The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-05-09
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er is absolutely dependent along
every line. He has no say-so in
anything. You cannot go to the
merchant and fix the price of
anything. The farmer has to 90
to the merchant in the spring.
and there is not a farmer in this
country but what has to depend |
absolutely on the merchant for
everything that he uses to cult
vate the farm during the year,
and the farmer cannot fix the
price of single article. Well. |
that is all right. if the prices are
reasonable, fair enough. Hell
buys his fertilizers, he buys his
farming implements, at the
prices fixed by the other fellow:
buys his mules. horses, seed, and
everything that is needed, fixed
by the prices of somebody else;
then he goes back on the farm
and tolls all the summer. He
gets out in the sleet and snow in
the winter and prepares the soil,
arranging for the crops the COM
ing summer; he goes out in the
heat, little children ana a wife
depending upon him, and he pro-
duces with his muscle and indus
try great harvest: and, my
friends, did it ever occur to you
that after he worked himself to
death during the heat of the
summer, that he has absolutely
nothing to do with fixing the
price of the things he produced,
but somebody else way off on
WallStreet, in NewYork, fixes the
prices. Is that right for a man in
North Carolina to work hard all
the year and produce a crop of
cotton and grain, and at the end
of the year gang of Wall Street
gamblers get behind closed doors
and fix the prices for the very
articles the North Carolinians
raised. Now. do you wonder that
Mr.. Barrett says he has behind
him every farmer in the United
States, that he is in favor Of
abolishing farm gambling.
Now. there is a bill in Con
gress there were many intro
duced, but only one can pass
After the bill was argued fol-
several weeks the chairman, Mr.
Scott. of Kansas, drafted a bill
which he thought would compl.
with the needs of the farmers O
the country, and introduced it
and had the Committee on Agri
culture to report it back to tn
House, and that bill was sent t
the secretary of every Farmers
Union that l have the honor t
represent in Congress, and ever,
one. without exception, ha
placed this bill before his Unto
and has asked me to vote an
stand for it, and, my friends,
am standing absolutely, wit
both feet, in favor of that bill
and expect to vote for it. Nov
you will notice that that bill doe
not provide for suppressing gan
bling on any farm product e,
cept cotton. Well, that is a
right, if we pass the bill to SUI
press gambling in cotton, VIII
if it works all right, then v
can go further and pass a b
that suppresses gambling
everything that the farm pr
.duces.
Securing without delay post
savings banks. Now, that is
very deep question, and one tn
concerns everybody. 1t concer
every man in the town. and CO
Germs every farmer in the cou
try. This is a very broad que
ton, and it is a question that '
should all study carefully. I
banking business is a very LAT
able business, and we have sol
of the very best men throughc
the State engaged in this hi
calling. We don't want to
anything that will injure t
great vocation in life. We do !
want to do anything that will
lure and impair the stock of
banks of the country, and | '
stand this way on the questi
that am absolutely in favor
the postal savings banks, pro,
ed we can adopt it upon syst
providing that the money tina
deposited in the postal saw
banks shall be kept at home A.;
not carried away and deposi
in the great cities of the count
there to be reloaned through
trusts and corporations of
country. | believe that if