The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-19

and Eight Together.
Nv j y. GREEN. Editor OF the Car
Dina Farmers Union.
Carolina Farmers Union.D
don't mean for you to shoulder
vour old muSket. for that's not the
kind Of fighting hat needs to be done.
It's a business fight hat We are IN,
and We must either stand up like full
grown men and do our duty, or we
must surrender like towards and
pirates that have conspired to take
this years crop, and cotton seed in
Guided, at a price below cost of pro-
duction. The time has arrived for
plain talk. and that is why l put my
name at the head of this epistle.
There are some things that need to be
said and / want to assume personal
responsibility for saying them.
There is less cotton carried over
from the last crop than has been in
sight since the Civ War. have
seen men on the road eagerly hunting
spot cotton for spinners, for the
simple reason that spinners can't
make good yarns out of futures"
written upon tissue paper The rea-
son there is less visible supply Of cot
ton now than has been in sight in
any year in a half century exists in
the fact that for two years just past
we have had two abnOrmally short
crops. something that never occurred
before. Two years of high-priced cot
ton has brought the South a period of
prosperity never before witnessed III
this country. 1t wouldn't take many
years Of such prosperity to make the
South commercially independent.
With Il wise use OF our natural O
opoiy of cotton production. it wouldn't
take many years to transfer the imam
cial center from New York; to New
Orleans, and the only way for the
gamblers and financial conspirators,
under leadership of Morgan and
Rockefeller, to prevent this change in
favor Of the South is to hammer
Down The price OF cotton. They can't
cry down the price Of cotton success
fully without Government aid, and
the Government played into their
hands again this year by sending out
a false, misleading, premature crop
report that indicated a ffteen-million-
bale cotton crop. This first report
came out before some of the cotton
seed had sprouted in the fields 1t is
a Well-knoWn fac that nothing like
an accurate estimate Of the cotton
crop can be made until frost comes in
the South. and there is absolutely nc
1871 WHY tIiCiS S11odio TIC ally wv
report before the middle 81
october. except to afford an oDportun-
lty for cotton gamblers to play the
game at the expense of the men
women n children in Southern cot.
ton fields The Government dOes no
give publicity Of this Kind to the bus.
mess Of the manufacturing classes O
lillS country, by making estimates o.
the probable output of their VariOu!
productive enterprises, and | WOuit
IKE tor somebody to give me even {
puny little excuse for this crimina
meddling with the farmers business
LFen an accurate estimate of the crOl
"hlch have to sell a no
De defended by the ethics Of business
winch allows the professional classe
10 have business and professional Sc
crets and which in al! history has per
H'ltteu the business classes to haN'
business secrets, but hen a Govern
nient not only persists in giving pub
fc1ty That snatches from the pocket:
OF the tillers of the soil more tina,
Two hundr million dqollars and put,
u INTO the pockets Of European an
american cotton spinners it shows F:
haForltlsm that borders we'll night
upon the criminal.
But students of modern yer
mental problems. h have Watchet
the course of events. are not surprise
mat our national Government shout
ieno aid to the special interests o
TINS country, because %predator
wealth has owned our national Gov
eminent for nearly half a century
but hen l see reports from men il
the employ of our State Department o
aSFIIilIt1Ira that ~ on tho thea