The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-02-01
Communications.
MADISON STATION, Jan 26, 1895.

MADISON STArION, Jan 70, 1879.
EDITOR TINES. DEAR SIR: = The TINES!
comes reglarly and judging from the
last two m5ers | am likely to get the
worth of my dollpr before you get the
price of your paper. 1t is worth more
than one to each citizen OF the county ,
to know just how much is paid out in
round numbers, and then have the |
sum total divided up showing cost of
court and other expenditures as shown
up in Your issue of the 25th, hope
you will continue to show the eXpendi
lures of each meeting of the supervis-
ors, it will be a help to the board as
well as enlighten the tax payers, it
would save us from making many mis-
takes, which is otherwise unavoida BILE. |
| can take the paper and boldly recon-
mend it to the public, referring to that
one article. and thereby secure it's in
creased circulation. | hope Mr.. j. Ii.
Petty will come again. Such articles
as mis- will result in much good, not
withstandipg he is inconsistent with
himself in his conclusion.
Your editorial remedy for the low
price of cotton is certainly calculated
to be ruinous to all those who attempt
to reduce the number Of bales raised
thinking, thereby, to increase their
prosperity. While that part that add
vises each farmer to raise abundance of
feed crops is good, and should be lived
up to by every one. Now let's look at
the reduced cotton plan of yours. l
will take myself last year. ! made s
bales of cotton and 22O bushels of corn
with one mule only. The s bales of
last year your advice had been given
and had, in consequence. made just
bales that would have sold for about
S175, instead of $500, and | would have
been short up wards Of $25. But you
say. Oh!sthe reduction must be a gen
eral requirement. That cannot be com
piled with, and if it could, then the
failures and misery in every business
would be general in just the proportion
to the number of bales is cut down. !
make this prediction, that every man
that shortens his cotton crop one bale
this year will be short of cash to the
amount of what one bale of cotton sells
for next season, and the poor farmer
that is hard pressed for cash had bet
ter not risk the experiment that you
advise. Another objection to reducing
the cotton crop Is, that every move
ment to decrease the cotton crop of
America will tend to increase the cot
ton crop of every other cotton growing
nation.
The real remedy for the depressed
prices I see is beginning to be limited
at at last by the Dem ocratic press. But
they do it very cautiously, as they
know, to advocate the true remedy,
they will have to steal the calamity
bowling Populist thunder. Now want
to say as one of that bowling crowd,
go it boldly, we don't care how the
remedy comes SO we get it. Now all
this talk about reduced cotton acreage,
conventions, etc., is brought about by
US trying TO adapt ourselves 20 the
present depressed conditions. Butts it
not strange that bankers, lawyers and
merchants are asked to meet in con-
vention and decide for and tell the pro-
ducers what is best for them 20 do. Is
this wise? Havn't they just met in
jackson and advised decrease in crop?
Will they do it? Can they do it? And
their creditors demanding interest and
the law demanding taxes. 1t is agreed
by all parties that bad legislation is
responsib BILE for the evils of these times.
Who legislated? Stop, lay aside preju-
dices and think What is the complex
ion of the lower house of Congress to-
day? PAS lawyers, next in majority is
bankers. That class have been in ma
iority in all the law making branches
of this government for 80 years. Be
hold the effect, would it not have been
well to have sent along few fools to
absorb some of that wonderful intel
igence, since intelligence is necessity
to financial success snd we have act
uaiIy elected financial successes to
make laws or legislate, until it is fact
that the financial successes have sue