The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-03-29
To the Farmers.
! Gadsden Tilnes.1

'"o0s wy WY SOu CScS
made and it c"st you more to make it.
Cotton is controlled by the gambling
manipulators in the money centers
AZ to its price. You mortgage your
cotton to your merchant for supplies
to run you during the year. Your
accounts are due the lst of Novem.
ber each year. You can't hold the
cotton. You are forced to take what.
ever price you are offered. You are
mistaken when you say it is your
cotton, for it never did belong to you.
Your creditors say what the product
If your labor is worth and you are
bound by their dictations. And
yonr labor during the year was beer
towed 90 the culture If this cotton,
neg'ecting to grow corn, wheat and
other grains that will make you in-
dependent. The farmer will never
be prosperous and thrifty until hs
can make his produce yield him
above its productive cost. This he
can never do until be can have con.
troll Of that produce and sell it when
bic judgment dictates. You Gee from
tho statistics your labor produces
moro raw material then ever. It
seems nature and your own exertions
have been moro energetic then usual.
There 10 no want Of effort 10 either.
But, alas! the stark, horrid ghastly
picture Of want 10 stil. overs6adow.
ing you. Nature and your own effort
have succeeded and there IL % error
and . grievous mistake somewhere.
Whenever there IL 90 abundant yield
and still there 10 want 10 tho country
it is evident there 10 . radical wrong.
That error 10 you. It comes from
your OWN extravaganza IN your plant
ing operations and your talss system
Of planting. We do not mean BY OF.
travagauce your dress or your table,
but We mean this: You 20 to your
plow>stocks, axehelves, homes, sin-
gletrees and many other things that
economy suggests you should make
ct homo and which your successful
ancestors did male at home. You
arc told that those things can now be
purchased ready for use cheaper than
you can have them made and on "a.
per and talk il dues seem %. But
tho theory and practice will not hold
out. You can show couclusively BY
figures that it 10 cheaper to raise Oh
eotton and boy your corn. Try It one
year and your figures have deceived
you. You arc eItrsvagaut 10 not %.
wing tho fsrtilising elements on your
own land. From this you get our
idea Of your extravagance.
Again, you plant too much cotton
and too little corn and other grain.
You would have realized % much
money fur y0ur cott0n crop this scar
It you had raised only half the
amount. II tho labor then of rais.
ing this surplas of cotton had
been APPLIED to tho raising of corn,
grain and meat or stock you could
have commenced tho year 1879
without mortgages hanging over
you, subjectine sou to a. affect
suridom 40. the poems Of Mexico
or Brasil. You would have had
your own supplies 1t homo and
would have beeo independent. You
would not have to b dictated to as
to the price Of your cotton or when
or how you should cell. Under the
present system you arc not free.
Your *ives and your little children
are working 10 the frost aud the wet
to support other men aud their chill.
dren 10 tho lap oflozury. These lat.
Ter are not to blame for It, you a,e.
Let tho fIres of ~ independent man.
hood rekindIe in your bosoms and
become what God intended you
should be-a free, independent and
happy farmer. Be economical 10 all
thioeeedo not buy mo,e than your
necessities demand aud let raising
cotton be The result Of your surplus
labor after you have raised 40 abuu>
dance Of everything for your family