The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-07-06
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arise from it's context what the law
means to do it's effect.
1t is outrag eous that the producers
shall accept unfair prices for their
products and then purchase them
back from the American manufacture
er at such a tremendous profit. Take
for instance a bale of cotton weighing
five hundredp ounds which the farmer
sells for less than sixty dollars, and
which makes about 900 yards of cali
co. To make the calico at the present
prices of cotton will cost less than a
hundred dollars. The calico sells for
about eight cents per yard. 1t will
therefore bring $4,000.
Statistics tells us that the spinner
gets about five cents per yard for his
calico which yields him $4,000 on
the amount Of calico the bale of cot
ton produces. Here We readily see
that after he pays the farmer $4,000
for the bale of cotton, he clears on
his investment, after all expenses of
manufacturing the cotton into calico,
something over $1,000. On a crop of
100000 bales the spinners make
a prifit of 100000. The farmers
sell cotton at about $4,000 per bale
and buy IL back at 100000 a bale.
The great orator and statesman
George McDuffie said over seventy
years ago that out of every hundred
bales of cotton produced, forty bales
thereof went to enrich the eastern
manufacturers. That statement was
true the day it was uttered, and in
stead of forty bales going to the
eastern manufacturer he gets today
over fifty bales out of every hun
dred produced. The tariff law is re-
sponsible for this high handed and
privileged robbery. The producer
suffers beyond imagination, but think
of the condition of the American
laborer. Toiling night and day to
build the colossal fortunes Of preda-
tory wealth when their wages
are not enough to pay the tariff alone
on his actual necessaries.
After producing the wealth the un
just laws of the country deprived him
of the opportunities the Constitution
intended that every citizen should en-
Joy. The representative servants
have been recreant to duty and be-
trayed constituents; deserted obliga-
lions and allowed these wrongs to be
perpetrated upon suffering constitu-
ents.
Producers and Laborers Must be Or
gained.
To prevent such continued favor
itism legislated to few and in order
that the two great bodies of the peo-
pie may receive fair wage and fair
price for prOuuct, the alboring class
must stand organized and likewise
the agricultural people must be.
Those who are the real producers
share but little benefit from their
toll
With labor and agriculture arrayed
under the protective shelters of their
Unions they can successfully battle
against special protection. They pro-
duce the necessaries demanded to
keep the country alive, and have no
voice whatever in the prices they re-
ceive. Yet when they go to the mar
ket for the necessaries of life q GER
tain price has to be paid or starvation
prevails.
The trusts have no mercy. Con-
tinued favorism, continued board
of the wealth of the nation is all that
the trusts seek. The destruction of
human life by the great iron high
ways that girdle the earth the death
knell of the sweat shops of the great
cities need not look for anything
from the specially favored. Those
who freeze in the wintry blast all
Mrs. Claude Carlisle. 22O1 Ave F..