People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-20

Interest on 20 acres at $50 an acre $50 90
Taxes at per cent. ......... 10 20
Breaking at 50 an acre. ..... 40 90
narrowing, dragging and rolling
at 81 an acre. ............ 20 90
Seed, at so cents, peckS per acre G 90
Cutting and Irvine at ST.. ......,.. 20 90
Shocking, two hands two days at
St50 ......... ...............,. 6 90
Six teams hauling to machine at
81 per day. Observation-Disclosures. IL 90
Three pitcher RS IN field two band
cutters, two sac< holders, two
wheat haulers and three straw
stackers, twelve men in all. -. IS 90
Board of hands and horses. .... 90
Total. ............. .S252 90
Now divide 1882 by 300, the nun.
Der of bushels.
boy figures Eighty-four cents a
bushel, pa, is what it cost you. AS it
is worth only go cents, you lose "a
cents bushel.
Now, my son, you see that the
agency that reduced the value Of
wheat from $1,35 to so cents bush
Ell has destroyed the value Of our
farm.
We can live on it, can't we, pa?
Yes, if the mortgage holder don't
foreclose and sell US out at sheriff's
sale.
If it is put up for sale won't 1t
bring more than $1,000, pa?
No, I am afraid not.
Why, pa, thought our figures a
while ago made it out to be worth
about $1,000?
Only apparently SO; as an invest
ment it is absolutely worthless. No
safe business man will buy property
that sinks money.
But it is home, pa.
Yes but we work harder for our
living than merchants in town.
They work ten hours day, we work
twelve. When their days work is
over, they lay aside care I am wor-
ried all the time about the mortgage.
What they spend for luxuries we
pay out for interest and taxes.
I see how it is, pa; I am sorry for
you and mother.
To sum up, my son, when we
bought the farm 740 bushels of
wheat, or seven horses, or 1000
pounds Of wool would have paid tbs
1900 mortgage. Now to pay it
and the $50 interest will take 1900
bushels of wheat, Y horses, or T.
200 lbs of wool.
We can never pay it, can we, pa?
Not only that, we have paid $3.50
interest and $1,100 taxes in the last
eleven years.
Pa, it breaks my heart almost to
think that I can't go to the great
fair, when it is SO close to US; it is
the opportunity of a lifetime, and /
have been planning to go for two
years, but | shall give it up and try
to help you all can.
God bless you, my noble boy but
it is not much usd to try. The mon
ey sharks as Thad Stevens called
them, will never Stop until they own
all our farms. If prices of our pro-
ducts fall half as much in the next
FIVE years as they have in this last
five we will all lose our homes.
Let's leave the farm, pa, and move
to town. Mr.. Jones don't work as
hard and lives better than we do.
They have good piano and wear
fine clothes and save q little money.
All, my son, he is liable to be
thrown out of employment at any
time. Our ruinous financial policy is
for ling the mills 10 shut down, and
thousands are being thrown out Of
work. Rents and living are so high
in town that wage earners soon come
to want when they lose their jobs.
What shall we do, pa: To stay
here is but to earn money for the
mortgage holder.
I know it; the best years of my
life are gone now. have thought
seriously of suicide, but
Don't don't cry, pa.
There is a reason for all these
troubles that have overtaken the
men Mho work, and when you work