The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-11-09
MORE COME.
Proof of Profitable Farming in Old
Edgecombe- "More in the Man
Than in the Land
(Raleigh POst.)
The Tarboro SOutherner saws:

(RaleIgn IOSt.)
The Tarboro SOutherner saws:
The Raleigh Post thinks the South
erner's statement that there is a
profit in cotton at ) cents pound,
and that farm of 800 acres, valued
for taxation at S., 600 should make a
profit in one year of $500 is start
ling.
Ere long the .Southerner will show
that this is not an isolated instance.
So few farmers keep full accounts
of their farming operations that actual
figures are not often obtainable,
but with the investigations now on this
this journal will be prepared to present
figures showing that farming pays
and that the farm lands of the county
not only are not valued high enough,
but also that they sell in the market
very far below their value. TO those
who may be disposed to cavil at this
assertion the .Southerner would merely
remark Just now that there is more
in the man than in the land"
We shall watch for the further in
formation with interest.
The Post is gratitied to see it's CO.
temporaries discussing these matters
in way to elicit the truth. 1t is the
surest way OF locating and correcting
errors where they exist, and slim
ulating all to more hopeful and
earnest efforts. Demagogues have
told the farmers so long and as often
that they are being made .paupers,
lot no TO Of hi
mistakes, or of misfortunes have been
brought about by the wicked schemes
of others that bad feelings toward
neirhbors and animosities toward
those upon whom the farmer must
RELY had become almost universal.
'.There is more in the man than
there is in the land says the South
ermer; and the same applies with
equal force to all vacations.
The mill, or the store, or other en-
terprise will fail when in the hands Of
incompetent men as surely as the
farm; and we stated Sunday, of all
vocations, there are fewer total fail
ures in farming than any other en-
terprise that man engages in.
Let the press and the people dis
cuss the conditions-not by appeals
to prejudice but i'll a way to elicit the
truth, so that each. as far as may be.
may know how he stands in his rela
tons to the affairs of the world, and
all stand in relation to each other.
When this is done all will work
together more harmoniouslv. and
with better general results certainly,
and to much larger extent with
greater benefit to individual effort.
Farmers as well as others have
learned valuable lessons during the
past six or eight years. The country
has now entered upon an era of uneN-
ampled industrial development not
"boom'' schemes by which fabulous
sums are to be paid on future eXpec-
tations, but upon actual results Of
tangible enterprises based upon
actual demands for the products of
labor. This condition of improve
ment may and doubtless will last
several years, but time of rest will
come. 1t all depends upon how the
lessons of prudence and economy
learned during the past few years
will be utilized as to whether that
period shall only be one of rest
or panic. If good judgment will just
come into the control of our agri
cultural classes, especially of the
South, they will soon realize that
their vocation will keep full abreast
with the prosperity that any or all
others will or can en- jov.
Everything is at least promising,
but, under no conditions will our or
any other people escape that great
truth, s'there is more in the man
than there is in the land