The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-23
A FARMERS VIEW.

GuiGOI Lie iulSS. HS WIZ
toll by the sweat Of our brow
know you and your paper have
always been IN sympathy with
the laboring man, and whenever
| you,can help, or say a word for
him it is done and he is not call
ed an ignorant demagogue like
the. rich and the think they are
have done ever since 1890.
We know the all-cotton farmer
is at the mercy of the merchant
and banks, but why should he
continue sos What he wants is
to get enough for this crop so
he can diversity another year
and not be thrown behind for
another term of years. They
preach 1t but at heart they know
where their money comes from.
Now is his oportunity. it the
State or government doesn't
come to his rescue this time he
will continue to be the tool Of
the rich.
We all know every year about
this time, if it isn't war it's
something else, the buyers al
ways get it at or below cost, the
the farmer don't make the profit
lit is the buyer. The farmer
doesn't want to borrow money
Ion his cotton, ne wants to sell
lit, and has to sell it. The buy
ers buy it at their own price,
always have and always will if
we continue to allow it. I don't
care how much money is depos-
lifted in southern banks, the banks
don't buy cotton, but the specu-.
IIators do, and that is what we
are trying to cut out. The
world needs all the cotton we
lhave and can make and I believe
lis willing to pay a reasonable
price, but the speculator is not
willing and is always planning
to buy itjust as cheap as posi-
bic.
| How long would a merchant
Hast if he opened bis doors and
asked us to put the price On his
Igoods9 I am surprised the
farmer has existed as long as he
thas.
Editorially another papepef
says GA bond issue is an lnef-
fectual expedient unless the
4 = .H > BE-
bonds can be sold etc. What
has become of ali the money the
northern bankers or wealthy
men were so anxious to loan
France so days, ago and Presi-
dent Wilson objected? Then
Iagain there is just as much
money in this country as there
was the day before war was de-
lclared. The Secretary OF the
Treasury says ':He has the
power to issue one billion dollars
of additional national bank cur
rency if it should be required.
He says also, ..State banks are
actually depositing their securi-
| ties with the national banks, and
1.-The national banks are getting
the issue against those securities
and turning it over to the state
banks. It is perfectly simple to
get it. There is no difficulty
about that" There is plenty OF
money and all the states or nat
Iional government would have to
}do would be to pass the law, and
issue the bonds, they would be
sold without any trouble what
ever if the states backed them
with the cotton and the taxes.
Delay, delay that is what the
buyers want, a little is turned
loose each day and the first of
October will soon be here, notes
will have to be renewed backed
with cotton.
| Again that paper says, 1--WE
should be heartily glad if not an
acre were planted IN cotton next
year" This is the same argu-
ment 7 have heard some of the
bankers and merchants use.
And again it says, ''Let the leg
Iislators think out their schemes
now, in conference with bankers
ETC." Pray tell me are there no
farmers with enough sense, edu-
cation aud patriotism to adopt a
plan to get themselves out of
this dilema without our legisla-
tors getting advice from bankers
only?
NJ tho t,.,,th q bo1,t tho IUho1o