The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-21

vacation. than in the spring. when all
are working on full time. Instead of
Joinlng the Protective Association. get
together and join tn quitting associa-
lloh. organize a lodge in every COM
MUMMY IN Virginia, North and South
carolina, where bright tobacco is
grown, and agree not to plant any to-
nacIo, say IN 1911, raise all You can
IN 1910, store it in your barns, instead
Of turning it over to the NJ. P. Assoc
ciation to be carried at your expense.
carry It SIX months, when the time Will
rave passed for producing plants for
the 1911 crop, When it is known no
tobacco can or will be produced in
1911, you Will have a hundred specu-
lators ready to take your 1910 crop at
old lime prices, instead of it being TAX
en-, as at present. by one buyer at
a loss, or the NJ. p. Association offers
YOU. fair prices by force. after being
carried indefinitely. This is a mighty
good time to begin. as tobacco is SELL
ing below the cost Of production, while
flour is $500 per barrel, corn 800
per pushed, and fertilizer increasing
IN price every year. Yes: skip one
year, cut out one crop, and you have
destroyed the surplus. You will again
bring on the age of speculation
through and by which you ian only
hope to win. The A. T. people are not
CHILL ely " O1dil1C IOI Inc present con-
dltion; the producer has grown tobac-
co, in such quantities that the A. T.
people can supply themselves from
the warehouse floors; therefore
the sp~eculator has no market
for his purchases. Reduce your
production, cut out a crop, de-
stroy the surplus. then the specula-
tor will enter the market, in compe-
tition with the A. L. Co, and prices
will advance. Instead of planting to-
bacco in 1911 plant more grain, raise
hogs, sheep, poultry, etc, all are now
selling for profitable prices, tobacco
is the only product of the farm that
is selling below the cost of produc-
ton. Try this plan and you will be
surprised, how easy it works. 1t viii
also make you independent in the flu
ture of the A. T. Co., or any other
company. When you have perfected
an organization as outlined, o will
be in a position to fight the devil
with fire, the manufacturers will then
realize, the only way they can secure
raw material to keep their plants in
operation, will be by paying the pro-
Queer profitable prices. When You
have done this, you will be no longer
referred to, as a class without the ca
pacity to manage your business af-
fairs. The A. T. people can not af-
ford to ave you stop producing to-
bacco, they have millions invesied in
plants all owe the country, they are
dependent on you for the raw mate
rials, you have them at your mercy
Get together, organize and shot them
YOU mean business. The quitting plar
will succeed, any other can only re
suit in failure, the plan offered by
the M. P. Association is worse thar
a failure, it is ruinous. Shun them
Mr.. Adams or any one advocating the
H. -~looLaH ~ Tnnx1Ia az
you would the smallpox, yellow fever
pellagra, or the devil, for the mar
or association who would advise, the
continued production of tobacco at g
loss is either nor capable of advis-
ing, or doing SO from selfish motives
The plan I suggest may not be per
feet, but it will prove better than the
one offered you by Mr.. Adams. Many
will say your plan is all right but
impossible, the farmers as a class car
not organize, or if they should. they
would no carry out their pledge @ir
good faith. To the first ] will say. II
they cannot organize under my plan
how impossible under the plan Offered
YOU by Mr.. Adams. To the SECOND
objection, will say. they can be helo
to their agreement with the associa-
ton. not by the methods practlceo
in Kentucky. but by different means
Let every banker, merchant, and farm
er in this section talk this question
discuss it with your neighbor, talk
it everywhere, "agita}e" for by agita-
ton only can any cause be advanced
It was Cato, 1 believe, who first saw
the danger to Rome IN the commercial
growth of Carthage. and ever after
wards. he concluded his emar II
he Roman Senate, by saying and fol
the rest I think Carthage must be
DESTROYED" This was the beginning
but it resulted in the final destruc-
ton of Carthage. SO we a Oily
hope to remedy the evil and correct
the wrong being done the tobacco
section, by discussion OF his question
Let the press take 1t up, MAKE 1t tne
question in every issue, II
viii not be long before we see fruit
ful results. Even before the 1908
crop is half sold, we will see prices