The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-05-09
HOW IT'S DONE.

HOW Wits DONE.
The wise heads of both the old
parties can tell all about how the
farmers and working men of the
country can get rich. If they will
just make a lot of everything they can
sell it for lots of money. Then
when lot of everything is made
and the money managers pat down
prices, these old wise heads come to
the front with the cry of "overprc-
duction." Do you see? Under t is
sort of thing, the more man would
make the poorer he would get. But
when the produce of the farmer has
all been sold off the farrr at starva-
ton prices, the prices always man
age to 60 up a little-sometimts a
lot. If you will study the follow
ing item you will get an illustration
of how these prices rise:
The evening Bulletin, San Francisco
says that the 100000 tons of 'syndi-
cate wheat" which has been stored for
two years in the warehouses of the
late James &. Fair, at Port Costa, has
bt Ell placed on the market. The VIII at
is of the crop of 1892, '93 and '94. 1t is
said that the Luning estate loaned
E,I to h..
that the Luning estate management
nervous for fear that wevil might
damage its security, has pre- ssed the
Fair estate to take up this loan. The
1892 and 93 wheat can not, under the
rules, be sold or Change, so the wheat
will be advertised for buyers generally
The wheat is estimated to be worth
81 100000. Whether sold or not, get
ting so large quantity of wheat out of
port will bea problem. Negotiations
have been made for shipment of par.
of the wheat by rail to New Orleans,
thence to Liverpool. 1t would require
5000 cars to move half of the stored
wheat. TO ship all the wheat to Liver
pool would take seventy-tiye vessels.
Now what could one man or
few men want with all this wheat?
Of course the answer is easy and
plain. Two or three more syndi-
Gates of this kind can control nearly
all the wheat raised in the United
States. They can control lot of
money too. When the farmer wants
money, and offers his wheat for it,
these syndicates say: "Well, Mr..
Farmer, we have the money. If you
want any of it., you must give up
two bushels of your wheat for dol
lar" They can put any other price
on it they please, and the farmer
must submit or 60 without the
money. Then when all the wheat is
thus bought up, workingman or
some unfortunate farmer wants
wheat. Then the syndicates will
say: "Well Mr.. Nottingham, we
have the wheat. If you want any
you must give up a dollar for one
bushel."
This is a subject on which a hun
dred pages could be witten, and
these hundred pages would not tell
all 1t is a subject every farmer,
laborer and wealth-producing man
ought to study. 1t will lead him to
understand why it is that the more
he makes the poorer he gets. 1t
will show him a lot of other facts.
1t won't be long before he will find out
that these syndicates control all the
money just as they do all the wheat,
and that when a farmer or working
man wants money, these syndicates
have the power to tell him just how
much work he must do to get it.
THEY put the price on everything
they buy and then on everything
they sell. Where is the old farmer
at, and what is he doing?
The above is an illustration of
how the old goldbugs fleece the peo-
pie in leather, oil, meats, lard sugar,
agricultural implements, tobacco,
md in TACT nearly everything else
Used by the people. There are lars
.qa'nst these trusts, but great Grover
Cleveland took care to appoint a man
or Attorney General who stands by
hese trusts, and not one who would
'pply the law to them. Do you see?