Buy Locally, 1930

“If I were the Czar of North Carolina instead of the Governor, I would issue an edict declaring that from and after five years from date any man who imported into North Carolina any corn or meal, wheat or flour, beef or bacon, should be forthwith hanged and without benefit of clergy. Of course, in the beginning I should be denounced as an infamous tyrant, but after the law had been in effect for 10 years the richest state in the Union would build a monument to me as the financial redeemer of my people. “

--Governor T.W. Bickett

Printed in the December 1930 issue of Farmers Federation News. Thomas W. Bickett was governor from 1917 to 1921.