The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-12-10
Lee County Farmer Writes Lengthy
Article Ii Regards to the Advice
Given Farmers BY the Press
In Interesting Article He Takes to Task the
Advisers Of the Farmers. Says They
Must Work Out Their Own Salvation,
Editor Lee County Journal:

kAAC hAAOAASAAS
September and October. the press
of the South and state was without
single exception, persistent and
loud in it's advice to the farmers to
withhold their cotton, and to refuse
to accept anything like s or cents.
Therefore at one time the price was
above 8 cents and still they were
begged not to sell but advised to
carry it home and wait for higher
market. took the position at the
time that this WAS dangerous advice
and would result in disaster TO the
commercial world. The farmer Isl
human like all other men, and the
pressure was SO strong and from so
many sources that it had remark
able effect for it became generally
believed that such a course was de-
sired by every one and that the
farmer regardless of what he owed
would be perfectly justifable in
holding his cotton and refusing to
sell the same for the purpose OF
| netting his obligations.
Behold the results. The cotton
is withheld from the market, is still
| low and the wheels of commerce
have locked and refused to turn.
The very agencies which gave the
ldyice bringing about this condition
are cIanoring that the water be
turned on the. wheels to save the
country from wreck, stating that
this distress cotton has been held
long enough and the commercial
Iorld needs water and needs it bad
| right No But unfortunately the
thing has gone so far that you CAM
stop it, and the whole commercial
world is in mess. How much bet
ter would it have been to have left
conditions to adjust themselves in
the natural way, and let the farmer
rap the reward of his folly, and
meet his obligations as best he could
md not ignore the man Tho has
oeen backing all his farm opera
tions.
Warn Gambler strikes the key
tote. When he say IS we should now
start Standardization" move
nent to save the commercial world
from wreck and ruin. He takes the
position that it is neither wise nor
right. That the farmer should
| withhold llis cotton from the mar
zet until the merchant and banker
llsho has backed his farm has been
| paid. Not only that but he could
nave added that it IL best for the
| farmer to take his medicine now
and clean out his system preparG-
tory for future efforts for interest
storage, leakage, and taxes. Cou7
| pied with that state Of unrest eau
sod by speculation will ruin any
farmer who follows the advice which
was so popular in the last 80 days.
| He was first fed on national aid =,
| then large bank combination for his
aid, and the poor farmer is about
to believe that he is the salt OF the
earth and that the earth and the
fullness thereof is his. The govern
ment aid failed the bank combina-
ton failed, governors were besieged
to call session of their legislators
for the purpose Of forcing the farm
er to plant as the merchant, the
banker, the lawyer, and the doctor
dictates. This failed and now comes
another self appointed guardianand
asks that the bankers of the cotton
growing states meet and past bind
ings, resolutions, obligating them
selves to throttle the poor farmer
and make him reduce his acreagein
cotton by fifty (5O) per cent.
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