Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-09-05


lemon squeezer is. : We'll, the cash
isthe best lemon squeezer I know.
Why, it just squeezes and squeezes
the price, unsil it makes the mer-
chant look two or three times to see
what it is. Pay yonr retail merchant
the cash; with this he can squeeze
the wholesale dealer, and the whole
sale dealer in turn will squeeze the
factory. Always hunt the best
sales. ,s
The retailer has no more credit
than the farmer. / can discount his
bills at seven per cent any day. The
wholesalers bills can be discounted
at five per cent and the jobbcr's at
two and ahalf per cent.
The Alliance Exchange can help
you. Suppose you want to order
wagons. Give your order to your
sub-Alliance Committee, who send
the order to the County Alliance
Treasurer, who transmits it, together
with the orders for the county, to
the State Alliance Treasurer, ana he
goes into, the market and buys di-
reotly from the manufacturer. He
then ships them out in lots to the
various sub-Alliances. Individual
farmers, under this system, can buy
their wagons at wholesale prices. In
Texas our first order was for 1000
wagons. To the Exchange these
wagons were reduced $40. This
was done for tho farmer without
making war on anybody. We sim
ply went into the market and bought
our wagons at wholesale prices as
you can do to-day.
Why can't country folks be soci-
ETY.? Make your own fashions.
Why do you want to pattern after
rich town and city folks? They
make their styles to suit their purse
and fastidious tastes, and we, fool
like, try to adopt them. Amt an
honest man just as good in duck as
broadcloth2 Why should your
brawny, strong, broad shouldercd
country youth envy the spider-legged
dude of the town and city, who
parts his hair in the middle, because
if he tried to part it on the side he
is afraid he would miss his head
Amt this dude a miserable speci-
men of humanity?. Therefore
have your country fashion, just MS
town-folks have their fashion. You
can have this in and through your
organization. Let your own man
hood and the virtue and beauty of
your women be your happiness.
Why do your women want to put on
this modern contrivance by which
they reform themselvcsp I think it
is ugly. I believe woman, just as
God made her, is the most beautiful
thing on this green earth. And why
do they want to spoil their beauty2
BY your organization you can get
the worth of your labor. I believe
that "the laborcr is worthy of his
hire" The success of the Alliance is
the harbinger of better days. We
want freedom from the dominion
and oppression of capital. We
want the value of our labor. If the
farmer was paid for his labor in pro-
portion to professional men, cotton
would be fifty cents per pound; if in
proportion to skilled labor, twenty
cents. This would enable the hired
laborer OH your farms to be paid s25
per month. He ought to have it;
We would have better times. 1t
would put more money in circula-
ton. The total currency in circula-
tion in the United States to-day is
only $3.50 per capita. We need
more money in circulation. 1t is
too hard to get. The Southern
farmer raises ninety per cent of the
cotton in the world. He wants fail
price for mis- labor and produce and
he will not rest until he gets it.
We must stop mortgaging oul
farms, especially to these foreign
capitalists and monied corporations
We must fight the accumulation Of
wealth in the hands Of the few. This
centralization of wealth in our day is
menacing the welfare and perpetuity
of the government. Rome, the once
proud mistress of the world, whom
all of her wealth was owned and
controlled by fifteen hundred men,
soon crumblcd and fell. SO did
classic Greece, when five hundred
men stood as the representatives OF
her riches. We arc following in
their footsteps as fast rs time car