The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20

VIII Duy more OF JnOSG VINO take your
surplus, they will buy of you and you
will keep your money at home and the
circulating medium will not be reduced
in volume and you will get your manu-
factured articles cheaper"
Farmer" Mr.. Politician, won't
! these fellows across the water do as
you advise us to dO-buy where they
can buy the cheapest? 1t is not human
nature to buy of another because he
| buys Of you unless you will sell as
cheap or cheaper than others. England
will not buy a pound of cotton or
wheat Of us as long as she can buy it
as cheap or cheaper in India. We
have taken your advice tool long, raised
cotton, failed to diversity our crops,
sent our money North for cheap corn
and manufactured goods and failed to
diversity our crops and keep our money
at home and have kept ourselves poor
Mr., Politician, we are learning q new
lesson in political ecOnomy-tO buy
nothing abroad that we can produce
at home. One objection is to those
fellows across the big pond fixing d
price on what we have to sell. We be-
lieve we should fix price upon al we
have to sell. We know how much it
| costs to raise it and we are willing to
take living price, but we are not will
ling longer to tamely submit to a finan-
| clal system that cOmpels us to submit
to the dictatiOn of Europe. We know
they have deficiencies and must buy
! our surplus, and as soon as we get our
warehouses built so those who are com
PEELED to sell can deposit their non
perlshable produce and receive 50 per
cent. of their value we intend to hold
until we can get living price. If we
have a surplus on hand at the end of
the year, we will curtail production
the next season, and in this way it will
| not effect the market. A surplus for
the world Is better for the world than
| a deficiency, and as long as we can
control it, will not hurt US AS it is
the more we produce the worse we
are off. We believe, under a Just
financial system, a large production Of
the neceSSarieS and luXurieS of life to
be distributed among the people, will
be blessing and not, a curse, as now ;
each class of producers must be able to
fix a living price upon their products
Until we can do this we are slaves, the
hewers of wood and drawers of water
! for mOneyed aristOcracy. Mr.. Poll
tician, we know we can buy goods to-
day for One-half we could TWENTY-FIVE
years ago, and our condition grows
worse and worse the cheaper every
| thing grows.
We have tried your plan for twenty
five Years, and now we are going to try
| ours. We intend to fix our prices and
act let those Liverpool fellows fix them
v,r.y longer Hep Us tosta"ry outaou1'
plan or suggest one better than the Sub
Treasury, but don't you forget, we in
tend to place ourselves where we can
control the fruits Of our labor and fix
a living price on all we have to sell
Then we can take care of ourselves and
feed the world With plenty of money
to put the idle millions to work, we
will soon consume all we produce but
cotton.
Mr.. Politician, the wants of the peo-
pie are not half supplied, and it will
not do to cry over production for exist
| ing conditions. It is under-cOnsump-
tiOn, resulting from a pernicious finan
cial system, that robs the people, We
know what we want, and we are de
| termined to have it,
JAMES MURDOCH.