Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-11-10
OTHERS VIEWS
MIR. WRIGHT WRITES SOME
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10 the Editor:
In this column in Saturdays paper
was an article headed: would Buy
Prosperity" It went on to say: "To-
bacco selling well and a job here for
every man who wants to work."
don't want to mar the happiness of
any one, neither am 1 pessimist but
I do want to keep the record correct.
Tobacco that is bringing over 40
cents is selling well. That bringing
less is not doing much to give the
grower a chance to have the hun
dreds of things he needs. There is not
much of the 40 cent tobacco so most
of it is produced at less than cost.
This is nothing new to the farmer
for seldom does he>make 40 cent to-
5acco. My father made sixty crops of
it and said he only made a profit on
a third of them, I know many far
mers who will not made profit this
year. 1t is not only this year that
such is the case but every year, and
the quality of the crop has not near
as much to do with it as the average
farmer may think. If every leaf of
tobacco produced this year was as
perfect as God and the farmers could
make it, does any one believe the
crop would average 40 cents? Certain
ly it would not. The men who buy
this tobacco know about how much
of each grade will be offered for sale
the price so they, the rich tobacco
men, will get practically all the pro-
fit out of the crop. They give fancy
get the fool farmer to make another
crop for them.
Tobacco has been grown in this
country for about four hundred years,
yet no one ever heard of a farmer
making ten dollars an hour growing
it but many of these big tobacco men
get ten dollars every minute. I sup
pose Clay Williams of Reynolds To-
bacco Co., gets at least a hundred dol
lars per hour, for Mr.. Hill head of
American Tobacco Co., we are told
gets nearly twice that much.
Now in the light of that informa-
ton we must conclude that tobacco
is selling well when the farmer who
grows it is getting at least ten dollars
every hour in every year, and until he
does that it is low.
In the article referred to above the
writer says there is a job here for
every man who wishes to work
don't doubt it but how about the pay?
There are untold inir;o.s of things to
be done but Wno wants to work for a
pittance. So often I hear it said by
someone getting good pay that these
poor PEOPLE should be put to work if
they could set Only their food, and I
invariably think those who think that
way of these unfortunates should be
put in their place, and made to root
] hog or die, with the hope they would
do the latter.
\ The point am trying to make in
this article is let us not be content
things are as they are today. We have
great leader in Mr.. Roosevelt and
the people have given him their en-
dorsement and it is to be hoped he
will do great things for the farmer
and worker in the next four years but
he must have the help of every one
of us if he is to do that. If we are
content with the present prices of our
produce and the worker is content
with less than fifteen hundred dol
lars per year there is nothing for our
hands and smile. If we are not will
ing to do all in our power to have
those who have great wealth taxed
until they become our fellow citizens
instead of our god, we are remiss of