The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1915-12-23

our hard earned money 10 a landlady
who knows that she has no competet
itors and therefore .sticks il to us.
How long are we going TO tolerate
and-lady like that One who make.
us give her Is bales Of cotton at s
cents a pound for 100 bushels of can
ned sweet potatoes =? You know, il
takes about an acre to produce the po.
tatoes and it takes about 16 or II
acres to produce the cotton. Now, isn't
that lovely exchange?
If it were not possible for us to help
ourselves, it would be different, but
we can. Why, we can raise vegetables
and pork at home, hay and lard and
-four, ETC., and better quality Of the
vegetables, meats, etc, which is an as
surance of health and happiness, for
we will certainly treat ourselves fair
when it comes to eating; not like our
friends toward the North, who try to
make the food they sell US look as big
as possible and the pork they send US
you may be sure has been drained Of
its lard. But we get the lard alsol
Yes, but at an extra expense.
Summing 1t Up.
In summing the whole matter up
you find that we pay about three times
as much as it would cost to raise and
can the peaches, okra, tomatoes, cab
bage, potatoes, meal, corn and the
great variety Of meats, as pork, ham,
bacon, ETC., and what is that which we
pay such an immense price for? A.
bird is for the substance; another
bird is for the Northern shrewdness;
he other third for freight expense.
We pay for everything concerned, you
notice. Why, you wouldn't think tina.
hese things could be raised here, for
they could, certainly any people
would care enough about economies to
ave two-thirds Of their money that Il
paid out Tor shi ss llness
hat is acting against them, and an
'ther third for an expense that could /
Ne avoided. 1t is hard to believe that |
Gods which We order from the North
osting us a total amount Of about
1000 coo per year, could possibly be
aised in this county. But they can.
ust think if we raised our own food
upply we would have about $1,000, +
90 surplus money, to do what ever
re wished with. Wouldn't we be hap
Y, though?
What We Could DO.
Let us see what we could do with
his 100000. We could build TWEEN
five consolidated schols, twenty-five
hurches, fifty miles Of hard costly
oadsl say ten miles out from town in
We directions or more. We could pay
astors, teachers, and many farm
whose achievements
'ould be nearly unlimited. In few
ears our Southland would be very
ch in developed resources, the people
-ould be happy and prosperous; the
anks would be flourishing and lend
* money on easy terms-that is, If
ny one had to borrow. The stores
ould be filled with canned articles,
OF with labels on them from Iowa,
linois, Indiana and Maryland. No,
0, but in their stead you would see
.e labels marked, Canned by the
iris Canning Club Of Yazoo Coun-
~ or any other county. And the
oys would be interested in raising
rye, fine pigs that had been fed with
are at little expense.
Our Cotton a Surplus.
Then what will Iowa, Illinois, Ohio
Id the others be doing? Why, they'll
Z eating their own, as they say, fine
AIMED goods; and We wouldn't mind
Dw many they ate, for we will not
: dependent upon them. Our cotton
an be set at any price We desire, for
they don't buy it, well, We won't
ind putting it under the shed and
wing it until they find that they need
bad enough to pay our set price.
When all this comes true, as It il
0und to do. If We stick together on
lis proposition, then who VII be the
andladyg" And who win Be happy
nd never know "hard times2" The
.rners are the ones. In this section
ley viii have the money with which
construct steam plants. water
orl<s, electric lights, etc, each On bis
" farm and the aato Hill furnish
,eedy means for reaching town over .
.e hard permanent roads.
AT We have to do Is pull together,
r where there is a viii there is
ars