A little bit of mind candy for you when you come in from seeding at noon and catch the weather report, and click on AV.
This article was written in the farm newspaper called
Farmer’s Advocate and Home Journal.(1915)
Published out of Winnipeg, Manitoba
I have this 1915 newspaper (actually quite a few old farm papers)
REGISTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1875
VOL. L
WINNIPEG, CANADA, JULY 7, 1915
This article was written by
By PETER McARTHUR
QUOTE
“Impressions of the West”
“The editor has asked me to write an article on the West, with particular reference to "Politics and the
Farmer," and as far as the first part of the request is concerned, I hasten to comply.
I do this the more gladly because I have never been West, and consequently will not be handicapped by facts.
Facts are the bane of entertaining writing.
To begin with, I want to put myself on record as liking the West. I like its enthusiasm and enterprise and also its cerea1 and political exports.
Western hard wheat and Western hard politicians already have a world-wide reputation.
I am so interested in them that every morning I look up the latest market prices of both.
Quotations from Manitoba show that tbere has been considerable active trading in politicians some time past, but at present the market is weak.
As I know 1ess about Western politics than about anything else, I am wondering if I could throw any light on the relations of Western politics and Western farmers by mentioning a few things that I have observed about Eastern farmers and politics.
My studies of the farmers have convinced me that they are the most trusting and confiding class of people on earth.
They trust their political leaders, real estate boomers, implement agents, mining stock promoters and the capitalistic press.
But they nevet trust one another. No indeed. They have to draw the line somewhere.
Here in the East we usually inherit our political opinions with our farms and stick to both with equal tenacity. Yet that is hardly fair. I have known men to part with their farms, but I have never known one to part with his political opinion.
Because of the singular tenacity, political changes are due to the birth rate rather than to new and attractive policies. Statisticians assure me that owing to some obscure law the birth rate is always higher in Opposition families and as a result we have a change of government about once every generation. Since making this discovery thoughtful men no longer talk or argue politics.
They get themselves in line for political preferment and let Nature take her course.
I wish I were near enough to the editor to ask if conditions in the West are different.
I doubt if they are, for I have noticed that the political problems dealt with in Putarch's Lives
were the same as those of to-day, and from what I have read of prophecy it is indicated that they will be the same until the end. To parody a recent poem,
"The farmer sits as he sat through history,
Through pride of heroes and pomp of kings,
At the rich man's gate, the eternal mystery,
Receiving his evil things.
UNQUOTE
Parsley
This article was written in the farm newspaper called
Farmer’s Advocate and Home Journal.(1915)
Published out of Winnipeg, Manitoba
I have this 1915 newspaper (actually quite a few old farm papers)
REGISTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1875
VOL. L
WINNIPEG, CANADA, JULY 7, 1915
This article was written by
By PETER McARTHUR
QUOTE
“Impressions of the West”
“The editor has asked me to write an article on the West, with particular reference to "Politics and the
Farmer," and as far as the first part of the request is concerned, I hasten to comply.
I do this the more gladly because I have never been West, and consequently will not be handicapped by facts.
Facts are the bane of entertaining writing.
To begin with, I want to put myself on record as liking the West. I like its enthusiasm and enterprise and also its cerea1 and political exports.
Western hard wheat and Western hard politicians already have a world-wide reputation.
I am so interested in them that every morning I look up the latest market prices of both.
Quotations from Manitoba show that tbere has been considerable active trading in politicians some time past, but at present the market is weak.
As I know 1ess about Western politics than about anything else, I am wondering if I could throw any light on the relations of Western politics and Western farmers by mentioning a few things that I have observed about Eastern farmers and politics.
My studies of the farmers have convinced me that they are the most trusting and confiding class of people on earth.
They trust their political leaders, real estate boomers, implement agents, mining stock promoters and the capitalistic press.
But they nevet trust one another. No indeed. They have to draw the line somewhere.
Here in the East we usually inherit our political opinions with our farms and stick to both with equal tenacity. Yet that is hardly fair. I have known men to part with their farms, but I have never known one to part with his political opinion.
Because of the singular tenacity, political changes are due to the birth rate rather than to new and attractive policies. Statisticians assure me that owing to some obscure law the birth rate is always higher in Opposition families and as a result we have a change of government about once every generation. Since making this discovery thoughtful men no longer talk or argue politics.
They get themselves in line for political preferment and let Nature take her course.
I wish I were near enough to the editor to ask if conditions in the West are different.
I doubt if they are, for I have noticed that the political problems dealt with in Putarch's Lives
were the same as those of to-day, and from what I have read of prophecy it is indicated that they will be the same until the end. To parody a recent poem,
"The farmer sits as he sat through history,
Through pride of heroes and pomp of kings,
At the rich man's gate, the eternal mystery,
Receiving his evil things.
UNQUOTE
Parsley
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