The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-10-27


conspiracy among bankers to beat
down the price of farm products by
contracting the currency, until the
present crop is disposed of by the
producers. This, he says, they are
doing because the same men who
control our banking institutions are
also interested in manufacturing the
products of the farm, such as cotton
and tobacco, and 1t is to their inter-
est financially to force prices down
just at this time when they are buy
ing their years supply of the raw
materials.
In his speech DR.. Templeton took
the position that the remedy for low
priced cotton is not to reduce acre
age, but to seek new markets. He
says that not one united, concerted
step has ever been taken to find
new markets for cotton, but that the
growers have spent the time that
should have been spent in such eff
forts, sitting around corners and
cross road grocery stores whiting
soft pine and contending over dead
issues and battling with two by four
politicians.
Throughout the Doctors speech
was one of interest and showed that
the speaker has read widely and
thought deeply on the subjects dis
cussed.
Mr.. Green, who spoke in the af-
ternoon said he had seen some men
who opposed the Farmers Union.
"They put up their little selves
against the organized world" he de-
clared. He also declared that man
ufacturers are organized. jobbers.
wholesalers and retailers are organ
lied; lawyers, doctors. carpenters,
engineers, conductors. brakemen,
BARRIERS and even bootblacks are all
organized; why not the farmers?
"AIl men in the organized occu-
pations make a living for their fami-
lies without having to drag into their
work their>w wives and children. The
only class who make wives and chill
dren slaves to hard, daily labor in
producing living is the unorganized
Southern farmer. and who is TO
blame? We, ourselves. The remedy
Is in our own hands," declared Mr..
Green
In the matter OF reducing acreage
to keep up prices. Mr.. Green. to some
extent. took issue with DR.. Temple
ton. He declared that farmers
should use the same business judg-
ment exercised by other business
men. They should anticipate the
consumption and limit production TO
that amount. II they should over
estimate consumption and produce a
surplus, then keep that surplus in
warehouses until demand is strong
enough 70 pay living profit over
cost of production: thus controlling
both production and distribution. We
may never be able TO control con-
gress: in our ignorance am sure We
never WI, but We can price our
own products. The fruit Growers
Union. OF California. has controlled
for Is years the distribution OF or
anges. perishable product. and
gotten good prices, which has made
tnem independently wealthy. Then
can we not control the distribution
Of tobacco and cotton.
Mr.. Green declared that the credit
business had been the ruin Of many
farmers. He has bought commercial
fertilizers on credit. paying ten per
cent more for six months time than
the cash price, which is equal 70
twenty per cent per annum, a rate
Of interest that no business in the
country could stand. The only way
TO stop this dependence OF the farmer
Is to live At home.
The speaker declared that the far.
mer cant AFFORD 70 pay s1.00 pei
busheI for corn wnen he can grow
IL at Is cents TO % cents per bushel;
nor pay 10 cents per pound fol
white side meat when be can raise Il
at 5 cents. He gave instances whers
these things had been raIsei at Z
cost even less that that mentioned
above, and told how to do IL. Mules
be said can be raised 10 three years
old for SIS. and yet our farmers arr
paying $3.50 for them shipped her,
from the vest
"Panies have come and will com.
again. They are brought az the vii
OF corrupt controllers Of our fnancia
system. Live at home and panic
WIN cause you no fears" Get wei
OF that fearful disease 'Storcts'. get
ting your living from the store. Tn
best way 70 make money farming 8
not to try to make money. MAX
your living and you will have less Z
sell and consequently viii get NOR
for IL
/. Northern farmers do things.
They allow nothing to be wasted
not even q dead horse. His hair
uged for FANG mattresses. his hoof
for jelitine. his bones for bone poi
ash. and the meat for bologna sau
sage Even the dirty negro worl
shirts are boiled out. the juice dis
titled, favored ~ and shipped TO th
south. as booze, By express. "
The speaker, in conclusion. men
. toned some things the farmer
ought 70 have, and whic the Fsi
mers Union will help them in -
curing. as follows:
Better. and more attractive homo
better furnished homes, flowers 10
the home, better water supplies
more sanitary surroundings, waite