The Monroe journal., 1911-04-25

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he IVES between the plow handles
ina; be quit right there and then.
lie decided that it was an unprogres-
sive calling. Thanks to the expert
mentors and the demonstrators, farm
ing today is becoming a scientific
profession, and by that means farm
ers are coming into their own. Is
there a man whose eyes fall upon
this page who has not seen within
his own experience cases OF two bales
Of cotton where only one grew form
erly, and fifty bushels Of corn where
ten once ruled? Are not farmers
everywhere doing these things2 Can
we doubt the witness Of our own
eyes? Were these things ever done
before? Is there not now many an
old man who farmed all his life and
felt that he could do little, but who
is now doing more than ever before?
We could produce Mr.. Green's own
words to prove that he has quoted
such men, and they said that they
felt that before the new day their
time was largely thrown away. Now,
after all this has been accomplished,
Mr.. Green wishes to throw away the
bridge that carried US over and will
vet carry us to undreamed cf accom-
plishment, and insinuate that these
men are hirelings Of selfshness
Away vita such narrownessi
Another thing. The Journal be-
lieves that farmers as a whole can
accomplish something by co oper-
alive selling. But there is not the
crying demand for this that Mr..
Green thinks. Turn over TO the ad.
yertising columns Of this paper and
see how many people are begging
the farmers TO sell them the produce
Of their farms. And no one can deny
that prices are not good. Cut pro-
duction in two, is Mr.. Green's idea,
and get higher prices. lie forgets
that there is another side to this
question. He forgets that the labor
ing men and women and children of
the towns and cities are the main
Of the farmers products
And he forgets, that which no fair
man ought TO forget, that
the buying capacity of these people
has a limit. II the nabobs ate all
The food and wore all the clothes
that the farmers make, Mr.. Green's
theory might do, But as the men
who work with their hands are the
consumers, their buying
has about reached its limit,
and policy Of scarcity would mean
bread ont Of their mouths and clothes
off their backs. Everybody knows
today that the era Of high prices has
been a real burden to the toilers Of
the city. Over in the famine dis
tricts Of China Mr.. Green's theory OF
is now working its ideal
effects. And We are sending food 10
them and the farmers are selling
their lands over there because they
cannot afford TO work them another
year. Yet there is food there. But
the disciples Of Mr.. Green's theory
Of scarcity are holding il at such
high prices that the people are starv-
ing in sight Of it,
The theory Of scarcity is as wrong
as the insinuation against unselfsh
leaders is unjust. Tue true prlnci-
pie is that farmers shall make more
if they can do it more cheaply II
they make il cheaper, more people
can buy it and be able in turn to sell
the farmers the things they need for
comfort and convenience at prices
that put them in their reach. When
did the farmers Of Union county
have more Of the blessings Of life,
when cotton was thirty cents pound
and calico fifteen, or now? Not that
farm prices cannot get too low, for
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