Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1909 — The Farmer’s Individualism. [ARTICLE]

The Farmer’s Individualism.

Farming is virtually the only great series of occupations that is unorganized, unsyndicated, unmonopolized, uncontrolled, except as it is dominated by natural laws of commerce and the arbitrary limitations imposed by organization in other business, says an article in the Century Magazine. In a time of extreme organization and subordination of the Individual, the fanner still retains his traditional Individualism and economic separateness. His entire scheme of life rests on Intrinsic earning by means of his own efforts. The Bcheme in most other businesses is to make profits, these profits are often non-intrln-slc and fictitious, as, for example, in the habit of gambling In stocks, in which the speculator, by mere shrewdness, turns over his money to advantage, but earns nothing in the process and contributes nothing to civilization in the effort. If the farmer steps outaide his own realm, he is met on one •Ida by organized capital and on the other by organized labor. He is confronted by fixed earnings, What ha himself ceoures is a remainder last at tha and of a year’s business. *