The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-23
HERE IS THE ~PRooFAGAIN.

We publish below the mortgage in
%debtedness of two States, South Caro-
lima and Vermont. The AL cotton
theory" doesn't work any better than
it has in other comparisons made.
South Carolina is a cotton State, but
not a pound is raised in Vermont.
There are 222 941 families living in
towns and country in South Caroline.
Seventy-one per cent. rent their homes
and 30 per cent own them. Of the
families owning their homes only 753
per cent. are mortgaged and 80 AZ per
cent. are free of incumbrance. This,
of course, includes all the families,
black and white, in both town and
country. The total real estate mort
gage Indebtedness on farms and homes
is 81, 7O6, 2O7, s., 1868, $40 being on farms
and 81, 342, 528 on town and and city
homes.
In Vermont the order of thing is re
vers9d. Eighty-two per cent. own
their farms and IS per cent. rent. Of
the total number of families, town and
country, 80 60 per cent. rent and 6l.4O
per cent, own their homes. So it is
plain that Vermont has fewer tenant
farmers and renting city inhabitants.
| Vermont has IS, 869 families, town and
| country, or a little fraction Over one
third the number of families living in
| South Carolina. The total real estate
mortgage Indebtedness of Vermont Is
$17, 442, $50, being $12, 737, 1872, Or nearly
| four times as great as the Indebtedness
of South Carolina, yet only having a
little over one-third the population of
South Carolina. Multiply the popula
ton Of Vermont by 8 and, in round
numbers, according to population, Yer
mont is nearly eleUen times as much in
debt as South Carolina.
Nov where are the fellows that say
the tariff and the AL cotton" sy stem
are about all the trouble? Vermont
should be benefited rather than hurt
by the tariff and does not raise any
cotton. The South Carolina people
are bad enough in debt, but they are
trying to stop the conditions that make
it possible, while the Vermont people,
so far as we know, are still swallowing
the vile c~OncOctiOns dished out to them
by the political press and hurrahing
for Harrison and Cleveland, apparent
ly unconscious of the fact that they are
on the verge of disaster. How can pee
PIE quietly sit still when they see how
things are going? We calamity howl
ers' are doing our best to warn the
people in the West and South and get
them to stop before it is too late. But
those New England people, a majority
of them, at least, are calmly walking
into the mouth of the huge monster as
it we're. We need ten thousand men
like Patrick Henry to sound an elo.
Quent note Of warming in every school
district in America. We need ten thou
sand men with the hard sense and rug
geo honesty Of Thomas Jefferson to
plead with the great common people
of this country. We need ten thou
sand papers at once to make daily and
weekly visits into every home, papers
that will tell the truth, that will not
allow plutocrats to shape their policy.
Why it is we don't know, but THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER is the only paper
that is publishing these mortgage sta.
tistics. 1t can't be that no other reform
papers are getting the bulletins. At
any rate our readers are getting the
facts.