The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1890-10-08

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nv friends Gus Bates and Tom Loyn,
and old man Burge, and G. NJ. Jones
and Conner and Tumlin and John
Brown, and a host Of other big far
mers in the county. They have all
got rich enough to leave home when
then please, and send their children
off to college, but still they are not
happy. They seem to think we have
been doing something against them,
but [ declare upon my honor L
haven't. They say they want a ware
house and a loan from the govern
ment, 50 they can hold their cotton
and force the manufacturers to pay
Is cents a pound for it. Just so.
The great West wants warehouses
for their grain, so as to make us pay
So d busheI for wheat and 81 for
corn. If this thing all happens,
what is to become of me? [ won't
have more than a shirt and a half all
the year round, and my wife will
wear her eyes out patching undergar-
ments. Carl and Jessie won't have
but one biscuit a piece and nothing
but Eaters to carry to school. What
will become of the shoem aker and
the carpenter and tie brickmasons
and the day laborers? What will
become Of all the poor folks and the
negroes and the cotton piekers? L
have before me the tables Of the last
census. and find that there are
4,250,OOO farmers and planters in the
United States, and there are l3,OO0,
1000 Notwithstanding peo-
pie who are not farmers. There are
5000, 900 laborers on the farms who
work for wages. What will they say
to -four at S5aSlG2 There / over
1000, 900 and nearly as many rail
road operators and half as many
milliners and factory hands, women
and children. What is to become Of
them if the farmers get ups corner
on the n~ecessaries of life? One of
England's greatest statesmen was
Richard Golden, whose powerful
speeches abolished the duty on grain
and the inscription on his monument
is. '.He gave the poor cheap bread"
Tell YOU mx-GAsssAa-fniAn1n-
not do. You have
reason in demands.
BsfMg5g6es have led you astray-I
say it Observation-Disclosures
have led you astray from the original
purposes of your order. Don't you
know that you will never live to. see
your cotton in a government ware
house? Don't you know that you
will never live to see a dollar of that
| S64,0 600, 900 that your leaders say is
coming right away from England to
advance on your cotton? Don't you
know that all these 'promises are a
delusion and a snare that will fade
into mist after the elections are over? [
do confess to some grief and mortif-
cation over the credulity of my farming
friends. I feel but little interest III
politics. My politics is for the South
to go on prospecting as she has done
since the wal. The farmer, the Ia
borer, the mechanic, the merchant
every class has prospered. Diligence
in business, and a contented DISPOSE
ton will make us all happy. There
are no people upon earth that have
as much to be thankful for as We
have. I feel like I am alone in
these views, for I know that the press
is against me, and most. Of the PEG
ple. but [ feel better for having had
my say whether it pleases anybody
or not. I see politicians dancing and
prancing around the Alliance, and
talking big about corn and cotton
who don't know the difference be-
tween a bull tongue and a twister.
Heard of one the other day Who
said that there would be a very short
crop of cotton for he had noticed
that the red blossoms We're falling Oft.
He said that just as oon as the far
mer had anything to sell the price
went down. Cotton was down and
fodder had dropped from 81 a hun
dred to 81, and sweet potatoes had
already gone down to 60 cents a
bushel, and in two months from nov
corn would fall 25 OF so per cent. We
must have a big warehouse, said he,
and store the produce and keep it
until the spectators and the monop-
polists 7 whipped out. Maybe
that maj wants to be a friend to the
farmers, but he don't know how.
He knows nothing of the laws Of
supply and demand. During the
tabernacle meeting l had to pay 25
cents for chickens that hadn't done
sucking. Before that they were
plenty at Is cents. The Methodist
preachers did that, but they didn't
mean to and I'm not complaining.
I'll do anything for q preacher.
BILL ARP.
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