Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-16
THE FOOD SITUATION AGAIN.
Mr.. Cook Makes His Own SuDDlies
and Has Stuff to Sell.

tItu W Sell.
Madison, May 12.-Editor Keowee
Courier: In reply to Mr. Stecks let
ter of last week, will say that I NAV
nave been little too sweeping in
my article referred to, but it was
pract1cally true all the same. and tho
people all Know what | mean. / did
not mean that there were no good
men IN the class mentioned-three-
1ourths OF the whole people. or
course there are many good business
hleh' ana great many laborers
among the three-fourths mentioned
said a majority of this class never
did hard days work nor earned an
honest dollar, and it's true. Bmt
those good men, and business men,
ana laDorers, are in a minority.
was expecting some Smart Alec"
to Jump on me in regard to what I
said, but | did not think of stirring
up hornets nest in The Courier Of
nee. l know my illustrations are
rough and homely, and do not COM
pare IN dignity and eloquence with
the literary whoops of Professor
Steck. There we're no public schools
when l was growing up; hence my
not being educated. But l think
Brother Steck has slipped a cog or
two himself He says have gotten
out of the road. in the roadside tim
bers, broomsedge, gullies, etc.
Now, Brother Steck, there is where
you slipped a cog. l have not been
in the road nor in the woods. | have
been In my corn fields, planting corn
peas, beans, etc. precisely as you in
Structed me to do. What the thun-
der is the use for me to have a guard
ian If l don't do what he tells me to
doo That's what guardian is for
to look after and protect those who
are not competent to manage their
own business.
Just about as much human ma
ture in one man as there Is in ano-
thGr.' Here is where Brother Steck
slips another cog. He had just about
as we'll say all men are just alike.
Some men are by nature mean, and
some are good; some are of a high
temperament, and some are smooth: !:
some are truthful and honest, and
others are liars and scoundrels.
South to feed the South. thing
that it has never done in the past"
IT is no trouble for the farmers Of
the South to feed themselves. They
have all got plenty. But where they
failed in the past was in trying to
feed the hundreds OF thousands of
spectators, dudes, vagabonds and
bigots who are too lazy to work for
their living, and want the farmers
products for half price.
"A shiftless set whose one aim and
object in life Is to beat the farmer"
7 did not say anything like the above
in my article. (Brother Steck slips
a cog again.) Spectators are any
fbinu o1cn thnn cliEf1nc.
the most alert, watchtul, vigilant peo-
pie in the world-always Watching
Seeking whom they may devour."
''Never fear for one moment that
yon will have to litter the treasurer's
office with peas, corn and potatoes
this fall when taX-paying time
comes.' am not losing any sleep
on that, my brother. know before
I go with my shoulder load Of peas
Just what the treasurer would say.
BY the time would get in fifty yards
Of his office he would begin to holler:
"Over-prOductiOn, Over-production !;
the country is full Of peas; they are
only worth fifty cents per bushel." ="
Then my Brother Steck would pub
lish it In his paper for the treasurer,
Notwithstanding he has been advising
us to plant peas, and more peas.
tors want-a fifty-cents-a-bushel
price, about one-third what it costs
the farmer to make and gather
them). But, thank God, some Of
the farmers have got more sense than
to follow the Instructions of such
men. l am surprised that my Bro
ther Steck seems to have gotten mes
merized by this bunch of dudes. But
he is still In the road, and his cogs
have not all slipped. But he is in the
wrong pew. Get those wheels out of
your head, my brother, and be your
self again. want to come up and
shake hands with you.
Now. my brother, this fifteen-dol-
lar flour does not trouble me, so far
as ] am concerned. l have wheat on
the farm-enough to do me all next
year-without sowing any more. The
25-cent meat is not troubling me.
have meat and lard in my smoke
house to do me-and it's homemade
meat. But when see the poor ten
ants being robbed after have let
them have the cash with which to
buy their supplies, then my cogs slip
and my steering gear gets wrong, and
Come down, brother, and get me
straight Tell that bunch Of specula-
tors and dudes to hush talking about
the South starving, and go to work
themselves. and everything will set
tie like coffee.
Brother Steck says that "the heads
Of some Of the farmers organizations
are In Washington to-day protesting
against any action that will stop the
steady advance in prices Of products
of the farm My brother is wrong