The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-31
RAvAGEs OF THE BOIL WORMS.
An Open Letter 10 the Editor OF the
Dallas Herald.

In your daily issue of the Goth inst, after
stating the probable average loss to the cot
ton crop, you say;
at is useless 10 talk Of remedies now oil
the hapless farmer can do is to fold his hands
and see $50 and 800 worth of cotton disap-
pear per day down the throats of bis fatal
enemy"
How very sympathetic the HERALD pre-
tends to be for the ''poor hapless farmer. "
And all the so.called Democratic papers OF
the south will catch up the hollow mockery
of sympathy for the "poor hapless farmer"
Gentlemen, please, please dry up your croco-
dile tears. If the small ravages of the boil
worm, for one year, was all the "poor hap
less farmer" had to prey upon them and eat
out their su bstanee, We could stand that,
1t is the grinding taxation
that compels US to pay hundred millions
ofgold interest to non-taxed bond-holders
and national bankers that eat up our cotton
and other crops year after year at much
more fearful rate than the boil worms, which
only come once in several years. Howbeit
we have no word of sympathy from any OF
YOU on account of this far greater evil? Soon
the agents of the national bankers, to whom
our magnanimous ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
nous to bondholders and bankers-furnishes
three hundred and fifty millions of dollars as
free gift, will be down upon us like
evolves on the fold"
and far more rayenous than the boil worms
will take up the remnant of our cotton at
their own prices. We are obliged to take
lust what the agents of these great
bankers offer US, because our
msrnsnimous government gives them
the control of the volume of money
which they can contract or expend at their
pleasure, and by destroying competition We
are obliged to take Just what they choose to
offer us. They have the power, by locking
this money up ia their safes, which our mag
unanimous government gives them, and retus-
ing to buy our cotton, of running our mer-
chants and farmers, andof putting us all to
protest or subjecting our property to the
sheriff hammer in three months. -,
The statistics of the prices they have paid
us for our cotton in the fall compared with
the prices they have seld it for two or three
months later, will show that they have re-
ceiyed from four to six cents more for our
cotton than they have paid; and after de-
Quoting transportation leaves them margin
of about three cents clear profit, or
about fifteen dollars on every bale-equal
to about fifty millions Of dollars on
our cotton crop alone for the last
six or eight years; and this in addition to the
hundred millions of taxes to pay them gold
interest on their bonds.
Gentlemen, please spare us the hollow
mockery of your pretended sympathy on ac-
count of the boil worms until you show us
that you have true sympathy for us by help
ing us to destroy the greater evil. But no.
we have not word of sympathy from any
of you on account of this far greater evil.
On the contrary, you will whoop for so-called
Den ,cracy, now surrendered body and soul
to tn bankers commune, and join in the
howl bond holders, bankers and money
changers and radicals for destroying our pres
ent coed greenback paper money, and for re-
funding the bonds for forty years and per
petuating the power of the national banks
TO prey upon US. :,
Gentlemen, please spare us the hollow
mockery of your pretended sympathy on &C.
count Of the small ravages of the boil worms
while you lend your aid to perpetuate the
power of the bankers and bond-holders tc
tax and plumber us according to their own
sweet will. B. j. G.