The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-12
ADVANCE IN PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS.
From the Manufacturers Record.


them. He is simply an expression of
a movement that is infinitely greater
in power than he, with all his mil
lions, real or imaginary. We do not
undertake to say whether he has
cOrnered the market, and whether, in
doing so, he is a gambler or not The
same economic laws that put up cot
ton and again temporarily depressed
cotton, that advanced the price of
corn and oats and other things have
brought about higher prices for
wheat. The Chicago Spectator is
credited with having cornered the
market and brought about a world
wide advance In this he is credited
with far greater ability than he pos
sesses. But to the point.
When farm products were low and
farmers were literally bankrupt.
when agriculture was at it's lowest
ebb and the people of the country
were rushing to the cities in order
to find some means of making a bare
living, the mounting orators, and, to
their shame be it said, some minis
tiers, densely ignorant of what they
were talking about, preached the
gospel of hate to the so-called mon
| ey power, claiming that this great
money power, whatever it may be,
was crushing the life out of farm
ers. The bankers, gamblers and
spectators, all classed as the money
! power, were said to be in collision
with Europe in order to destroy the
value of American farm products.
1t has been everywhere proclaim
ed that the one thing needed in the
! agricultural life in America was to
make farming more profitable. With
the rise in the price of wheat and
cotton and corn and cattle and hogs
and sheep and eggs and chickens,
farming has become more profitable.
| During the last six or seven years
of better prices for farm products
hundreds of thousands of farm mort
cages have been paid off and billions
of dollars of Indebtedness wiped out.
| The burden of appalling poverty has
| been lifted from millions of farmers
! and members of farmers families.
| a blessing of far-reaching impOr-
lance has come to American farm
| ers. Civilization itself is being ad-
Vanced. Schools and churches are
being put on a higher plane of use
fulness because of the higher price
| of farm products. But the same
class of wOuld-be orators, Just as ig-
nOTant of economic laws now as they
were ten or fifteen years ago, are
now claiming that the higher prices
are curse and denouncing the mon
| ey power and the gambler and the
Spectator for bringing woe upon the
public through the advance in the
value of agricultural products. But
the farmer chuckles to himself, and
as he contemplates the home that is
free from mortgage, as he realizes
his ability to paint the long unpaint-
ed house, to buy new furniture and
better clothes and new agricultural
implements, he feels like singing the
doXology. To those who are de-
nouncing the advance in the price of
farm products he says: GO to,
thou ignOramus; the high prices are
making our hearts glad and bringing
to use some of the comforts of pros
perity which the city jewellers were
enjoying when they bought the re-
suit OF our labOrs at less than actual
cost And the farmer is right. His
prosperity is now widespread His
prosperity means untold blessing to
the country. 1t means checking the
.cityward flow Of population. 1t
means that the farmer can again live
in comfort, and the farmer knows
more than the college epresidents,
more than the orators and specu-
lators, more than Secretary Wilson
about the subject He knows that
economic laws, and not spectators,
are causing the pendulum to swing
his way. May this prosperity con-
tinue to increase and to extend to
the north, to the south, to the east
and to the west until the American
farmer shall be the envied of the
people of the whole world.
Don't let the baby suffer from &C.
Zema, sores or any itching of the