The Monroe journal., 1920-10-08
MANY FARMERS IN UGLY
MOOD, SAYS NOvCS HOMO


lie Deplores the Outr~ges, But Says
Many OF the Agricultural Class
Are In Desperate Mood.
Waxhaw, Route 10 Oct Every
time we hear from the cotton mar
kel something else has happened TO
il. Begins to look more and more
like a deliberate attempt on the part
OF market jugglers TO rob the farmer
of his long summers toll. Does any
body exepct the soil tillers TO take II
easy. and submit serenely TO such
high-handed trickery? II so they
have underestimated the intelligence
of the men behind the plow.
In 1914 the farmers OF the U. 5. A.
lost one crop because Europe went
mad and started butchering each
other over coveted trade routes. The
farmers had scarcely recovered from
that loss, when 10 and behold anoth-
er campaign is launched TO reduce
product prices in order TO get down
from the dizzy pinacle of war time
speculating, and the farmer seems 10
be the goat again. Naturally, oid
horny-hand feels like some one else
should take. at least. part OF the
loss this time.
Some years ago Kentucky was in
tested with an organization widely
known a. Might Riders" These
groupes were up in arms against a
clique of tobacco spectators who
were making their millions at the
expense OF the tobacco growers and
the said growers got tired of being
filched in such a ruthless manner and
decided to put stop TO II IN the only
way they saw handy. While their
method was not at all a desirable one.
they made II effective because oil the
terror they put into II, and most OF
us remember now the country trem-
/ bled with fear because of the success
these fellows were having with their
unciyilized manner of getting results,
We are not pointing TO these things
for the purpose of endorsing them.
/ On the contrary, we deplore them.
But II anyone thinks there is no dan
ger of a like condition becoming gen
eral all over the cotton belt at TINS
time, that man who thinks so Is out
of touch with the attitude of the men
who have toiled arduously to produce
this cotton crop and are now con-
fronted with the prospect OF having
their product conhscated by set CT
heartless cotton spectators who nei-
ther toll nor spin and whose room
would be far more valuable to a
! hAtp 4
On Saturday last the Charlotte OBJ
server carried on its front page IN
bold faced type the announcement
that Alabama farmers had put no
tices on the doors OF business houses
in certain towns requesting that said
establishments CLOSE up" and re-
main closed until cotton brought for
ty cents per pound. With these no.
tices on the doors of the business
house there was a match which evi-
IDENTIFY was intended TO impress the
Importance of the demand.
Nobody. not even the men who are
engaged i'm this ncfarious work, de-
sires TO witness the carrying out OF
any such program in this county. II
means devastation and ruin; but the
fact that such a spirit as the forego-
ing would indicate exists to a degree
that men are emboldened TO take
such steps. shows. TO every thlngins
man. that we are treading on the
smouldering embers and listening to
the distant mot very distant rumb-
lings OF a universal eruption.
Men do not hesitate TO express
themselves as being highly displeas-
ed with present prospects. They talk
trough about Il. They are. to put 4
plain, mad, and while our local bus.
mess men. with whom we are In di
rect contact. are as poweriess u
remedy the situation as are the far
| mers themselves. the obvious fact re
| mains that somebody is responsible
] and that while that somebody ma,
| consider himself out Of reach OF th'
hurricane ne is raising, the probabil
ity is he'll hear OF II.
We see I'm one column of a newspa
per the assertion that southern bank
are unable to finance the cotton crol
for holding purposes and In anothe
column of the same paper, or proba
bly, In the next issue. we will see tn
boast that the south has the creates
| Ivolume of bank deposits in Its histo
llry. These things are hard TO recon
J cile, and are too antagonistic to bot
. be true.
When politicians carry their gam
so far as to jeopardize the wellfar
and peace of nation In order to rim
pressure that will lend credence
! their regime of vituperation and Civ
/ hope TO their greed and avericious o.
fce-seeking pioclivities. It's time
call a halt TO politicians.-Noyt
Homo.
LII Her Siafe of Mind.