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FARMERS ANE Secretary "W ilson Si "Who Owns His < -A.dvi St. Louis Washington, April 8.-1 called on Secretary Wilson yeRterday to aok some questions on capital and labor from the standpoint of the farmer. My interview was held at the De partment of Agriculture during the busiest hour of the day, and the Sec retary answered my questions between jobs. As bo did so I was surprised at his versatility. He is like Napoleon in that he can do four thiDgsata time and do them all well. t His mind seemed to jump at a sec ond's notice from the pasture lands of Dan to the grain fields of Bcrsheba, and when it landed it was all there. Now, tho question was the appoint ment of a man to investigate crop conditions in the Philippines, now tho arrangement of the new agri cultural building to bo put up at a cost of several million dollars and now the importation of a bug to wipe out the San Jose scale and make our orclit?rcitj MOO I started out with: "Mr. Secretary, you work as though you had .your coat o if you claim to be the representative of the man with his coat off; "I want to know what you think of that man in his relation to our big combinations of capital." "The only man with his coat off whom I know is the farmer," replied Secretary Wilson. "With the ordi nary laborer I have nothing to do. The farmer is a big enough proposi tion for us here. "We are working for him, and al though we look over the fenee now and then st the struggles of labor and capital we keep on our way, saying nothing as to anything cloe, but stead ily sawing wood." "But, Mr. Secretary, adapt my questiona to the farmers. What do they think of the gigantic trusts whioh, like Jonah's gourd, have sprang up in a night?" "They are anxious about them," re plied the Secretary, "but it is from an investment standpoint. They want to know whether they have a sub stantial basis, how they are oper ated, what business they are doing and whether they will keep on paying dividends. "The farmers are interested in the new Department of Commerce and? Labor, and especially ia its bureau of eorporations. If that bureau ean give them as satisfactory information about the trusts as the Treasury does about our national banks there will be no difficulty in their getting a fair share of the farmera money." "But, Mr. Secretary, I thought the farmer posed as a poor man." "That may have been so some years ago," replied Secretary Wilson. "It is not so now. You can't whine on a full stomach, full barns and full pock etbook. That is the condition of the farmer today. His ia growing rich. He has become a creditor instead of a debtor. "He is a capitalist hunting places to invest bis surplus. He bas had good crops and good prioes, and today hts deposits are rolling in like a gol den tidal wave, flooding the Western banks with more money than they can handle. The local banks are send ing millions to the Esst, and New York is taking what they osnnot lend ont in the Weat. "The farmers, not satisfied with American investments, are sending millions into Canada to hoy lands there, and still they have money left. Indeed what they want most is a safe place to pot their surplus, where it will ?bring them a fair rate of interest." "What do yon mean hy a fair rato. Mr. Secretary?" I asked. "Oh, about 5 percent," replied Mr. Wilson. "That is tho best you can expeet of money now." "Why don't they take up their mortgages?" said I. /'Not long ago ii was said that the whol? TJs??d States west of tho Missouri was prac tically owned by the savings hanks of New England." . "Ttisfcia not so now," replied Sec retary Wilson. "These mortgages have been paid long ago, and vast sums bavt been Spent in improving the farms. There are mortgages still, it is true, bnt they havo been given by the! sons of the farmers, who are V BOW buying fsrms of their own;" "Do yon consider firm lands a good investment, Mr. Secretary?" , "I do at present prioes,". waa the "reply. "Investments differ according to lo calities, but any farm that ' will now produce enough to carry itself-that is, to pay its taxes and a low rate of i ot* rest-is a good purchase. : "Ocr public, tande have bwn large ly taken np. "We are rapidly increasing in popa ) THE TRUSTS. ays tho j^griculturist DwnLand Has thy intage. Republic. latioD, and the domestic market stead ily gruffs. We aro DOW the greatest manufacturing Dation on the globe, and the domestic market of the future IB beyond conception. "As to the foreign market; it will always take what wo cannot use our selves. We are farming better every j day, and the business of farming will be moro profitable as time goes on. We have some of the best food lands on thc globe, and arc just beginning to appreciate what they will pro duce." "Have you any idea," said Secre tary Wilson as be turned to his desk, picked up a pencil and made somo fig ures on a slip of paper-"have you any idea of the money Uncle Sam's farmer capitalists bring into this coun try every year? Tho Steel Trust, tho Shipbuilding Trust and all the other trusts aro peanut stands in compari son with it. I don't mean what our farmers sell at linne, but what they sell abroad. The amount is BO enor mous you cannot comprehend it. "In the decade ending 1900 it was more than $7,000,000,000, or on the average more than $700,000,000 a year. In 11)01 our farm exports amounted to more than $900,000,000, or almost $3,000,000 for every working day of the year. That means $125,000 an hour, $2,000 a minute or $33 per second. "Every time the w- ch tioked on every one of the dayp throughout that working year $33 worth of our goods were dropped into the lap of Europe, and three $10 pieces started on their way back to the United States. "That was in 1901," Secretary Wilson oontinued. "Last year our exports were almost as large, and so it is going on year after year. You may talk about your great combinations of capital, your gigantic monopolies and enormous trusts, but, after al!, Uncle Sam's most profitable asset is the Amerioan farmer. "Give me some of the items of this business of the farmer's trust, Mr. Secretary," said I. "The farmers are not a trust," said Secretary Wilson, "and to give all the details of their enormous busi ness would require too much space. Still I can give you some of the items. Take cotton, for instance. We got high prices for that last year. Our exports amounted to about 12,000,000 pounds a day, not including Sundays, and our receipts were about $1,000,000 a day, or a gross amount of $317,000, 000 per year. This was all cold, clean money brought into the country for stuff Bold abroad. "Our grain exports were $600,000 a day. We sent 204,000,000 bushels of wheat and almost half of that went in the shape of flour. We exported $178,000,000 worth of meat and enough beef and pork to have given every man, woman and child of the whole world one-half pound and enough ad ditional to have made a mess of hash for every one of them the next day. Thoso figures show you something of agricultural interests. The. Ameri oan farmer is the baokbone of the country. He is the biggest institution in it." "But last year and the year before have been the exceptions, Mr. Secre tary. The crops have been much bet ter than ever before." "That is true to a minor extent," replied S cor et ar? Wilson. "But for years the farmer has been Imaging over foreign gold from Europe, Aus tralia and Asia to even up our losses in other branches of trade. "In the last thirteen years our aver age exceaa of exports over imports amounted to about ?275,000,000 per year, and during that time the annual balance of such trade in favor of the farmer was $337,000,000; ihatis, the farmer had not only to give the bal-' ance of trade in our favor, but he had to pay $62,000,000 in the shape of an adverse balance to other imports. In the last fourteen years the farmers' u?l?uce of trade amCruStcd to SIE???? 15,000,000,000. r '? "It was enough to pay all the losses of our other foreign business and to put $400,00^000, in round numbers, to tho ored t of tho nation. Those figures give you some idea where this wonderful wave of prosperity whioh has been sweeping over the country, comes from." "Then, I suppose that farming, asa business, has begun to pay?" 6 "It has always paid," replied Seo' retary Wilson, "when managed in a businesslike manner. - But the day has passed when you can take it up as a maskershift. The man who would make money lu farming today must know the nature of foods, and ferti lizers. He nust understand the maf ket8 and bring the came business' judgment to bur that is necessary to j the suooe s a of other businesses. I "Above all, tho farmer must keep up to tho times aud farm scientifi cally, for it is only in that way that he eau get thc most out of his land." "Will we ever have a great farmers' trust, which will corner the market, raise prices and Oght tho other com binations of capital?" "I don't think such a thing pos sible," replied Secretary Wilson. "This is a big country and farming is a big business. "All the world is more or less en gaged in it and you can't control ele ments like that. Besides, each farmer is independent of the other, and while all have to a large extent common in terests they aro somewhat antagonis tic to one another. I think tho far mers might be united in opposition to anything vitally against tho inter ests of ail, but 'hat matter settled they would as h.'fore act as indivi duals." "But, Mr. Secretary, how about labor matters? I should think you would have trouble to get men to work on the farms. I understand that most of tho farm boys are going to the cities." "That was for a time, but moro now remain upon the farms. We have had a great immigration of farm laborers and we have been steadily making in ventions in farm tools so that the average hand oan do more now than the man of the past. "Take the rice lands about tho Gulf of Mexico. One American farm hand with our maohinery oan raiso as much rice there in one year as 400 Chinese laborers can raise ia China employing Chineso methods, and Chi nese machinery. The conditions as to other crops are somewhat similar. Indeed, the farm machines enable us to dispense with a large number of hands." "Is farm labor organized, Mr. Sec retary? Do the farm hands have trades anions?" "Not that I know of. The men are so scattered that it would be difficult to organize them. "They are not employed at steady work al\ the year round, and beoidoo the farm band of today expects to own a farm of his own a few years from now. Be is so busy sohemiog how he can do that that he has no time to worry over hour o and wages." "How about wages. Mr. Secretary? Is the farm laborer well paid?" . "I think he is," replied tho Secre tary of Agriculture. "Good men get good wages, varying with the locality. In the Northwest, where, perhaps, the most skilled of our farmers are found, hired men get $25 a month and more. That is equal to $40 a month without board, which is good pay for any man. "Snob a hand will understand how to use farm maohinery. He will know all about crops, and he oan, if neces sary, take the farm and manage it himself. In some other parts of the country the wages are less." "Are we farming any better now than we did in the past, Mr. Secre tary? "Very much so," replied Secretary Wilson. "And we shall farm better in the future than we are doing now. We are learning every day and are steadily adding to' the aggregate of our crops. What we produoe now is be yond conception. "Our wheat crop amounts to 600, 000,000 bushels every year and it is worth in the neighborhood of $400,000, 000. The value of the gold and silver mined in the United States is not half that, and all the gold mines of the world did not produce BB muoh hy $100,000,000 in 1902. The corn crop is worth more than twiee DB muoh as the wheat orop. "It is now bringing in $1,000,000, 000 a year, and for oats alone we raise enough to equal a value of $1,000,000 every working day. The crop amounts io 1,000,000,000 bushels, with a value of $300,000,000. Our hay orop in many years is worth more than the total product of all the gold and sil ver mines of the world, ana the cot ton orop last year ' sold for more than a half billion dollars. These figures are enormous. There is nothing like them anywhere, and we have not be* gun to approximate the maximum of our farming; possibilities. "No;" said the Secretary, reflec tively: "We do not know what we have, or how ri oh we are. We are discovering some new thing every day which adds enormously to our national wealth. The Agricultural Department has become one of in vestigation and research. Frank G. Carpenter. cTjk. m w cvst. x MP* Bawth* yjTtfl Kind You Biff Atan Bo#* - In every Chinese settlement one or more persons earn a comfortable living by following the ooouration of bride earner. The excuse for this trade is the. Chinese custom of making the bride an idler on her wedding day, forbidding her to either walk or stand and requiring her to be carried from her house to that of her husband by some of her own ses. - A prudent woman does not even let her tongue run to waste. I - One swallow does not make a ' summer or a man drunk. Big Cotton fron this Year. Columbia, April 17.-South Caro lina is going to make a desperate struggle to raiso a record breaking cot ton crop this year. Every prepara tion is being made to plant and ma ture a maximum cotton crop. These observations aro not made with a view of aScoting the ootton market one way or another and they will hardly be given more than a passing thought. It has been my lot recently to visit very many of the counties of Eastern and Western Carolina in connection with my work for the News and Cou rier, and wherever I have gone the cotton acreage ia the maximum. There have been warnings time and again about overdoing the cotton business, but it seems to fail on deaf ears. There seems to be no use to try to urge farmers not to plant too much cotton when they sincerely believe the low water mark of prices next season will not be under ten cents. Of course, thora is no way of tell ing what the prevailing prices will be this fall, but the farmers all seem to be perfectly willing to take their ohauccs on prices and the seasons. They are fertilizing moro than usual and seem to think that it will pay them in the end. In a great many sections of the State it is found that the cotton acreage is restricted by tho labor con ditions. In other words, the farmers there are planting all the cotton they think they oan get the labor to culti vate and to harvest. In several parts of tho State the labor proposition is really quite serious and the farmers j find that the urban and turpentine tondenoies are playing havoc with the labor on tho farms. If the seasons prove favorable South Carolina will have its largest ootton orop to place on the market. The impression among the better informed farmers is that the difference between the average and maximum crop in this State will be so inconsid erable compared with the crop of the whole ootton belt as to make no ap preciable difference in prices. At all events they are taking their chanoeB, and they argue that, if the ootton mar ket could keep up under the strain of the Sully failure and with the expe rienoen of th? nnvt-OQ "'?ll? t-hiR yoar. if cotton ever gets around ten cents these same mills will create such a demand OB to keep prioes up to a mark that will be satisfactory to the South Carolina man with the ootton. Mr. Hugh T. Inman, one of the largest dealers in the country, in a re cent letter bearing upon the ccop question, writes: It is only now and then that Texas and the country west of the Missis sippi River, make a full crop. When they do so the pri?e is depressed, from this cause, whether tho Atlantic has a full crop or not. If Texas has a full crop wc get a small price, whether we have u large orop or a small crop. If Texas makes a short orop we get full price for large orop or small crop. Hence, I hold that the Georgia farmer ought to plant a full acreage and take the chances, especially as the weevil promises bad for the Texas crop of 1904. His true that with perfect conditions this year the South will make much cotton. Twelve millions will be an ?QB?U? esti mate, bat if oaly 12,000,000 bales arc produced, the pri?e will rule up to 10 or 12 cents. With a 10,000,000-bale crop this year of 1904 ootton is likely to sell at 20 cents next year, and its culture all over the world will be stimulated. There are now 17,000, 000 bales produoed and the United States produoes only 10,000,000, so that you will see that other countries oan prodaoe some ootton. I woald be pleased to have your views on the ideas I advanoe. . - Very truly yours, Hugh T. Inman. Atlanta, Ga., April 12, 1904. There have been quite a number of Sonth Carolina farmers who have taken time and opportunity by the forelook and sold their ootton before making it. In Camden I heard of one farmer who had, some time ago, Sold his orop of four hundred bales for November delivery at 13.85, and in Western North Carolina another farm er sold Jus . crop of six hundred bales at 12 G."). Thero aro a number of oth er farmers throughout the State who have put up their margins and made their sales. Most of them were mado borne timo ago. Brokers and cotton men have also gono into the field and bought fitton for future d Mvery, fixing the price. Some has been bought at 12 cents and recent purchases have been made for less, but those who have sold appear to be abundantly satisfied. The oat crop throughout the Stato seems to bc in excellent coudition. Thc severe cold winter got the soil in prime condition for an excellent grain crop.-Special to News and Courier. ?State Troops May (?o. It is possible that about a thousand of the State troops will go toManassas in September for several days encamp ment, all expenses to bc paid by the government. Governor Heyward has received a letter from Gen. II. C. Cor bin, the commander of thc Atlantic division, stating that it is desired that some of the troops of the State partic ipate in tho joint Geld movements to be held at that point in September. The letter states that it is impossible to invite all of the militia of each Stato in this division, that thc quota from this State would be about 1011*, al though if a larger number bc furnished it is requested that tho department be notified and perhaps arrangements can bo made. Under tho apportion ment however not over 18,000 of this division oan participate, the pay be ing for 15 days. 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This ie )rc"en by the fact that wo are selling Furniture not only all over Anderson ? Jounty but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and see na. ^our parent B saved money by buying from ns, and you and your children oan save noney by buying here, too. Wo oarry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line?, C. F. TOLLY & 80N? Depot Street. The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers