The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-16
GOOD ADVICE FROM AN uAFR ss0lY
SOURCE

with the hard times has been offer
/ ing some good advice. They "a,
make every thing you need, stay q
# home and eat and wear 1t and vol
will be alright" This is good ad
vice. but il was given 10 convince III,
farmers that if they would follow
/ this course they would have nothing
/ to grumble about. We want to say
/ 10 the farmers that the best thing thai
| they can do is TO follow this course
not because il is right that they
should live this way, but because i
is necessary Tha: is. it is neces
sary as long a. present condition,
continue to exist. But no patriot
will ever submit to such a course
without striving with all of hi
light to change it. This advice re,
CURES the farmers to step out of the
line of progress, to refuse to avail
themselves of the industrial improve,
ments of the nineteenth century.
turn back the wheels of civilization
three thousand years, become a her
NIT and have nothing to do with the
outside world. If he will follow
this course, il is true that he can
stay at home and eat and wear what
he makes, and not be effected by
panic or low prices. AS it is now. if
farmer makes something to sell.
puts 1t into money, and then takes
the money to buy the products of
somebody else's labor he gets wors-
ted. he does not get value received
for his, nor does the laborer at the
other end Of the line fare any
better. the profit is gobbled up be-
tween the two. Those who control the
instruments of cOmmerce-money
and transportation stand between the
wealth producers, and get a large
share of the profits of Their labors.
Here we have "a rich country,
made rich by wealth producers, and
vet the men who have created the
wealth are to-day poor, growing
poorer. They have made themselves
poor by coming in contact with
the instruments of commerce-the
agencies of civilization. These
wealth producers to-day must
follow the advice of the politi-
clans, for if they dare to come
in contact with commerce they are
robbed by the agencies of commerce.
SO under these conditions we say let
us buy as little as possible until money
can be issued in sufficient quantities
to do the business of the country.
and be controlled in a manner so to
give every wealth producer an equal
showing with the other citizens of
the country, also until the high
ways Of commerce, chat are now
held by greedy corporations are run
at cost, without discrimination, in
the interest of the people. When that
is done. then the farmers can make
that which he can produce best,
turn it into money and buy the pro-
ducts of another mans labor who can
produce another article better than
he can. This we could do now if
soulless corporations did not stand
between the wealth producers of
the different sections of the coun-
Try and bleed them coming and 60
ing. 1t is pretty hard to follow the
advice of the politicians, but it is
about all that is left for US to do, and
if We follow it. it will soon teach the
country a lesson. In the meantime let
US use our votes to have the instru-
ments of commerce controlled in the
interest of the people, and then We
will show the world how farmers
should and can live.