St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-11-01
WHERE VILE 1T LEAD TO.
(By RutA Fletcher.

We are havingsthe wet.est time I
have seen in mank years, which puts
all late crops in pad con 1ition, and
prevents the growing Of later crops.
There is scarcely vegetable lef.
except beans ana sweet potatoes.
Since help is so 4carce, and all our
Joung people so On the Rampage, it
is impossible to save what feed is
left, and it is said that our stock
will have hard time if hay sells
like it did this ssring, at $500 per
hundred, and ves.y scarce at that
Corn is eslling around $500 per
bushel and will gh to $500 by gath
ering time, if it dpesnt' 60 over that.
l cannot understand why any one
cannot see that ahe prices that are
being put on labor and food is ruin
ing the world, an4 not really benefit
ing anybody. F5lks pretend that
labor had to go up because food was
so high, and by this means half of
the world sbeilsg ground between
the upper and nesher milestone.
The common farm laoorer cannot
get as much for "a days work now
as he could get when he worked for
75c a day, though he is paid $500
and board, and If he asks for pay
enough to buy what he could get for
75c in the pastS straightway food
takes another JUMP skyWard.
Now, there are so many old peo-
pie who are living on money they
saved up for their old age, and even
with the creates, possible economy
it will be gone III a short time, anG
then how are they to support them
slves 1t is the plainest thing in
the world that if %abor and food was
just as it was ten years ago, every
body would be bhtter off. The un-
pleasant thing asout it is that the
working class will never be satisfied
with low wages Again. They know
full we'll they have no more of the
necessities Of life shan they did when
they worked for lsss than one-fourth
OF what they are: getting now. We
have so many poor women doing
housework for their neighbors, and
their employers raise their wages
perhaps double what they had been
paying, and think it an awful i'm
position, when ose would starve to
death on it unelss our food sharks
come down ons their necessities.
When we paid a.n able bodied wo-
man 25c for a days work she could
buy with it fous pounds Of bacon
or twelve pounds. of -four or a peck
Of meal or two cards Of nice dress
goods. Now four quarters will only
pay for less thaA three pounds Of |
bacon an da pecks of meal costs any
where from dollar up. Common |
eight or ten cent? bingham is forty |
tents per yard, and every bit of the |
,rouble came from putting up cotton |
md tobacco and 4 few other things |
when the war commenced. When
he war closed sCme "cranks" went |
Wild about what 1--WE Woul do with
he soldiers whens they returned, as
f the same place they left didn't
iced them all, when their parents
iave perhaps shortened their lives
With hard labor, and they need their
ons wheel lot worse than Uncle
sam did to help than solve the prob
EN- of living. There is another
that confSonts us that is a
lose second to tie war. Many Of
ou have doubtless come up against
[ in the last few years. / think
an say that twenty-five per cent Of
he citizens of THIS nation are too
azy to eat if they could be fed by
roxy. A man was looking for
arm to rent for another year, re-
emily. He said he had good place
ut he had some boys, perhaps from
welve to twenty GEARS of age, and
hey could not understand why they
rad to work, whsh there was not
mother boy in this community that
ad any work to .do except amuse
themselves. Now .my parents had
arge possessions, get | was trained
0 believe that it Mas just as much
tealing to eat a1d wear clothes
vithout working f:r them as it was
0 hold a man uLs with a rifle and
axe his money. SOMEBODY must
oil for everythingswe use and enjoy
nd when Divine Wisdom said six
avs shalt thou hbor," He meant
very one that is physically able, re-
ardless of how sluch money they
lay have A LACY travelling sales
said recently, ooh, yes, we
now that is true, sbut no one thinks
I thoes old-timeH things now" If
his is true, why DO We wonder that
he world is going to destruction rs
asst as aloaded srain going dow1
rade with all brakes off.
My friends, it Gill not do to cry
peace and safety, when sudden de-
truction may coSae on US at any
loment. We knCs w that being thai
as horns and clogen feet is saying,
Hush, hush, don's mention that I'M
il l can get myi shackles little
lore closely wrapped around them
bur guide book says, What doh
he Lord requiresof thee but that
hou do justly aHd love and mercy
nd walk humblytwith thy God"