Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-10-23

and absolute loss o thO har1 working
local business men who are doing
their best to build up their own COM
all of which work benefits
and adds to the prosperity of every
resident of the home town; at the
same time adding most materially to
the value of every foot OF real estate
in the community.
Of the ninety-odd millions Of souls .
and bodies that inhabit these United .
States of America a very large pro- /
portion live in the country and In
small towns and villages.
These people are the producers.
They raise the grains and foodstufs
Il ? the wool and the meat, hides. etc.
nose who live in tie biz cities
ar practically all dependent upon the
G. IS of those who live in the coun-
TT and In the small towns. They
dc not produce anything in compar-
isca with the work of those who wrest
FIR the soil the bountiful offerings
of Nature. 1t is the work of those
who lives in the cities to figure out
how they can obtain that which 10
produced by the country people-how
they can juggle the values Of this
product-how much money they can
make out of it, etc. They do not
produce anything.
They are the parasites. without
the country people there would be no
cities. There would be no occasion
for cities because there would be noth-
ing to support them.
So it is the plan of the universe, as
laid down by our rules and laws, that
\ certain big proportion of the people
shall toll and spin while the smaller
proportion shall exact the greater
mart of that which is produced by the
toilors and make a profit sufficient to
enable them to live in luxury While
the toilers toll on continuously.
II is not the tolers and spinners
who take the trips TO Europe. It IS
rot the toilers and spinners who get
m in the morning at nine o'clock and
who spend their evenings at the thea
tiers. cafes and cabarets, drinking
wine and playing cards.
The toilers and spinners get out of
bed when the family alarm clock out
in the hen-house tells them day is
breaking. They hove no time for the
theater or the cafe or the cabaret
It's q case of hustle" all the time. II
is vital that every working hour in
the day shall be utilized in order to
produce" that which the scheme OF
our life In the present day provides
must be produced to keep the whole
machinery of civilization in motion.
What would happen TO the people
IN the cities II this whole scheme
should become disarranged-if there
, d'd not arrive in the cities, on SEIZED
uie time every day. the train loans
OF cattle, grain, milk and all sorts o
country produce. And the mail bags
? filed with orders for the mail orde
J houses.
What would happen? There woul'
, not long remain any citizens because
I they would starve, these parasites. !
5 ,he source of supplies should be Gu
off.
e And all of these supplies come from
l the country, from the people in thi
!. community. You do your full shar
: toward supplying the cities.
D Especially do you send your shar
: Of the orders for the mail orde
o houses. with the cash.
: There is 4 strange partnership b
+ tween the people of the country en-
/ the people Of the city, partnershi
/. which, carefully analyzed, shows tn
|. following working agreement:
!, The country people shall deive an
:. dig and toll and then hasten to shi
I. their product to the city partner. VIII
II takes possession and disposes Of tn
r same to the best possible advantae
II 10 h'mself). He then hands out
$ TIE country partner, begrudgingly an
II frequently only in case of a suit
law, a small part Of the proceed
r. Then you, the country partner, sen
"a this pittance back to the city, to tt
~ mail order house with an order.
I. Such is the result of a bald ar
n unvarnished analysis of the partne
h ship between farm and city, aftt
~ applying the acid test.
" Individual exceptions do not chant
~ or alter the general rule. You hay
citizens whose prosperity and
IN fluence eloquently refute the foreg
=. ing statements but ordinarily you W
n discover that these prosperous me
4. who are the exception to the rule a
"a rkened in character and motive
=. the old tories" of Revolutionary day
~ They will be found to be affiliated
y. some manner, not to the general
te-ests OF the community, with 4
70 financial wolves of the big cities.
or And 1t is such tories that he
"a TO insure a continuance Of the con-
IN items in the country towns and '
is lagos.
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