Western Clarion
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issued: 2016-04-04
issued: 1909-09-25
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note: ran is tlDVBIB 546. Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, September 25, 1909. subscription Price $1.08 THE HAPPY FARMER i AND HIS HIRED HELP ' "Well, sir," said Dooley "1 see me .'rind Rosenfelt has applnted a commission to make the wives ot the farmers happy, though married." There is generally considerable tragedy behind Mr. Dooley's humor, and the above phrase is by no means exceptional to this rule. James J. Hill has discovered that people do not stay on the farms. In fact so many are leaving them that he fears the United States will he- come in less than ten years a wheat importing nation, and sheds some crocodile tears over the fact that "the cost of living is raised everywhere by this relative scarcity of bread," and some other things which we need not consider. We will suppose that this is not arrant nonsense, and give it some consideration. Hill points out, through statistics, that people are crowding Into the cities at an alarming rate "In 1790 only 3.4 per cent of our peo pie lived ln towns. In 1910 more than 31 per cent, of our population was urban." The rest of his remarks and the comments of the cheerful idiot who slings ink for the Province Can be dispensed with. The fact Is, people do not stay on farms, notwithstanding numerous real estate circulars and newspaper editorials setting forth the joys derived from farming and the wealth obtained in healthy pastoral pursuits. The reason people do not stay on the farms does not seem to bother either Hill or the worthy editor. So perhaps it will not be out of place to seek for a reason, which their mighty brains find too trivial for consideration. An American farmer, writing a letter to the American .Magazine some time ago, lays bare the revolting life's experience of his father's family. He is the only one of five sticking to the old folks, and he says, "I don't mind telling you I am plumb sick of it." A brief record of a mean, sordid, unsociable existence; a brute existence, unbearable to anyone with an o…
note: Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0318859
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Western Socialist Publishing Co., Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text