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I THEY CAN’T COME.
i
i WHY HR. STOCKWELL’S BOY
COULDN’T SEE SHOWS.
THE GEORGIA FARMERS
Are in the Same Boat With the
Grain, and Stock Raisers
of the West.
Pa, when are we going to the
World’s Fair? [Atlanta Exposion.]
My dear son, we cannot go at all.
[ Boy cries, boo hoo.]
There, there, don’t cry; it can’t be
helped.
You promised me faithfully to
take me to Chicago in June, [or At
lanta m October.]
Yes, I know it; but—
Then why can’t we go, pa?
My boy, I have dreaded this in
terview for some time, but now I
must confess all; it is terrible, but—
Oh, pa., what is terrible?
Well, we are about ruined finan
cially.
How did it happen, pa?
When we bought thisfarmin 1881
we went in debt SI,OOO. We raised
good crops of wheat, which we sold
for good prices for several years, the
money we used in building our new
house, paying interest and making
other improvements and—
Pa, isn’t the farm worth a great
deal more now than if was then ?
No; it is worth a great deal less,
take your pencil and figure :
Price of' Price of
Year, WAeat.i Year. WAeat.
1881 - - $1.30 1888 - - $ 95-
1882 - - 1.25|1889 - -9)
1883 - - 1.10 1890 - - 90
1884 - - 1.054891 - - 80
1885 - - 1.0011892 - - 72
1886 - - 9811893 - - 60
1887 - - 961
Now, my son, 60 cents, the price
now, subtracted from $1,35 —the
price in 1880—leaves 75 cents, which
is a shrinkage in price of 55 per cent.
Now, if we coull raise nothing on
the farm but whept the value of the
farm would be 55 per cent less than
when we bought it in 1881.
What did the farm cost, pa ?
It cost $7,000.
What would that make it worth
now?
Apparently it is worth $3,150,
but—
But, pa, you raise horses.
Y r e?, lam glad you spoke of them.
A few years ago cattle got so low
that we went to breeding horses.l
Three years ago we owned thirty
two head, all told. We sold, from
time to time, to get money to pay
expenses, till now we have only eix-
I teen head. A comparison of prices
show that a horse that would bring
$l4O five years ago will bring only
SBO now.
[Boy figures] Horses have fallen
in price 424 per cent, pa.
If the only product of the farm
was horses it would be worth 424
per cent less than in 1891, or $4,025.
But we have sheep, too, pa.
Yes, that is so; and it was the
wool money I had intended to use in
attending the World’s Fair. [Atlanta
Exposition.]
Three years ago we received 25
cents a pound for it, two years ago
we sold for 23 cents, last year we got
22 cents, now it is down to 15 cents,
or 40 per cent less than three years
ago. If wool was our only product,
our farm would be worth 40 percent
lese than three years ago, or $4,300.
Why don’t we raise hogs, pa?
Our farm is not adapted to the
production of corn, so we are obliged
to depend upon wheat and wool
since horses and cattle are so low.
[Boy figures a little.] The average
reduc.ion in the price of our products
—horses, wheat and wool, is 45 4-5.
Yes, my son, and as an investment
of any kind is valuable according to
the income it will bring, if the farm
was worth $7,000 when you bought
it, it is worth 45 4-5 per cent less to
day, or only $3,894.
Pa, you said when speaking of
wheat that the farm was apparently
worth so much.
Yes ; now I will explain by taking
wheat. The farm was easily worth
$7,000 when wheat was worth $1 35
a bushel, because there was profit
enough in it to pay a good per cent
on the investment, but every farmer
you see will tell you that it costs
more than 60 cents to raise wheat,
hence we are raising it at a loss.
I don’t quite understand, pa.
Use your psneii and we shall see
what it costs to raise a bushel of
wheat. Here are the figures so 20
acres raised last year ;
Interest on 20 acres at ssoan acre tSO 00
Taxes at 1 per cent 10 cO
Breaking at $2 an acre 40 00
Harrowing, dragging and rolling
at slan acre. ...... 20 00
Seed, at 80 cents, 5 peeks per acre 0 00
Cutting and twine at SI 20 00
Shocking, two hands two davs at
51.50 . 6 00
Six teams hauling to machine at
*2 per day 12 00
Three pitch< rs m field, two band
cutters, twosact holders, two
wheat haulers and three straw
stackers, twelve men in a11.... 15 00
Board of hands and horses. 5 00
Total 8252 00
Now divide $252 by 300, the num.
bdf of bushels.
[ Boy figures. J Eighty-four cents a
bushel, pa, is what it cost you. As it
is worth only 60 cents, you lose 24
cents a bushel.
Now, my son, you see that the
agency th it reduced the value of
wheat from $1.35 to 60 cents a bush-
■ el has destroyed the value of our
farm.
We can live on it, can’t we, pa?
Yes, if the mortgage holder don’t
| foreclose and sell us out at sheriff's
11 sale.
> I If it is put up for sale won’t it
• I bring more thin SI,OOO, pa?
; No, lam afraid not.
Why, pa, 1 thought our figures a
t while ago made it out to be worth
about $4,000?
, Only apparently so; as an invest
ment it is absolutely worthless. No
safe business man will buy property
• that sinks money.
j" But it is a home, pa.
t Yes ; but we work harder for our j
I living than merchants in town.
I They work ten hours a day, we work
': twelve. When their day’s work is
j over, they lay aside care ; I am wor-
!! ried all the time about the mortgage.
. What they spend for luxuries we
' pay out for interest and taxes.
i I see how it is, pa ;I am sorry for
i you and mother.
; To sum up, my son, when we
I bought the farm 740 bushels of
wheat, or seven horses, or 4,000
! pounds of wool would have paid the
I SI,OOO mortgage. Now to pay it
- and the SBO interest will take 1,800
bushels of wheat, 12 horses, or 7,-
200 lbs of wool.
We can never pay it, can we, pa ?
Not only that, we have paid SBBO
(interest and $l,lOO taxes in the last
I eleven years.
Pa, it breaks my heart almost to
i think that I can’t go to the great
I fair, when it is so close to us; it is
the opportunity of a I'fetime, and I
' I have been planning to go for two
1 years, but I shall give it up and try
’ to help you ali I can.
God bless you, my noble boy ; but
it is not much usd to try. The mon
-1 ey sharks as Thad Stevens called
them, will never stop until they own
I all our farms. If prices of our pro
’ ducts fall half as much in tlie next
' five years as they have in this last
five we will all lose our homes.
3 i Let’s leave the farm, pa, and move
I I to town. Mr. Jones don’t work as
1 hard and lives better than we do.
They have a good piano and wear
fine clothes and save a little money.
3 Ah, my son, he is liable to be
1 j thrown out of employment at any
’: time. Our ruinous financial policy is
s i forcing the mills to shut down, and
’ thousands are being thrown out of
‘ I work. Rents and living are so high
‘ j in town that wage earners soon come
to want when they lose their jobs.
3 i What shall we do, pa? To stay
• here is but to earn money for the
‘ i mortgage holder.
i I know it; the best years of mv
a I life are gone now. I have thought
seriously of suicide, but—
t Don’t don’t cry, pa.
, There is a reason for all these
, troubles that have overtaken the
t men cuho work, and when you work
3 a little le»s and think a little more
you’ll see that the infamous legisla
f tion on the money question is at the
- bottom of it all. While 60,000,000
people have been toiling and strug-
r gling tc make 3 living and a home,
i a few thousand who wear diamonds
j and satins have robbed them of near
t ly all, and are now about to con
t summate the last act in the drama
that will make us all tenants. Pa,
for God’s sake, before you vote
again read “The Downfall of the Ho
ra in Empire,” and “The Distraction
of Greek Civilization.” You will
then see that we are following the
same road that led to their destruc
tion.
The Humorous Side.
There is a uumorist among the
directors of the Consolidated Street
Car Company and he was called on
to compose at least one paragraph in
the card of the directors which ap
pears to-day. To the humorous
din ctor was assigned the task of
answering the statement that the
company bad paid nothing for the
valuable franchises it has received
from the city. He meets this by
saying that the “city has exacted
from the company a payment suffi
cient to cover the cost of paving be
tween the company’s tracks.”
“Exacted” is good.
The city has collected from prop
erty owners a large amount for pav
ing, but when it came to the pave
ment between the tracks of the Con
solidated Street Car Company the
line should have been drawn. After
giving the company the right of way
through its most important streets
why did not the city go a step fur
ther and pay for the paving between
the company’s tracks. That could
have been done by raising the as
sessment on the owners of the ad
joining property or by issuing city
bonds. A few weeks ago the Con
solidated Company received permis
sion to extend its line through two
blocks on West Peachtree without
paying for the pavement between its
tracks. The ease with which this
■ favor was gained has possibly set
’ the company to thinking about the
money that has been ‘-exacted” from
it for paving between its tracks in
other parts of the city.
Not only has it been compelled to
pay for this paving but it has had to
buy and lay its own tracks, purchase
its own cars, erect its own power
house and trolley wires.
The humorous director does not
mention these facts but they are true
nevertheless. Perhaps he is reserv
ing them for use in a future card.
He has said enough already to
arouse sympathy for the company
and to suggest the propriety of an
investigation of the city’s “exactions”
from that corporation. If the city
has bean too hard on the C raisolida
ted Street Car Company let the facts
be ascertained at once and the injus
tice atonod for fully and speedily.—
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