Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
FARMERS MAKE" NO PRICES.
Some Facts ny Livingston of Georgia,
MhIch Every Farmer Ought TO Know.

Some Facts by Livingston of Georgia,
which Every Farmer Ought to Know.
In a recent speech Hon. /. F. Livingston,
president Of the Georgia state Alliance, gave
The following facts and figures. They
speak more eloquently and earnestly and
rfcctiveiy than all the sophistry ever in
vented 10y the old party press:
The farmer makes no prices. There isn't
2 farmer in this house that in fifteen years
las ever brought butter, eggs or cotton to
Jawreuceville and got the price he asked.
He must say TO the merchant, How much
will you give me for my butter?" and then,
How much will you take for your calicol'
Tie merchant buys and sell at his own
price.
No merchant and no lawyer would carry
on business IS you farmers have been
obliged 10 carry 1t on. The traders have
allowed Us 10 keep body and soul together,
and ;hat's all, but We should be thankful
hat they have not treated US worse, as
'nsv had the power to do.
What has caused this poverty?
Tie financial policy of the government,
-ue system established by our national leg
i,.a'.ou.
In >GG the farmers owned 20 per cent of
The property in Georgia. and the farmers of
'hc United States owned is per cent of the
curire property Of the country.
day only Is per cent of the people own
A9Gles, and in Georgia only "a per cent of
,nr property is held by farmers.
Ia lS49 Charles Dickens said tramp as
his country would be rs strange sight in
flaming sword at midday in the heavens.
d. lSl6 there were 3,000.000 trampS in the
United States
The towns and cities of Georgia have
grown II the expense of the country. In
ten years the property in towns and cities
la, increased 500. COZ, 900 while in the rural
q .Tr = f4a cad
II 1910 the congress passed the famous
contraction act II was not rigidly en-
forced, however, until 1858 In 1866 the
total circulation was Sl,6g3, 319, 5I13, amount
.Eg 70 80 per capita. IL ten years the Cir
cIauoH fell 10 SI66, 549.09., and the money
.a circulation was reduced 10 S5.45 per
capita
Ia eleven years there was lost by ''con-
traction Of the currency q total of SO, li9, =
ts,.4l5, shared by the people as follows:
Lost by business men, l,3N, 75l, III.
Lost 10y farmers, 81, GA. $780, 9i.
Lost by laboring classes, 81. SO0, 900, 900.
tn" circulation and its effects upon the
Zines IS shown by the following table:
iNil-S,2s 900. 000-Hard times.
I>l6-SllU, 600 0O0-Good times.
lsl>-S+0, 900, U00-Panic.
lN52-$f0 OO0, O00-Fair times.
isa.-Sl50, 600 0O0-Booming times.
'N13-$5S, coo, 000-Panic.
l>+I-$l05, 900 000-Good times.
l>5i-S?l5 600, 0O0-Booming times.
.sf>--Sl50, 600 000-Panic.
1861, 65l, 22S22, SI3, $50 misunderstanding
times.
l>,S-S12S, 2l9, ZOO, 51S3 failures-Paric.
le,T-Sj96, 4+3, 900, $50 failures-Prostra-
t..l
In lStiS certain farmer in Georgia came
20 town with 500-pound bale of cotton he
and his wife had raised. He sold it for 30
y.ats 4 pound. getting $50 for the bale. He
p..a his taxes, $40; bought cooking stove,
-. a suit of clothes Tor SIS; dress for his
.e for So; a barrel of -four for Sl2: 100
bounds Of meat for SIS, and had $50 in clear
cash eft.
in l>1i, nine years later, the same farmer
carried a 500-pouud bale to the same market
a-i sold it for S42.34 He paid his taxes,
SiJ, and had So. 81 left. This so demoralized
lin that he got dead drunk and dead broke.
lie prices for his cotton had contracted,
Sg- -IXes and other things hadn't