The Robesonian., 1910-07-25
FARMERS UNION DEPART
MENT.
Edited by M G. Mckenzie and W. P,
Barker.
THE AGRICULTURAL REVO.
LUTON.
Address of Editor G. II. Poe al
Alfordsville July 6.
Compiled by M. G. Mckenzie.

if it is actually occurring it is
necessarily carrying with it all
future Southern politics, and
Southern relation, and Southern
art and such agricultural
changes is the one substantial
fact upon which any really new
South can be predicated, Editor
C. H. Poe, in his address at the
Alfordsville picnic on July8, said:
Il do not know whether or not
it has ever been worked out as a
principal of political economy,
but anyhow it is unquestionably
true that wealth is by nature not
aristocratic but democratic.
The poorer every other man
is the poorer you are; the richer
every other man is the richer you
are. Every man whose earning
power is below par, below nor
NAL, is a burden on the communi-
ty;he drags down the whole level
Of life, and every other man in
the community is poorer by rea-
son of his presence. Whether he
be white man, or what not-your
unframed inefficient man is not
only a poverty-breeder for him
self, but the contagion of it
curses every man in the COM
munitv that is guilty of leaving
him unframed. The law Of
changeless justice DEGREES that
you must rise or fall, decline or
prosper, with your neighbor-
you will be richer for his
wealth, poorer for his poverty.
And so today every man in the
South who is tilling an acre of
land SO that it produces only half
as much as intelligently- directed
labor would get out of it, is a
burden on the community. Sup
pose you arc his fellow citizen,
then because of his inefhciency,
his poverty, because of his fail
ure to contribute to public funds
and public movements, you must
have poorer roads. poorer schools,
a meaner school house and court
house, shabbier church, lower.
priced lands; your teacher viii
be more poorly paid, your preach
er's salary will be smaller, your
newspaper will have a smaller
circulation, your town will have
a poorer market, your railroad
smaller traffic, your merchant!
smaller trade, your bank smaller
deposits, your manufacturer di
minished patronage; and so OF
and so on.
Some Great Fallacies and Wha
They Have Cost Us.
The farmer, the common
Iaborer of any sort, needs n
training. Educate him and yo1
spoil him. The poorer you kee
him, the richer will be the othe
class" These have been on
great pet fallacies. And a lon
time have they been preached.
"Hugging this vampire delus
ion, the Southern plantation owr
er has seen vast areas abandone
to broomsedge and gullies,
spite of the fact that intelliger
handling would have kept thel
productive a thousand years.
Preaching this fatal doctrin
the merchant has sold Westel
meat and scooters and tobacc
when with prosperous patrons
might have quadrupled his prof
by selling sulky plows and ha
vesters and carriages and piano
''Deluded by this fallacy, yo1
statesman has struggled again
fate. only to die and be forgott
by people too poorly educated
read his biography, and too pc
in property to build a monume
to his memory, while smaller a
meaner men in sections unshat
led by these ancient errors {
famed in song and story.
Writing editorials in supp
of the aristocratic instead of
democratic theory of indust
the editor has seen his patti
outside weekly fail Of suppe
when a properly trained and e
Gated people would have brou
him wealth and influence as
head of a prosperous daily.
Fighting public taxation
better schools and other meth
of training and enrichlng
average man, your manufactl
has struggled along with a sn
er business when a prosper
average man would have gi
US great industries like thos
the North and West.
Still arguing that educa
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