DUR WEALTH-MAKERS
AMERICAN FARMERS LEADERS
IN ENRICHMENT OF NATION.
DOLLARS BY THE BILLIONS
Annual Value of Farm Products In
the United States Greater Than
the Output of the World's
Mines.
Statistics gathered by the United
•States census bureau afford Interest
ing studies to those who care to delve
into economic subjects. According to
the government reports issued cover
ing the years up to 1905, the total
amount of capital invested in manu
facturing in the United States is $12,-
■686,265,673. During the year 1905
there was produced of manufactured
.products $14,502,147,087.
The same authority gives the in
'formation that the farm values of the
United States reached the enormous
•sum of $20,514,001,836, and to this,
•which is the land value, must be add
•ed $13,114,492,056, which represents
farm improvements. It is needless
to give the value of miscellaneous
stocks, etc., but it is sufficient to say
that during the years 1905 and 1906
that the annual production of the
farms of the United States amounted
-to $6,500,000,000. It will be seen
from this that while the value of
•farms and improvements is very near
ly three times the amount invested in
manufactures, that the production of
the farms annually is only about one
half of the value of the manufactured
products; but when it is taken into
consideration that the farm supplies
more than 50 per cent, of the articles
that enter into the manufactures, it
shows how important is the Amer
ican fa.mer.
Last year the wealth produced by
American farms was five times great
er than the value of gold and silver
■produced in the Unite ! States for the
■year. It is estimated that the gold
produced in the world since the dis
covery of America by Columbus up
to the present time is approximately
$11,368,000,000. During the same pe
riod the production of the silver of
the world was $12,420,000,000. Thus
it can be seen that about every four
.-years American farms bring wealth
into the world greater than all the
gold and silver that has been pro
duced since Columbus' time. The
wealth of the United States is now es
timated at $112,000,000,000. American
farmers are adding to this wealth at
the rate of between $<;,000,000,000 and
"7,000.000,000 yearly. The total wealth
■of Great Britain and Ireland is placed
•at $60,200,000,000. At the present
wealth producing capacity of the
American farmer, in less than ten
years the wealth he produces would
aggregate more than the total wealth
of the great kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland. The total wealth of
all of Italy is estimated at $13,000,000,-
QOO. Every two years the American
farmers produce enough to buy the
kingdom of Italy, and every year
American farms produce wealth suf
ficient to purchase all of Belgium.
Outside of the 13 original states
In adding to its possessions expended
$87,039,768. This includes the Louis
iana purchase, the Mexican purchase,
Alaska, the Philippines and ail United
States possessions, covering 2,037,613
square miles of territory. The corn
corp of the American farmers each
year is valued at 104 times the amount
that was necessary for the United
States to pay for all its great posses
sions. The cotton crop alone for 1900
was seven times enough to reimburse
the United States for its expenditures
on account of the acquirement of the
vast territories purchased. It is need
less to further make comparisons, the
American farmer is the great wealth
producer of the union. Upon his work
is based nearly all the manufacturing,
and it may be said nearly all the com
.ir.erce.
While the farmer is a great wealth
•producer and is one of the most in
dependent of American laborers, he
has perhaps just reason for complaint
as to compensation received for his
efforts. While the results of his
labor has given employment to an
army of millions of workers, the
American farmer has also been sub
ject to the operations of combina
tions that directly oppose his best in
terests. These are the great trusts
that control tho marketing of what
the farms produce. None will deny
but that distributing agencies are
necessary, but when these agencies
become oppressive and make extor
tionate charges for the» handling of
the produce of farms, they become in
stitutions that are oppressive. But
•the American fanner to a great extent
appears to be responsible for the
building up of such combinations. In
his prosperity he has ignored simple
principles recognized iii business and
which are Important to him. Presi
dent McKinley in one of his addresses
made the statement that to locate the
factory near the farm means the
greatest economy and the highest
.prices for farm produce; in other
words, the factory makes tho home
market. For years farmers in the ag
ricultural sections of the United
States have not alone contributed to
ward the support of the stock gam
blers and the managers of the trusts,
but have assisted in making possible
the building up of mammoth aggrega
tions of capital in great financial cen
ters, and this capital has been used in
the furtherance of combinations that
have made it possible to dictate to
the farmer what prices he must take
for all that he has to sell.
The farmers shptild understand that
money sent from districts to the large
cities moans the concentration of
wealth In these cities and greater
support for the trust builders. They
Bhould also understand that their
farm values to a great extent depend
upon the activity and importance of
the homo town. Should the farmer re
lieve himself of the burden that is
placed upon him by the trusts and
combinations, he can do it by assist
ing to the greatest extent the build
ing up of industries in his own town,
his county and state. The question
is worthy of the most careful consid
eration of every resident of a rural
district. The greatest utilization of
all home resources can only be
brought about by a cooperation ot
the people. Every land owner a,.d
every person employed in the tilling
of the Boil, should give greater study
to economic questions and discover,
if possible, how much better all con
ditions under which he labors can be
made by a practice of the old-time
home patronage rule.
D. M. CARR.
DEVELOPING THE COUNTRY.
Progress of Agricultural Districts and
Cities and Towns Go Hand In Hand.
The building up process of a coun
try commences with the cultivation
of the soil generally. First the pio
neers, the settlers on the land, begin
the building of homes, and closely in
the wake of the agriculturists follow
the towns.
Town building is an interesting
study. It is the highest develop
ment of communism. As far back
as we can reach in the history of the
world we find the spirit of community
of interests. When Columbus reach
ed America he found the Indians had
their villages. Even among the most
barbarous races the corumunial spirit
is found. In our state of civilization
cities and towns represent most per
fect communial development.
Where there are people engaged In
any indusstry, it is necessary that
there bo tradesmen to supply neces
sary wants. These tradesmen gen
erally seek the most convenient loca
tion in the settlement and form the
nucleus of the town and city. With
the settling up of the contiguous ter
ritory, new industries are brought into
existence and gradually there is a
growth of the hamlet to the propor
tions of a village. The village soon
becomes a small city, and its impor
tance is gauged entirely by the trade
that it can command to give employ
ment to the people residing within it.
Geographical location is always an
important factor in town and city
building. The average agricultural
town has a limited territory for its
support. From this territory must
come the trade to maintain it. The
large cities are small towns "grown
up." While the small town may re
ceive its support from the immediate
territory surrounding it, the city is
maintained by the trade given it by a
multitude of small towns, and by cer
tain conditions that perhaps may
make it a place where manufacturing
and jobbing may be carried on advan
tageously. While the geographical
position is important to the small
town, it is more important to the
large city, as there are numerous con
ditions to be met, and such things
as transportation facilities and freight
rates are highly important
It may be said that the majority of
American cities and towns are de
pendent to a great extent upon the
agricultu/ai sections of the country.
The farms supply the major portion
of the articles of commerce and man
ufacture, and as well the trade that
supports the towns and citie3.
The community should take pride
in the progress of the town which it
has been instrumental in building up.
The town is all important to the resi
dents of rural districts as it affords
educational and social advantages
that would otherwise not exist. In
many localities there is an erroneous
impression that the interests of the
residents of towns are different from
the interests of the people of the con
tiguous territory. A little thought
will show how the interests of both
classes, the residents of the country
and the citizens of the town, are
equal; how the town depends upon
the country for its support, and the
country looks to the town as a mar
ket place and as a convenience in gen
eral. Thus we have plainly illus
trated how much to the interest of
all residents of rural districts that
the home town be a progressive place
and that all its interests be protected.
Try for Factories.
Small manufacturing plants are de
sirable factors in the business of any
town. There must be employment
for the residents of a city or town,
and any means of supplying this need
is commendable. Hut there is one
thing that many citizens do not take
into consideration, and that is, it la
better for the citizens of a town to
build up industries already establish
ed than to strive to gain new indus
tries. A manufacturing plant is ben
eficial to a place in accordance with
its payroll and its output of goods
that bring a revenue to the town.
Some small concerns that will em
ploy a dozen hands will have a pay
roll of perhaps $35 or S4O a day. The
value of Its products may amount to
$15,000 or $20,000 annually, ail de
pendent upon the character of the
business. Hut what is most consid
ered is the payroll. From the aver
age small town it is estimated that
trade lost, and which goes to large cit
ies through the mails, is more than
SIOO a day. If citizens of a commu
nity would retain this SIOO a day and
do their trading in the home town, it
is evident that It would be twice as
beneficial as the small factory that
has a payroll of S4O or SSO dally.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1907
STATE_RCSTS
In the Haywood Trial
and the End Is Near.
NO MINE OWNERS
Or Pinkerton Detectives Gave Test
imony—Last Witness Told of
Maltreatment by Miners.
Boise, Idaho. The state rests
content with the evidence it has
introduced to prove that William D.
Haywood, secretary-treasurer of tho
Western Federation of Miners, con
spired to kill and therefore murdered
Frank Steunenberg. Haywood,
through his counsel, to-day will rest
his case with the jury, so far as evi
dence is concerned. Possibly some
witnesses will be called in sur-rebut
tal, but Haywood's counsel announce
that the case may close without fur
ther evidence.
The state called only two witnesses
In rebuttal yesterday. At the last mo
ment the prosecution decided not to
call mine owners or Pinkerton detec
tives. As a result of this decision a
number of witnesses will not be
heard. Bulkeley Wells, formerly ad
jutant general of Colorado, left Boise
Tuesday. He commanded the militia
during the labor troubles in 1903 and
1904, and was the man who dug up
the bomb at Judge Goddard's gate.
The last witness for the state was?
William Stuart, a Scotchman. He was
a miner in the Cripple Creek region
during labor troubles and told a ter
rible story of maltreatment at the
hands of miners who had warned him
that he would have to take the conse
quences if he went to work as a
"scab." Stuart went to work, how
ever.
IS ASKED TO ABDICATE.
Korea's Emperor Is Requested to Step
Down and Out and Give the Japs
Full Sway.
Seoul.—The Korean premier has
asked the emperor of Korea to abdi
cate because of his action in sending
a deputation to The Hague.
The request that the emperor abdi
cate apparently is the beginning of
the ond of this ancient empire and th'J
inauguration of a closer control by
Japan than that she lias exercised
since the treaty of Portsmouth recog
nized her predominant influence in
the Hermit Kingdom as one of the
fruits of her victory over Russia.
For a long period Korea was under
the suzerainty of China, but in 1894-5
Japan drove China out of the penin
sula and Korea enjoyed a brief period
of independence. In 3904 Japan
stepped into Korean affairs with as
surances of safety, independence and
territorial integrity, but since that
year the Japanese influence has
grown until to-day Korea faces, in
the abdication of the present emperor,
the final extinction of her claims to
recognition as an independent state,
for the installation of a nominal em
peror, selected by the statesmen of
Japan, seems to indicate that Korea is
to come entirely under the sway of
the Japanese.
ELKS DRAW THE COLOR LINE.
Grand Lodge Orders that No Negroes
Shall be Admitted to Wie Order.
Philadelphia, Pa. —The complete
returns to the election in the
grand lodge of Elks are announced as
follows: Grand exalted ruler, John
K. Tener, of Charleroi, Pa.; grand
treasurer, Edward Leach, New York;
grand leading knight, John D. Shea,
Hartford, Conn.; grand secretary,
Fred C. Robinson, Dubuque, la.
A resolution was adopted by the
grand lodge calling for the appoint
ment of a commission to devise
means to prosecute outside users of
Elks' emblems. The Memphis lodge
was authorizeed to prosecute the ne
gro Elks of that city. In this connec
tion a resolution was passed repri
manding the Newark, N. J., lodge for
elcting a man said to be a negro. A
further measure instructs the grand
ruler to order the Newark lodge to in
vestigate the man's antecedents and
if it be found that he is of negro ex
traction, to expunge his name from
the rolls.
Is Awarded $250,000 for Libel.
Liverpool, England.—The attempt
made in 1906 to organize a huge soap
combine in the United Kingdom,
which quickly dime to an end under
the pressur# of adverse public opin
ion, had a sensational sequel in court
Wednesday wlien William Wesketh
Lever, liberal member of parliament
for the Wyrrall division of Cheshire,
secured Judgment for damages of
$250,000 and costs against the Harms
worth newspapers, the Daily Mail and
the Evening News, for libels publish
ed by them during the controversy
that followed the attempt to bring
about the combination.
Rioters are Indicted.
Roanoke, Va.—A special grand
Jury investigating the rioting of
last Saturday night when a mob
smashed all the Greek restaurants in
town, last evening returned 20 indicr.-
ments. Thirteen of those indicted
have been arrested.
Enormous Damage by Storms.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Delayed telephonic
communication with West Vir
ginia points reports enormous dam
age by cloudbursts and storms in th'J
interior of the state. Several rail roads
sre tied up.
DEATHS IN FLOO DS.
FOUR RESIDENTS OF MACOM
BER, W. VA., ARE DROWNED.
Losses Caused by Storms and Cloud
bursts Will Reach at Least
$500,000.
Pittsljurg, Pa. —Conservative re
ports from interior points in West
Virginia indicate that the floods
caused by storms and cloudbursts dur
ing the past 48 hours are receding
and that the damage will reach at
least $500,000. Four deaths have thus
far been reported. At Macomber,
Preston county, the greatest damage
was sustained. The loss to the county
In bridges carried away will reach
SIOO,OOO.
At this place while Mrs. Bolyard
and her two children were standing
on the porch watching the waters
which had already reached the floor,
the porch was swept away. A mo
ment later Bolyard stepped to the
door only in time to see his entire
family swept away. Claudius Wolfe
lost his life while attempting to ride
across a bridge. While in the middle
of the structure the bridge was
washed away.
The damage to the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad will reach $200,000, prin
cipally In tracks washed away.
The most damage to private prop
erty was at Newburg, where several
buildings were washed away and
nearly every house was flooded. A
church at Evansville was overturned
and washed away.
HEAT PROSTRATED THOUSANDS.
Elks' Parade at Philadelphia Was Re
markable for Number of Persons
that Succumbed to Sun's Rays.
Philadelphia, Pa.—The parade on
tective Order of Elks was marked
during its progress by the prostration
from heat of an army of persons, es
timated by the police and hospital au
thorities at 2,500. Never has there
been such a wholesale prostrating of
people in the city. For .six hours the
police, ambulance surgeons and the
Red Cross nurses were kept on the
run looking after persons who col
lapsed under the scorching rays of the
sun, and largely because of their ex
cellent service but one case resulted
fatally. James Rowley, aged 44 years,
of this city, died in a hospital after be
ing stricken in the street. The other
stricken persons are said to be in
good condition, with no prospects of
fatal results.
The parade ground was on Broad
street, for a distance of three miles
north and the same distance south of
the city hall. The paraders counter
marched the last three miles back to
the city hall, so that they traversed
upwards of nine miles, yet few of
those overcome by the heat were in
the line of march.
Those who succumbed were among
the spectators jammed along the
street in a solid mass from one end of
the line to the other.
BILLIK IS CONVICTED.
A Chicago Fortune Teller Is Found
Guilty of Murdering a Family
by Poison.
Chicago.—Herman Billik Thursday
night was found guilty of killing
with poison Adolph Vzral and five of
his children. The jury fixed the pen
alty at death.
Vzral and his children all died with
in a few weeks of each other under
suspicious circumstances. Billik had
been a friend of the family for years
and, In his capacity of fortune teller,
had administered medicine to the
children.
An investigation showed that Vzral
and his children all suffered of the
same complaint before death. Billik
was arrested on suspicion of having
been responsible for the deaths. The
day after Ills arrest Mrs. Vzral com
mitted suicide by taking poison.
During the trial testimony was sub
mitted by the state charging Billik
with having disposed of Vzral and his
children in order to collect the life in
surance they carried. Mrs. Vzral was
shown to have been under the influ
ence of Blilik, whom she loved, and
evidence showed that she had guilty
knowledge of the murdering of her
husband and children by Billik.
PAID THE DEATH PENALTY.
Henry White, a Negro, Is Electricuted
in Annex of Ohio Penitentiary.
Columbus, O.—Henry White, a
negro, who kited Marshal Ba
sore at Franklin, in October, 1906,
while resisting arrest, was electricut
ed in the annex at the Ohio peniten
tiary shortly after midnight this morn
ing. It was necessary to administer
three shocks. A final appeal for stay
of sentence was made Thursday by
White's attorneys, L. K. Landon and
W. F. Ellsworth, of Lebanon, but the
governor refused to Interfere.
White formerly lived in Columbus
and In 1904 shot a girl of this city who
refused to marry him. As he was a
minor he was sent to the state re
formatory at Mansfield for this crime.
He had the reputation of being a des
perate man. After he killed Marshal
Basors at Franklin he was captured,
but escaped from jail, being retaken
by the aid of bloodhounds.
Fatal Heat in Gotham.
New York. —The crest of the hot
wave that reached town on Wed
nesday touched this summer's record
mark of S9 at noon Thursday. Then
the temperature dropped to 75, where
It stood at midnight. Three deaths
were reported as having been due to
the heat, while 50 cases of prostra
tions were treated at hospitals.
Jap Poachers are Captured.
Washington, D. C. —Tho revenue
cutter Manning h:is seized two Jap
anese fishing schooners near the seal
island of St. Paul, Alaska,
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