Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-11-12
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Farmers Good Fortune.

Farmers IOOQ EOEIuuSs
Without effectively combining, or
Striking" for his rights, farmers are
at last in the saddle. Everything they
produce can be quickly turned into
gold at unprecedented prices. An ex-
ample of how enormously farmers
are now reaping returns for their
labor is found in a Kansas farmer
who recently carried to market
load of alfalfa seed. The wagon con-
tained 102 bushels of seed which
were sold at $19 per bushel, realiz-
ing $1,927.45. This is said to be the
most valuable wagon load of farm
produce ever marketed. Of course
this is an unusual case but down here
in Dixie, not away out West, farmers
realize unprecedented sums for ev-
erything they sell. And we are glad
it is true. We want to see farmers
prosper. When the tillers of the soil
prosper, the country is prosperous.
When they fail ali else fails.
Looking to President and Congress.
The industries and homes of this
country are looking to President Will
son and Congress to provide coal for
the winter that is approaching. The
mines are supplied with practically
limitless quantity of fuel and not an
industry should close down, nor a
home be chilled this winter for the
lack of coal. If the men who for
merly mined the coal are unwilling
to work, let them be made to under
stand that they must stand aside and
allow others to operate the mines. If
the threat of President Wilson to
station a sufficient number of troops
at the mines to insure. their opera
tion is carried out, sufficient coal
will be provided for the needs of the
winter. We believe men can be found
to work the mines if the striking
miners will only allow them to do so.
Strikers should never be permitted
to enforce unreasonable demands by
unlawful means, and the President
will render the people at large a
valuable service if he has the coal
mines worked over the protests of
the striking miners.
Legions Ranks Should Steadily Grow
1t is hoped that the young men
who served their country in the late
war who understand the advantages
of being member of the American
Legion and who are endeavoring to
enroll all of the ex-soldiers and ex-
sailors will not relax or let up in
their efforts until every one who had
a part, however humble, in this great
shall have enrolled as
member. A thorough canvass should
be made among those who served in
any capacity, setting forth the ad-
vantages of becoming member of
this great host of American citizens
who are deserving all honor that can
be shown them. Recently the Colum-
bia Record had the following to say
of the Legion:
every good citizen should well
come the coming of the American lie
gion in South Carolina. 1t is made up
of the flower of the country's young
manhood, men who have served hu-
manity and have caught vision of
a better order. The preamble of its
national constitution which sets forth
the purposes of the Legion is a noble
writing. If the legion but strictly ad-
heres to it, there will be no cleaner
or more powerful organization in the
country. Doubtless it will sooner or
later be felt in politics. There will be
politicians who would direct it to
their own ends. But unless they ans
wer true to every test they will come
to grief. The legion may enter poll
tics for clean purposes and be a pow
er for good in the nation; but if poll
tics enter the legion, it will decline
and fail. It was not born out of po-
litical conception. 1t declares for poll
cies, not politics. In purpose it is non
partisan The honest politician need
have no fear of it. We venture to
predict that the legion will attain