Everybody at Washington, and almost everywhere else for that matter, seems interested just now in giving the farmer more credit. The country has awaked all at once to the fact that the biggest business there is has never had anywhere near the credit facilities of other business, and that this lack is one of the chief reasons for the farmer's present straits.
The farmer who owns his own farm may have as much money invested as the merchant or other individual who owns his own business. Yet when he wants to borrow money to improve his "plant" and expand his production, he is treated far differently. It is harder for him to borrow. He cannot borrow so much, and often he has to pay higher interest, who rents a farm is far more helpless in this matter of credit than the merchant or small manufacturer rents the property he occupies, though his problem is much the same fundamentally, and may be just as good a risk.
The man
It is well to give this rural business man, with his crop turn-over, as nearly as possible the same facilities for carrying his stock and meeting his obligations that his city brother has.—Tacoma News-Tribune. 