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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
UNCLE WALT
The Poet PHILOSOPHER

That fellow fails to please or charm
who's always viewing with alarm
Old KickshaW hangs
n GLOOMY around our town.
OUTLOOK and wears a mos
depressing fr o n,
and knocks ON all our boosting
schemes, and DOurs old water on our
dreamS "a boom is born, and then
it dies" this most unpleasant old
MAJ cries, and when it die a lot
of jays will get the cleaver, fifty
ways And still our one horse vii
lage grOws. in spite of him and kim
dred foes. who lea against our walls
OF brick, and chew the rag and oar
and kick. And all that poor old
kickshaw gains by all his misery and
pains, is just a frost where'er he
Wends: in all our burg he has no
friends. And that's as much as you
will gain if you devote your heart
and brain to blocking wheels that
ought to turn. and Quenching fires
that ought to burn. The knOcker has
n clammy time: the folks regard him
IS a crime; they plug their ears to
miss his cries. and hold a picnic when
he dies.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

Why is cotton low Here is the way
the CataWba County News figures IL
out: THE editor of the News used to
wear socks knit by the hands of his
mother thai had as much cotton yarn
in them as is now found in six pairs
Of socks, and the cotton goods re-
quired to make a skirt in those days
would make six skirts now. So the
cotton Of those days would supply six
times as many people now as it did
then"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
FERTILIZER MEN CAN HE'LL.

Speaking last week about Inc
News and Observers editorial and
communication from Mr.. Spence on
the guano pressure that compels the
early sale of cotton, Mr.. Ransom Hin
ton, Of Wake county, who has always
been a close student Of cotton condi-
tons and often a pioneer, reminded
The Farmer and Mechanic that six
years ago he wrote a communication
that was published in the New Or
leans and Atlanta papers. urging a
change in the method Of paying for
fertilizers His plan was for the
farmers to give their notes to the
fertilizer people payable one-third in
October. one-third in December and
one-third in February, instead Of hav-
ing to pay them all in November rs
at present. Just as long as the
farmers have to pay all their fertilizer
bills in November, just SO long will
the cotton be rushed to the market
in the early fall and depress the
price.
The beginning of the movement to
put an end to selling cotton early is
to make some arrangement whereby
the fertilizer bills do not become due
until the first of the year or h
spring. It is much better for the
farmers to pay interest on the money
and for the fertilizer people to make
their arrangements not to get their
money until the spring, than to COM
pei the farmers to sacrifice their crops
to meet these bills. AS long as the
farmers make their contracts to pay
the fertilizer bills in October and No
vember, they must meet their obliga-
tons and will do SO. This compels
flooding the market with cotton and
thereby depresses the price Of cotton.
It is a pity Mr.. Hinton's suggestion Of
six years ago was not acted upon. It
would have saved hundreds Of thou
sands Of dollars to the farmers. It
ought to be acted on now.
The fertilizer people are dependent
for their prosperity largely upon the
cotton farmers, because the bulk Of
their business comes from them. If
the cotton farmers are prosperous
they will buy more fertilizer and pay
for it promptly, and therefore it is
as much to the interest OF the fer
tilizer manufacturer in the long run
to help forward this movement as
the cotton farmers and merchants. It
is to be hoped that before another
year some arrangement can be made
whereby the farmers will not have to
sacrifice their crops to meet the fer
tilizer bills SO early. Fertilizer men
a help.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

ion bales. Therefore, it houid De
very apparent t. everybody that the
only thing for the South to do, IS 10
follow the recommendations Of the
New Orleans Convention, warehouse
the balance Of h present crop, cut
the acreage down one-fourth IN cot
ton and use the balance Of the acre
age In making food crops. That IS
the only way to make cotton farming
profitable.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

Hunger is the portion of the edi-
tor of the Siler City Grit as The fol-
lowing communication in his paper
shows MIR d. c. Brasyn, of Ore
Hill, Route 2, who had IL 'poSsums
in a box fattening for his corn shuck-
ing and who had full calculations OF
inviting the editor down, had the
misfortune of losing the last one OF
them a few nights ago by their gnaw-
ing their out"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
LNaaAma4~
Oslerism has never touched Chath-

Oslerism has never touched Chath-
am county. The Sanford Express
shows hat a former legislator has
done better than Cato did when he
earned Greek at eighty. Here is the
statement: Mr.. J. A. Parham, Of
Lockville, who is S4 years of e
went out one day last week and, be-
ginning at 8 O'Clock, picked 104
pounds Of cotton. A good days work
for a man of Mr.. Parham's age"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

The tobacco trust does not object
to Mr.. Wfckersham's briar patch-("I
was bred and born in the briar
patch )-but it objects to the three
year recall If it has not restored con-
petition and ended monopoly. All
trusts approve the Wickersham re-
call, fearing that in 1912 the Demo-
Gratis will win and honestly compel
dissolution.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
THIRTY-SEVEN CENT COTTON.

That was a very interesting letter,
furnished yesterday by Col. Chas. E.
Johnson, who has a genius for re-
membering old things about Raleigh
and who knows the a b c's Of cotton,
showing that in June, 1866, cotton
was quoted at thirty-seven cents for
middling.
1t does not cost any more to make
cotton now than it did in 1866. In
deed abor was cheaper then than
now. The man who is making cotton
now and selling it at less than nine
cents is losing none if he had to pay
for the labor with which it was made.
If the farmers Of the South had
raised ten million bales this year in
stead Of thirteen million bales or
over they would have gotten more
money for it than for the whole thir-
teen milGon bales. The man who
advocated burning up one-fourth Of
the cotton OF the South, Of course,
was not serious in his incendiary talk.
he was merely desiring to emphasize
the regrettable fact that the world
IS going to a the South less money
this year for the thirteen million bale
: crop than it would pay for ten mil
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

Within a few miles of Raleigh there
are many acres Of cotton not vet
picked. and throughout the country
there are hundreds of bales of cotton
in the field. This is due. OF course.
to the fact that the cotton opened
earlier than ever and almost stimuli
taneously so that the regular force OF
pickers who could ordinarily pick IL
out rs it opened were not sufficient
this year to do the work
1t has come to be a condition in
the South that the size Of its cotton
corp largely depends upon the ability
to pick it We can grow more cotton
than We can pick. Raleigh and other
towns have too many idlers standing
around the street corners and loaang
in the so-called cafes, too many Of
which are semi-blind tigers, who
should be put to work in the cotton
field picking cotton. The vagrancy
law ought to reach them and put
them either to picking cotton or
building roads.
In the last two weeks two cotton
picking machines have been tried in
North Carolina, one, the Goodwin
Machine. near Raleigh. and the other.
the Price-CamDbell Machine, near
Charlotte. and parties h have seen
them both believe that the inventors
nave struck upon the right principles
and that they are going to be prac-
tical. If SO. the cotton picking cues
ton Of the South is going to be set
tied and settled easily.
To show how much the farmers
need a cotton picker in their bust
ness. the following editorial is taken
from the Charleston News and
Courier:
Probably the need of a mechani-
cal cotton picker was never felt so
severely in South Carolina before as
has been the case this fall. There is
still a great dea of cotton in the
fields. considerably more, the reports
indicate, than is ordinarily the case
at this season. and the indications
are that much Of it is going to stay
there till it rots. Complaints come
from various quarters that the ne
groes simply will not hire out on any
terms. Most of them made heavy
crops OF cotton N their own account,
large enough to a them out Of debt
and to leave them something over.
and they do not want employment
Seventy-fve cents to a dollar the hun
dred is being offered in places for
picking cotton, which is out Of all
reason. Of course. and yet we are not
led to believe that advancing the
price is serving the r Of en-
aiding the farmers who are paying II
to get their crops gathered any faster.
Once a killing frost comes the diff
Guilty Of getting pickers will be ag-
g~ravated, Of course. the negro having
always been averse to going into the
fields after the advent Of cold wealth
er. Regardless Of the price question
1T is apparent that with the labor sit
uat1on becoming more serious every
year the size Of the cotton crop grown
III this section at least will have to
be limited. With a soil and a CHI
mate adapted to growing so many
different kinds Of crops it is not the
part or wisdom for any farmer to
plant more Of any one thing than he
knows he will be able to harvest
under normal conditions"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

Next yea promises to witness much
railroad construction in North Caro-
lima. The Winston-Salem Chamber Of
is considering favoring
bonds for the extension Of the Ran
dolph and Cumberland road, now built
from Cameron through Carthage, to a
point in Randolph county.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
COST OF PRODUCING COTTON.

1t seems hat some Of the bear op-
orators in New York have been using
, some of the tables in the report pv
the Commissioner OF LABOR anu
| Printing of North Carolina in an ef-
fort to justify their beating down the
price of cotton. From the tables OF
that department it is figured out thar
cotton last year cost the m
6 SIC. a pound to produce It. These
SPECTATORS claim that this being the
case, the farmer who gets 9 1-2c. a
pound is making a net profit OF %
per cent and hat this profit is large
enough.
Elsewhere is printed today a state
ment from the Commissioner OF
Labor and Printing, Mr.. M. L. Ship
man, giving his explanation Of the
matter. Mr.. Shipman says that
nothing is figured by his correspon-
dents except the literal cost of pro-
duction with no allowance for ma
chinery depreciation, interest on
value Of land, etc. Even at that, the
figures in Commissioner Shipman's
report are very misleading n show
hat his correspondents are not we'll
posted upon the production of cotton.
The tremendous increase in the cost
Of mules and farm labor and all sup
plies have been such as to make cot
ton cost, in the opinion Of most arm
ers who have beer interviewed,
even where the best results are OBJ
tanned, not less than ten cents a
pound, and 1t is unfortunate that
the North Cardinals Departments
correspondents have given out a figure
SO misleading.
Mr.. Shipman, a diligent and hon
orable official, will no doubt take
steps at nee to see that in h fu-
ture the estimates made by these
correspondents are verified SO that the
reports of his department will be Of
increased value. 1t would seem that
the question Of the cost Of production
of cotton and tobacco is more clearly
in line with the duty Of the Agri-
cultural Department han of the De-
partment Of Labor and Printing.
Certainly. the estimates of the cvrre-
spondents Of the Labor Department
should be passed upon by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture and verified be-
fore they are printed, because these
publications are calculated to aid the
bears in putting down the price Of
cotton, the last thing that the De-
partment Of Labor would desire.
Everybody recognizes how difficult
It is to get the prop ,r estimates from
volunteer correspondents, and there
fore, both the Department of Labor
and the Department of Agriculture
should be acting in cooperation, and
should be very careful to select cor
respondents who are so situated as to
make their opinion really OF expert
value. The guess Of an average cor
respondent of the cost of making a
pound Of cotton is worth very little
The only mans opinion who should
be quoted is one who is actually
making the cotton and who has kept
an account Of the expenses Of pro-
duction. All opinions except those
based upon actual knowledge, are
mere matters of guess work and
should not find their way into any
official publication and are not en-
titled to have any bearing upon the
matter Of cost of production.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

There are all kinds Of suits. An
Atlanta woman has brought suit
against the Southern Railway Conn
pany for fifteen thousand dollars be-
cause h was SO badly injured in a
wreck on the road, that her appendix
had to be removed.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
WEEKLY TONIC.
Oh. W. Mabel

Oh. W. Mabie.)
In a world in. which so many people
wear the same clothes, live in the
same house, eat the same linn and
say the same things, blessed are the
individuals who nave their own
thoughts and live their own lives.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
ALL FOR $1.7O

There has never been ofered In
North Carolina SO much good reading
for 30 little money as we are Offering
under the following propositions: For
$40 we viii send the following for
one year:
The Weekly News and Observer. al
e1sht-page weekly, newspaper.
III CommoneF. an able weekly
Journal. published by William Jen-
things Bryan.
The Farmer and. Mechanic, sixteen
page North Carolina home and farm
weekly journal.
Thus for One Dollar and Seventy
Gents y0u can get all these papers
enc year.
v. C. MOORE. Manager.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-17
Sass for Goose is Sass for Camden.

In the interview in The Sun, Mon
dav. Rev. y. q. French said.
II you want the sale of rum license IS
prefera bic to prohibition but II you want
ment has found by years of experience
that there is no other way else they
would have adopted il instead OF p5ohlp-
iting the sale TO Indians IN the III
tories but they have never discovered
better system of reducing the sale thah
bv prohibition although local sentiment
Is against the law -41zs-ss#s.=kzsss=ss
But Congress didn't put prohibition
into the Constitution. Congress made
a statute for the benefit of Indians,
men presumed to be unfit to be ciu-
Gems and voters. of self governing
renublie. If there were a large num-
Der of Indians in Maine, the Leglsia-
ture of Maine might devise law TO
keep liquor away from them; but il is
hardly complimentary to citizens OF
Maine to treat them as irresponsible
and as incapable of looking out for
themselves as administration sun.
Rot and nonsense! The law was
intended TO protect respectable people
and brains of worthless irresponsibles,
and we'd like to know if an intoxicat
ed white man is any less of a menace
to his community than an Indian who
is drunk Poison that is bad medi
cine" for Poor Lo is equally bad for
any other human being who is fool
enough to drink it. If Uncle Sam
| finds it necessary to enforce pro-
hibitory laws against the Indian and
the old soldier it is high time he went
one step farther, to prohibit the inter
ference by the interstate commerce
law with our constitutional law.
Father Wallace of Lewiston once
said: Show me a moderate drinker
and some day I'll show you drunk
ard in his shoes-if ne has any" The
man who squanders the respect of his
friends, wastes his energies, de-
moralizes his home, and estranges
those who have loved him is oftener
a drunkard than any other degener-
ate. He is menace to himself and
his neighborhood, whatever the color
of his skin, and should be suppressed
by law. That is why we favor pro-
hibition. However much it may be
maligned it is still far more effective
than any law that recognizes and
truckles to the evil.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-17
Editorial Comment
Not Proper Classification.
lLewIston IonrnaI.l

Lewiston JoarnaL)
The great ma jority of the Democrats of
Maine stand for fair square and honest
local option license There is very
for rotten rum deals, or for protection
sold by politicians TO certain people IN
certain localities Ii may be profitable
to the politicians who have the pull TO
put through such deals but 1t is ruin
Gus policy for the party.-Biddeford
Record.
The above classification of Demo-
Gratis in Maine into two divisions.
those who stand for the open saloon
under license" and those who stand
for rotten rum deals" will not be re-
ceiyed, we fear, with favor by many
Democrats.
There is a third class and a very
large class as our Biddeford analyst
will discover who come under neither
of these heads-loyal and patriotic
Democrats by tradition but unalter-
ably opposed to license of the saloon,
high or low, disguised or undisguised
and who are by no means advocates to
rotten rum deals Those gentlemen
will vote for prohibition Sept. 1lth;
because they have sons or daughters
and because they believe that ii is not
the mission of the Democracy OF
Maine TO be the Rum Trusts hired
man and lick spittle and because they
believe IL is for the welfare of Maine,
TO outlaw the open saloon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-17
shatterine Old Fanoiss.

Western exchange calls editorial
attention to the fact that Prof. Chas.
Zueblin of Pendleton, Indiana, and
Chicago University, has been out in
the West shattering that fond fancy
of childhood and Inspiration to be
good that is almost as dear as the
wonderful story of Santa Claus com
ing in his reindeer sleigh. and then
down the chimney OF the homes of
little boys and girls that are good. 1t
is the boy dream, some day, "if you
are good, you may be President"
Our exchange goes on to make the
demolition of the hope more complete
by declaring that when 1t was first
added to the bright imaginary life
away back in 1890. the chance was
one in 2,000, 900, but that now it has
been attenuated down to 1-50th- mil
lionth part, thus making the dark
cloud OF hopelessness absolute. But
nowadays. : level-headed youngsters
who know more of world affairs and o.
sll practical things. when they are {
dozen years old than their grand
fathers did when they We're Is. hav,
other things TO think about thai
counting the honors of the presidency
They realize at very early age tina
some of these beautiful old fancie
which have had powerful influence
for good are little better than plaii
fabrfcations And they also under
stand that there are other things t
lcok ahead to than being the much
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-17
Maine Weeklies for Prohibition.

Another country weekly that stands
ike a stone wall for better things:
that publishes from week to week, in
addition to a grist of live news,
strong, straightforward and clean edi-
torials on leading issues; that also
adds the best that can be selected from
it's exchanges is the Arocstook Times
This bright, breezy and clean Tin
more ways than one) little sheet is
welcomed by a class of Names most
intelligent and respectable readers. IT
appeals to and finds acceptance and
| backing i'm the better element, ALWAYS
Like the modest preacher or quiet
spoken educator. it's power for good is
not fully appreciated but is bound to
live in generations to come.
Ii is unnecessary to state that tn,
Aroostook Times is on the right sid,
of the prohibition question. No paper
is able to discover the fly in the oint
ment more readily than the Times, anG
1t Immediately sets about informins
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-17
STATE WIDE PROHIBITION.
Should the Principle Of Curling the Saloon
In Maine Be Rejected or Retained.

ling places, as LIQUOR saloons.
These all go hand in hand in their
demoralizing and corrupting in
fiuences. As to the speeious plea
of local option: the state is the
unit. 1t makes the laws for citv
and rural district alike Why
should not all obey them? In
minor matters and local affairs.
cities and villages are allowed to
make ordinances ana rules. which
do not conflict with public policy.
the general welfare and the rights
of others. The licensing OF liquor
saloons, hrotheIs. and gambling
houses. is not a minor or local
matter. Not one is desirable or a
public benefit. They are all evils
TO be restricted, aud all have a
corrupting influence. calling for
suppression. Z. +. Whitman,
Clerk of Courts, Norway. June "A.
1911.
Prohibition in Maine should be
retained. % Prohibition does
prohibit. Our country towns and
villages and many Of our cities
are largely drN % With local
option or the licensed saloon there
would be as much and more illegal
selling and pocket peddling as at
the present time. 90 The saloon
is virtually acknowledged To be a
menace 10 good order and good
society. Bangor, heretofore
Wide-open city, 50 understood it
and ordered the saloons closed at
ter the great earthquake. The
saloon Is equally a menace to good
society at any and all times
whether there has been a great
calamity or not. (4) Under pro-
hibition liquor selling where it ex-
ISIS has been driven TO the dens
and dogholes where no respectable
man would care 10 be seen.
These are few of the reasons
why We should retain prohibition
in the constitution. Maine in this
matter should take no backward
step 10 the disgrace of herself
and a damage to the cause in
other states-G. II. Stevens, For
mer Judge Of Probate, Augusta,
June IA. 1911.
Il should be retained. After
more than fifty years of prohfbi-
tion no one can state truthfully
that the State of Maine has not
prospered. Her business inter-
ests have been protected tar bet
ter than they would have been
under a license gVeteu, state
wide prohibition Of the saloon is
protection To the church. the
schools. the great business indus
tries of Maine. as well as to the
home, the fireside. the wife and
the children. The saloon is an
enemy to all these. Prohibition
poorly enforced is better than
license. It is urged b9 some that
a license law takes the question
out 81 politics. 1t seems To me
that ii places the question direct
" into politics, for where local
option prevails It requires an an
nual vote of every town or city To
determine whether the saloon
shall be licensed or prohibited. IL
from no other STANDPOINT. prohibit
tion should be maintained on ac-
count OF the business interests OF
Maine, and the business mer
should rally and see To it thar
prohibition shall prevail, and III,
saloon, with all it's attendant evils
be eiected.-James s Wright
Continued on Page Seven.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-17

Holman Days faneiful romance Of
how Gen. Warden Weymouth was re-
elected governor in his old age. after
the present day politicians had been
found weighed and wanting. as re-
lated in The Ramrodders, may be
in some degree repeated in present day
history in Kentucky. Hon. James Is.
McCreary of Kentucky, just Sc years
after he was first elected governor Of
Kentucky has again become a candi-
date for that office. Whether he Will
unite the sundered elements Of the
Democratic party in old Kaintuck'
and secure an election remains to be
seen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-17

A friend calls attention TO the some
what ambiguous construction of a re
cent editorial in the kennebee Journal
on the position of Maine papers on the
prohibition question. We referred To
the Biddeford papers. Journal and
Record, as opposed 1t was the in
tentton TO convey that they were OPP
posed to each other-the Journal for
prohibition, the Record against. We
hope that is right; at least, We think
there is no question as 10 the position
of the Record.