Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-10-30
MONROE EDGE AGAIN
STATES SITUATION
Bond Issue Means Prosperlty-wIth-
out Il We Face
Bankruptcy.

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In former article mentioned the
necessity OF road bond issue to re-
lieye the financial condition OF the
county Nothing seems TO have been
done to promote the suggestion and
conditions are becoming more serious
every day It seems to me farmers
and merchants, instead OF waiting and
hoping for conditions TO improve,
should get a move on themselves and
improve them
There is no scarcity OF money In
the United States. nor even In Texas.
The whole trouble is this. The Euro.
pean war has demoralized the cotton
market and cotton cannot be sold for
enough to pay our debts. We have
nothing else to sell Those who ex.
peeted legislation and resolutions TO
give relief have been disappointed.
Those who expect TO borrow money on
cotton in advance OF It's market price
viii also be disappointed There Is
unreasonable excuse for an intelligent
citizenship in the midst OF plenty to
be in want. There is no excusable
reason for an Intelligent producer to
market his crops over real bad roads
when the law provides way for
good road
A bond issue Of 100000 would put
every farmer in Brazos County on a
cash basis for next year. Il would
enable the tenant farmer to pull
through without the assistance Of the
landlord. There are perhaps less
than a dozen farmers In the county
who can make next years crop with
out the help Of merchant or bank. To
hold the present cotton for next years
provisions will cause certain bank.
ruptcy among the merchants.
II every idle man In Brazos County
could get employment at a dollar and
fifty cents per day or three dollars and
fifty cents per day for man and team
through the winter and spare time
next spring. the problem would be
solved Brazos County could and
would be on a cash basis.
The supplies necessary to grow next
years crop will amount to fully $500.
900. Without bond issue that
amount will be due next fall. And
what then? With money we can save
the difference In cash and credit
prices. which is about 20 per cent.
This on 100000 amounts to $4,000.
The average man with an open ac.
count buys 20 per cent more than he
would for cash; there is another $780,.
900 saved. making 100000. or nearly
4 one-half the amount OF the proposed
bond issue placed to the credit OF the
farmers in one year.
Should the great European war con
tinue We could not hope to pay the
100000 due on supplies next year
and 10 per cent interest would begin
to accumulate. making $4,000 per
annum. The interest on the bond is
sue would be only one.half that
amount.
In changing from cotton to other
crops next year will be. with most
farmers, an experiment Experiment
al farming may and II may not be
profitable. We can all hope for profit
but good business judgment should
prepare us in advance to cheerfully
meet disappointment.
Anything the farmer grows besides
cotton will cause trips more often "a
market That alone will require good
roads. There are numerous roads In
Brazos County over which a good team
can pull only one thousand pounds
when they could draw three thousand
over a good road. To accuse anyon,
of being satisfied with the present
condition of the roads is equivalent
to questioning his intellect.
The whole proposition is this: w,
are going to accumulate 100000 debti
next year and market our crops ovel
the very poorest sandy, unworke,
roads, If we fail to get the bond issue
J. With the bond issue we will pay casl
|. next year and trot to market over
good road. Without the bond issu,
q the merchant will see difficulty sue
O ceeded by difficulty and hope by dis
2 appointment With a bond issue the,
- will enjoy a splendid cash business
2 during the whole year
n If Brazos County WIN act quickly
- Grimes, Madison, Leon. Burleson an,
3 other adjoining counties are apt Il
follow our example. The final resul
will be: South Central Texas will
have the best roads and the most pros
porous citizenship in Texas.
MONROE EDGE.
Kurten, Tex, Oct, 2S, 1914.
4 FARMERS FRATERNAl