The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-01-23

ers for the most part are great w! a.
to taxation in all its varied forms +hot
sire to suggest TO them Il rev tuAcS ,nif-
we may properly call yOluntar! VI fo,I,
imposed, that in their culhulltiIIe come
arc far grcater and more burdciisoiiie
IN tho long run than those levied upon
usn Inv county. State or government, anu
I nuote so eminent authority as the slt".
and good BENJAMIN Franklin, VINO STATS STATS
il is an axiom that 1--WE are more heI ~
| tavod for our idleness, PRIDE ann I NY
| than we are taxed by government
| farmer who undertakes to buE 80!
| thing that is necessary to make 'ot 49,,
cron upon voluntarily imposes an over
towering tax upon himself Nheh ne
huvs n Mound of meat or peek ol col :,
he pavs the merchant he gets IL from "
tax. He pays the draymah tnA T NV
transfers it, He pays the railrohu ,"n
that haus it. If meat ne pays 'i thn
tax that butchers it, ana ne Pa!o en-
original farmer who raises 1t y ' O.. bis
| it il likely he is not raising II lor HIS
health but for his profit.
A farmer always pays toll when he
goes TO town, whether he rides upon a
mocadamized road or not. have KhoWn
- fnrmnr to ride nine miles to town on
n fired mule, when his crop was III grass
to M cents for shuck collar WheII
| tbero were shucks wasting at NOME l
have known them TO do the same WHO
had sold cotton for and 4 Il cents
and nay 20 cents Il pound for cotton pio"
| lines
knew of n farmer, who, while pl0W-
inc his new ground field one SATURDAY
morning in July, suddenly remembered
that he had broken his AK helve anu
would have to 20 to town to get announcer.
Now. this fellow lived in the mountains
of North Alabama, where l i've, ana
where we have second-growth hickory,
which is the best AK handle tlinpei oii
earth. and II profusOn OF IT.. Now III. III
stead of going back of his cabin on me
mountain side and cutting stralshl'
| strong. sinewy young mountain mckor!'
while with his wife by his side and his
children playing around nm, WIN wy
butt end of the hickory tightly locked
between the logs of his humble cabin ne
drew it down to the symmetry or IL
strong. straight-grained AK handle, ne
0uits his field of labor, throws guano
sack upon the back of his mOrtgaged
mule. and as he rides out of the gate re-
plies to the anxious inquiry of his Wi1e
that he is obliged to go to town 10 get
an AK handle.
The tax begins when he rides through
that broken-down gate. First and fore
most, he is taxing the anxiety OF that
poor pale-faced woman, that knows 700
well of the flimsiness of this excuse; she
knows too well that though he is gener-
Gus. brave and true, that under certain
influences the recklessness OF his nature
leads him to imposing taxes upon himself
and family that human nature can i'll
afford to bear, and that God Almighty
Himself will not hold him guiltless OF.
JTpon his return, after an absence or
day and night, to the cabin on the
mountain side and its defenseless IN
mates. who had spent lonesome night
| indeed in the absence of their only pro-
tector. save the faithful coon dog, after
emptying his meal sack at their feet of its
contents of high-priced cotton prints ana
little shoes that he had paid country
merchant 100 per cent nd valorem tax
upon, thus undertaking to alleviate his
own feelings by paying them for the
wrong he had done them, he again call
ed back to the error of his way when his
wife reproachfully asks for the AK ham
die that never came"
In conclusion | will say to you, my
fellow farmers and colabOrers of the
American Cotton Growers Protective as
ISOLATION. that my advice to you is to
raise your home supplies, thus avoiding
these self-imposed taxes that are more
| burdcnsOme than you can bear. De
crease your cotton acreage and thus de-
stroy this annual surplus, or in other
words. adjust the supply to the demand;
then the laws of commerce and cOmpeti-
ton will prevail and prices will regulate
themselves equitably between the pro-
ducer and the consumer.
Secretary Eckbergen then announced
the following committees:
Permanent organization, rules, etc
Campbell. Alabama; James =. Eagle. Ar
kansas; II. l.. Maxwell, Louisiana, and
w. A. Broughton, Georgia.
Committee on resOlutiOns-COl. c. G.
Swope, Alabama; W. w. tone. Missis-
sippi: j. X. Goodwin Tennessee: w. \.
Broughton. Georgia; r. NJ. Castlcman.
Texas: Il. l.. Maxwell, Louisiana and
A. +. Mayberry. Arkansas.
Committee on crcdentials-C. l.. An
derson, Mississippi; T. +. p. Allison,
Tennessee: |. ID. Mason. Alabama; Cap
tain I.avesk, Arkansas; A. 5: Caldwell,
Louisiana, and j. c. Crook, Texas.
On motion of r. f. p. Allison. commits
sioner of agriculture for Tennessee. every
visitor was made Il delegate to the Assoc
citation.
A permanent organization was then
effected.
On motion of A. s. Caldwell. Hector d.
Lane was unanimously elected perma-
nent chairman. Mr.. Caldwell was elect
ed vice chairman.
Vice Chairman Caldwell was intro
duced at this point by Chairman Lane
He spoke briefly but logically and to the
point. This speaker was heartily in
favor of the convention and the idea of
reduced acreage and diversified crops.
Hon. Charles Scott of RoSedale, Miss,
was then introduced. He spoke en-
Enthusiastically of the good to rebound
from the Cotton Growers association and
expressed his hearty sympathy with the
principles the association sought to in
still in the cotton growers of the South.
The speaker reviewed the rise and fall of
cotton and the growth of the industry of
cotton growing in America from its in
fancy and the gradual drawing away
from the diversified chops before the
war This all-cotton method, Mr.. Scott
said, brought ruin and bankruptcy to the
Southern cotton planter.
In concluding. Mr.. Scott impressed on
his hearers the terrible effect war. in
which America was implicated, would
have on the Southern cotton planter. He
said as long as war could be honorably
avcrtcd let it he so.
Let us remember our honOred British
ancestry and with a single voice let the
people of both Nations say God save the
president; God save the 0uecn.'"
Commissioner Allison thought the So
luton of the problem was, in nutshell.
the production by farmers of all the
! fecdstuffs needed. reduction of the cotton
acreage and the manufacture of cotton
in the South.