The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-11-02
Shall We Grow Cotton Below
Cost or Shall We Take
Profit.


Shall the Mississippi farmer grow
cotton aud give his p'oiits away !:
or shall he organize; backed up b,
the Banking Institutions of his
county aud Government and cut out
the speculative institutions of our
land ana sell his cotton direct to
the sp n iers and manufacturers OF
the world. The specul tor element
has. forced the farmer to go into
debt from year to year, until it has
put unrest in the homes of almost
al the farmers of this great Missis-
siDpi Farming Paradise; it has
placed moflg g's on firms; it has
crippled and EN- m5arrassed the credit
of our farmer; it has shut out
largely the edu alton facilities OF
his children and made him non
prosperous citizen which will tend
to make him not only an ugly IT,
zsn. but vagabond to his country.
His lands are washing more as the
years go by. His grounds are los
ing their virginity and fertility.
The insect tribe is becoming more
acquainted with the farmer his
taxes are growing heavier; his sons
ere leaving tbs farm and going TO
better conditions; his daughters are
becoming more to be women OF
suffrage" and the seasons are mo- G
at variance to his wishes. The tin
llive- is another added cost, that is
to keep peace with the family al
tar; either has to become an acces-
sorry to his holding. In order to
keep up with neighbor Jones; w
have got to dress better; and have
telephone and electric lights, fans,
etc. Get to have COOL roads which
is the best of all investments and
the yield of cotton is getting smaller
each year.
There is want, there is short bank
accounts, debts, all this is worry
and trouble. and there is nothing
under the sun to alleviate this great
troable, but money; more moneys,
better crops we cannot expect; that
day has past. This money crop is
your cotton and we have got to
have more money for it or we can
not climb the Hill of Success. Can
we get it by letting the speculator
route, dominate, make selling prices
in New York far our Cotton? Will
they r tect the farmer? The man
who digs the first rev dollar out Of
the soil-the Goose who lays the
Golden Egg'-Ihe power tha. feeds
and clotles the world Can the
farmer expect to let foreign minds
set price on his product, and
spend millions of dollars of the
farmers money in bank excepted
drafts; and interest money on sales
of cotton; or spend millions of dol
:ars wiring the New York market to
very city and cross road in the
glorious South? By paying forty or
fifty thousand buyers TO ploiitteer
on this great cotton industry 10
aaye the cotton mills paying int,r-
st on millions cf money to buy
cotton when the Farmer forces it on
he market to lose thousands of
,ales BY the samples, the speculator
takes in grading and sampling and
-eling your CT tton, and the loss of
oilii ms of dollars in the (andergrade
p.ocess) that the local buyers haze
to put out in order to save his own
pocket money. Tle millions of
pounds that the weights lose in
thu process If cotton selling; the
millions Of dollars lost to the many
farmers Who work from sun TO sun
% grow and let this cotton be
bought by the speculator, and ray
freight shipping from one specula-
tor to another when his bales OF
cotton should be shipped direct
from the field to the manufacturer.
[r holding his cotton and causing
that country damage OF about six
dollars per bale is figured out Of his
sales for the so-called country dam
age. By The speoulators, the so
called friends Of the Farmer, the
many heartaches and heart breaks
Of good men who have in the late
years took their lives, caused by
losses in following out til game OF
speculation. The many farmers
who have gone into other work to
make their home fires burn more
easy, when the farm should be I 9
mecca OF his life, as he is trained
that way.
l long tc see the morning dawn
upon the farm when cotton will be
I a stable rice, so the cotton farmer