Farmers Owed a Profit on Their Work, Says Editor, Jan. 7, 1921

At the annual meeting of the Nebraska Dairymen’s Association at Lincolnton a few days ago, former Governor Lowden of Chicago declared in a speech that farmers are entitled to a profit on their work. Everybody ought to be in favor of that because the only solid prosperity in this country is based upon profitable agriculture.

When North Carolina farmers fail to harvest profitable crops of cotton, tobacco and truck, business goes on the bum. The biggest boom North Carolina ever experienced was in 1919 when cotton was 40 cents a pound and yellow tobacco sold anywhere from 60 cents to a dollar a pound. Alas! Then came the slump that was followed by the readjustment year of 1921.

From the editorial page of The Wilmington Morning Star, Saturday, January 7, 1922