The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-16
FROM TENNESSEE.
RIrTHERFoRD COUNTY.


Editor Patron. 1t takes line upon line
andIprecept upon precept to beget interest
in public questions, and this is what is now
needed at the South in regard to agricul-
ture and manufactures. First, as to agri-
culture take the broad ground that ag-
riculture and the development of manu-
featuring interests lay at the very founda-
ton of all prosperity, and yet the world, or
the business system of it, is SO ordered or
manipulated as to impoverish and almost
destroy these two great leading interests;
while middlemen, handlers, and in fact
every other class, seem to move IN easy
circumstances, yet they never add really
one cent to the worlds wealth. Many of
this last class live in luxury and ease; they
are the nabobs that have controlled public
affairs for the last forty years. They ma
nipulate everything. They bring about
panics and enact bankrupt laws for their
benefit, and hide out with their fortunes
for awhile When the leaders get an ele-
plant on their hands they can't handle,
they feed us with bonds, and if we object
to impoverishing ourselves to pay these
bonds, they stigH1atise US as reputation
lists. Reaction always hurts the great pro-
ducing class more than all others, because
they have no legislation in their favor.
The farmers have few organs; the pub bile
Journals are nearly all in favor of the Mo-
ney Power, and about the only way the
producing classes can ascertain when they
are right, is to go the opposite OF the teach
ings Of these journals.
As have before stated, the upas, the
molock, the great .Juggernaut, the hydra
headed monster, that causes the want and
misery among the producing classes, can
be traced directly to the credit system of
business. This system, backed by mort
gage and execution laws, is the most de-
structive agent the devil and wicked men
combined ever employed. 1t blocks up
all the roads in the worlds great progress
in every department. moral, educa-
tional, and religious-and causes nearly all
the woes that beset society. a ..o
This credit system of business is food
for forty thousand lawyers, half as many
politicians, supports all the money centres,
prints nearly all the public papers, and
worse than all pays directly no taxes.
All credit is risk on the future. 1t
may not be as criminal as gambling, yet it
is risk If we had all the really poor to
feed and care for, it could be done cheaper
than we can support the producing
classes, for we have to support them at
last, while the cash system would compel
all classes to be self, sustaining.
Now, it would be very natural to ask,
Can the cash system be adopted? I say,
where there is will there is way.
With contracted currency as we now
have, say 5000, ooo, 900, we could save an
nually by the cash system Is per cent,
$I2o,ooo,ooo, at the lowest calculation. If
we had such a currency as we should
have, say $1,000, 100000, at Is per cent, it
would amount to $4oo,ooo,ooo, saved an
nually by the cash system. In few
years, such words as tramps, money cen
tres, Wall street, political lawyers, and a
subsidized press, would be heard no more
in the land. Then add to this, $1,000, ooc
for each State, saved by the absence Of
| litigation, the offspring Of credit, and you
| have the enormous sum Of $476,ooo,ooc
annually saved from the human
! wrecks of credit, to be used on the side
of virtue, education, religion, the genera
develc pment of the resources Of the coun
try, aud the building up of industrial en-
terprises of all kinds. H..
| Fraternally, H. H. /, YRARGAN.
Near Murfreesboro, August E. -