The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-06-10
SHOULD DEMAND AND
CONTROL THE SITUATION
Farmers Ought to Be Thorough
ly Orgauized.

Tie CdIcIul TcdutuR w It's HdIl.
Monroe county farmer subscribers
The observations of the author O
the article is not based upon Ey
pothesis. but is predicated upor
realities as they actually transpired
There is some wide divergence oi
equilibrium that must be adjusted
between the producers of wealth.
the trades, the manufacturers. the
middle men and the transportation
companies before the wealth pro.
ducine population can become
prosperous. Or ganization among
the workers and businesses of the
country has placed the farmers at
great disadvantage. Until they or
ganize, demand and control the sit
uation. which they can do by uni
versal concert of action. they will
continue to be the drawers of water
and the hewers of wood for the bal
ance of the world. But read the
article:
A car load of cattle from Lee
county was shipped to st. Louis a
few days ago. The calves sold for
3 IA cents and the rest of the cat
tie in the car brought cents. The
entire car brought less than $400
and the freight was almost a hun
dred dollars.
This statement is sufficient to
show what the trouble with the
country is. What encouragement
can a farmer have to raise cattle
with such prices as this staring him
in the face.
We read the stories of the bright
side of farm life, but mighty few of
the real hardships that the farmer
must endure find their way to the
press.
Labor throughout the country is
organized and they are forcing
good pay. The excuse for higher
wages during and immediately after
the war was the high cost of living.
The cost of living has been falling
every day. yet labor is making an
other fight to hold what they have
got and in some cases they want
the same pay and less hours.
Who is helping the farmer in his
struggle to make a decent living? |
The cotton farmer of the south has
been in bondage since the war with |
less pay for his work than that of
any other class of people.
Today the farmers are disor-
ganized mass and they are not in
position to get what is due them.
The cattle that the Lee county
buyer sold meant tremendous loss
to every farmer who sold cattle to
him. He doubtless lost a goodly |
sum.
To overcome these losses where
is the money coming from? As
conditions are today he must mort
gage his farm to keep going His
cotton has not brought the cost of
If he had m ide profit
on this he could take the profits
and help to make up deficit on the
cattle business.
Just how long the farmers can
hold out raising cattle and cotton
and selling below cost of produc-
ton, it is easy to predict. 1t means
that soon our farmers will become
tenants and the farms will be lost,
for they certainly can not pay off
mortgages as long as conditions are
as they today prevail.
1t would pay the man in town
and city to help solve this problem
Of marketing, for with the wreck of
the farmer will come the wreck of
business and manufacturing enter
prises.
Most of our towns and cities in
are busy promoting
everything except enterprises that
will foster the interests of the farm
srs.
Our enterprises that cater to the
farmer strictly are having a strug-
gle. for with the low prices OF the
Farm products that they handle
they have been injured to the same
extent as the farmers.
A better day will come, we hope.
and that day viii be when the
farmers get pay for their work COM
with the pay being re-
ceived by labor throughout the