The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-09-23

ON Aio A"' III W udy wagons WHICH
he qad bought three years ago at
$40 for tenants. Twelve months ago
he bought the same kind at $50 each.
lie chartered single car at Du,
buque, Iowa, that laid the wagons
down at Greenville at IS each.
Three years ago the freight was $40
each. The Grange said pay cash
for everything. 1t was credit that
was running the country. He could
60 to Augusta and buy hay at twenty
live cents. less per hundred for cash
than he could for credit. There are
probably men in this house who
have given mortgages OH their crops
or farms for -four. They pay $12
while pay $S, cash, per barrel. A
mortgage of this kind reminds him
more of the old nigger pass than any.
thing else. This mortgage system
was the ruination of the whole coun.
try. The cottou crop wasn't pay
ing one; it took too long to make it.
The man who foil )ws out the idea of
diversilide industry will never SEQ
month i'll the year that he doson It
have something to sell. 1t will bo
corn, or butter, or pig, or mutton.
or something else. We have the
best labor i'll the conntry. Some
men ,ali about the confounded nip-
ger. Let them go to the Northwest
and look at the white labor. The
labor here is infinitely better. Do
you hear anything about strikes in
the South 2 Never. And they como
as regularly as the equnoxes in the
North. The best labor in the world
is right here, but it is not utilized
now. The Grange proposes to utilize
it. TheIe isn't an acre in Georgia
that, if it is plowcd up and let alone
will yield not more money from the
hay cut from it than can be made
off it from planting cotton. Go at it
systematically. There isn't man in
Georgia who has an acre of red land
who can tell him what it cost to
make wheat on it. 1t cost nothing
but the wcal and tear Of muscle.
1hcrc is more money in your pocket
from tho production of wheat than
cotton. If they would take his adj
vice they would plant this fall one
acre in wheat for every child and
five acres for every mule, and then
plant as much cotton as they pleased J
The Northwestern farmer is always
pleased because he had enough bread |
There is more money in the South
than the Northwest. Follow his |
plan and ono of every four mules
can be discarded. What is the ne.
cessity ofpanting corn to feed mules
when they can be fed on oats, which
cost less2 lie feeds Lis mules on oats
and his family on wheat. Ground
that won't make wheat will bring
crab grass hay that will sell for moro
tlan timothy.
What we want is free trade, an
abolition of tariff. While the con-
stitution of the Patrons prohibit poll
itcs, it is the most powerful political
lever in tho country, because it cdu
Gates the masses. The bottom rail
has been on top long enough, but ere
long things will be turned topsy tur-
vey and matters righted. Before
the next five years the Patrons of
Husbandry will control Congress.
His hearers had no idea Of tho mag
nitudo of tho ordcr. Why last yoar
sending off ut one timo agricultural
documents.to Oranges took 8 600 for
stamps. Another instance. Ho had
an order for knives, and won't TO Fair
field TO see what q manufacturer
would sell them knives for. What
will you mako us l, 900 for? said he.
"Sixty cents apiece" "What will
you mako 5000 for2" "Filty conts
apiece" "What will mako 10000
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