The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-11-18
PRESIDENT FINLEY TO FARM
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PRESIDENT FINLEY TO FARM
Gist of q Sensible Address BY HALL
road Man-Good Roads NJ Dirt
Highways Of Great Importance TO !
Farmers-But Good Roads by
Rail and Adequate and Cheaper /
Transportation Facilities Mean
Much to the Planter.
Salisbury, N. c.. Nov. lin an
address at a meeting Of farmers In
Salisbury to-day. President Finley.
OF the Southern Railway Company.
took a very optimistic view OF the
future Of agriculture in the South
ern States. He said that mo one
can look forward into the future
with greater confidence than can the
farmer. and In my opinion there is
| no area of equal extent In the world
where the agricultural outlook is
better than in our Southern States. >"
| Speaking from the viewpoint of
one in touch with the relations Of
supply and demand affecting differ
ent commodities in the United States
and in foreign countries, Mr.. Finley,
with a view to making suggestions
of practical value, emphasized the
opportunities in the South for the
production Of grains, hay, fruits,
vegetables. live stock, poultry. and
dairy products, giving special atten-
ton to the market opportunities fol
Southern grown cabbages, Irish po.
tatoes. and sweet potatoes. He
showed that farmers in some locali
ties in the South were shipping these
products both to Northern and t.
Southern markets and were finding
the business SO profitable as to war
: rant increased production.
Referring to the dependence Of az
' ricultural prosperity on supply AM
a demand, he pointed out that 9Th
D condition most favorable to tn
r farmer is one in which widespread
prosperity prevails in our own an
a other lands" and that ability t
q reach market was equally as i'm
t portant as the existence of the mai
r ket. The farmer, therefore, had
v vital interest in the highways froI
n his farm yard to the markets of tn
IL world. After referring to the in
portance of good country highway
8 Mr.. Finley pointed out that the IL
r terest of the farmer in good roaG
n extended beyond the wagon roa
% from his farm to an Industrial {
" shipping center, and embraced a
ct the railways and waterways ov,
In which his products moved to reat
N the final consumer. Pointing o,
is that adequate transportation facil
a. ties were essential to increased pr
a duction and that the present railw;
w facilities of the South were now Il
at tie more than sufficient for meetil
ID present demands, and were relativ
to ly less than those of some 9th
,st parts of the country, Mr.. Finl
en- said:
if LIT is manifestly to the intere
sy of this section that the railways,
ri instrumentalities of transportatie
at should be built up and strengthens
at Even a superficial glance at tho
so sections which are most prospero
tut will demonstrate that their prosp,
w. fty is largely based upon the peri
lat ton Of their transportation faciliti
ese Those producing communities viii
eat have the easiest, quickest and MI
reliable ways to market can s
in quicker and more certainly, and th
he possess commercial advantages o,
a communities less favored with mes
to of transportation.
ad "It is. therefore, short-sighted
in any community to permit any oti
The section, by a larger more stable,
ire more conservative policy, to stin
yer late and encourage, to greater
he tent than it itself does, the devel,
,uz ment of transportation facilities.
to the extent that any community p
ed mits this, it surrenders to its ri
vuz the commercial advantage VIII
Ter differentiates the growing and pr
I'll porous from the laggard and st,
hin liant community.
is- I'm view Of these general cons
1ez erations, which are universally
by cepted as sound by thoughtful M
sh- it becomes important to inquire wi
At tie public In any locality can do
res promote this important interest.
the 1.-THE fundamental thing to acco
to plish is to make the investment
transportation facilities in that
cality attractive to the honest
weston.
''It is in no way difficult to
termine what will do this. All q
sensible man has to do is to inqu
Of himself what would make an
-. vestment for his savings attract
to him, and he may rest assured tt
the considerations which would