The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-22


When he buys pound OF meat or
peck OF corn he pays the merchants no
gets from tax. Ho pays the wholesale
man tax. He pays the drayman n tax
who transfers II. He pays the railroad a
tax that hauis II. II meat, he pays a man
tax that butchers 1t, and he pays the
original farmer who raises II tax, for
It is likely he Is not raising It for his
health, but for his profit
A farmer always pays toll when he goes
to town, whether no rides upon macad-
amized road or not. have known
farmer to ride ninc miles to town on
tired mule when his crop was In the grass,
to pay twenty-five cents for shuck col
lar when there were shucks wasting at
home. I have known them 10 do the same
who had sold cotton for and AZ cents
and pay 20 cents a pound for cotton plow
lines.
knew Of a farmer who while plowing
his new ground field. one Saturday morn
ing In July. suddenly remembered that
he had broken his AK helve and would
have 10 30 to town to get another. Now.
this fellow lived in the mountains or
North Alabama, where live, ana where
we have second growth hickory. that Ia
the best ax-handle timber on earth. and
profusion OF II. Now, instead OF going
back OF his cabin, on tho mountain side.
and cutting him straight. strong. sinewy
young mountain hickory. while with MS
wife by his side and his children playing
around him, with tho butt end OF the
hickory tightly locked between the ~,gs
OF his humble cabin, he drew It down
TO tho symmetry OF n strong. straight-
grained AK handle, he quits his field OF
labor. throws n gunno sack upon the back
OF his mortgnged mule, ana as ne rlues
out OF tho gate replies to the anxious IN
curry OF his wife that he IL obliged to'so
to town to get an AK handle.
The tax begins when he rides through
that broken down gate. First and Tore
most. no is taxing tho anxiety or thnt
poor pale faced woman. that knows 100
well OF the fimslness of TINS excuse she
knows too well that though he IL gcncr-
Gus bravo and true. that under certain
influences the rccklessneas of his nature
leads him to imposing taxes upon MIN
self and family that human nature can Ill
afford to bear. and that God Almighty
Himself will not hold him guiltlcss.
Upon his return after an absence or
day and night. to the cabin on the noun
tain side and its defenselcss inmates, who
had spent lonesome night indeed IN
thu absence of their only protector, save
the faithful coon dog. after omptying hts
meal sack Mt their feet of It's contents or
high priced cotton prints and little shoes
that he had paid country merchant wv
per cent advnlorem tax upon, thus under
taking to alleviate his own feelings ny
~, o. a,,i, called hack 70 tho error
~ M, =" ,,.ay when his vito repronchfully
os,,s ,or ,,o axo bond,o thnt never
came"
In conclusion, / will say to you. my
rallnw far,ncra and co-lnborcrs of the
American Cotton Growers Protective as
ISOLATION. that my advice to you Is to
raise your home supplies, thus avoiding
these sclf-imposed taxes that are more
Mtrdensome than YOU can bear. Decrease
your cotton acreage and thus destroy this
annual surplus. or, In other words, ADJUST
the supply TO the demand, then the laws
OF commerce and competition VIII prevail
and prices viii regulate themselves cauita-
bly, between tho producer ana Inc con-
sumner.
Secretary Eckborger then announced the
following committees:
Permanent Organization. Rules. ETC
Colonel w. c. StoVall OF MISSISSIPPI, w
J.. Campbell OF Alabama, James i. Eagle
of Arkansas, f. l.. Maxwell or Louisiana
and w. a. Broughton OF Georgia.
Committee on Northumberland c. G.
Swope of Alabama. w. w. Stone OF Mis-
sissippi j. r. Goodwin OF Tennessee, w. a.
Broughton OF Georgia, c. NJ. Chstlefnan OF
Texas, f. l.. Maxwell Of Louisiana aud
4. f, Mayberry of Arkansas.
Committee on Creden'ialF-N' L.. Hhuer-
son of Misslssippi. T. r, u. Allison OF
Tennessee /, u. Mason of Alabama. cap
tain Lavcslt OF Arkansas, a. s. Caldwell Of
Louisiana and j. c. Cook OF Texas.
on motion of 4. r. y. Allison. commits
sioncr of agriculture Tor tennessee, every
visitor vns made Il delegate to the nsSo-
citation
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
. ~, oro,,,d ou ,o,,on NJ A y
&C." VT 49,, ~ r.no r,.,s ,,rnn,moue-
. 'ii",,'' o.,,,,,,e,,t ",,o,rr,r Nv ,,nIn.
~ ~, 49, ~. g,..,,a ,,,.o huffman
W., WV" ", t,',,,a,, St,d,,om ,,as introduced
~, ~ ,''a',,,r' h,. chairman I.arc uo
.not,a hrtcr,,, hu, ,ocicnilv md ia tho
SPOKE nrIsliy, put 'us,e"'s' ., Az ,,',n,
-, ~, o,r,antIo, nd tho ,dcas Of reduced
acreage nnd diversified crops
Hon. Charles Scott OF Rosedale Miss,
was then introduced. He spoke enthus-
iastically OF the good to rebound from
the Cotton Growers association and OK
pressed his hearty sympathy with the
principles the association sought to instill
in tho cotton growers OF the South The
,-,oni,or ra,,iowod tho rlso and fnll of rot
spe''ne' ~ ,,,,,h -, ,,a ,ndu.trv ~,
ton ana ,le srow'n VI .no .nu"',,s VI
cotton growing IN hhnerich from hs IN
fancy and he gradual drawing away from
tho diversified crops pelore inc war.
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