The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05
Farmers Department
MOTTO:
He that ploweth, should pillow in hope.
Warming.

warning,
Cotton is now advancing, command
ing about 6 cents on our local market.
In our opinion this is delusion and a
snare set to entrap You poor toiling
farmers and keep you in the shackels
of financial bondage: The manufac-
lures and spectators have bought
your crop which you have been forced
to sell because you were in debt, at 4
cents per pound generally, and now
after it has passed out of your hands
leaving you still in debt and hard
pressed to live, the speculator wants
to realize a handsome profit on his
holding, and the manufacturers having
purchased the raw material at these
extremely low figures wants his manu-
featured goods which are increased
six folds by the simple conversion of
the raw cotton into cloth, to still bring
an increased price by reason of buoy
ant upward tendancy of the raw cot
ton on the market, hence it is to the
interest of all the parties to "Bear" the
u,arket-that is push the price up. BY
this process they will not only reap
rich harvest on the present transaction,
but they hope in addition to fill the
minds of you farmers with the idea
that cotton is bound to bring good
price this fall, and that visions of a
large cotton crop, good price, and an
ticipated plenty and money to pay
debts, will so fit across your brains as
to induce you to plant large cotton
crop so they can !rivet your chains and
hold you in perpetual bondage. We
are all now perilously near bankruptcy
and ruin, and if we are so far blinded
and deluded as to not plant this year
and for all years to come, such an
of land in food stuffs as to
render us absolutely independent of all
advances of such food, and
also independent of all short crops in
all seasons we will soon be turned out
N the broad world with our families
As tramps and vagabonds. The stu
alton is indeed perilous not only to MS
IS individuals but to the very existence
If civil government in which we all |
should be interested. When the tramp |
element becomes large enough it will
,eget revolution. If you have any
common sense, If you care one toto for
your future welfare and tnat of your
iamiliy don't be Influenced by the
present price of cotton to plant it to
he exclusion Of your home supplies.
We know from bitter experience this
S a ruinous policy and we intend this
rear and forever hereafter-come what
nay-to be self sustaining. Don't be
lneasy about your debts and creditors:
t you want to pay them this is the
way to do it. and they will not objs:t,
provided You treat them honestly and
'ay as fast as you are a BILE.
You all are familiar with the story /
# the Iris:iman who wanting to make
lis blanket longer cut off at the top
nd spliced at the bottom, but was as
onished when he found the process
neffectual. 1t is just as impossible for
GU to lengthen your purses by cutting
nto big bill Of supplies to splice ont
he end of low priced cotton crop.
.et us conjure you, as you love your
wn selfish self, your families, and
our county, not to walk into the trap
ct for you. Remember the spider and
he fly.
Will you walk into my parlor said the spider
to the fly,
is the prettiest little parlor you ever did
spy,"