Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1910 — FARMER OWNS NATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FARMER OWNS NATION.

By Isaac F. Marcosson.

The farmer, not the money king of Wall street, is the real owner of the United States. The glean of his fields is another Aladdin story, only instead of rubbing a lamp lie has simply scraped the ground. Our cereal crops last year were worth $3,000,090,000, which is sufficient to pay for all the tools,"implements and machinery of the whole of American industry. While this sum

seems nuge as it stands alone, you have only to go back a few years in the story of our agriculture to see the miracle of steady increase that has been achieved. Eleven years ago the value of all our farm products for a stngle year was reckoned at $4,417,000,000. You have already seen how that figure was doubled by 1909. During these years the sum total that the soil has yielded the farmers is $70,000,000,000. The advance is so steady and sure that you can almost calculate upon it year by year. Compare this record with the ebb and flow of warnings in steel or any other industry, and you will realize as never before how agriculture keeps the even tenor of

its prosperous way, unmindful of panic or depression. Why? Simply because land is stable, dnd, given proper methods of farming, the more you take out of it the more valuable it. becomes. It cannot be moved away; it is, in truth, the very foundation of the nation’s material welfare. It would take $24,000,000,000 to buy our farm lands, and their value is real and not watered, save by irrigation.—Munsey’s.