The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1889-02-23

You far more compatlable than the /
card or password of an Alliance,
and YOU must now put yourself in
correspondence with the mnutac-
tory direct and you will find there
is Il bigger rebate behind the man
ufactureIis billthan youever dream.
ed Of in your philosophy. The
merchant makes more by rebate on
orders than on any other thing, all
of which could be saved by a com.
pany Of half dozen farmers drilled
and banded together to simply do
their own business. Farmers cae
not do this thing in an Alliance,
because people obtain member
ship in the order who have but
small ideas of business, while Il few
picked men can protect themselves
from being gobbled mp by merchants
whonow actually claim theproducts
of the land as ''my cotton even
before the crop is gathered.
Farmers have managed SO badly
that capital has deserted their Gu
telprises and al gone ont into
merchandise.
Capital should so direct into the
farms paying Il stated interest
direct to the money holders as ii
docs elsewhere, but here capital
only reaches hcfm1nerin the shape
Of merchandise and if he borrows q
dollar through the year he is de.
ipendent on the merchant for it i.
The direct result of all this is that
the commercial products of the
country all have 10 pass through
mercantile hands and the farmer,
who should hold the grandest bus
mess the world ever saw, stands
aside and begs just for Il little OF
the money he has made. BY this
means the merchants control the
property of the country. They
look upon the farmer as theil
peculiar property and why they
put him in livery and claim hin
body soul and britches, is more
than can be told.
The deplorablc effects of srlcl
management grows worse Will
each succeeding year. The demant
for deeds of trust, are more mum
erous and eXacting each succeed
, ing year These which at first wer'
confined to the lower classes o
society are now crawling mp inyad
ing higher classes and soon tin
merchants viii own the country
) The farmer accepts smali3oisincs
horizon. Isolated from the citie
F., he knows little of business or it
4 requirements. He works hard brl
: gets no better off, and the eindehted
! ness Of the country grows large
I and larger every year
, The negro population, the mos
I ignorant and careless class Z
G laborers known to civilization
Z content with one change Of raimen
g and some corn bread and lIac0
! have become the property Of tn
c merchant. These work for on
j house, deal atone house andbcl0n
u to it us much as they once did {
II their original masters. The All
g anee has struggled to get I'll
y country out Of these troubles bt
l. cannot do so; because it begins il
'e work too high up, and demands Il
u reform economy among itsnember
K Farmers are not advised and hal
II no means to lift themselves ont
r the terrible rut IN which bad finai
u cial management has thrown then
y The people have no public speal
u ers to give them instruction, the
4 read very sparingIy on such ma
a ters. The ministers, their nat;ir
y instructors, rarely touch the que
!, ton Of finance, except to impre!
D upon their hearers the great nccc
Ie sity of giving to such religion
v cllasities as they are advocating.
u There is but one relief for Il
II country. 1t is for the farmers to s
Z on foot efforts to secure their ind
Z pendence. There il no ennity an
Should lie none between the farm
'e and merchant.
st The best OF feelings should !
d cultivated, but the farmer shOul
ID let the world know at an early ds
" that he is a freeman and grew /
Of body's cotton but hisown, and TIN
ii he intended to raise his, very ind
it pendcDtly, not padding ean'
Il. Tor any body, and that for the I
Y, ture he should laber for no me
ii chant and that his labors sliou
70 be for Sally and the children.
IS FARMER.