The Brookhaven leader., 1890-08-14
Sensible Talk From n Farmer.

ers travel all over the country like
have in the last few weeks and see
the thrift and prosperity among the
farming class. I mean those that are
not always looking for something to-
turn up without turning it up them
selves, aud keeping every body around
them miserable with their croakings.
Where find the eroakers everything
around looks like II was poured out
that ii might be there. Now, in all
common sense, ought such farmers
lead the farming interest ut the cOun-
try9 My answer is NO. We have live
men among as. Let rs bring them to
the front. IF the blind lead the blind,
tIey viii all fall in the ditch together.
Snch men as w. a. Watkins, +. M.
Barlow, Albert Traylor, NJ. L. So
journer. w. J. Keithry, Is. VI. Mathis,
l.. b. Soiomner, W. 4. McDade and
Joel Lilly and a great many more
that could mention IL space would
permit me have right to speak out,
and when they speak their command
is sup and at it," not to build ware
houses all over the country by the
Government to place eut agricultural
products in mt the expense of the tax
payers, with an army of Federal off
GERS appointed by the President of the
United States. Please, farmers, listen
What good would the Sub-Treasury
bill do the poer fsrmer? Can you
place Your agricultural products in Il
warehouse built by the Government
unless you are able to control what
you raise? Don't you know that the
merchant who furnishes you with meat,
bread, clothing, down to brass tack,
will not allow yos TO place your agri-
cultural products in other warehouses
until you pay Your Indebtedness to
him. Would you, if you were in his
placer My answer is no; because ma
ture Is the same the wide world ever.
IL is n well known fact that no man
can get money or goods without Sc
curity. No sane man or woman could
expect to place his or her agricultural
products in Government warehouse
unless by permission of the parties
that have furnished the goods or mon
ey to make the same. SO what good
would it do the poor farmer? Moth
ing, but augment his taxes. Here
is my solution of the vexed question
to us farmers. of the South: When
every farmer in the South shall eat
bread from his own fields and meat
from his own pastures, and disturbed
by 30 creditor and cnsfaved by no
debt, shall sit amid his teeming gar
dens and orchards and vineyards and
barnyards, pitching his crop in his
own wisdom and growing them i'll in
dependence, making cotton his clean
surplus, and selling it IN his own
time and in his chosen market and
not at a masters bidding, getting his
pay in cash and not in a receipted
mortgage that discharges his debt and
does not restore his freedom, then
shall be breaking the fullness of our
day. Great is Hing Cotton! But to
lie at his feet while the Insurer and
grain raiser bind us in subsection, is
to invite the contempt of man and the
reprOach of God. But to stand up
before him and amid the crops and
smokehOuses and wrest from him the
Magma Charta of our independence
and to establish in his name an ample
and diversified agriculture that shall
honor him while it enriches us. This
is to carry us as far in the way of hap
piness and independence as the far
mer working in the fullest wisdom
and in the richest field can carry any
people. We must establish factories
to manufacture our raw materials all
over the Southern States. Then the
time will come when we can worship
God under our own vine and fig tree,
where no one dare to disturb or make
us afraid.-FarmerJ John Wesley Mathis
in Crystal Springs Meteor.