The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-01-28
THE ERRORS OF THE FARMERS.
Prom tho southern cuItIva.Or.

selves in a great measure have de-
pressed it by their own ipconsid4 !
crate measures and management.
Can farmer expect to succeed, ii |
he has to buy his corn, his flour,
his meat, and all else he needs on
his farm? 1t is impossible. His
business is to raise on his farm
his corn, his whest, his oats, his
meat, his poultry, and make his
own butter, this is the prime and
important duty Of the farmer, and
Itheno make cotton as his surplus
crop; and the farmer that SO man-
| ages will be successful man, and
there will be no depression with
| such farmers. j was thu first far
mer, in print Chat / noticed J, who
recommended system being pur3
sued by our Southern farmers after
| the war, when the all-coiton. sys-
tenn was .preyading the minds Of
our farmers--''raise all cotton
and buy all food supplies ]
saw the error our people were
going TO embark in, hence wrote
against it and advised them to
make their own provision crops.
None heeded my advice, bat went
into the all cotton system; a ruin
Gus and bitter experience was the
result, and to this day many are
enthralled aud depressed from
Ipursulng such an, unwisc course.
However, one writer IN Illinois
made issue with me on the sugges-
tions | had made, and advice
! given. He asked me TO prove
how was it profitable fora South
ern farmer to raise his own corn
. and, meat, when lIlinois could fur.
nish him corn and meat, cheaper
: than he could raise IT, The
|, Illinois mans theory may have
: been correct, but he knew moth
ling of tho contingencies attached
IN buying Illinois cheap corn
First, that it was bought by thu
merchant (the middle man) anC
: the merchant sold it to a farmel
: on a credit, at credit prices, whicI
! were fully fifty per cent. profit
! and then adding frelghts and othe
y little contingencies, SO by th
: : time the farmer paid his ,merchan
for cheap Illinois corn, it was tn
7 dearest corn ever swallowed b,
= man or beast, and such are th
y transactions (the farmer $ iollies
=, that have SO rapidly built up an
~ beautIfed our southern towns an
L cities and depressed Souther
y farms and farmers. Farmers a
= aclass, are very credulous patient
= and conservative; like their. 0,
u cupation, they are very elastic
u they can bear contraction or e,
4 pansion most wonderfully, hent
4 / have Of late believed the law
g nature should never have bee
tn iatelfered with by fanatics,
IN tho Negro was no doubt made f
- the Southern farmers. and ii
Southern farmers for the me
81 chants. The Negro has come o
free, but the + farmers are st
i.l bound to the merchants, and ia
~. mers viil ever be depressed
al long as they are thus bound
" the merchants. Times and met
in cd. have, undergone u most WI
ne derful change since | begun farl
,Hs ing ffty-fYc years ago. 5 Tn
IL may talk of modern progress a
Y science, but | deem it bad pl
- eress snd wrong science that b
SEA taught farmers toldepend on m'
ter chants for their bread and me-
'on | call At progressing wrong E
The foremost, aud ones only ,hoT
ias are to turn about and go ril
be and foremost as the wrong e
sfh has proven, most DISASTROUS, af
bis a long and woful experience
a.a have endeavored to show the err
.s9 in depending on the merchal
nF for food supplies. ! will try n
me to show another error that we I
lts about TO lun into if we are
ls more copsiderate than when
tie ran into the all cotton system.
ust new industry has loomed mp
hat our country, mining iron ores o
making iron, The iron men ine
II. on high protective tariff to ena
ish them to compete with English ir'
a that is contest between Anne
My can capitalists and English capt.
lists, in which the farmers shot
tl,e have nothing to do, for turnout
M it may with them, the farm
nd will be left Ia the same cats z.
as they were with their mercha
and cheap Illinois corn. they '
re, pay dearly for IRON as they hl
are for corn All political economi
Of have clearly shova that a prot
!. tive tariff protects and benefits