The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-05-27

cabinet officer is 4 step in the right
direction, hut in one important =
feature it falls very far short of
what il ought To be-this defect is '
cured by the amendment offered
by Mr.. Money providing for the
collection of statistical iniorma-
tion for the benefit OF the farmer
and a system of reports by which
he will be constantly advised of
everything affecting his interest.
We take the following forcible ex
tract from Mr.. Moneys admirable
speech in support of his amend.
ment;
"The Southern States produced
last year about sajO,000,OOO worth
of cotton, yet tho department Of
agriculture has one reporter in
each county of the cotton growing /
region, while Bradstreet's Com ]
mercial Agency has three. TWAS /
about the 10th of December before
the cotton-growers knew what the
cotton crop of last year was. 1t
was about the 10th of December
before we had anything like def.
mite information that there was a
shortage of about 100000 bales.
| say there is not to-day member
Of the Committee on Agriculture,
: nor u member Of this House, and |
J might perhaps say not a man in
the United States who can come
within 3O,0OO,OO0 of bushels of the
present supply OF wheat. There
: is no difficulty in so enlarging your
!, field of observation, so multiplying
[ your stations and observers that
{ the department could publish
i week by week body Of statistics
L that would apprise the people OF
this country and of every other
|, country of the condition of ouI
j. crops, and approximate within q
@ very immateriGl margin of the rea
g amount of the seasons crop. w,
{. got the news on the 10th of De
~ cember that the cotton crop wal
IL 1000, 900 bales short. There is II,
reason why the agricultural dc
Il, partmont should not have told thi
n country by the lst Of 0ctobe
st within 100000 bales of that crop
ID BY the 1st of October the crop ha
le gone out of the hands Of the pre-
DC ducer, of the farmer, of the labor
ns er who has wrought the soil of tn
n earth into this snowy harvest. Tn
producer has absolutely parte
ID, with the possession Of his crop I
te the middlcman, who has shippe
Ia. it, or is about to ship it, to his mel
ed chant in New Orleans or Ne
ne York, or wherever ho may b,
of and the information comes all to
te late to be valuable to them. Th
Id man who has worked through tn
varying seasons of the year TO pr,
d, ducc the crop is not the benelic
sh ary of the increase of price cause
IL by this shortage of l,OOO,O 900 bale
n Who is the beneficiary The spe'
id ulator, the gambler in futures
th and "corners." The Spectator
n get the news Of the true conditio
I'd of the crop, and the consequenc
,d is that there is a corner in cOtto
ed or grain, and the farmer gets
nc poor subsistence, and the specul
ie, tor gets the profits. They hay
ld their agents throughout the Wes
r. the Northwest and the Soutl
M they obtain full information in r.
a gard to the crop, and then there
ay a eorner,p in Which the produce
n has no stock, which build1ip su'
rs den fortunes for few who to
y not, at the expense of the man
ld who cat their daily bread in I'll
ny sweat to their brows."
IL Want of space prevents us Ia
III ing before our readers in full tli
Ial the ablest presentation of the farr
III ers' right to Legislative recognition
that has, perhaps, ever been lai
"a, before Congress. Mr.. Money
&C. justly regarded one Of the mo-
al promising among all the young'
" political leaders of the South wi
have come into prominence With
a, the past few years, and his distri
nd should see that he is kept in q p
Vs. sition that he has filed with SUE
credit and ability. The whole Sohi
feels interested in keeping such
man in the public service.
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