The Florida agriculturist., 1907-09-25
Bill Neeld-On an Economic Ramp
age.

about that Georgia railroad legislation
and reducing the freight rates million
dollars? Just think Of what hole that
will make in dividends and salaries.
1t was intended, SO they said, to
benefit the poor, the farmers espe-
cially Did it benefit the farmer? No,
not by a jugful-of blind tiger! No
more than the tariff imposed on
manufactured goods has ever helped
the workingman. The manufacturers
straightway forthwith proceeded not
only to collect those two millions,
but to add another or 3 to it, to
cover expense of collection, and pay
for trouble of handling all this
filthy" lucre.
There is no more legislature for
two years; and besides, you can say
what railroad company can do, but
you can't say what a manufacturing
company can do in the matter of
robbin' the peop1e Don't matter
how we are robbed by the 1000 other
trust mOngers and ulti-nill1Ona1res.
AS Georgia legislature man said,
II rather be cat shorn Of claws IN
the lower regions than a ra1lroad'
corporation before a Georgia jury.
I am not defending the railroads,
but condemning the whole layout OF
trust mongers In this effort to pro-
> tect the people and to bust-b1g b
the trust, I just want to know where
you will stop. For listen here, the
whole purpose of this article is to
show you how this poor, despised
farmer and this poor workingman is
1o;, 10Th fQ11
too late now to waste sympathy on
these poor fellows that's what you'll
call them when [ recite this story.
That's what [ said the other day,
these farmers are organizing and join
ing at the rate of fifteen hundred to
two thousand a day, even in the
Carolinas, the slowest states on earth.
Georgia farmers are buzzlng like
swarm of bees, and, as [ said, the last
man on earth to wake up, the Florida
cracker, is gitin' his eyes open. There
is the greatest farmers organization
this country has ever known, the
American Society of Equity. 1t is
about to harvest the biggest crop OF
'ice" any corporation or organization
ever "cut" or accom- lished in this
country or on Earth-big E!
! With the brains and the numbers
back of these people who hold the food
and the clothes, the raw material and
the things of life in their hands as
sacred Individual private property,
what are we who are dependent on
them to do when they pull the
strings?" Why, nothin' but squeal-
and that will be lost This A. S. E.
are building warehouses, elevators,
and storage rooms where grain and
| food stuffs will stay till the "prlce'
is paid So, too, with the tobacco
men of Kentucky and Tennessee, and
more so with the cotton farmers OF
the South. Well have to find other
helds-the Nile valley, Egypt.
AS illustration, see by Up-to-Date
Farmer that the price for potatoes
is to be put at s. cents by the A. 5.
E. Heretofore potatoes that we have
paid 30 to As per peck for, the grower
got 40 per bushe1 for. II we, are to
pav in this proportion for them in
the future; if even the present prices
r of western products and produce is
to remain as dear as it is today
God help us, for the politicians, the
CAPITALISTS, nor any one else can!
+; Thanks that I don't have to argue
this case. 1t is self-evident that II
the farmers ever learn the trust trick
it's woe unto, we, us & CO. All these
other troubles Of strikes, lockouts and
slow-downs will be monkey business
and childs play I have before me
some literature by the side of which
the automobile as an idea or a CON