The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
THE PEOPLE DO WORK.
e~spondence Of the Progressive Farmer,

amples" we find the following copied
from the Greenville Daily Press:
THE observant and prosperous DR..
West, of Fieldsboro, said of the hard
times: That nine tenths Of the people
of this country do not average more
than half the days of the year at work.
The Rev. 90 DR.. Kingsbury comment
ing on the above, says:
THAT is one of the main
People are not industrious, They love
to idle. to loaf around. More industry
and better methods of farming will do
much to force success"
Hear him! Yes, hear him! Ye
horny-handed sons of toll; ye, who
make an honest living by the sweat of
a weary brow; ye tillers of the soil,
We honorable men, ye who work IN the
dusty fields beneath the fre-tempered
rays of the summer sun ~enthroned N
the noon day heavens; ye whose Drawn
and sinews felIed the majestic forest and
tanned the rugged wilds; ye productive
laborers who are to the channels of
commerce, what the springs and foun-
tain-heads are to the rivers; ye slaves
whose lives are worm out in toll for
others and whose reward is only an
embittered existence in object poverty
and invisible chains of slavery; ye
whom statistics show to receive only
10 per cent. of every dollar or dollars
worth you create or produce, while
they who never work and whose dark
sins against God and humanity are
palliated by gorgeous robes and burn
ished gold, through dark deep laid
schemes and class legislation, rob you
of the other SO per cent. ye the prod
ucts of whose labor feeds and sustains
this same Kingsbury (mouthpiece of
plutocracy and tool of oppression.)
Ayel ye upon whose shoulders the
whole world hangs dependent, I call on
ye to hear him now. Hear him call
you 'idlers' and 'loafers" and blame
you for the 'hard times, " the oppressed
and depressed condition of humanity,
and ask yourselves if it is not too much
to be robbed of 80 per cent. of all you
produce and then be slandered because
you do not produce more even after, as
an excuse for the low price of your
products the oppressors have told you,
you produced too much, 80 much that
you had gorged the world to such an
extent with the d~ispensable necessities
of life, they were losing their CONNER
cial value.
But back to DR.. Kingsbury's COM
ments. He says one of the main troubles
is 1.-THE people do not work more than
half Of the time" Now by saying that
the people do not work enough, he i'm
plies that they do not produce a suh-
cheney. If there is not a sufhciancy
produced then where does the pluto
cratic ''overproduction" theory come
in2 He first said the tariff was respon-
sible for the hard times, then he said
''overproduction," and now he says
''underproduction." If it is under
production" why don't the price of
farm products rise7 If it is ~''overpro-
duction' why does he advise the farm
ers to work mor when they have al
ready produced too much2 If cover
production is a curse and makes PEG
pie poor and hungry, and causes them
to lose their homes and suffer, and the
people by working half of the time
cause and ''overproduction, why does
he insist that on them to work all the
time2 Don't common sense teach him
that would double the overproduction
the curse-make people doubly poor,
intensity hunger and suffering and
cause people to lose their homes9
Again he says: More industry and
better methods of farming will do much
to force success" I thought we were
already so successful it made us poor
to tote it. Here is a sentence for the
doctor: A little less preaching and
more fighting would have made the
Southern more successful too.
No doubt the doctor is a sharp one,
and like a porpoise turns 30 fast people
wonder what he is, but like a didapper
also, he has to come to the top once in
a while for breathe, and when the peo
pie see his head they know it is the
same cimbling he amounted with oil
and bobbed up from behind the pulpit
at the crack of the first gun in the late
war. If DR.. Kingsbury has any ad-
vice or suggestions for the farmers and
will offer it in the kindly spirit becom-
Ing a guardian of the welfare and pros
perlty of the people, I am sure the
farmers will give it a careful consid-
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