Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-11-05
OTHERS VIEWS
WRITES TO AGRICULTURAL
STATISTICIAN
To The Editor:
Please publish the letter I send
herewith.
JAMES H. WRIGHT.
Henderson, Nov 4, 1885.
(Enclosure)


| Agriculture, Raleigh, N. G.
| Dear Sir:
| 1 live out here in the country on
few acres of land, on which 1 grow
few patches of corn and a little feed
| stuff. / have a good garden when the
weather will permit and that is about
ALL Have been here more than ten
years Have tried growing cotton, to-
bacco and vegetables for marke
| to no profit. so I write to ask YOU
to erase my name from your roosetr.
! Your crop reporting ETC., does not In
terest me or my neighbors a little bit.
What we need is decent pay for our
labor. We need money. People from
your class up are getting good pay
for your triffling efforts, while the
farmers and workers who produce
every thing get next to nothing-a
slave wake, for toiling through Win
ter's cold and Summers heat. If l
thought that all this crop reporting
that the Agricultural Dept, of the
Federal Government was having Zone
would benefit the farmer / would be
willing to burn midnight oil to answer
all your questions but l cannot see
that it is doing any good at all. 1
really believe it is benefiting no one
but the middlemen, and they do not
need it for they are only people who
get any thing out Of what the farm
er produces. For instance the farm
er takes his tobacco to market: the
warehouseman gets something out of
it, then the buyers get nice salaries
hn
good slice of 1.-THE advertiser takes
a chunk out of it, the salesman who
sell it are well paid, the merchants
have to have a profit out of it. So it
Is little wonder that the farmer gets
anything. Go to the farmers barns
now and in the day time you find him,
and his family usually, grading to-
bacco by the day lignt and after darA
till late at night he ties it, Any sum-
mer day it is no unusual sight to see
women working in the tobacco fields
in this tobacco growing section, yea
mothers with their little children
laboring in the fialds, where they
are as much out OF place as a saint
would be in hell yet they strive to
E.ake a little something that their
condition may be better, while the
greedy rich middlemen seek to with
er her fond hopes, while our Govern
ment give aid with statistics to her
worse enemy, plutocracy. These rich
bond holders who run our govern
ment seek by these crop reports to
find out just what the farmer makes
SO he will know exactly what to let
the farmer have to keep his soul and
body united for another years work
My dear Statistician. 1 beg you to
leave off trying to find out how much
the farmer makes until his income
equals that Of those who buy his
produce. Whit until the average farm
er lives in five thousand dollar home
on a farm free of debt, with a money
income sufficient to maintain him on
a twentieth century standard of liv-
ing. Then will be time enough to count
his bushels of grain and his pounds
of cotton and tobacco. What the
farmer needs now is money. How
would you feel, My dear sir, after
picking II cent cotton or working in
tobacco you could only get 80 cents q
pound for all day to have to set up
at night answering a lot of questions
about the cheap stuff on your farm.
You would not do it with much pleas
ure I dare say. The rich folks say
the depression started in 1929, but to
my certain knowledge the farmer has
had no good time since 1919. Fifteen
years of just slavery for the rich
Some it is true have saved some
money during those years, but they
should be ashamed of it for they did
it at the price of their health and
strength and that of their families.
Working themselves and their fam
lilies like slaves in order that a few
greedy dogs may live on the best
the land affords. My dear Statisticla..
you know there is no excuse for such
conditions, and [ hope you will do all
you can to teach them how powerful
they are and get them to use that
power to throw off the yoke of the
money changers and be free men. In
duce them, for one thing, to hear Rev.
Chas E. Coughlin's radio address ev-
cry Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. and
write him at Royal Oak Michigan.
Oak Michigan. for a copy of the ad-
dress, for their less fortunate neigh
hors to read. He will gladly send it.
He will tell them how to break the
chains of slavery with which pluto