The Holly chieftain., 1924-02-28
WHAT HELPS TO CAUSE
MONEY TO BE SCARCE

much but little | do know may do
someone some good, especially the
producer and the consumer: and
| | may put few ideas in their
minds in regard to the financial
condition of our country today.
Now. how many of the farmers
and laborers will take time to stop
and realize that they are partly to
blame for their financial condition.
| better circumstances as long as
they keep sending money ont af
the country. where not much of it
| ever comes back 1t would be much
| better for them and others to
spend all they can at home and
| then it will make the town and
country prosper ana there would
be less complaint about scarcity
of money. Tractors. automobiles
and mortgages on land and on other
| property take nearly as much
'iltIlty out VI llit CouhliS as VIZ
farmers produce brings in. And
| then tractors and automobiles take
ras and oil and with gasoline ad
varcing during the farming season
md farmers produce going down
IN price it is not keeping step
with what he has to hnv: and at
his rate how long will it take a
farmer to become bankrupt? Only
n few poor crops or one or two
years of failure would make hobo
out of him Therefore it Is easy to
see that the farmer Is harder hit
than any other class of people.
Again I will say that he is partly
to blame, for If he would let trac-
'Ors and cars alone and go back
to the horse for farming. the cost
of farming would be less and
horses would be in demand instead
of tractors Horses make demand
for grain and roughfage which
helps the farmer better than buy
ing gasoline. But there is a certain
amount of greed In farmers as well
rs in any other class of people and
they are inclined TO gamble o.
nlunge and try to own the world |
grab all and loose alN I think It !
Is best to be satisfied with small |
and steady gains for that gives
competency to tranquil mind
believe if 1t were not for jeal |
onsy and greed this would be a |
better world to live in but it was
ut the time that Adam transgress
ed that jealousy and greed came
into the world. and greed seems
TO be increasing as time moves
along: and no hopes of it getting |
better il it depends on man. or
not until a new reformation takes
nlace. When Adam transgressed he
was made to earn his bread by |
the sweat of his brow that is what
caused greed to start.
I meant to say in the beginning
of my letter that it is much better
for home people to support their
editor that furnishes home news
than not to take their home pap
er and send money away from home
1t is really as necessary to know
the happenings at home as the
news aboard-but you can get
both in your home paper. One
should take the home paper re.
gardless of how many others he
takes, and while you are helping
the home paper you are helping
yourself.
I do not want to be too presump
tious in my opinion, but | have
stated what I believe to be the
facts in a few things that are help
ing to make money scarce with
farmers, and the working class OF
neOple. but the main cause Is low
prices for produce that the farmer
sells and high cost of the things
he has to buy: and, these prices
are fixed by gamblers or sDeculn-
tors. and the only way for the far
mer to get out of the rut is by
selfhelp, and that is to join the
cooperative selling association and
help fix prices on wlsat he has to
sell. The farmer has more right to
set prices on what he produces
than the one that does not pro.
duce If it is right for other c1esses
to set prices. | think the farmer
should have the same privilege |