The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
TIE CASE
PRESENTED
10 THE FARuEgS NEED MORE MON
HI s--TIE QUESTION ANSWERED..

Of late
We frequently see such statements
As these; '.Ihe farmers are better
III than for several years "'fht
farmers have plenty Of hog and hom-
my The farmer who has plenty
Of bread and meat does not need muci
money" etc, etc. Now do not OBJ
jecG 10 ouch statements. In fact.
mis- scribe reIoices u know that quite
d good number Jf our farmers have
plenty Of ''ho5 aud homiuy;" but
claim. that the farmer does need some
money as wrll as other people and
JEat this great money strlngeucy Is
pressing hun more than most Other
people. There is an impression il
many places and among many peo-
pie that about all the farmer needs
is plenty TO eat ard about money
enough to bay his family scanty
supply once a year.
Now why should some newspapers
and newspaper correspondents feel
called upon to be constantly congrat-
uating the farmer upon the fact
that be has something to eat-aud
rather intimate that he should bt
content with "hog and hominy,
while other people are ciamoring for
more money,
Every man who has a family
should want to beautify his home.
improve his surroundings and maxi
his home attractive. Does not this
disposition apply as much to the
farmer as other people: And if 50,
does not the farmer need some cash
to replenish his furniture, displacr
worn out carpets with new ones and
otherwise improve his home and make
It as attractive for his family aS hi,
city brother: Again, does not every
! intelligent man want to educate hls
children And if SO, who will say
! The intelligent farmer does not neeu
money to educate his children ! Ih,
| fact is the city father has decidedly
| the advantage Of his country broth
er in giving his children primary
| education, at least. Public schools
in our towns and cities are much
more conducive Of good than public
scJ0ois in.rurai districts, - that the
| fa~mer who wants to educate his
children must have more mon9y to
! prepare his sons for college Of Dusi
ness than town folks.
s,t.wsy shcu,d the farmer be con
vent with q primary or common
school education for his children !:
lie has as much right to want HE
boys and girls IN our best colleges
and universities as the merchant
| prince; and if we grant him this
privilege, OF course he will need
money, because 1t costs as much to
educate farmers children as children
Of other people.
And again. Our people, good
| ly number Of them at .least-Ioye t.
build churches and have comfortable
places in which to meet and worship
God. Does not this inclination tc
have good churches and good preach
ing apply as much to the farmers as
to other people? There seems to be
an impression in some quarters that
all the elegant churches and tint
| preachers must be in the city. Now,
farmers do not need crave towering
! steepies founded on Il massive pile OF
! brownstone or brick. Nor do they
crave fine pipe organs that COST
thousands Of dollars. and they are
content to sit on comfortable bench,
es instead Of opera chairs; bnt while
the farmer is content with less i'm
posing structure aud less style, beau
" and grandeur, still he does wan
ii comfortable church as his spiritua
home and he thinks b. ought to hav,
good preaching if he must be denlec
the pleasure Of sit ing under TIN
sound of a d. ID. Now if we gran
the fafmer i comfortable church il
: which TO worship, pastor to minis
ter 10 his spiritual necessities, 0
course he needs some money to NEE
his cnarch obligations.
And still again, every intelligen
. farmer wants to read and wants t
put good books. papers.and magazine
IN the hands of his children, and i
We grant him this privilege of cours
he r,il need some more money to pa
for them.
, Now who will dare say the farme
has not a perfect right to want al
q thrss things. He has perfect righ
! to want them-a perfect right to ez
? pect them and perfect right to de
p mand of the powers that be more tina
"hog and hominy." Because he till
the soil doesn't mean that he mus
be denied all these things and at th
same time be content with the denia
: The farmer does not appreciate thes
= congratulat0ry references of newspa
pers and correspondents about b
o happy @ condition.
: The average farmer is reading an
> thinking a good deal about his cor
$ dition and let these papers and col
y respondents learn that he is no fool
, that he knows that he needs it badi,
= Let the powers that are in author
% ity do what they Paye been pr0ml!
ing for thirty years; then our farm
er will have a market for his pro
ducts, will have money for his lndu
try and then and not till then wi
l. our fair Southland ''blossom as
le rose" AGRICOL4.
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