The Magnolia gazette., 1885-12-11
No. III.
Our Labor.

next time, be will be surprised to find
how much the real estate in the rural
districts of this County has deprecated 1;
all the personal property of the county
too, will sink in sympathy with the land
pulse, and good Mr.. Warner, and the
Supervisors will feel like something is
rotten in Denmark, and the Board OF
Equalizers may be called in to admins
Ter financial emetic to the property
holders, but not all the jack screws of
McComb, moi the lever OF Archimedes
can prize up our fallen values, because
labor is the grand fulcrum on which
these values depend and it is sadly de-
moralized. The great lien law, that
curse of commemorative was inaugura.
ted to cure one OF the evils we now are
deploring bnt 1t has done. can do moth
ing for the country for if the tenant
farmer does not make q crop how will a
lien law provide remedy Can 1t evolve
something out of nothing
Tho white people have control of the
| politics OF the country, it now remains
to be seen whether or not they will con-
troll the labor The merchants have
never ceased to think that in the agrl-
culture of the country there lay grand
fountain of wealth, and that they had
nothing to do but tolet out horses, meat,
corn &c., to the negro tenant aud in the
fall all would come back rejoicing.
| The fall usually brings some long faced
merchants, with several runners out
after very bony horses and poor wagons,
after very nubbing corn, trying to get
something out of nothing. Others have
| tried to bridge the chasm by mortgage
| on old poor lands, and wound up by get
ting the land and then finding them
selves like the man who drew the ele.
phant, at great loss to know what to
do with it,
There is remedy for all this, but it
cannot be applied all at once. The
farming constitution has to be recon
structed. aud this only can be dore by
degrees. We must by degrees weed out
the tenants, Il mean the unworthy
ones) and get to work on new founda-
tion. Five or six active, intelligent far
mers in ancighborhood can start the ball
IN another direction by making positive
conclusions that they will abide by,
Labor must come down in proportion to
the decline of the staple it oultiyates.
Merchants must do legitimate bushes
and not help foster system of tenantry
that impoverlshes the farmer. The far
mer must quit the purchase of supplies
on credit. Unless he does this he is
ruined, Cotton at the present rates
will only pay small bills and small bills
cannot be seen where general credit pre-
walls. Time must be utilized and not
wasted running to shows, big meetings
and excursions. Getting away from the
old antiquated mode of working as ten.
ants aud finding their wages all absorbed
by their supplies, the laborer must be
brought to the knowledge of better
order of things, taught to know that
time is money. and that wasted time
means wasted money, and these two
things combined lead to ruin. He must
then learn that saved time is saved mon
ey and that money carries with it com.
fort, prosperity and Independence
These things newer accompany the ten
ant. The la5orer will soon learn that
tenantry is but another name for sla-
very and that true Independence with
all its blessings comes to the very poor
man only through well-dIrected and
we'll paid labor. This knowledge will
be of more benefit to him than very
many years of free schooling, very much
better for him than the dominance of
any administration. The theory that
the dominance of this or that party will
enable country or people to live and
flourish without a we'll protected, se-
curely operating industry, is dogma
too weak to seduce any but the weakest
OF men. FARMBR.