The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-05-09
Buy for Cash and MAKE Your Own Guapo


j. ROYAL, Dep. Organizer.
Buy for Cash and Maze YOnr Own Guano.
Ext act from an address de
live ed by Walter Zimmerman
befo G the Spartainbu ( County
! Alliance
III the organization Of the
Fa mers' Alliance hopes to be a
success it must cope upon u cash
bass. Do not criticise me until
you hear me. | know that MANY
0tu5 have "rUn an account so
long that we would feel | Ike
fish out OF water to run one. (
know that when the husband
announced at the freside, Well
go on the cash system this year,
Mary" that the good wife " ould
be q loss to know what had got
ten "hOld of John" and the
children would stare vacantly
up the chimney, wondering wha
was going to happen. But |
know two, that at the end of a
few years, poor Indebted John
would soon come proudly up the
front walk to meet joyful Mary
at the front door, tnstead of hay
ing to find her in the chimney
corner, with the long outlines
OF debt upon her detected face.
l know that t lie children would
be happier, for they wonld get
a blight smile and d lot Of paid
Tor luxury instead Of a frown
and a piece Of 'bocken' candy.
This store accounts the Judge
WHO plonounces upon the farm
er sentence cons gning him 10
a social and financial he'll.
This store account is the rat
which gnaws a hole III the far
mers con crib door; it is the
sampler Of the farmers cotton
bales, which leaves nothing but
bagging and ties; it s the can
non which npturns Jackson's
rdrapet and turns the enemy of
life time dett into our financ. al,
educational, and social New o.
leans.
Brethren, if there is one cause
OF the EN- barrassed condition of
the faEme' to day, that cause is
the store account balanced with
the farmers interest.
'But how can | pay cash when
L haven't gotit?' y stout cues ).
ton, but its solution is poss. BILE,
yea-it is not impiacticab!e. In
the first place raise large part
OF your own store. AS | Lave
intimated, twenty-five dollars
will buy the necessities of a one
horse farm for one year. Of
course this means outside of gu
ano. But let me insist that It
is not q sin to raise IL crop w; TIL
out guano. Make q large part
OF you" own guano during ia
teivIts between work seasons.
mind you. Then if you have
no cash borrow it. If YOU paw
ten per cent for money It is
cheaper during Il large part of
the year than t.. pay ten per
cent above first cost of goods.
Ten per cent above cost Of goods
does not mean ten per cent per
1t might mean 1000
per cent. But the fact is iner-
cannot afford to sell on
time at ten PEI cent Per annum
above first cost. ,
But can | borrow money ,, S
W e answer that a good lien or
mortgage can bring money as
well as goods, Especially is !
this true if an honest, industri-
ousnaa is behind the mortgage,
and ! am not troubling myself
about how a dishonest man can !
get money, Tor he knows we'll
enough himself.
| say that lien with an hon
est man behind is gold.
This plan Will work. Whv7t
Because there is money to loan. !
md all the loaners want is col 7
lateral. Other Alliance States
ire working this plan, and what ,
Texas can do, South Carolina
an do.
And what Texas and South
Carolina can do North Carolina
AN do. Brethren of Sampson,
5laden and Duplin, will you set
he remainder Of the State an
Example in this direction =