The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-27
No 3

manu'actu ured by independent factor
les, and to give preference in their
Northern purchases to those who show
a willing ness to cooperate with US.
4 That we appeal to all lovers Of
justice, right and humanity to help
and encourage US in this crusade of the
weak against the strong, of justice
against il Justice, Of humanity against
inhumaniGy.
5. Thae We urge immediate and ac-
tive organization throughout the to
bacco growing States of the Union and
invite co operation along these lines.
6. That we ask the next State Con
vantion of Tobacco Growers to adopt
this CO operative plan as the most prac-
tjcal solution Of this vital question to
us all
z. That we ask all papers that reoog.
nize the righteousness OF our cause to
give these resolutions as wide circula-
zion IS possible.
The J2rdan plan was thcn endorsed
by the convention. Afsrr this, the
following additional resolutions were
off red:
We, the farmers Of Pitt county,
recognizing the need of COZ cert of &C.
sion and of combina alton for our mutual
b ut fit and protection, make this dec
laration of purposes and invite all the
counties in North Carolina to form
similar organ cations, hoping this
movement will extend to every State
in tie Uoion.
1. Whereas, The present depressed
condition OF agriculture is so great
that the independent farmer is fast be,
ing reduced to dependence or actual
want, and cannot at present prices OF
farm produces give tho necessary com.
forts of life to his family. The i'm
meDse and fertile territories being now
thrown open to the world for settle
ment and development give little hope
of any permanent or appreciable rise
in the price of farm produce for the
fueUre.
2. Tha tr opical pose essions that we
have recently acquired by conquest
offer a field for syndicate farming
with peon or coolie labor and, menace
the markets of the American farmer.
8 The great rise In all manuts ctured
products is out of all character and
proportion TO tt g advance in raw ma.
terials. The great prosperity that is 60
widely heralded ia not being enjoyed
by the farmer, but it is being felt By
him in that the profits Of his labor
must be wrung from him to pay tribute
on these enormously inflated and f1C
titious values.
Great corporations, trusts, in def
ance of all civil and moral law are
strangling the liberties of free people
and sway ing the deatinies of the re-
public, naming it's tituler dignitRries
. and debating national legislation.
5. With a developing and expand =
ing market, with decreased production
and with increasing prices for manu-
featured tobacco we find the price Of
Leaf tobacco steadily diminishing until
it has fallen to that point where it is
no longer profitable.
6 All manufactured articles are ris-
. ing in price as the farmers prof II ON
. his toll grow less and less, and we call
attention to the fertilizer trust which,
= while directly dependent on the agri-
cultural interests of the country il
gouging the farmer to the last farthing
), and making it even more difficult and
costly for him to produce his crops.
Therefore be it
ResoIUed, That we urge upon the
farmers of this county that they re
, duce their money crops, cotton and to
bacco, at least 25 to 80 per cent. in
acree ge and make an effort to raise all
home supplies, pursuing an intelligent
system of rotation aDd stock feeding,
planting oeas for enriching their land
; and making hay, and that we encour-
age them to hope that by an intelligent
and diversified system Of agriculture
We may increase home comforts aud TO
some extent alleviate distressed con
ditions.
3 That We unquslihedly condemn
the imperialistic and insulaF policy OF
: this administration and request that
the representatives in Congress from
this SITE vigorously protest against
the free admission Of the products
of the cheap labor of the tropics in
? competition with our products as such
Importation would be disastrous and
ruinous to the Southern farmer.
8. We heartily invite capital, indi-
vidual or corporate, to come among
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