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Capt. RobeFs ". lsanks; sseesa
i Reviewed.
Editor Patron. The eloquent BIZ,
illogical speech of Capt. Robert II
Banks, made TO nowndes Comfy
rlsnters and Farmers Club, pub.
llshed in your paper OF September
"a, gives a true statement of the
Ills that agriculture is subject to,
bat The primary and potent causes
OF which, and The remedies therefor
ne has most conspicuously failed
to notice. He ascribes these signs
OF wreck and decay" TO bad man.
agement. II a mans limbs are 40
fettered that he can not move. it is
not bad management but inability
tnat prevents his escape from i'm
pending danger. He saws:
do you not see =, the first
glance that we have presented ,e the
world the singular spectacle of can;taI
being controlled and the CAPITALIST.
20 all intents and purposes owned by iafors
tne laws OF trade reversed, and the piainest
teachings OF Political economy ignored in
cur management of the ''colored man and
orotner Have we not seen, year after
year, planters of brains ard means gradu-
any yielding, in plantation management.
one point after another, vainlv trying to
sAusis the insatiate demands of an unedu-
ealeo class OF laborers until intelligence
and money had no rights on their native
heath, or having them dared maintainpr
Now there must be a cause more |
potent than the ,ciH of the inteIli-
gent capitalist, TO force this yield- |
ing OF bis interest into the hands
OF the slothful and unfaithful ser.
want he employs. That cause will
DC surely found in the operation of
the crop mortgage and lien laws;
which have enabled foreign capital
through its agents, the country
merchants, to render labor indie.
pendent of the landholders. and
consequently prevent their control
u 1t, so as to force the cultivation
u cotton to the exclusion of ncarly
'verything e'se, and thereby con-
roi aud cheaper its market value.
Is this labor is obtained under the
mortgage laws, for its bare support
Iithout wages, the landholder can
OF compete with it, because he G
'ouid De compelled to pay wages t
'r the labor his competitor has t
emoralized and which he can not Q
Nearly all attempts to d
,mpete have resulted in the "signs q
wreck and decay" Capt. Bank. v
truthfuIly describes. b
The remedy then is to remove p
e obsticle that blots our statute Il
'oks. Which will leave the agri- q
Iltural laborers dependent on and n
loer the control of the landhold o.
., who will then be unfettered al
q at will can diversity his crops. y
lprove his soil, repair buildings Il
q make his plantation selfsup- "
rting. bl
Again Capt. Banks says: tr
'inasmuch then as agriculture Ian u
snes, when commerce is crippled. If %
comes the duty and interest of the tiIIer ar
the soil to foster and encourage rail- III
ID building" -
Now this is placing tie cart be- =
9 the horse, unless he thereby r.
ant to recognize the right of to
1ormal supremacy which COM 40
rec has opened under the lien co
rs, in making agriculture de. te,
,dent on it, for just the reverse
he natural relation they bear to eli
q other, for both commercial tn,
railroad interests, and indeed cb
otner interests are absolutely So
PENDENT on agriculture for exists is
e. He further truly says: ar
What we need-what Mississinnians chi
ne 49, a ssa1, cneap transportation to att,
thus furnish the means to develoT, ,bs I
I'm OF which those lands are the basis
ut the means by which he pro-
60 to obtain it is illogical, as il
well recognized fact that the
Ter the amount of business a I
Isportation line can get the rest
sper il can afford to do It. nov wa,
proposes to build more railroads reese
compete with those already in v
tence, which would divide the eve,
unit OF business and conse. mai
'tiy increase the necessary rate. sitio
ansportation to sustain the IN. pres
I'd cost of capital and labor in and
u ing
,ne rafiroaos now In operation and
charging more than q fair rate w
the services performed, they lishe
e public servants, are amena- and
and should be restrained bv the /,
rom preying upon the public as a
ktortionate and Discriminating poIit
). pow
're the tillers Of the soil pos do E,
OF the means, whether Of wing
al or influence. they could use ton.
ch more to their interest bv Re
ting it In manufactures than VIII
liroads: H. o. Dixon. nipse
;kson, Miss, Sept. Is. faith
== pie.
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