The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-12-18

hauling those supplies, leaving scarcely dol
lar in general circulation among us from
about March until November every year.
Even the Alliance, with all the good it is
cal able IF and really i, doing, is cucourag.
ing this poverty producing system, throu gh
their aSencie', exchanges, SC. Buying cheap
seems TO be the sole ilea advanced to the
ern supplies, groceries, &C., are ordered and
the Farmers money sent out of the County
to ray for them the only excuse being, "on
the face of the returns" they are supposed
| " 'e ard uo"n I,,le cbco,-
er. But even that is not always tho case
buying cheap, Instead of raising cheap
| supplies, has doae and is doing more mis-
chief to the Farmers Of this County than the
short crop and low price of cotton. Nine
out OF every ten Of the Farmers will tell you
There Is 20 profit in raising cotton aud buy
Ing supplies at any prices" but they will
continue to do that very thing. What can
they or any one else expect, but continued
oppression and poverty among the farming
class! There can be NJ money, no thrift,
no prosperity in any country where the peo-
flc send all the money they carn into other
countries as fast as they make it, ins tead of
Keeping it in circulation among themselves.
to pay debts hrst, and then to '.buy choap
for cash. from their neighbor., what they
canuot raise. The cash always commands
goois at the lowest living prices, at home
as well MS abroad |
Now, we are no. opposing or oven critics.
es haaae e dGjas business
aud heretofore an all-cottpn Farmer, told ,us,
last week that he killcl six beavy hogs this
year that did not cost him over II cents a
pound. Now, if our bacon c,n be raised
here at that or even double that price, and
all the money now sent West for that article
Only was kept among us, just imagine what
nn amount it would put in circulation, and
how g OIL and independent the Farmers of
Union would feel. Six months to raise cot
ton, hve months to raise home supplies, and
one month f,r recreation aud m,rkctipg
would accomplish tho good work.
Aher all, the solution of the whole matter
lies altogether with the individual farmer.
No convention of farmers to propose or adopt
any plan of &C ion for the farmers to unite
upon, TO reduce the cotton area. will. in onr
opinion, be worth pinch of snuff, so far as
my general relief can be produced. Each
Farmer must "work out his own salvation"
ipon his own farm, with Industry, econ omy
md intelligence, and not look over his neigh:
'or's fence tos and be governed by what @
e Is doing. Every farmer in The South NAV i
educe his cotton crop one half, and thereby
Increase tho price so per cent, still the indi-
idual former who has full supply of
ONE raised bacon, corn, oats, wheat, forage.
nd yard full Of poultry, will secure the
reatest profit from his cotton crop. be les, in
eot, have most money. and have ore COM "
'rts around him. n
instead of studying how and where to buy a
1eap, and looking to government or conven- o.
ons for relief, if each Farmer will first study =,
DIV to make his farm produce tn most SUD- 8,
les Tor hone consumption, and bend his Ii
ergics, ifit takes all the year, TO accomplish fa
a'' and thcn plant what cotton he can for a
sh crop, to invest 10 educating his children, al
proving his home, or, il may be, in a co
t'on Factory; then, il the sub-ireasury. re
any other scheme of relief is adopted by ,b
government, he will be in better condi. in
than his a'l-cotton neighbor TO nnpro-
ate its benefits prohtably. IN IN
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