Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-28
A FARMER TALKS.

Young Men-COmments on the Tariff
and the Davis Sherman Controversy
ENON, JASPER Co, GA, Jan. 23.-Are
the farmers prosperous? Ifnot, why not ?
These are vital questions that need more
than passing notice. Who can answer
them correctly if the farmers cannot? But
can't the farmers answer them? should
think that they can. l see some of our
leading newspapers try to answer them
by proving from certain statistics. taken
from the Agricultural Department. that
lands have advanced in value, and farm
ers, therefore, are growing richer every
year. Does that prove that they are grow.
ing more wealthy and independents Bv
no means. Does not our population in
| crease rapidly? Therefore there is a
| greater demand for homes. What is the
true state OF things? | can answer for
our section, l think, better than anv
/ newspaper man or commercial tourist. /
have been farmer ever since l was large
enough to work on farm. am one now.
| and l think that l know some
thing about the farmers and their
| condition. Truly they are called the
hardy sons Of toll, and they feed the
teeming millions of the earth,
HAVE SEEN II STATED
that small farmers as a class are USUALLY
more prosperous than larger ones. I
| think that the reverse is decidedly true.
Men with large farms are generally in a
tOlerably prosperous condition. while the
small farmer, after his debts are maid. has
very little or nothing left, so he has to 20
to the merchant very early in the wear to
get supplies IN order that he may be able
to make crop and have sometime 10
feed his family on. He works hard All
the year, he is obliged to live economi-
cally there is no danger Of the merchant
Dountlfully supplying him ), and at the
END OF the year the bulk OF his crOp be-
longs TO the merchant. But YOU say
he Onght not to buy on time. How
can he help it? He can't work
unless he eats. He hasn't got it at home.
nor anywhere else. So he is obliged to
make the best terms that he can with his
merchant. If he has the money he can
buy meat say at 10 cents per pound cash:
MS merchant probably will charge him Is
cents, payable next fall. / once said to a
merchant: lone thing l like in YOUR
house, you make very little difference be-
tween your cash and time prices" He
replied: ''We don't with you, but we
make a great deal Of difference with the
most OF men," Is that right? While he
mas the legal right to charge one man one
price and another man another price, is it
morally. right? We should obey the
golden rule, Mr.. Editor, in all things, and
do unto others as we would have them do
unto us. The last class generally in
cludes the renters and small farmers.
VINO have managed to get behind
and are likely to hold their own.
Is THERE NO HOPE FOR THE YOUNG
MAN?
There is. Let him work for wages or any
other honorable way and be economical.
In few years he will have money enough
to buy him home and a horse and sup
pies enough to last him one year. Then
let him marry nice girl and 90 to house
keeping. Don't marry until you have
home to carry your bride to. If YOU do
the probability is that you will never own
one. How beautiful the old adage, ''Be
1t ever so humble there is no place like
home"
We thank you, Mr.. Editor, for the bold
stand you have taken in opposition to the
protectionists. We, the farmers, are
with you, and we will aid you by patron
lzlng and circulating your valuable pa
per, the savannah News. We want
cheap goods, cheap shoes, cheap hats.
cheap blankets, and everything else we
wear. If our people can't manu-
iactlre goods and sell them to us as
cheap as Great Britain can let them quit
n o.
10 BUY our goods as cheap as possible. II
the tariff on goods was abolished our fac
tories would not stop manufacturing
them. But everybody connected with
them, from the Presidents down to the
lowest officials, would have to economic
and have their salaries reduced We live
IN last age, and a great many people
Try 70 I'VE 100 tast-beyOnd their income.
Hurrah Tor Senators Vest and Vance for
thor hlO Hnfnnnn Of 90 ~
ana southern honor. Although we have
in good faith accepted the situation. our
conquerers ought not td@xpect us to call
President jeff Davis an arch-fiend and
traitor.
WE HAVE NOT SUNK THAT Low
in the scale of humiliation and degrade
ton yet, and trust we never viii. We
regret to see the old wounds laid open
afresh, but Gen. Sherman threw the first
stone at Mr.. Davis, and the ex-President
hurled 1t back at him with such force and
accuracy as to make the wool fly. | trust
Gen. Sherman Will be little more care
tul hereafter how he asserts things that
ne knows are not true. He should have
learned something from his Wade Hamp-
ton controversy, but it seems that he
is very slow to learn. But let US have
peace If our Northern friends will let us.
There has been a much smaller area
sOWn IN small grain this season than
usual, but we are not done yet. Corn
crops were very short with us last season,
and 1t will be best for us think to sow
tOlerqhly large Oat crop.
We had the heaviest snow storm of the
season to-day.
don't think there is any scarcity OF
hands in our section.
Some of our farmers seemed to be I'M
easy about the recent cold weather killing
the Oat crop. After the oat is up the Their
mOmeter viii have to get below 16 to kill
the oat in my judgment. X.