The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-12
Communication
{ Continued from yesterday
NOW IS the time for ali good men

NOW Is the Time IOT dIk SOOu men
to come to the aid of the party.
The automobile as business
proposition is necessity, but 1
look upon it as a necessary evil,
as there are ten Joy rides for one
business errand and has done moro
to take our boys from the farm and
corrupt the morals of our young
people than anything that mas ever
been invented, We must look for
some other plan. 1t is instilled in
us from childhood to own some
thing if only a dog. I think we
should give them few acres of land
to cultivate and give them the pro-
ceeds thereof. Encouraging them to
buy a registered calf, sheep and pigs
and install into them thrift and self
denial and the advantages to be OBJ
tanned by so doing. Every farmer
should own the land he cultivates,
and if he did in a few years every
acre would produce double what it
is today.
We are the only county on the
Eastern Shore that has not Farm
Loan Board. think this is one o.
numerous things that could be ac-
complished through our County wide
Association, so that our boys VINO
have oeen taught self-denial and
thrift and saved their monty which
they have earned from their land
and stock can place them in posi-
tion where their Uncle Sam will glad
ly take them by the hand and lend
them the money to buy farm and
give them 35 years at 6 Upper cent
at the experation of which term the
entire debt Is paid. There is
enough money spent in joy rides in
our county each year to buykthe best
farm in it. FARM products, are the
cheapest commodities our City-con-
sumers buy to day.
Factory girls are wearing $500
shoes and $2.00 hose daily TO their
work and buying the best of every
thing that high price labor can pur-
chase, and living like the daughters
of millionaries and when the crisis
comes, which is assured they are go
ing to be the most miserable
creatures on earth. 1t makes me
shudder to think of the consequence.
The three largest Associations
have headquarters in Washington.
The first is labor, second Capital anu
third the farmers Association.
There are fourteen of these Associa-
tons in the National Association
and when we form our Countrywide
Association, we can register with the
National too. There are seven mill
ion farmers in this country today
and two million are organized. To-
day the world rules the farmer. Let
these seven million organize and they
will rule the world. The farmers
have always fought each other and
that is why they have never accom-
pllsEed anything. Let the Farmers
of Maryland organize and send a
delegation to Washington aI when
we hand in our card to our r&nresent-
atives in Congress they will meet us
with a Woodrow Wilson snz5ie and
gladly take US by the hand while
We tell them that we demand that a
practical farmer shall be lps tie head
of the department OF &ulfure.
and we viii send O. &c to
Annapolis and demand kre-
rentatives to repeal the2 sIs-
sion Act, and ali such %sz:s III Shs
laws that the enacted for the asses
and not the masses. You can rlcr
satisfy labor with money, let there
be shortage of food and the very
people who look with contempt on
the farmer would get down on their
knees to buy him to let him go into
the field and labor when the pangs
of hunger were gnawing at his ribs.
This meeting will be held on
Thursday February 10, 1920.
This meeting is for the Farmers
organizations only.
Very truly,
w A. PERCY