Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-27
ROLLING THE FARMER
John 7. ROddey Gives Some UnVar.
'" nlShed Truths. - -
WHERE JUSTICE is ONLY A GRIA JOKE

If Some Day the Man of the PIow
Shall Decide that He Will no Longer
Bear the Burdens Of Other People;
But Instead Will Enjoy the Pro-
ducts Of His Own Labor, There Will
be Much Embarrassment.
To the Editor of The Observer:
Might 1t not be possible to so i'm
pose upon the farming class that they
might resent 1t? While unquestion-
ably the most patient and long suf-
fering Of all human beings might there
not be limit? Was not the farmer
before the Civil war considered a
Country Gentleman" and Is he not
after the World war approaching Rus
sian peasantry? Is there any other
class doing business with him not
soaking" him for the limit? Does
not the doctor, the lawyer, the banker,
the merchant-in fact every class
make him pay them their prices, and
does he not have to take anything he
can get without any say so?
If he brings COW to town for
sale, does he not get from three cents
to five cents per pound, and If he
wishes to buy a piece Of the same
beef, does he not have to pay from. 25
cents to 40 cents per pound? II he
brings cow hide he will probably get
IS cents or a dollar for It, but IL he
wants pair Of shoes, will he not have
to pay from SO to SIS for them? If he
breaks his wagon and has to have 1t
repaired in town will it not prob
ably cost him a COW? Are not all
| tools, machinery and his necessities
on the same basis, and is not every
thing he produces practically carried
] on in the same manner? Taking Rock
Hill for a comparison, cannot a man
hire a farmer and his family to work
from daylight until dark, and later II
I necessary, for less money than Is paid
a hotel waiter, janitor a 15-year-old
clerk or any employe Of any descrip-
tion of railroad, or any one engaged
in any other business?
Have the politicians been worth a
nickel to him? Have not most Of the
schemes, gotten up supposedly for his
benefit, been means for ceeating a
lot of useless jobs? Hasn't most Of
the speaking and ranting on the diff
ferent things been rather with a view
of holding or getting good Job either
for the speaker or for some of hfs
friends who could not so admirably fill
the position provided the salary was
sufficient? Would not the politician
| telling him about his poor wife and
children cooking, milking and work.
ing in the fields, be more Of a friend,
If he were to tell him, they are doing
80, but If you were not a fool, they
would not be? Is not the advice and
persuasion usually given the farmer
| for the real benefit of the man giving
the advice, and is not the farmer the
same old sucker" who falls for 1t. Is
not every other class organized for
protection? Is not equal rights to
all special privileges to none" a farce
ton are allowed against a particular
class? Is there not price fixing on al
most everything he must buy? Have
you heard such a conversation lately
between farmer and fertilizer man:
What are fertilizers worth this
year?" II don't know, the prices
haven't been fixed YETI" Why allow a
professional say in New York or Chi
cago to sell the labor of every farmer,
man, woman and child and force the
farmer to take the fictitious prices
created? Does the professional know
| that as rule the farmer Is poor and
ignorant and must submit, his nerve,
his money. and his ambition gone and
his family coming on to live the same
life Of slavery? Has the professional
got "pulr' or is he Of more benefit
to the world? Without these condi,
tions could they play this game?
Would it not be broken up If they
Could they find any other class that
would stand for it? Are not the ma
jority of the American people natur-
ally gamblers, wish to take a chance,
and the southern people naturally op-
timistic and hopeful souls, always
want to buy? Don't they have to
have some one to buy from, who then
unless the professional? Who wins in
nearly every game of chance, the pro-
fessional or the amateur sucker? Was
not the limit until recently $5, one
hundred bales, can't you play now so
cents limits, 10 bales?
If five men were playing cards with
| $50 on the table would they not be ar
actually supports in one household