The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-08
COTTON is AWAY UP.
THx FARMERS SHOULD NOT
HOWL ANY MORE.
ImaiI. are Happy and Predict the
Downfall of the Peoples Party. But
head this Article and See.

On every side we hear our Demo-
cratic friends trying to hoodoo the
old farmer about the Oyer-production
chesnut Cotton has gone way up
and knocked the props from under all
Populist doctrine. We would like to
see An honest. sensible Democrat who
will say the price OF cotton is ..way
up. The price is not ''way up"
Eight or nine cents is not high
price; it is only a moderate price
when we have good crop.
We heard lawyer say; "the pres
ent price OF cotton is a Jonah to the
Popuiists; they are sure dead now
their arguments ali out of date; they
won't be in it anymore" Now, this
iawer. though Democrat, is q good
honest man, but his zeal for his party
anu his contempt for the Peoples
party has led him to make some Pc
culiar assertions. Now, Mr.. Lawyer,
we will suppose you are farmer. OF
course it is hard to suppose lawyer a
farmer, but here goes anyway. You
begin about Christmas to plow and
prepare to grow crop Of cotton.
You fed your horses all the hay and
corn you raised last year and went in
debt for little more. You bought
all your hour, coffee. sugar, etc.. on
credit, Clothes we'll. you wore your
old ones just the same as you have
been doing and your wife and the
girls worked early and late chopping
cotton, aud later on picking cotton.
They wore rags because last year you
raised too much cotton. Your daugh-
ters stayed at home on Sunday, because
IL they went to church they would be
suubbed By the daughter Of the city
lawyer. who wore nice clothes. Your
wife not only did not have decent
clothes to wear to. church Sunday,
bat sue was not able to go; her back
was almost broken from dragging the
cotton sack up and down the rows all
week. At last you have got your cot
ton all picked and thanks to provi-
dence, you have no overproduction
this year. You got a whole bale from
six acres and you sold the bale for the
big price OF S42, and you have twenty
acres. and, at 81 an acre you get $40
for your entire crop. Twenty acres
for you and your wife and two grown
daughters Is q good big field for you
to cultivate in cotton.
Every lawyer in this or any other
town will admit that one dollar day
Is q small sum to feed and clothe q
family OF five, but then you don't
wear much and you eat less. so your
expenses for an entire year would only
be 1866. No lawyer aud his family
could live on that amount. but you
are farmer and you can.
Well. you got s14o for your crop.
Good price for cotton, you say, and to
town you come to pay your debts.
You pay out the $40 aud still owe
1925. You never paid your taxes aud
did not get the old woman new
dress nor any shoes for the girls.
You have nothing to eat, no clothes
to wear and winter staring you in the
face. The merchant won't credit you
for anything. because you have not
paid him the one-half you already
owe.
Now. Mr.. Lawyer. do you think
you got q big price for your cotton'
No, you don't think it, aud the man
who tells you SO is either fool or
consumate political fraud, his lau-
guage is an insult to you and the poor
woman and girls who toiled, starved
and went half clad to raise that little
measley crop Of S-ccnt cotton. PITTS
burg Plaindealer.