The log cabin Democrat., 1908-07-09
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Does this Condition Prevail Throughout the State? If
 Don't Ask Us Why We Don't Succeed.

We have taken it upon ourselves to make an examination into all item of commerce which is of inter- est to our farmers throughout the state as we'll as our immediate vicinity. Conway is small town compared to many other places and her territory from which 1t draws trade is limited, yet it is a business centre of considerable note and IS surrounded by the farming section; with an ordinary year the cotton alone handled here amounts to about twenty thousand bales. This will indicate to the casual observer that what we have said above IS iustihable that Conway is an i'm portant place as trade centre.
 But the condition of the country is based upon the independence and wealth of her people. Hence we presume that what holds good here in a great measure will cor respond with other towns with equal advantages, etc. We hnd from an examination the following conditions, which indicate the con dition of our people. Since Jan uary 1st, 1908, there has been shipped into Conway approximate ly one hundred carloads of corn of seven hundred bushels each or seventy thousand bushels of corn. The average retail price ot this corn has been at seventy-five cents per bushel or $52, 5oo.oo. In the same period there has been shipped here 100 carloads of chops, htty sacks to the car, or total ot tive thousand sacks of chops which sold at an average price of SIPS per sack, making total of So, ,25o.oo. During the same period there has been shipped here twenty carloads of meal, average of thirty-fve bar rels to the car or thirty-fve hun dred barrels of meal that has been retailed at an average of S3.I5 per barrel, total ST ,o25 co. Thus ID these three items alone 1t will be seen that the total amount ot S6o,775. % has been spent here this year to date for corn, chops and meal, or you might say corn alone. Now this does not mention the fact that several thousand bales of hay has been shipped in here and at the same time sevaral car loads of meat.
 We cannot give the exact figures at the present time on meat, hay and other stuff, as we have on the items above mentioned; but we have information definite enough to convince us of the fact that not less than twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars have been spent for meat, hay, etc., which will run the figures up to more than one hundred thousand dollars that has been spent here for grain shipped in and other feed stuff bought by our farmers during the first half of the present year. Since we have begun to examine this con- dition we have become alarmed and now wonder if such a condi- ton as prevails at Conway holds good throughoue the state. If 1t does, we rise to ask the question "Who stands in the way of the success of the farmer and who redeem him from such condition and in other words who can re- deem him from such condition" With the land to produce the corn and hay sufficient not only for home consumption but to have a surplus to sell to the non-producer, the producer in this case has be- come the slave to high prices and dependent upon other markets tor his living. This condition will not do to practice or undertake to contend it. We have organized as a business organization for the