04 Jan 1889
"Messrs. Munday & Parkinson deserve the credit of hunting up and putting behind the bars a nest of sneak thieves, burglars and low lived rascals, who have been operating in this neighborhood for several years and have heretofore got off very easily.
It has long been known that the two Crum boys, Perry and Arthur, were sneak thieves, and Arthur several years ago was arrested in company with another boy for breaking into the store of C. W. & O. L. Parkinson and stealing some revolvers, knives and etc., but they were young at that time and the Co. Attomey made the mistake of letting them off without punishment. Only a year ago Arthur was arrested for petty larceny and on conviction was sentenced to pay a fine of $25.00 in default of the payment of which he was sent to jail, when after serving a short time he was allowed to escape, to save the county cost we suppose. We speak of these things to show how foolish it has been to deal leniency with these boys, for they have long been past all reform. Their house has been the resort of the lowest characters in the country and has long been a disgrace to the neighborhood.
Messrs. Munday & Parkinson found some one was stealing hogs out of their lot and by placing
detectives on their track they found that arrangements were made to steal some more on New
Years night to take to Garnett and sell. They were allowed to steal and take them to Garnett
although they were watched in every movement.
At Garnett the party were taken in and Perry and Arthur Crum and Lou White are now in jail, at
Ottawa, and more are to follow. On Wednesday the house of Mrs. Crum was serched (sic) and
the sugar lately stolen out of a sealed car at the Missouri Pac. Depot from a bbl. belonging to J.
H. Parkinson was found. Detectives have the full admission of the whole party about that robbery
and their chances to spend several years in the pen at Leavenworth are now so good that the
whole community breathe easier. The whole gang should have been in the penitentiary long ago."
"Mr. E. H. Topping is down from Baldwin this week."
01 Feb 1889
"If a spur was built across to the coal shaft, it is likely the town would double itself in a year and a trade in garden truck and produce created to supply the farm land about our locality ."
" Mr . Mead assistant engineer of the Santa Fe was here with Mr . Challand of Lebo on Tuesday to look over the ground and make a preliminary survey of a spur to the coal shaft south of town."
08 Feb 1889
"Notwithstanding the mesmeric influence of the lecture at the Hall, a number of the GAR boys met as announced on Saturday night last and elected officers for the ensuing year, S.V.C., J.H. Christman called the post to order and the following officers were elected; Commander T. L. Newcomb; S. V .C., A. C. Brothers; J . V .C., L. Loper; Surgeon, Joseph Rawlins; Chaplin, J.H. Christman; Z.M., B.G. Glenn; Adjt., J.K. Bailey; Officer of the Guard, J.T. Curtis; R.G. Calhoon; Sgt. Major. A.E. Geyer; Q.M. Sgt."
"Chas Chrisman has bought the old billiard hall and will move it on to a lot west of Ullom's hardware store."
"Neill Harrah and wife have returned to Topeka to live."
"Mr. John Haggard has rented the stone blacksmit11 shop and will carry on the blacksmith business in Pomona in the future."
" J .H. Whetstone had a cannery man here looking over the town yesterday ."
15 Feb 1889
"On Wednesday last Charley Chrisman took a whole 20 x 40 ft house by the top-not and walked it up onto East Franklin Street, setting it down by the side of Ulloms hardware store. That's the kind of a hair pin he is. He will occupy the building with his barber shop."
"The Grand Army boys met last Saturday night as announced and completed their reorganization.
Dues are reduced to 50 cents per year to enable all to join and help keep the organization in
existence. All feel that deceased comrads are entitled to a burial by their living comrads, and
to enable them to perform these last rights in a becoming manner it is necessary that an
organization should exist. The GAR is specially adapted for such purpose, and the organization
must be kept alive."
"Frank Mackey has been promoted by the Telephone company to inspector, and will move to Kansas City Saturday."
"In one more year we will have the school building paid for and a one per cent levy will run our school."
22 Feb 1889
"John Hagard has moved to town and will conduct the Blacksmith trade in the old stone shop opposite the mill."
"Chas. Chrisman is putting a new front into his store building."
(Mr. Mackey worked for the telephone company at Emporia not at Pomona)
1 March, 1889
"IMr. Colburn, claim agent for the Mo. Pac. railroad was in Pomona on Friday last and made a satisfactory settlement of the claims of several of our citizens for damage by fire from passing trains."
8 Mar 1889
"Capt. Griffin was down from Topeka this week."
"Charles Chrisman is fitting up his new building in first class style."
Death of Prof. F. M. Dicklow buried at Ottawa (had been principal at Pomona Schools).
" About half past ten o ' clock on Monday last a severe concussion like a clap of thunder was heard by people in Pomona and for miles around, but no one knows what it was. No clouds were in sight and nothing is known about it. What was it?"
15 Mar 1889
"Chas. Chrisman has moved into his new barber shop and has fitted it up in city style."
"J. L. Hughes keeps his flour store in the building vacated by Charley Christman."
"O.J. Doran has bought out the share of Mr. McFarland in the butcher business and will conduct it alone."
" John Kraus is hauling apples to market. The Kraus brothers wintered over about 1,000 bushels."
22 Mar 1889
ADV ANT AGES OF POMONA. "Blue grass and abundance of water for cattle the year round.
Fruits and adaptability of the soil to fruit raising and general farming. Markets near, two
competing trunk lines of RR 4 mails per day. TIMBER, in abundance for all purposes; wood
$2.50 to $3.00 per cord. CLIMA TE, exceedingly health and less changable than in most
localities. SCHOOLS, excellent, unsurpassed building heated and ventilate by the Ruttan system,
capable of accommodating three hundred scholars paid for .
CHURCHES, Presbyterian and Methodist, first class ministerial talent, good society and hospitable people.
TRADE; An unusually large scope of country , comprising some of the finest farming
land in the state, lies contiguous to the town-site, reaching out in all directions for many miles
and natually seeking this point to market, or ship, their produce and cattle and purchase their
supplies.
INTELLIGENT people taking pride in intellectual culture. We have a fine public town library and a public school library . A.C.L.S.C. Society.
By the way- you live in Pomona and attend the yearly Chautauqua exercises at Forest Park each day during the sessions going down in the morning and retuming after exercises at night.
MANUFACTURING will always find in Pomona the advantages necessary for success. Coal, soft water for steam competitive lines of railroads and finest building rock and clay, is the inducement the Pomona Mining & Mfg Co. had to locate at this place; and although this company have been unfortunate in the loss of their shops by fire last fall, it is confidently believed they will rebuild and manufacture their valuable inventions."
Twenty reasons why Pomona is destined to become the best town in Franklin or adjoining counties ######
"It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce to the citizens of Pomona and the surrounding country, that Dr. B. H. Pasley has decided to return to Pomona to make it his home and resume the practice of his profession. The Dr. removed from here to Circleville, Kan. some seven years ago, leaving as fine a practice as a physician and surgeon ever had; and to the great regret of his numerous friends. Something over a year ago removed from Circleville to Baldwin, and now he has determined to return to Pomona and resume his old practice. The Dr. is one of the most skillful surgeons in the state and during his 18 years residence in this state has performed some of the most difficult surgical operations known to science. It is no uncommon thing for him to be called to far distant points of consultation in intricate arts of surgery . The Dr. also has a wide reputation for skillful treatment of chronic diseases and diseases peculiar to females. We predict that his services will always be in demand especially in difficult cases where science and skill are required. He resumes his old place in the firm of Pasley & Topping with Dr. E. Topping whose skill in the treatment of chronic diseases is well known is these parts. The healthy location of Pomona makes it a desirable point for sufferers from a .good board, pure air and water and moderate changes will be guaranteed."
29 Mar 1889
"Mundy & Parkinson shipped five cars of potatoes this week."
05 Apr 1889
"The change in Postmasters at Pomona will occur June 30th says the "Topeka Capital."
"Kidnapped: on or about the last of June '88 at Sparta, Christian Co. Mo., Willie Johns aged 15 years by one Benj. Allison. Any information of his whereabouts would be a relief to his mother Mrs. H.B. Johns Pomona, Kan. Papers please copy."
"The council met on Wednesday night and canvassed the vote. The following officers were elected with practically no opposition.
A.F. Parkinson, Mayor; B. G. Glenn, Wm. Keithly, H. J. Ottaway, E. A. Mott, J. O. Furry, Councilmen; J.F. Javens, Police Judge.
12 Apr 1889
"Messrs. Mundy & Parkinson shipped two cars and Vol. Hudelson shipped six cars of stock on Monday last by the A.T. & S.F. Railroad to Kansas City."
"Seekins & Thomas the new Restaurant men have opened a meat market in connection with their business and ask you to call and try them. Their meat will always be first class and prices reasonable."
19 Apr 1889
"Jeff Mundy got in from Ness Co. on Saturday last with five cars of cattle."
"Mundy & Parkinson will plant 100 acres of potatoes this spring."
"G. B. Glenn took charge of the Post office yesterday. We predict that he will make an efficient
Postmaster, and if he puts in as many hours in the day every day in the week for the next four
years as Mr. Flora has done since he has held the office he will feel like breaking jail before that
time is up. Mr. Flora retires with lots of friends. In fact all agree he has made an efficient
Postmaster and no one, even of the Republicans complain of anything except his politics."
"Mr. H. F. Bush has gone to Oklahoma to try his luck."
26 Apr 1889
"Editor Enterprise:-On retiring for the Pomona Post Mastership will you kindly allow me through
your columns to say a parting word to the patrons of the office. I have been your postmaster three
years and six months. I should have served four years but I was three months late getting in and
three months early getting out. I can assure you that was no fault of my own, but in the course of
human events that seems to have
been the result. With the exception of an occasional ripple on the surface of my eventful career
my relations with you have been pleasant and agreeable. Of all the government officials there are
none who so daily and hourly, and so directly serves the masses as the fourth class postmaster. In
some respects he is a great man; he is considered by some as the medium of intelligence between
the gods and the people; by others as a kind of stamp licking machine, fit for nothing but to lick
stamps and answer questions. The usefulness of the p .M. and the estimation in which he is held
in the community depends largely on how the people have been raised. If the people are right, the
postmaster will as a general thing be found on deck and in the line of duty. The people often go
astray, but postmasters very seldom. His life is a hard one in many respects, the rules and
regulations of the post-office department are necessarily very strict and as a rule the patrons of
the office are very exacting, and between the red tape of the department on the one hand and the
exactions of the public on the other the postmaster is often placed in hot water; he is often
compelled to choose between two evils, of violating some rule of the department under which the
labors or of making someone mad. There are a few people in every community who have very
little conception of an officials sworn duty, there are some who have a disposition to impose on
others, in fact have little respects for others peoples rights,. I say a few, there are a very few at
Pomona, very few indeed, a large majority of the patrons of the Pomona post office are genteel,
courteous, and pleasant. I leave the office as strong a Democrat as when I went in, a little
stronger if anything. But while that is the case I know that I have many friends who are
Republicans and I will say in this connection that the Republicans in the community have pretty
generally treated me as a public servant ought to be treated. There is of course exceptions to all
rules; there were a few during the campaign who persisted in twitting me about my politics. Of
course I could stand that in limited doses when properly administered, but there is a limit to
human endurance, and in due course of time those fellows succeeded in drawing from me a few
mild expressions of my own political views and preferences. I took for granted that they would
be willing to concede me the same rights and privileges assumed by themselves. But in this I was
mistaken. They took the grounds that because I was postmaster I must necessarily suffer all the
persecutions they saw fit to heap upon me with no right to retort whatever. I thought different and
this difference brought me in contact with the fighting wing of the Republican party. Two or
three of the more brave considered it their duty to treat me with personal violence; two or three of
the more cowardly proceeded to plot against me in the dark, made it the basis of a long string of
charges and complains which was to be (if it was not) forwarded to the department. My only
reason for referring to this matter is because it subjected me to some criticisms from those who
have always been my friends, and some unjust criticisms from those who only look at one side of
a case. This case like many others has two sides to it, and while I was doubtless some to blame, I
have always felt that I was badly treated.
In closing I wish to say to my democratic friends that I thank you kindly for giving me the
office, whether it has been any advantage to me financially or otherwise I do not take into
consideration in this connection, your motives were good and I appreciate your kindness just as
much as though I had made a fortune out of it. I believe I am safe in assuring my successor that
you will always treat him with that consideration and courtesy due from one gentleman to
another. I know you will do this because I am acquainted with you and know you are all built that
way. And in four years from now, when we have elected another Democratic president, and when
Cap't Glenn shall have become thoroughly bleached for want of sunshine, and when he shall have
become physically weak and reduced almost to a skeleton for want of outdoor exercise, we will
kindly relieve the Cap't of his arduous labors and will once more put behind the postoffice
cabinet one of our own number . Yours very truly; J.D. Flora."
"The people's railway of Kansas, which filed its articles of incorporation in the office of secretary of state in February last, yesterday completed its organization by the election of L. C. Alexander of Kansas City as president; F. G. Welch of Williarnsburg, vice president; T. Ormsby of Topeka, secretary , and C. Spaulding of Topeka, treasurer . These gentlemen, together with T. S. Atcheson of New York City, J. T. Howe of Kansas City, Mo., and P. K. Cheseldine of Lawrence, from the board of directors.
A reporter of the Capital-Commonwealth met Vice President Welch last evening and
learned from him some particulars concerning the proposed People's railway. The projected line
will have its initial terminus at or near Garnett, in Anderson county, and will be extended from
thence in a northwesterly direction through the county of Franklin, tapping the rich coal fields of
Williamsburg, "to Topeka and beyond." The most important fact in connection with his
enterprise is that the section of the road between Williamsburg and Pomona passes through
what is claimed to be the most valuable coal deposits in Kansas, which have never yet been
developed, and analysis of the coal showing it to be exceedingly pure and well adapted to
manufacturing purposes. It is said that the products of these fields paid for the only piece of
railroad in the state that was ever built without either government or local aid, a portion of the
Southern Kansas known as the Burlington branch. The rails were furnished by a manufacturer
who afterwards took coal in pay for them.
The People's railway is a continuation of the old Scofield scheme, embracing the line from Ottawa to Burlington. It is claimed for it that it will penetrate the best unoccupied territory left in eastern Kansas for north and south road, and it will place Topeka in immediate communication with a coal country whose development promises to prove both important and profitable. The line, so far as it has been definitely located, will be 122 miles in length. Construction will commence within sixty days and it is designed to complete a large section of the road this summer. If the expectation of the projectors are realized, the People's railway will in the not distant future be hauling black diamonds enough for the entire state and coal famines will in the future be an impossibility."
"Mundy & Parkinson have rented a section and a half of land in the southwest comer of Coffey county for pasture and have sent a large herd down there."
3 May 1889
"The first commencement of the Pomona School will be held in the C.P. Church, Friday evening, May 10th...."
"Dock Miller got back from Oklahoma Wednesday night and left our boys well. He says the sand blew so on Tuesday that the teamsters had to blindfold the horses to keep the sand from blowing their eyes out. He has got enough of that ""promise land" already."
"Jeff Mundy got in from Ness county Wednesday with two loads of grazing steers."
10 May 1889
" The site selected for our new post office building is the old site occupied by Mr. Flora. Both the log building and Mr. Flora were "Removed," and Phoenix like a new building springs up in its place."
"S. A. Brown & Co. have established several lumber yards in Oklahoma. "
"Mundy & Parkinson brought in from Kansas City 245 head of cattle last Friday to run on grass."
" John Parkinson has dug a well at his stable from which he waters 460 head of steers they had brought in from Kansas City two days in succession and no signs of exhaustion."
"Sam Combs writes to his wife from Oklahoma that he is alive and well and never has been
killed at all. He says also that there has not been a murder committed near Guthrie since it's
settlement, and that more especially a man by the name of 'Combs' or 'Comps' has not left his
wife a widow there Sam is all right. He has promised to write a letter for the readers of the
Enterprise. We hope he will do so."
17 May 1889
"The first Commencement of the Pomona High School was held in the C.P. Church Friday
evening May 10th, and notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a crowded house greeted
the young folks. The class was an intelligent bright one and the exercises were of a high order .
Henry Johnson, the salutatorian, in a very forcible manner, spoke on The U se and Abuse of
Power. His oration was will written and showed that he had given his subject careful thought.
Ethel Glenn read an essay on the class motto, Onward and Upward. Miss Glenn had many pretty thoughts in her essay couched in beautiful language made sparkle with rhetorical embellishments.
Eliza Lawrence's subject was The Progressive nation. It was a carefully prepared and thoroughly outlined exercise and justly merited the high esteem in which it was received.
Florence Hughes, the valedictorian, handled the theme "We have reached the Bay in safety the Ocean lies beyond'" to the infinite satisfaction of all. Her manner was easy and pleasing, her thought was beautiful and rhetoric perfect. Dr. Davis in some aptly chosen words presented the class with their diplomas.
The school now begins to show in these exercises the fruits of a thorough grading and method in education. Prof. Stimmel and our people may well be proud of the success of the Pomona Public Schools."
"While in Ottawa the other day we met our old citizen Rev. Levi Ricksecker. He is looking well and hearty and carries his years well."
"J.T. Harrah has been building a new chimney and otherwise improving the hotel. "
"Isaac Overholt returned from Oklahoma on Monday last and reports that himself and two boys have all secured claims on the Stillwater, 16 miles east of Guthrie."
"Uncle Jonnie Christman says he will go to Oklahoma and take a soldiers claim and grow up with the country."
" A tornado in the north-western part of the state on Tuesday last destroyed much property, killed one man and wounded many others. "
24 May 1889
School report; classification for next year*
"J. N. Crow has returned from Oklahoma and says he will soon take his family back with him. he thinks he will make it his home."
"T. J. Crum of Quenemo, and S. W. Perryman from Carbondale, both old time Pomona people were in town on Wednesday."
"Dr. J. F. Vigor is building a new barn."
"T. L. Newcomb is building a new office building on his corner."
31 May 1889
TIME T ABLE
Missouri Pacific Railroad
EAST
Passenger 1 :51 pm
Local Freight 2:40 pm
Through Freight 10:02 pm
WEST
Passenger 2:40 pm
Local Freight 11 :05 am
Through Freight 3:16 am
All trains daily.
B.E. Allison, Agent.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
EAST
Passenger 8:40 am
Local Freight 10:05 am
WEST
Passenger 1:20 pm
Local Freight 1:45 pm
SECRET SOCIETIES
Pomona Lodge #138 AF & AM meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday evening of each month. All traveling brethren are cordially invited to attend. John Dyer, W.M.; J . O . Furry , Secretary.
Pomona Post No. GAR Regular meeting lst and third Saturday evenings in each month. T. L., Newcomb, Commander; J .E. Bailey, Post Adjutant."
"Burglars broke into J .H. Parkinson's store after first ransacking the blacksmith and carpenter shops for tools on Thursday night last, but so far as heard from they took nothing away with them."
" A. E. Geyer will occupy the J .H. Parkinson building when the post office removes into their new quarters. "
"Postmaster B.G. Glenn has moved into his new office."
"S.E. Capper is now located at Medical Lake, W . T . He says that country is overdone."
07 Jun 1889
"Mundy & Parkinson shipped five cars of cattle and two cars of hogs last Sunday evening."
"T.L. Newcomb's new building moves along like business."
14 Jun 1889
"We learn from Mr. J.P. Moore who has just returned from Glenndale, Missouri that our old townsman J .M. Ricksecker is the proprietor of a house in that town 40 x 75 feet foundation built for a hotel."
" A. E. Geyer will remain in the Kraus building with his furniture store another year."
21 Jun 1889
"During the rise in the river of last Monday quite a number of the bottom farmers moved out.""
28 Jun 1889
05 Jul 1889
"Everybody went somewhere else yesterday, and Pomona was as dead as a door nail. That's the way we celebrate our 4th of July in Pomona. That's about the way the business promotion of the town is run on business principles....."
J .H. Parkinson put down a fine new platform before his 44 foot brick store."
Mr. J .H. Reed, from Salina has bought Rev. I. Hetricks place and will take possession as soon as Mr. Hetrick can get out. We regret very much to lose Rev. Hetrick, but we know he is not contented to live away from Frank, who is permanently located in Ottawa in the dentist business. He has a fine residence in Ottawa which he has had all the years he has lived in Pomona. There he will go and spend his remaining days which we hope may yet be for a long period."
"With the wife and baby we took quite a trip the other day into the country to see how the crops are getting along and must confess we were highly gratified with the general prospect. The west spring has left its marks in place as is seen by an occasional spot of wheat land drowned out, or by a field of castor beans or corn that had to be plowed up and replanted. There will be scarcely any castor beans raised this year in this locality. Wheat is the finest crop on the average that this country has never had. At this writing harvesting is well underway and by the last of this week most of the crop will be in the shock and some fields stacked. The chinch bugs have done very little harm this year to any crops. Oats are generally very fine and are quickly coming into harvest. Corn is generally small and some fields very foul but if the present good harvest weather hold on for ten days most of it will be got in good condition. If favorable conditions continue there will be as large a crop of corn harvested in this neighborhood as we have ever had. We regret that the castor bean crop is a failure as it generally brings in about the first good money in the season but the largely increased acreage of wheat and abundant crop will largely take the place of the castor beans. We noticed much tame grass and clover especially in the neighborhood of Mr. Amos Cook in Michigan Valley . Experience is demonstrating that this is a great grass country whenever the soil becomes sufficiently subdued to hold the roots of the grass. We did not see a field of flax on our trip. Water is abundant in all the streams. Wells that have been dry for years are full and every spring is flowing, showing that the ground has at last been thoroughly wet down deep.
No one ever saw a fairer country with a better prospect for crops, health, and happiness than can be seen in a days drive in any direction from Pomona and we certainly ought to be thankful for the many blessings the Creator has lavished upon us."
12 Jul 1889
"Mundy & Parkinson have already threshed out several cars of wheat."
"Charley Mundon got home from Oklahoma last week looking like a genuine cowboy- He sold his claim for 44.00 and has enough outing for one summer. "
19 Jul 1889
"We learn that Lee Brinkerhoff is buying out S.T. Combs interest in the livery business. If Sam will sell we had rather he would have it than anyone we know of.""
26 Jul 1889
'School board annual meeting Dr. B.H. Pasley elected director for three years and A.S. Benton
was elected clerk for two years, succeed T .L. Newcomb resigned. An 8 month school was voted
to commence Sept. 2nd and the board were instructed to hire four teachers. A 1% levy was voted
for school purposes. The action of the school board in hiring Prof. Stimmel and Miss Akin for
the ensuing school year was ratified."
"Mundy & Parkinson say their wheat is averaging about 30 bu. to the acre, as they have about 500 acres this means 15,000 bushels. Pretty well for one farm."
"L.J. Goff, the first man who ever threw mortar in Pomona, now living in Excelsior Springs, Mo., was here last week."
"Mr . Chas. Vickers brought in a sample corn stalk 15 feet high. Who can beat it? Charley says Chas. Nelson is especially invited to show a taller one."
"Sam Combs has closed out his livery business to Lee Brinkerhoff and with his wife will go to Oklahoma next week. Success attend them."
31 Oct 1889
"Pomona is a thrifty industrial village of between six and eight hundred inhabitants on the main line of the Mo Pac and the Emporia Branch of the A.T. & S.F. railways. It has the finest area of agricultural lands lying tributary to it than any town in eastern Kansas. Being only 68 miles from Kansas City on two competing lines of railway it affords excellent shipping facilities to the great market of the west as inducements to manufacturers. The country is underlaid with inexhaustible quantities of excellent coal and building stone, and a abundance of pure soft water is certain of access. It has excellent graded schools and two fine churches, and its people are strictly temperate and moral habits. Pomona lying as it does on a high rolling plateau has always been free from malarial and malignant disease of any kind."
13 Dec 1889
"Mr. Wolf's family were surprised a few evenings ago by a tramp opening the door and demanding his supper. Mrs. Wolf gave him his supper, for which he kindly thanked her and left. He then surprised young Mr. Dyle's family by opening their door and walking in cooly took a chair and sat down to warm himself by the fire and then walked out. Mrs. Dyle was alone and was so badly frightened that she has had a severe fit of sickness in consequence. The unknown then went to old Mr . Dyle's and demanded a nights lodging which was given him. About midnight Mr. Dyle heard a noise up stairs and thinking perhaps the stranger was sick arose, lit a lamp and opened the stair door, and there stood the man on the stairs with a revolver in each hand which he leveled at Mr. Dyle and said 'stand back,' and the stranger passed on out, and that was the last that was seen or heard of him. "
20 Dec 1889
"Let us take a farmer with 160 acres of good Kansas farm land, with 100 acres of broke ground which he plants to com and sells at present prices. How will he stand after harvest?
If he raises a good average crop he will have 4000 bushels of corn for market at 15 cents per bushel is $600. It takes 4 horses and harness and a hired man with himself 6 months to raise this crop. His hired man's wages at $15 per month-6 months is $90, hired mans board costs at $2 per week, $52. His own and wife's board $104, taxes about $50, average cost of implements $35, cost of feeding team $20. His farm is said to be worth $4000, and if he had money at interest it would bring him in 10%
400
851
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$251
So he loses the difference of $251 only, if he works hard and supports himself and wife the remaining 6 months of the year without drawing any farther on the $600.
In other words, by trying to make a living by good honest work, he has lost $251, of money which his capital was worth and accepted $149 for his interest and the work of himself and wife a year."
This is the case, provided he is not sick, has no doctor bills to pay, no children to support and takes no time nor spends any money for travel or recreation. But if he has a family of children to support, and has any sickness and owes a mortgage on his farm, how is he going to stand at the end of the year?
How long do you think the farmer can live, Mr. Monopolists and support you in your gilded carriages and in the pomp and extravagance of your city lives. You will take due notice that we warn you that unless you give the farmer and the laboring classes a more generous share of the harvest returns, you will destroy the basis that constitutes your own wealth, and become beggars along with the rest whom your averice has destroyed."