The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-07-18

Is not ~ WIN W bAdiH IT,
Money must have flax and
rehux. 1t is IN the hands OF Cow
ernment. II Is but IN engine of
evil unless i can get IN the peo-
pies hands. Industry alone at
tracts it aud nothing else wilt IN
duce its regular flpw.
We oppose class legislation,
and yet We favor sugar bonuses
10 the sagar producer. We want
all home business pitronlzed, but
we want no tariff to protect hone
interests.
We have salt mines in Lou
lana, but tree trade brings salt
from Liverpool cheaper than we
can mine it at Iberia, and the
money that should have stayed 10
the country paid out for salt here,
flows away to England and stays
there.
If pension bill passes, that
puts millions out INTO the hands
of the people. We oppose that,
still we want more money IN the
peoples hands, and are trying to
fix up plan, gigantic as it is I'M,
practicable, 10 hold cotton 10
force an upward market, when
we owe the cotton to our mer-
chants here for things we never
should have bought,
Eng Is not dependent on
US for our cotton. Egyptian aud
Indian Or Surat cotton and that Of
other countries are at her disposal.
while we have oGr own home
market only at our disposal, and
we decline to protect these against
foreign manufactrres.
If we want mo"ey we mus. put
out an industry that Will bring il
to US, and we must learn some
small lessons IN home economy IN
order that we may make some
thing at home. and not ruin our
selves by buying everything
under deeds OF trust, and then
blame the Government and sp-cu
lators because we are IN a tight.
Ii is az home where the farmers
reforms must begin. and not in
printed MONEY and easy plans
made for him at Washington
There is too many fine buggles
around our churches to bespeak a
poverty stricken people. 1t
these all are paid for our wealth
has gotten itself on wheels: if we
are 10 debt for them we should
not blame the Government with it.
1T our fathers were successful
farmers 1t was because they were
Industrious and frugal, not he
cause they were fostered by gov
) ernment. No clique nor govern
ment can fetter the industrious
sober. frugal farmer, and none Of
he benefits projected by AllIancC
; men can give him al upllft if ht
lacks all the above qualities. While
we work but foHr-sIxths of Ou'
tune aud insist on buying even
the veIy manure we apply o oul
land on credit, We can never pIos-
per. Interest at one per cent pei
: unnum would break men who
I have hut their time and who
squander that. who buy all Their
supplies on credit AMI who never
study to make one dollar IN hand
, do the work Of two.
!. If our farmers VIII let politics
and whisky and tobacco alone,
AMI will practice the industry and
economy of their fathers and hus-
band their credits and guard 1t a.
women do their honor, we may
then laugh AZ political bosses aud
sugar trusts aud combines. If ".
do this we will see money flow.
ing back again to The chests and
OLD stockings and we will neither
have 10 run af'er legislatures noi
merchants nor alliances to help u,
out.
Industry, prudence, economy
, are the three great factors thai
havs deserted our farmers. Viii
these back in their places. We
will root out d-.ds of trust and
: become again the masters, ant
not the seris of the land.
Farmers, instead of running
after Alliances, should each hay,
/ him one at home, of which b,
) should be president with head
quarters in the field, and his wifi
+ vice-prrsilent with beadquarteri
10 rle kitchen. Let hard wUll
,nd 90. debt be the pass woid
ss they wall come through.
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