J!E WOMAN IN THE FIELD AGRICULTURAL LEG
ISLATION NEEDED
The Farm Woman Needs Relief
More Than Her City Sister.
By Peter Radford.
Lecturer National Fanners* Uaiea.
Muoh haa been aald and more writ
ten about the woman in the factory
and behind the counter, but bow about
the woman who works In the field,
I want to any a few worda tn her be
half. I regret u necessity that COm-
pel» woman to work for a II veilhood.
and I favor not only shortening her
houra, but freeing her from manual
labor entirely. I crave for aoclety
that high standard of excellence where
the home la woman's throne and her
life la devoted to molding the char
acter and elevating the thought of
tho rising generation. But so long as
want, greed and misfortune prevail in
this world, women, through cbolce or
necessity, will work, and perhaps
they will work at one task or another
aa many hours per day as they please.
We may pity the weak and admire
• strong In their struggle, but the
m woman Is entitled to her share
of sympathy and reward.
All Must Toil.
The labor problem, aa relates to
men. is a moat vexatious one, and
when we apply it to woman It becomes
more seriously complicated. We will
always have to work unleea some po
litical genius can put a law on the
statute book that will enable us to
live without labor. Ro long aa every
person must meet toll face to face, the
best we can do Is to equitably dis
tribute the burdens and reward labor,
and If there is to be a revision of
wages and a shortening of hours. I
want the farm woman to get her
Rhe haa more reason to com
than any other class of toilers.
Rhe Baa. aa a rule, fewer comforts,
fewer pleasures, loss recreation and
less opportunity for enjoyment than
her slater In the city. Rhe haa not
ao many convenlencea and fewer lu»-
uriea and leas to be thankful for than
women who live In the town, but ahe
tolls on. a model of consistency, pa
tience and womanly devotion. Cer
tainly ahe should bn the first to be
rewarded
The Real Labor Problem is on the
Farm.
The great dallies with flaming head
lines deplore the lot of women who
toll in the cities, the city pulpit
thunders with sympathy for her, and
the legislators orate tn her behalf,
but not a line Is written, a word aaid
or a speech delivered In the tntereat
of the million women who labor on
the farm
Where one woman works
In the cities in this state, there are a
hundred mothers tolling in the field,
and no mention Is made of It 1s the
woman In the city entitled to any
more consideration than the woman
on the farm? I contend that she to
•t. The city woman may be more
xlly restrained by legislation, and
she may have a more attentive au
dience when she cries aloud, but the
real labor problem, in so far aa it ro
tates to women and children, to on
the farm—where mother and child,
wielding the hoe and gathering the
harvest, toll day In and day out with
out hops, of reward.
The Farm the Place to Study
All Legislative Problems.
By Peter Radford.
Leetursr National Farmers* Uaiea.
The principal function performed by
government today Is to collect taxes,
keep records and prevent and punish
crime; but tliat is not sufflcient. Gov
ernment should tip Its bat to the God
dess of Opportunity as courageously
aa it draws a six-shooter on a train
robber. We ought to encourage thrift
as well as restrain greed. We have
been busing legislation upon the ex
tremes of human life—the classes
high and low, the depraved and the
talented let us now reach the masses
and the extremes will more nearly
dlasppear Our statutes are filled to
overflowing with pity and revenge;
let us add opportunity.
The slogan of the Farmers* Union
is co-operation. Not only among in
dividual farmers, but between all legi
timate and useful occupations. We
want to sit around the hearthstone
of Industry and talk over problems of
mutual Interest with our neighbors.
We want to Invite those who are
earnestly searching for Information
on public questions to got back to
the soil with their Investigations
where, In the stillness of nature, they
can climb the mountain-top of wis
dom. explore the deep canyons of
knowledge and stroll through the
quiet valleys of understanding.
There Is no problem In civilization
that cannot be found in its native
state on the farm. The tabor, edu
cational.
financial,
transportation,
home building and all other problems
are there. We will discuss a few of
them.
The Labor Problem.
We bow to the dignity of labor.
No one would be willing to do more
to lighten the burdens, increase the
safety, comforts and profits of those
who labor iu commerce and Industry
than tbelr fellow tollers in agricul
ture But how about the farmer who
bows hla back to feed and clothe the
world, and who sorks from sun until
sun? la he not also entitled to an
Increase In pay a^d a shortening of
houra? Much baa been said about
the women In the factory and behind
the counter but bow about the woman
In the fleld, drenched In perspiration,
gathering the harvest, the little chil
dren. their lips wet with mother's
milk, tolling by her side? Are they
not ala<> entitled to consideration? Is
not the man who digs in the ground
entitled to the same consideration as
he who tolls at the forge, weaves at
the loom and works behind the count
er?
The farmer has been bearing his
burdens as patiently as the beast ho
plows, but la patience a bar from jus
tlce? The tabor problem of Virginia
today is on the farm, and the first
attention should be given those who
labor tn the fleld.
The Need of Cheap Money.
Agriculture has never been proper
ly financed. The farmer pays a much
higher rate of Interest as a rule than
any other class of borrower and hie
The City Life Puny.
property, especially that of farm prod
The farm jvomen work from aun ucts, Is not ao readily accepted as a
until aun. They do their housework basis of credit as the property of
and lull a half-mllllon babes to sleep other lines of industry of equal mar-
after the chickens go to roost, and ket value.
they get broaxfast and milk the oows
A rural or land credit system to
before the lark sings. The city wo needed that will enable a farmer to
man frequently chafes under hard buy a home on long time at a cheap
ships that the farm woman would rate of Interest.
consider a blessing. The city people
A statute based on sound bualnees
are great talkers and ofttimee great principles that will enable the land
ly magnify their troubles and enlarge less to buy and encourage the targe
their accomplishments. This charac land owner to sell. Is much needed,
teristic permeates organized society and one that merits the most serious
as well as enters Into the Individual consideration of our law makens.
life of cities. There are orphan asy- I
The financial problem of the state
luma which are dplng commendable and nation Is on the farm, and first
work and should be encouraged, that attention should be given those who
boast of their accomplishments, but create the nation's wealth.
I have seen widows in the country
make a crop, drink branch water and
It is an admitted economic fact that
eat corn-bread and molasses and there can be no permanent prosperity
•Ise more children and better chil- without a permanent agriculture.
en than many of these city orphan
asylums. The cities need to get back
An up-to-date farmer must have an
to the soil with their Ideals. They accurate knowledge of today and a
are hysterical, puny and feeble In clear vision of tomorrow.
their conception of life, Ita require
ments and Its opportunities.
Tn this age of advancement in agri
cultural science there is no excuse for
The farmers' problems are pressing soil depletion to further menace the
for solution and the awakening to at nation's prosperity.
hand.
Soli ls not a dead. Inert substanca,
as
many suppose. It ls an active, virile
It in apparent that the old credit
force, full of energy and power and
system must give way to business
thè farmer should know bis soli if ho
methods in financing the crop.
would maintaln Ita productivenoss.
The Philadelphia Society for the
Promotion of Agriculture in the oldest
association of ita kind in America.
Thia was organized by George Waah-
tngton and Benjamin Franklin In 1785,
Agriculture Is recognized aa the
greatest of all Industries and a pros
perous. progressive and enlightened
agricultural population ls the surest
safeguard of civilization.
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So-called Taxpayers sad Wsge Earn
ers League Turns Out to be s Fske
Jn July 17, Silverton Journal, the
Some weeks ago the so-called wet
Unitarian, Rev. K. F. Tischer, an
swered my criticism of June 26, on his organization, ti e Taxpayers and Wage
Easter Sermon. Isn’t his letter as a Earners League, »ent out an appeal
target to several Materialists, and for funds with which to light the dry
have received the following three re amendment. This letter was signed
by a rubber stamp with the name of
plies;
Froen the way Rev. R. F. Tischer Dr. Cora C. Talbott as “Secretary."
has Materialism and Spiritualism The address on the letterheads was,
mixed up with nature and God, science “Box 930. Portland, Oregon," but this
and Christianity, evolut'on and eternal nox turns out to be the private box of
life, 1 am unable to guess what partic Manager Eppstein of the liquor deal
ular brand of Christians he to. lie ers’ organization, a former Denver
speaks of the "ignorant materialist” liquor dealer.
Dr. Talbott objected to this pro
as being superstitious, requiring a
cedure,
and demanded an accounting
man-God.
1 am a materialist and 1 have no of the funds received from the circu
use for a man-God, nor any other kind lar. When the liquor managers re
of a God. What is causing so much fused she resigned as secretary, and
contention today among the people, is gave out a statement to the Portland
too much spiritual teaching, too much Evening Telegram exposing the whole
God myth, too much religious scare works, alleging, among other things,
crows, too much mythology and guess that the Taxpayers and Wage Earners
work : and not enough facts or demon League consisted of only two per
sona, herself and Mrs. Abigail Scott
strated truths.
1 would like to ask this Rev. Sir, to Duniway. She alleged that she was
make it plain to me, what is the spirit drawn into the mess inadvertently,
or soul of man, and bow he knows it not knowing that the prime reasen for
has eternal life 7 A number of Chris the work was to light for the saloons.
in reply to this Mrs. Duniway comes
tians have told me that they have seen
spirits, they always appear dressed up. out in The Oregonian with a nearly
One old lady said she had seen their three column paid advertisement in
hired man after he had been killed by which she claims that Dr. Talbott
lightening, and his spirit was dressed knew all the time that the money they
in the same clothing he wore when he were using was brewery money, and
was killed, a striped shirt and blue smoked things up generally.
Both ti'des have consulted attorneys
overalls. Now if anybody can explain
to me how a striped shirt and blue and made diverse thre?ts but the chief
overalls (material dry goods) could point of public interest is that the zo
have a soul or spirit 1 am sure 1 would ea" ed "Taxpayers and Wage Earners
League” is proven to be a gigantic
lake it as a great kindness.
Maud V. Wartie'd, Ketchum, Idaho. fake and a fraud. It is sholwn to be
no organization at all, but merely an
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As a wordy "talka-lot-but-say-noth- alias under which the eastern liquor
ing" affair, R. F. Tischer'» letter not corporations are conducting their cam
only takes the cake but the entire bake paign in Oregon.
shop. So we Materialists are the sp-
perstilious ones, eh ? and we “need an
over-ruling man-God,” eh? News to
me, all of iL His Reverence is sadly
mixed up in his wordy flight, and tries
hard to shunt onto us the superstitions
that all church-goers and believers in
the man (or God) Jesus, and an all-
powerful God, are heir to. And to this
he adds the weakness and fallacies of
the “worshippers of nature,"—that
class of people who see a "supreme"
power or beig in the chemical process
of trees, stones and humanity. Proof
of his assertions, there are none. My
dear Mr. Tischer, of course, you mean
well, but you might do better by as
suring yourself first and last that you
know absolutely what you are talking
or writing about. You may, of course,
think what you like, but in the name of
goodness, be careful what you write-
Verne E. Sheridan, Brooklyn, N. Y.
ess
Rev. Mr. Tischer surely has got his
ideas crossed on the Spiritual and the
Material, for what he says on one sub
ject more properly belongs to the
other. Nearly all ministers go into ec-
stacies over the “spiritual” as they
ca'l the creature of their imaginations.
They claim that it rules the world,
that it has a distinct set of thinking
faculties and moral qua'ities; but after
all, |where is the evidence of its exis
tence? When you go to analyzing the
concern you will find that there is no
evidence at all back of it. It is purely
a freak of the imagination. The near
est that you can come to any evidence
back of it, is that which goes by the
name of love, affection, reason, imag
ination, memory, and the more* attri
butes. These we know do exist, and
they exist nowhere but in the mind,
either human or animal. You cannot
intelligently conceive of their exis
tence anywhere but is. some kind of a
brain. That is the place of their
abode. If you would burn up that
brain, those thinking faculties and
moral attributes of the individual
would be consumed also. Even a pipe
dreamer could scarcely dream that
those qualities could live in the ashes
of that brain, or anywhere else. These
intangible, elus've things cease to ex
ist when the brain is destroyed. We
may have a remembrance of their ex
istence in others, but we cannot prove
their continuity after death.
How are we going to prove the ex
istence of intangible things supposed
to belong to something called a God
which we.do not know to have an ex
istence? To claim that such can be
proved is to claim that the phantasies
of a delirium can be established as real.
Olin J. Ross, Co'umbus, Ohio
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I attended Unitarian Meetings and
Sunday Schools several years, besides
having their papers, sermons and
creed. They criticise parts of the Bi
ble, claiming that much has been intro
duced that don't belong there, and
teach that Jesus was not God, but was
a teacher and a perfect man, ther “el
der brother.” They do not believe in
the Trinity nor in the orthodox hell;
but everyone must suffer for the
wrongs they do, and their punishments
are to lead them to do right and be-'
come perfect.
They believe itVevolution and scien
tific knowledge and the practice of the
golden rule much as the materialists
do. But Unitarians also believe in
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LIQUOR FLUNK IN OKLAHOMA
An Attempt to Initiate a Measure to
Restore License Fails to Get Suf*
ficient Votes
Some time ago the liquor element in
Oklahoma started out with a great hue
and cry to initiate a mesaure before
the people to repeal the dry constitu
tional amendment.
They sent out
squads of hired men all over tnt state
to secure signatures to I he petition,
and published it far an-1 wide that
they were about to wi.ie the dry law
off 'he map.
The press agents did good work, b Jt
long before the last day came for til
ing petitions, it became apparent that
not enough signatures could be ob
tained to repeal ths dry laws, and the
project was given up in disgust
lumber 10 was the last day for
filing petitions, and none was filed.
The scheme was worked up by agents
of the outside brewery corporations
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much of the Bible and its God, and
pray as if their God was a person and
had ears to hear and power to answer
by miraculous help. They seem to be
lieve also in some kind of a future ex
istence: hence they are spiritualists.
They are about half-way between
Orthodox Christianity and Materia
lism. They think they are entirely
free from Supernaturalism: but are
they? *
The Materialists, entirely free from
all spiritualism, all kinds of Gods, wor.
ship and praying, know that the death
of each person, animal or plant means
the end of that individual and its dis
integration. But we know also that
every atom of every person and every
object has no death, for the chemica1
life of every atom is eternal. Atoms
are realities and combine into material
things; but they cannot make a spirit
body nor soul for Rev. R. F. Tischer
after he dies. He will be dead and
never resurrect.
Our heaven or hell, or rewards and
punishments are all in this life, made
by our own and other’s choices, think
ing and doing. So we are mutually
dependent and each must serve others
well, to get well served, and our share
of life’s blessings.
Eliza Mowry Bliven.
Coolidge Street
Phone Black 1242.
NORTH CAROLINA DRY REVENUE 4 ►
Hon.Locke Craig, governor of North-
Carolina, gives out a statement show
ing the revenue of the state during the
past year, and also during the last year
of the liquor license system. The gov
ernor’s statement shows that the rev
enues of the state for the last year of
license amounted to 12,866,439.62,
while under the dry state wide policy
last year the revenues of the state
amounted to 14,297,000.00. That is the
way the dry state wide policy “ruined”
North Carolina.
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forty years. When prohibition was
first adopted I was somewhat in doubt
about it. I am now convinced that it
is of the greatest benefit, morally and
financially. A'l business is on a more
substantia' foundation.” — Mr. S. W.
Pierce, president Central National
Bank, Junction City, Kansas.
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Sheriff—J. E. Blazer, Silverton.
Clerk—T. Y. McClellen, Turner. Re
corder—Ly”th M. Cannon, Salem.
Treasurer—R. R. Ryan, Salem. Com
missioner,—F. C. Ramp, Brooks. Cor.
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