The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-09-29
The Situation.

Phil Scott" in Dorchester Eagle.
A very few OF the white people
and none of the negroes, realize
the situation that is confronting us
today.
With cotton-the only commodity
that will bring the ready CASH
selling around the 7-cent mark,
what are we to do?
Obligations to meet, guano bills to
settle, advances to be met, taxes to
pay, and last, but by no means least.
we must continue to live. l do not
wish to find fault with my neighbors
/ and friends, but had they listened
and taken heed to the things that /
have preached and prayed and beg
/ ged them to do, they would not have
been in this deplorable condition to-
! day.
Everybody knows that it is an un
| wise policy and never is safe to de-
pend on one thing alone. Sooner or
later that one thing will fail US and
1 then where will we be?
am no pessimist, and when pre-
dict that it will take years to put us
back to the place where we started
the year 1914, l only do so to show
you the difference between a farmer
who diversifies. and one who plants
all cotton, and depends upon that.
and that alone for his entire living.
South Carolina makes one hun
dred million dollars worth of cotton
per year, and spend ninety millions
OF her cotton money for fertilizer.
flour, bacon, corn, rice, hay and can
ned goods. There is no excuse what
ever for these conditions. There is
not farmer in the state, and es-
| pecially in Dorchester county, who
cannot produce all of these things
upon the farm. They can be produc-
| ed for 100 per cent less than they
can be bought upon the open mar
ket, yet we find many OF our very
best farmers dependent upon the
other fellow for living while he
makes the cotton
II IL is profitable to raise bacon in
the West to sell down South, IL goes
to prove that it would be more profit
| able here at home. because we would
save the middleman and the freight.
You need not say that we can't
raise these things, for South Caro-
lima is proud OF the fact that she
holds the worlds champiorshi III
corn raising. She has been. and
could be again, the greatest rice
growing state in the Union. We also
nave grown the greatest number of
pounds OF hay on one acre, AMI while
/ am not so sure of this, / think that
we have grown the largest hog IN The
Union. One thing l do know. Cne
thing that / am sure of. is this: our
governor has pardoned more conNic
in the four years of his adminlstra
tion than all the governors during
the same period of time. So. there
fore, we must have distinctly ely, the
greatest state i'm the Union.
successful farmer is one who
raises on the farm everything that
lie may need. both for man aud beast
first; and then all the cotton he can.
An unsuccessful farmer is one
who plants nothing but cotton on
his farm, and buys everything that
he needs both for man and beast
with his cotton money.
A successful farmer is ono who has
something to sell from his farm
every month during the year
An unsuccessful farmer is one
who never has anything to sell OK
cept his cotton, and then has 20 take
what the buyer offers.
a successful farmer is one who
works his land six months out of
each year, and lets the land work for
him the other six.
An unsuccessful farmer is one who
scratches over his land six months.
and lets the land lie idle the other
six
Awake! or, you sleepy farmers.
awake. There is yet time TO redeem
yourselves. Get busy! Now is .he
accepted time. Plant oats. whaat,
rye, vetch, clover. alfalfa, rape. now.
Raise cattle hogs, colts, sheep. goats
chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys
Plant less, make more. Do your
own work, and for heavens sake,
quit raising cotton, hell and niggers