to pay. They became 
so abnormal they expected the farmer to work him¬ 
self and liis family, day and night, for the exclusive 
subsistence of city members. 
CITY AND COUNTRY.—Further, they supposed 
have made more in the past two years than many of 
them expected to ever make in a lifetime.” There 
are natural laws that regulate and adjust meu’s 
crimes, and the penalty of a partially wrecked finan¬ 
cial condition now proves it. These fellows began 
throwing bricks at each other, and a swarm of fair- 
price agents were appointed who threw a few at 
some little fellows to make folks think they were 
busy, but all the bats thrown at the gougers hit the 
landowners, and the innocent must suffer with the 
guilty—awhile. These city fellows were putting all 
the blame on the farmer while faithfully working to 
get something for them to keep life in them, and it 
was a case of “Hit him again: he has no friends.” 
LOWERING PRICES.—Then the government, to 
show abundant prosperity, chronicled exaggerated 
yields, and the grain men. to buy them low. promul¬ 
gated them vociferously, and the price of every tiling 
grown or fed by the farmers fell to half its cost. 
Then the city brother did jollify. You hear him at 
the first of this article celebrating yet while waiting 
to see the wheat grower say "Thank you" for “that 
little old dollar.” He has had liis laugh first. There 
is an inexorable law that says. “If any member suf¬ 
fer, all the members suffer with him." and l am here 
to state that the farm member's suffering will be 
over first. The pain awakened him. and the first 
thing he did was to suspend buyiug. Billions less 
thought of the sheepmen except to execrate them for 
the faults of their clothing? When the woolen mill 
man was making one pound of virgin “wool carry sev¬ 
eral of rags, did he think it would shut down liis 
mill? When the textile worker was stuffing all the 
shoddy a few threads of fleece wool would carry, be¬ 
cause he got all the labor unions demanded in wages, 
did he think he would be fired? When the salesmen 
were soaking everyone they could while good wool 
was piling up, did they think they would be watching 
the door for a customer, and praying for cold weath¬ 
er to compel some to come? I tell you. the Bible is 
true. “All the members suffer.” All these parties 
I refer to wrote after the teacher’s copy. "Honesty 
is the best policy.” and the brother who is dishonest 
makes trouble for himself and the whole family. 
PROSPERITY AND THE FARMER.—This coun¬ 
try should have unexampled prosperity right now. 
It had the best chance any country in the world ever 
had, but the profiteers’ actions compelled the farmers 
to stop buying, and that will wreck the best financial 
system ever known. No country can prosper unless 
the farmers are hopeful and prospering. Every read¬ 
er knows I have given the cause and effect, and I 
will further state that we do not intend to let these 
city brothers get themselves into such a fix again. 
We could save ourselves by more of us sticking up 
sale bills, "having decided to quit farming,” but we 
