Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-08-03

there are Thousands more lust like
them in our Southland.
The robber between the producer
and manufacturer has made money
enough to pay all the South owes.
There have been millions Of dollars
spent in trying TO find remedy.
There is but one remedy, which is
to sell direct to the manufacturer.
One man can do the job In each coun-
ty for very small amount.
One-third Of all the gold In the
world Is In the United States Any
business. firm or manufacturer can
borrow money on any kind Of sccur-
ity, but the farmer can borrow very
little on the very best securities
under heaven, which arc farms and
farm products. They constitute the
backbone Of all securities.
Stop farming for one year and it
will stop all other business for three
years. But stop business and con
tinue farming, and business can START
up in twenty-four hours
The laws Of our country forbid
gambling. Still there Is more gam
bling IN farm products in the United
States tha1A all other countries com
bined-and less prosecution. Try
your hand, dear farmer, on social
game Of "African GOLF in our public
parks and see if you won't wear the
stripes. Let your daughter steal a
few yards of cloth. and see If she is
not branded a rogue. But the cotton
SAMPLER can play for high stakes
and win our money. His wife and
daughter can give teas and gamble
at cards until the wee hours OF the
morning. and you and pay the bill
with big drops Of sweat from cock
crow till dark.
Farming is the oldest occupation
given to man. and we American far
mcrs, more than thirty million
strong. stand by and let few low
down gamblers steal our products.
| believe God will hold us rcspon-
sible for our ill-fed. ragged and il
litcrate children. All the great drives
which are Oh christian education,
better homes and better food. sani-
tary conditions and the drive against
iliiteracy--all these are good, and |
heartily approve Of them; but there
is nothing under high heaven that
will do any good until we farmers
make a drive that will drive these
gamb' 1rs from the face of the earth.
and then we will work out our own
salvation. Give us the middle man s
profit and we will screen our homes
and build better ones. Give us the
money that the government is spend
ing on sanitary conditions and we
will tear down our old, dTapidated
privies and build sanitary ones.
1t is shocking to know now few
Of our boys and girls get college
education-less than 2 per cent. We
love our boys and girls as we'll as the
city and town folks love theirs. If
we had the right kind Of law-mak-
ers they could stamp out these gam
blers in twenty-four hours.
Every child in the United States
under II years Of age-except The
farmers child-.is protected by law
as to how long he shall work, and
as to what the conditions Of labor
shall be. The cotton farmers child
has to work from six years old to the
grave to help make a living. Just as
soon as crops are laid by they have
to start short summer school when
they ought to be resting their tired
little bodies, and then pick cotton
and do hundred other things OH the
farm, and then start back to the
short winter school through the
sleet and snow. No wonder the deaf tn
rate is high. The rural school houses
are not one-tenth as good as our city
and town schools. | am glad that
they have good schools. but we oughi
to have just as good, for We feed and
clothe the world. Our state law
makers care nothing for our rural
boys and girls or they would pass
laws to restrict the amount Of work
they do. and see that they had bel.
ter schools and school houses, and
put them on an equal footing with
the city children. But they must
work-work to make more produce
for the gambler to manipulate.
Some Of our ministers of the Di-
vine Word stand behind the sacred