Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-21

that they are apSQlutely sure ol II ID
that. One man gets support and
strength for what he is doing from 9TH
ers who are doing the same thing. And
when a whole nation falls into an error
that is backed by generations OF ap-
proval, the correction Of that error Is
task beyond human power.
"The one crop system Of the South
was an economic error Of stupendous
proportions. 1t was the most tremend-
Gus economic error that has ever been
known in the history of the world. 1t
has made slaves Of the finest race or
people that God has ever created. 1t
has robbed untold. millions Of their
birthright, and kept TO the free agency
of that short sighted humanity, there
was no possible hope of relief.
81 am not human. / am not of hu-
man origin" l was especially created
by Providence TO do for the farmers OF
the South what they would never do
for themselves. And because Of the
Omniscience that is responsible for me
and my mission, my work is a success.
"And who am 1? / am the liberator
the emancipator.
II am the boil weevil.
Thirty and three years was the time
allotted for my work, and within four
years more it will be completed. l
have only about 200 miles further to go
until 1 will have covered all territory
that was the blighting grasp Of the
crop curse.
1.-THE same power by which I was
created, limited my progress to sixty
miles a year, or approximately that. In
this dispensation there was wisdom and
mercy, for had I been spread over this
vast area at once, I would have strick-
en- down the only economic system the
people had, and spread such despair as
would have eliminated the energy and
intelligence necessary to correct their
error along the line Of diversification.
h "Just as my approach has been met
with anathema, through each succeed
ing year, within three years after my
arrival, for anathemas has been sub
stituted blessings.
I'm the light of the foregoing full and
true statement, 1 desire to give you
good York county people an extra per-
sonal message.
"As a matter Of course you can see
that claim to be your friend, and I as-
sure you that my feelings for you are
the kindliest.
"I have been giving you the same
warning that have been giving to all
your fellow sinners along my path.
got into your top crop last summer and
destroyed it as warning of what am
going to do to your whole crop next
summer. That Is what have been do
ing all along. In all my experience OF
twenty-nine years only a few Of the
wisest in each belt have needed the
warning. These have reasoned that 1t
was better TO begin diversifying while
they still had something, than wait un-
til they had been completely stripped,
and those Of course, have had a years
start on the more foolish. Taken as a
whole you York county people have been
diversifying all along. You have raised
cotton mainly as surplus, and what
you made was yours. If you had lost
the crop it would not have hurt you
much. Others, however, have been
raising nothing but cotton, and that on
a credit. These If they can get the
backing will do the same thing this
year, and they will come to grief, worse
than ever. I advise you to don't.
81 am the boil weevil!"