The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-08-05

u pEmet tauae OF tue depression of the farni.3
ing ihte etesk day ;.t,d tl,s stcSp
sof the policy " hiclts sy0u encouraged direct.
sly after the war m planting too much cot;
TORN planting affection. I:tell you the
primary idea Of farming, the very idea.
which the farmers ought to adopt IS to:
make whatever they requiresS md whatever
I the earth will produce. The idea respect.
fully submit to you is not to make money
too fast-a great many OF us have been
making haste to get rieh-but to mAke all
that you consumes and that the earth will
produce. Don't have your Corn cribs and
. smoke houses in the West. ] have heard
sensible men say, land they were parlona-
sbles in saying it, ! suppose directly after
the War, that it was to the advantage and
Interest Of the farmer to make cotton hero,
and buy his corn and meat from tho West,
B and one or,two, perhaps, have succeeded: in
.sdoinsit,- LAT the majority have failed and
know vl instances that would be familiar
. to some of you, Of men who lived at An
son-farmers who resided Just Vest of
that know Of two notable instances
sofmenwho always have been grain farmers,
whose cotton, which is sold for cash, rep
tresents the surplus entirely. Those men
|. sold corn at Anderson G. H.-they sell it
there every syear--and ! have asked each
one OF them, How do you stand with the
merchants of our town ?n Each of them
said, ssWe dom owe them dollar" And
Ecne of. them Is getting to- be one Of the
large landowners OF our country. He.
makes the produce at home; Not only
! that, for he makes corn enough to do him;
/ and his cotton represents the surplus and
you farmers have surely found out by this
time that cotton is = very expensive crop,
| and you may work 1T es you please on pa.
per, hut when itscomes TO the facts OF the
scases it don't pay ont-itdon't pay OUT y
.am not an old man, though Lam getting TO-
heene OF the older men OF the country, yet
u lean remember before the war, and men
here Who remembe q with. me, will bear me
witness, that there was; not sack OF corn
s0r q barrel of -four before the warimported
sintoithe town Of Anderson; and believe
smere, Portable and jiless, in debt than
staey are to-day, Very we'll, gentlemen, !
suggest to you that there is one Of theca
ses which We have from which we are suf-
farihnig now, for you vii Ilnot produce what
YOU consume on your own farm.% You
buy It from the; est corn; bacon, Afour.
SItsis one ofsthe principal farhcles OF COM
merce in our town. There commences the
credit system, Having to buy your, sup
plies, by the time the bill is paid of, no
surplus Is left. Then to buy these supplies
5on a credit Here comes In the agricultu-
raj lien. This Is oneof those things in our
country that phas produced an abnormal
and unnatural condition of credit; It's
the security our merchants demand, and
have little confidence in it when they get
:it.. What Is the result |? Men find them.
selyesin debt at the end of the year, and
are utterly unable TO pay out. There is,
too; = believe, natural feeling Of !antago-
snismsprod duced by these agricnlt liens.
.sAs they are looked upon as risky uncertain
security provisions are made 70 protectth
merchants from loss. ]: don't speak to
blame am speaking of facts as We find
them TO exist III our country to-dsy-and
ythe result lis that men find out by the time
ltheys have made their cotton, and it does
mot paythem ont of debt, that they are in
saaworae condition than before and they
SreIiaVa sfhei asafYes from debt. and every