The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1883-06-29
WHY FAnMERs DON'T PROSPER.

in very bad state. He said that it had
actually conc to it that man could not
make living farming in this country,
and If he could find anybody To give his
land to he was going to hunt new grounds
| was sorry for him, for he did cok power
fully long faced. Says L: "ITavc you tried
to make living farming ?""IIavc tricd."
he said, with look that indicated that
was fool 81 have worked myself and
folks nearly to death, and we have been get
ting poorer every yc,r." That is strange"
says |; ''somc people do make living right
hero in this country have net found it
hard to do"
hfTr taking long look at me, he said {:
II ca.fci NY last cotton to market tothcr
day, and when l went to square up l was
left in deSt for meat and bread last year,
and now! have got everything to buy this
year. Them merchants just take all 4
poor farmer can make, aud then they amt
satisfied. We all work hard and have n 9TH
ing, and I've arc always in debt. This is
no country Tor white man" AS he said
this his voice trembled and he shook. 1t
made me real sorry; for he is good, hard
working man. Said I: GLOW do YOU
manage, Ieke Pitkin? Do you make a
good garden and have plenty of vegetables
in THAR season p Looking down at his
feet, he replied !: "Do you reckon l have
got nothing to do but paddle in garden !?
| tell yen tits ah T can DO to work my
crop. etRell," says I, you have been on
the sama place fifteen years--reckou you
have lois iof fruit Of different sorts to cat in
summer I'D fall and put up for water"
"[ reckon I amt. l need my land for my
crop" f''Do your raise plenty Of Irish ard
sweet potatoes to do you ?" 'plenty while
they last, aud that amt long" "Do you
keep COVE to give you milk ard butter ?"
Sometimes" "Dces your wife raise many
chickens aud turkeys, and such like p
GLOW GIN she, when she has to help me
with the crop?" do you make plenty of
corn, oats and hay for your own use ?"
''Of course don't, when am obliged to
plant a,tull crop Of cotton to pay my debts
and buy something to cat" Several ftl-
lows sitting around said That's what's
the matter with Ssllio." Says I, Friends, ),
| want to,tsll ,wEakisahe paiter s1sifh- saiiinaa
and friasrsa Jaae, Ind sRona, apd5 BOZ,
and zeko haae and all the rcstof you. You
say you can't make living, and the truth
is you are no! trying to make living. You
arc trying to make money by raising cotton
to buy living with, and there is no reason
in that. Now, listen to me Il lit;le, for
your own good: You and yours work the
year round to make cotton and then you get
your meat from | 900 miles away, corn,
-four, hay and so on come the same way
The Yankees sell us their grass at high
price, and We work ourselves to death to
kill grass. Il you will do as tell you,
inside of three years evcry one Of you will
be easy" Several of them spoke right up
and said. Let us hear it." Very wcll,"
says l. "Go home TO night and get your
wives aud children all around you and tell
them just bowoyou have been doing, and
how 4 s.s worked. Then say, Il propose
to turn over new leaf. First, wo will not
spend one cent we can help, not a cent for
tobacco, whiskey nor clothes moro than is
necessary. We will get COWS enough to
give us plenty Of milk and butter, and We
will attend to them, and we will get some
sows and pigs and look after them There
will be good garden and plenty of chick.
ems raised, We will plant plenty Of pota-
toes, corn, and whatever is to live on. In
short, we will so in for making living
first, and something to sell next You will
find all will agree to it. Then just stick to
that for three years, and my word for it you
will never say again thata living can't be
made in this country.
Now il any of you doubt it come to see
me, and will show that it can be done,
and | Will show you that it is done"
'Kissimmec" is the name OF thriving
town Florida. Young ladies' living there do
not dar, to name the place Of their residence
in the hearing of strangers.
1t is stated that every man is made for
the world. We may say of some men that
we wouldn't have any more made like them
for the world.
A Missouri TORNADO --Chilicothc
Mo-, june ia tornado visited this dis.
trict yesterday a number Of buildings
were unroofed here. Dcanis Wolf was