The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

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/ people the farmers, who point then
fingers in derison at the farmer in
! homespun, and says there's hay
aeed' when beneath the homeSpun
! is a bosom whose heart is of the
| truest nobility.
Government and Monopoly.
Let us see who is wrongng the
| farmers. / say as a citizen of North
! Carolina that when the government
| passes it's high protective tariff laws
| helping men who want to trade with
you, to your detriment, and eXtorts
high taxes from you, letting
others escape, it is building up things
| elsewhere that are robbing YOU, anC
detrimental to your ever interest The
farmer of the United States raise;
er"'~h raw material to supply the
world, and other countries want t
trade with us, but the government
forces us to buy in the highest mar
ket and sell in the cheapest market
N the world. 1t gives subsidies t.
railroads and navies, but no assistance
or help to the farmers. / don't say
that railroads want to damage the
farmers, but thinking their best profit
are from the manufacturers, the rail
roads give cheaper rates for iron
coal, and manufactured goods thar
they give to farm products. And they
supply the manufacturers with al
abundance of cars while they almost
destroy trucking industries. The gov.
eminent and the monopolies are try
ing to crush down the farmers, an(
are driving young men away from
agricultural pursuits. Produce gam
blers conspire to lower prices, force
farmers to sell, and then raise the
prices The government even in it
cotton reports has robbed the Soutt
|, lion 1nll at,cf
But there is balm in Gilead the
first being to make the government
take its heavy hand off the farmers o
North Carolina, making it tax others
as il taxes you and let it help by its
subsidies no interest more than it help;
the farmers. Then tell the railroad
they must give you equable freighi
rates, and supply you with sufficien;
| transportation facilities as it does 9th
ers. But the best remedy lis will
yourselves, in your own Se!f-help. II
is high time you were taking bette
care of yourselves. In every one o
the many associations and meeting;
you have, bind yourselves together
foot to foot and shoulder to shoulder
with bands of steel, and permit nc
deserter to be among you, drive hin
mercilessly from your ranks, and lool
upon him with contempt and indigna-
ton. The great association of tn
| farmers their cOmin~ together in al
| organization for their protection ha;
been called a trust, a combine, and
monopoly. If you will show me
trust a combine or a monopoly tina
does not destroy the interests of men
but tends to upbuild the nation. by
giving men justice and affording meT
better opportunities nn1 makes mel
better citizens then ! will give it my
cordial hand. and welcome it to thi.
State, but show me one that operate
to tear things down, and | will tel
! it that as it is unwilin~ for others t.
exist, neither shall it exist. You
should form a combine to protec
| yourselves You may thus demand
| and obtain profita BILE prices for you
products, and you will be enabled tc
| educate your children and make you
! homes moro comfortable, but you can
not live with low prices, and only TO
| your own protection is the monopoly
would have you form. If any of yot
are too weak and poor to hold you
| crops, let the wealthy among you ex
| tend aid Take care of what yOt
have hold your cotton and tobacco
| and you will not so often be in thf
clutches of your oppressors. There i
nothing wrong in storing your cotton
| and tobacco in warehouses and hold
| ing it until you can secure reaSonabl
! prices for them. You can force tn
| purchaser to pay just price for you
products, but you should fix a rea
sonable price, so as not to put your
selves in the attitude of yourselves be-
| ing the oppressors. Ten to twelve
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