Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-10
WHY The DISCONTENT?
Taxpayer Discusses Situation II
Further Detail.
TOO MUCH FARMING OF THE FARMER

National Farm Conference Merely a
Tub to the WhaIe-Too Much Extor.
tion Through Public: Service Cor.
porations-county is at the Mercy
of the Money Manipulators.
Editor Yorkville Enquirer: ,..
The abundant resources of America,
with it's extraordinary facilities for
commerce, should make us the most
prosperous and happy people on earth.
We were far removed from the seat of
the World war, and the toll Of death
was a mere bagatelle compared to
what other nations suffered. We are
the creditor nation of the world, and
as once "all roads lead to Rome" so
now they lead to America.
We have the light Of all the ages,
with it's experience, to guide US, and
yet, with all of these advantages, there
| is in existence today a deep seated
feeling of discomfort, that like some
contagious disease is becoming wide
spread throughout the Union, to such
an alarming extent that we may well
pause to consider whether 1t Is predi-
Gated on a real or imaginary founda-
tion.
1st. Our trade and foreign COM
merce Is fettered and strangled by pro-
hibitiye rates of foreign exchange.
Surely If there is any capable states
manship in the party in power, this
artificial condition should long ago
have been rectified.
I'd. We have extortion in taxes,
both state and Federal and the bur-
den increases with a dollar whose pur-
chasing power grows greater each day.
Sd. We. have extortion in transpor-
| ton and communication-the freight
rates, telephone and telegraph tolls.
Every productive industry languish-
es, the army of unemployed mounts
into the millions. Debts have been
doubled by defation Of products. 1t
takes three times as much cotton to
pay q mortgage now, as when the debt
was contracted.
With foreclosures people are being
rendered homeless and from every
quarter comes a sullen murmur Of dis
content as hope slowly sinks in des-
pair. saFl
These conditions will not be. miti-
gated by the press and politicians con-
cealing the real cause or making them
appear imaginary. -
There is alarm in Washington over
the prostration Of the great American
agricultural interests, which gives en,-
ployment to one-half of our people and
whose products in normal times con-
stitute 80 per cent Of foreign exports.
Discomfort in the ranks Of organized
labor Is militant. Mr. Hoover says the
stage is set for strike by the miners
union on April 1st.
There are cheerful people who keep
on believing that things are runring
fine and saying that there is no imme-
diate danger, and that If any trouble
does occur, that something in some
way, not specified, will find q perfect
remedy.
If the farmers conference Is a sam
pie of the perfect remedy there Is not
much to hope for.
Mark Sullivan in the New York
Evening Post:
If YOU wanted to be funny about 1t, and
didn't have any deeper sense OF responsibility,
| YOU could be right humorous about TINS 1arm
| conference.
When you see Farmer Ogden Armour chat
ting with Farmer Barney Baruch you couia
imagine them discussing the best way oil cur
ing the hoof and mouth disease IN your
heifers.
i You could picture Farmer Senator Arthur
| Gamer, who owns one of the most profitable
agricultural publishing businesses in the Unit
ed States. making a neighborly inquiry OF
| Farmer Henry Wallace, Secretary OF Agricui-
ture. who owns the next most profitable house
| in that line. as TO whether his brindle calf mas
been weaned yet
You could imagine Farmer William Jennings
BRYAN making a solicitous inquiry OF Farmer
Clifford Pinchot. about that lawsuit before n
| New York squire to break his grandfathers
will for a couple of millions.
You could assume that Farmer Roy Chapin'
who owns the Hudson automobile factory Is
| here to get pointers dDOut hSepihb VIZ ''~~
of his chicken yard. and Farmer Nelson Up
dixie who owns the Om'ha Bee and good
deal of the rest of Nebr. ska besides, making
neighborly inquiry of Farmer c. H. Nc
Dowell. president of the National Fertilizer
| Association, rs to whether the ticks had done
much harm to his young cattle.
You could picture Farmer Henry Firestone
arguing with Farmer Julius Barnes about the
relative merits of sheep or hen manure for
the asparagus bed, and Farmer Tom watson
that horny handed coupon cutter, whose name
heads the third largest packing industry IN
Chicago, specializing with Farmer Jim Bell
whose dress coat is not as dusty as you might
| expect to find on one Of the two or three
biggest -four mllers in Minneapolis, as 10
whether the grounding is likely to appear Oh
schedule the second of next month.
You could say that when you saw Farmer
Eugene Meyer, Jr. who runs big New YORK
banking house. talking earnestly with Farmer
Senator Pat Harrison. backed up in a corner
of the room, he was negotiating loan OF
s27.6O TO meet the road taxes due next We'd
nesday, and promising to pay it back Just as
soon as the ''muley" calf is old enough to
sell for veal
If Farmer Ring Lardner were only here
with the rest of them, he could write
whole chapter about that announcement Secre-
tary Wallace of the Department of Agricul-
ture made the first day to the effect that II
any one had forgotten to bring along his dress