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a popular press that should educate the great masses upon these 
very questions you are interested in to-day. As it is to-day, you 
can’t get your ideas through these leading presses. They are against 
you. As it is, the farmers must combine, because all the presses of 
the country are combined against them. I don’t say they receive 
any money for it; I only allude to the fact. You may go to Chi¬ 
cago, and with one exception, you can’t get an article published on 
this financial question, except on one side; the same in New York. 
J. Y. Scammon told me that in the city r of Chicago, although none 
of the papers would publish an article except on one side, that more 
than two to one in that city would vote on the other side. 
Mr. Caswell: There are peculiar circumstances surrounding 
Mr. Smith’s occupation—dealing in perishable commodities that 
cannot be stored and laid away for speculation. When you are go¬ 
ing to embark in business, you must know whom you are going to 
contend with. A man must decide for himself. I have bound my¬ 
self down to it, knowing that energy, industry, and economy will 
place me upon the farm, beyond want. If a man looks into the 
arena of politics, and wants to go to Congress, he has placed him¬ 
self outside virtuous circumstances, and within those vicious cir¬ 
cumstances where no man ever returned pure to his family. I al¬ 
ways lived on a farm, and don’t care whether greenbacks go up or 
greenbacks go down. I know, and have the assurance, if I go to 
that mother earth, it is as Red-Jacket said to Harrison, when he 
told him to sit down by his Great Father. Pointing to the sun, he 
said: u The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother; where so 
fit a place as for her son to recline on her bosom,’’ as he seated him¬ 
self upon the earth. We want to grow rich so fast. We are not 
willing to be like the little stream, but desire to be like the moun¬ 
tain-torrent. VYhen a mangoes to farming he wants his thousand- 
dollar cattle, and it is a failure; you cannot make all farmers alike; 
it is impossible. You must understand this one thing, when 3 r ou 
go into general farming you come into competition with men. 
They tell us how well our brain can grind out these great problems, 
but that is only tickling us to draw us into their hands. Let pol¬ 
itics go to the dogs; let the currency go to the dogs. As far as 
that is concerned, it will regulate itself. 
