The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
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He Discusses Things Financial With His
Better Half-Cotton, Betsy Claims,
Would Have Been Only q I 2 This
Fall Had We Raised a
Full Crop.
B.-"Hellol Mr.. Editor"
R-"Hellol Major Bilkins. Auy
news o-day Z"
B-I'v3 got a little news. Me an
Betsy are about ter dissolve co partner
ship ergin. I'm goin' ter git a deVoce
If it takes the hide eff I'm a Dyma-
KRAFT, an believe in the D9clarashun oV
Independence an awl these other m
an I amt goin' ter let no woman lofo
it over me-"
'R Well, what is the row aboutF'
''B-I vent ter town the other day,
an when Icum back home l wuz latin'
fit ter kill myself. kept on lafin' an
latin, an Bstsy's curiosity got raz9d.
She wanted ter know if / Wuz takln'
the deleerium tremens. l tole her l
wuz Just lafin' erbout how the POpu-
lists had got the wind awl took out ov
their sails by the high price ov cotton
without gittin' any free coinage OF sill
YER. I lowed this Wuz proof enutf that
silver hain't got q thing ter do with the
the price ov cotton OF anything else,
and proof that the ~goldbugs were rite
when they sed sound money wuz the
stuff that this country needed. she
wanted ter know if any ov the gold
men claimed that the single standard
Wuz the cause ov the rise in cotton l
tole her no; that they sed in Raleigh
that the price wuz gOin' up bekase the
cotton crop would not amount ter
much more than half az much az
usual, and the demand il greater on
that account, many mills fearing that
they will not get enough to keep their
machinery goin'. Then she lowed that
goldbugs are sayin' the single standard
has not RACED the price ov cotton at all
Instead ov that the price il now lower
than it wuz last fall. With a nine
million bale crop this year prices would
have been as low as 4 or 5 cents. With
a five an a half or six million bale crop
the price ought to go up like a kite |
tole her she wuz full ov them Populist
doctrines an couldn't see the truth
through a telescope. Then she did like
the rest ov 'em Pops. She commenced
argyin' with the figures right before
her. Ter prove that money hes got
much ter do with the price of things
she went back ter the cotton
crop Taz d before silver wuz de,
monetiz.d in 1898. The crop ov
1890 wuz 8. 652 547, nearly two million
bales more than the present crop, and
it sold for 9 o. on an average. With g
six million bale crop now the average
is not over s cents. The crops of 1892
and SO we're both short, being 6 700 365
in go and Z 549. 817, and yet the crops
only averaged about Il in price. The
crop of 1888 was 6 1888 290 bales and the
average price was 10 II. The crop Of
1889 was nearly eight million bale s and
brought 1153. The crop of 1873 was
not far below the present crop in size
the bales being much heavier, making
the + of 4 10 388 bales nearly equa
in quantity to the present 6 0OO, OOt
light bale crop, and it brought Is Is
The uses to which cotton are put havl
greatly increased since that time. This
Betsey, says, is proof that we had fire.
coinage now cotton would bring at leas
Is or 20 cents for the present short crop
The cotton crop of 1872, the year betor,
silver was first demonetized, brOugh
20 cents per pound, and it was larger
in proportion to demand than the pres
ent crop which IL sellin' at s cents.
must git a divorce. Betsey il too NEAR
fer a decent, law abidin' man ter live
with.
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