La Junta tribune., 1911-12-30
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sy A Farmer

II is now showing upon another snow
Of eighteen inches that fell five
days ago. While We at this ranch
OF adobe houses. stone barns and
chicken houses, surrounded with To-
Gust, cottonwood. apple. peach and
plum trees. do not facl the pangs Of
cold as the average OF our country,
these comforts II has taken US thlr
ty.two years TO accu;aulate. not with
cash and hired help. bat with muscle
and the credi, system.
Thirty years OF three able bodied
men TO possess property that today
Ian average yalu, OF everything
land stock. poultry and improvements)
could not be cashcd for 100000. and
II has cost us twice that amount In
labor. interest and the CREDIT SYS.
, TEN. Why do undcrscore credit
system so dceply7 Because. ! think
from an experience OF forty years.
barring !n,emperance and gambling
that the credit system Is the great.
est cuss the human family is heir to.
1t is the foundation upon which all
mlllionalres have built and are build.
Ing at an alarming rate tsay five per
cent while the other o. per cent are
their slaves. The credit system Is
the greatest breeder Of pauperism
and prison birds and divorce proceed
ings.
was reading In the Pueblo Star
Journal a few weeks ago two articles.
copied from the La Junta Tribune
and the Denver Republican, setting
forth the trials and tribulations OF
the credit system. While the Re-
publican and Tribune are republican
journals, and the Star Journal and
myself are democrats. and We may
not agree on Schedule X, now receiv-
ing ,hrashing In congress, or Prcsl-
dent Taft for a second term. We are
together on the modes OF eliminating
the enormous prices OF living. II We
can be instrumental In bringing about
reform for the new year In our
home towns We viii have accomplish.
ed more for humanity than all the
acts OF congress in the last score Of
years, or all that viii BE- passed In
the next score
Conservatiyely speaking. ! believe
. have produced enough on my farm
In the last thirty years TO furnish
one hundred people with all the
bread. meat. vegetables, poultry and
frul, they could eat In that period
OF time, and each Of them be AS
bountifully supplied as myself. even
II | do have the first slice at the
pie. am conceding myself TO be
only an average producer. II three
men can producc-ycs, | say they
do, am not writing al random-it
does seem that one man could tpar.
don me II call him middlemanl
shape II up. with all our modern
machinery, for the one hundred con
sumers- providing the consumers
come TO his shop or store and pay the
cash. and as the Missourian would
put II. pack Il home.
This one man. then, has, In town
OF 5000 people. 100 cash customers
to supply with all the necessaries OF
& lifc-groceries. dry goods, hardware.
meat shoes. everything the consum-
cr uses This calls for fifty men In
your 5000 town. and he would no,
have 10 work any harder than We
producers have to-and let me say
right here that the old farmer is fast
realizing that from four In the morn
Ing until nine at night Is not heal.
thy for man or beast
Under this system Il would be
useless for me TO say that the car
pcntors hammer and machine shops
would always be In motion. Further.
one doctor to every hundred families.
one lawyer to every county. all OF the
drcamcrs back TO IN. farm. more
good railroad and street car men, not
halfs,arycd section hands. and ON
ploycs. generally. would exist
Now. II my three colleagues will
second. | will make motion that
congress pass law that II one man
or woman. boy or girl, credit another
II will be unlawful To make him or
her pay the debt. Then adjourn. and
back TO the farms
Under this system and Law the
lamb and the lion would at least b.
on better terms when they lie down
10 sleep. Under present conditions
the lamb aiwyas wakes up inside the
lion.
Our main object. mean us four
thnuvh Sh. nghey fhrec did mt men.