The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-30
READ AND PONDER.
should the Farmer. he Organized.
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The Columbia State Democrat
speaks as follogS
"If merchants and manufacturers
conducted their business upon the
same principles as the farmers, with
similar want of foresight and reas-
oning, they would speedily become
bankrupt"
This may be true, but we predict
!; that if the merchants and manu-
| facturers had received as little sub
stantial encouragement as the farm
ers they would already have been
bankrupted. We are not simple
enough to believe that farmers never
make mistakes, but we are SO blind
that we can't see the consistency in
a class of papers that are SO ready to
admit that the farmers need to have
their condition bettered, but as soor
as the farmers begin to organize for
improvement and mutual protection
these same papers raise tremendous
howl and begin their dastardly work
of breaking down the organization
by abuse, misrepresentation and
everything else that is mean and
contemplate. AS to the need of
perfect and permanent organization
read the following from the Chicago
Western Rural:
The question of organization
among farmers is no longer a sub
| ject for intelligent controversy. II
the farmer is to maintain an honor
able position among the various con-
ditiOns of men that constitute the
body polite, he must organize.
There is combination and unifcation
by all kindred interests, his fellow
toilers in every productive and manu-
featuring calling have long reco-
gnized the necessity for the protec-
ton which organization alone secures
against those who scheme to appro-
pirate the results of productive en-
ergy wherever exercised, The ad
vantages of organization are so
obvious that it must be admitted
that the unorganized are seriously
deficient in the first essential to sue
cess, to-wit agreement and unity of
action by those whose interests are
common, along definite and practi-
cal lines.
1t is true that relatively, the farm
ers have retrograded, as compared
with the commercial element of the
country. To our wonderful growth
the farmer has contributed most and
received least. 1t is, the product Of
the farm which has brought the
wealth of the world into the Golfers
of American citizens, and enabled a
few appropriations of wealth to accu-
mulate fabulous fortunes. The farm
has builded the great cities with
their magnifcence and luxury.
Chicago. a giant amid the cities of
the world, feels in her veins the
vitality contributed by the vast
plains of the West where the toll OF
man has met the smiles of God, and
overfowing production swelled the
streams of commerce until there was
J enough to feed the producer and en-
rich the parasite who sits in the
marts of trade and swells big with
self-complacency as he contemplates
J how we'll his robber schemes have
worked and plans anew for still
further acquisition of the farmers
hard earned reward. He laughs a
, the granger while robbing him ant
scorns him even when fighting him
He looks upon the farmer as /,
"goose to be plucked," as defcien
: in business requirements, and Otter
+ calls him the fool farmer" If yol
threaten the aristocratic Board O
Trade with possible combination
of farmers that shall bring confusion
+ to the evil devices Of the gamblers
they laugh at you, and tell you tha
= the farmers are too ignorant to NEE
n successfully the perfectly organize
machine possessed by themselves
The whole tendency of commercia
organization is to strengthen tn
d hands of those who prey upon legit
v mate industry and maintain tn
ascendency in social, business an
+ political life, of successful knaver
l. rather than of honest worth.
I The drift of population is towar
the cities while in their vortex g
:. greed and crime every prineipl
f which does honor to the human rae
% is torn to tatters. The struggle &
the century is to take place durin
lt the present decade and for Amel
le lea it will be decided whether sh
"a shall be saved by the pure clemens
which blow from mountain, hill an
it plain or forever doomed by th
)t miasma of the tow21 and gread owe
10 crowded districts. Organized cap
tai is too often capitalized crime an
enjoys immunities purchased with
% pittance from its stolen boards. D.
"a feating the enactment of just Law
or defying them when, as rarel
7, happens, they are enacted.
te Every load of grain carried to tt
local market is billed to cover Il
exactions of transportation cor
Is panies, of elevator combines,
wheat rings or board of trade thieve
of grain gamblers and multitut
: who watch, it from the time moth
=. earth covers the seed in her boso
until it reaches the pauperized mil
ions across the seas.
70 The same system that maintains
!. extortionate methods along the hig
ways which lead from the farm, cor
he bines to tax all that flows back a1or