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The Guano Note
and the Farmer
Athens, Ga., Oct. 22, 1914.
IE
EAR SIR: Your guano note
is now due and this is the
year of all years when you
should do your part and your
part *is to sell enough cotton
to pay off your guano note.
It looks hard to have to sell your
cotton now, but what will make cot
ton go up? What will you gain by
holding it?
When our cotton mills get what
cotton they need who can take this
other cotton? Europe can take some,
but do you think she can take much?
The cotton you sell now to pay
your guano note may be the highest
price cotton you sell.
Do you realize that the farmers are
suffering from the results of this
WAR less than almost any other
class of people? Manufacturing
plants are closing down and em
ployees are losing their positions.
The railroads have had to turn off
hundreds of hands and those people
have not any wheat in their barns
or any pigs in their pens.
Our obligations are pressing us
and we need funds to meet them.
Please favor us by attending to your
note promptly, and oblige.
Yours very truly,
[ HODGSON COTTON COMPANY.
So much for the guano note. Now
Comes the Farmer:
Farmington, Ga., Oct. 21, 1914.
Podgs on Cotton Co.,
Athens Ga.
Gentlemen: Yours of the 22nd to
hand. So kind of you to condescend
to tell us fool farmers just what our
duty is, and what we ought to do.
(Then wind up with the usual selfish
thought sneaking out, “because it
Will benefit me.’’)
This spring when others were pric
ing lower than your people, you
stated, through your agents, “that
you were in the business for the
money, and when you couldn’t get
your profit, you wouldn t sell it.’-
Well, that was alright, good busi
ness—and I never heard of any
farmer writing you to the contrary
or offering any advice —you attended
to. your own business. Then my
friends, will you not allow us the
same privilege which is our just
jights?
There are too many people alwayi
ready to bank on the farmer and tell
him what to do. All farmers are
not entirely immune from intelli
gence. “Every house has its black
sheep.”
As to the probable price of cotton,
that’s a question of speculation with
all human beings, though there’s a
certainty, none of us are going with
out clothes, consequently, will con
sume cotton as heretofore. If Eu
rope’s mills cannot furnish her peo
ple these goods, they must come here
for them.
As to our guano cotton bringing
the best price, of course it would
seem that way to you. You should
recollect we are on the other side
of this question, hence give us the
benefit thereof.
Then you come down to the shal
low question about farmers being
the least sufferers. Do I realize it?
No indeed, and neither do you. If
you apply good hard sense to the
question, even a person of ordinary
intelligence should observe at a
glance to the contrary.
Does not the entire South depend,
to a very great extent upon her ag
ricultural interest for her trade
balance? • Certainly she doos, and
more, cotton maintains the balance
of trade for these United States.
Then certainly when the cotton
producer suffers, it. is passed on down
through the ranks, and when it is as
deep seated as this seems to be, it
will go to the last man.
Even granting that these other
THE JEFFERSONIAN
laborers whom you mention are de
prived of their wheat in barns, and
pigs in pens, is that any consolation
tc us? You know very well none of
this was given us.
If • the guano people h'ad wanted
to help us so badly, why did you not
offer, as others, whose profit is
smaller than you own, to take cot
ton at ten cents?
Again, why do you charge us
higher prices for meal and hulls, and
pay less for seed, the one increases
as the other decreases?
In September when the ginning
season opened up, some of our pat
riotic men took into consideration
the circumstances, and cut their gin
ning rates to 20 cents per 10 0, while
you stated, “we won’t cut a cent, let
them carry it somewhere else if they
want to,” (and they did.) But
thanks to our leveled heads, you
were forced down or quit.
Yes sir, you own ginnery and an
oil mill within a mile of my home,
and I ’am acquainted with these facts
which I have mentioned.
Now in conclusion will say, I have
always paid my guano notes. Only
last season I borrowed money and
am paying interest on it today, to
pay you up, this time the circum
stances are quite different, for which
I am not responsible, and I’m going
to take this into consideration, even
though yon do not.
I will pay you when 1 can.
Yours very truly,
ROGER M. ANDERSON.
There will be a man at every
County Court House in Georgia, next
Saturday, Oct. 31, to give out tick
ets to all voters who desire to vote
the Progressive Party ticket.
WANTS TO REBUKE SENATOR
SMITH FOR FAILURE OF
COTTON LEGISLATION.
Boneville, Ga., Oct. 19, 1914.
Editor Chronicle:
Before the late primary and dur
ing the campaign which preceded,
Hoke Smith said the Southern farmer
can, and must, be protected. He
claimed that he had plans by which
the farmer was assured a good price
for cotton: and he filled our minds
with visions of 12 ]-2 cent cotton.
He was so busy perfecting plans in
the interest of the South with refer
ence to the great emergency brought
about by the European war, that he
did not have time to visit his State
in the interest of his candidacy, but
stayed in Washington currying all
the favor he could by~staying on the
job. After the election was over, he
found time to come away from his
job and manipulate the Macon con
vention in the interest of Hardwick,
who was wisely repudiated by the
people at the polls. It was discov
ered that he had not been perfecting
any plans for the relic’ us his con
stituency, but had been buncoing,
deluding, and deceiving the people in
order to gain their votes and win
a nomination under false pretenses.
This conduct on the part of Hcke
fully absolves every voter in Geor
gia from any moral obligation to
support him m the approaching elec
tion. Not only so, but inasmuch as
one cannot vote for Hoke without
indorsing his reprehensible methods,
every principle of good, sound mor
als requires that wo should vote
against him and thereby administer
the rebuke to him which he so richly
deserves. 1 hope that you will pub
lish this in the interest of fairness
and the public, weal. The sooner
such men as Hardwick and Hoke are
repudiated, the better for our panic
stricken section.
C. ROSS WALL.
•
There will boa man at every
Cqnnty Court House in Georgia, next
Saturday, Oct. 31, to give out tick
ets to alt voters who desire to vote
the Progressive Party ticket.
Read Foreign Missions Exposed,
by Thos. E. Watson. Beautifully
printed. Profusely illustrated. Price
30 cents. The Jeffs, Thomson, Ga.
His Father Owned Atlanta,
and Swapped It For a
Blaze-Faced Pony.
EAR SIR: Here comes a few
lines from an old Texas Cow
Puncher. You will find it bad
ly composed, as Cow Pnuch-
[D
I.—■inn r.
ers as a rule don’t under
stand using the pen and ink and the
dictionary like the people of the
present date do, but we do know how
to handle the lariat rope and a
broncho horse, the branding iron and
Winchester.
Bro. Watson, I won’t attempt to
write how well I appreciate reading
the Jeffersonian. I get it once a
week and only wish it was a daily
paper. I certainly enjoy reading the
correspondence you get from differ
ent points in Georgia. I love to hear
the name Georgia. My father was
born and raised in Dekalb County,
Georgia. He came to Texas in the
thirties, leaving Atlanta.
At the time he left there, it was
a very small town. He owned 135
acres, and as I understand, the heart
of Atlanta is located on it. Me gave
the 135 acres for a little blazed-face
pony, mare, and tied her behind a
tar pole wagon and pulled out for
Texas, he landed in Henderson,
Ruck County, Texas, settling there
and raising a family of eight child
ren. I am the third youngest and
am sixty years old.
My history of Texas would make
a pretty good book, but I will not
venture at this writing to tell you
my experience in Texas, however, I
will tell you why I began taking the
Jeffersonian. I have a dear old
friend here named J. O. Wiggins, who
was born in Alabama sixty-two years
ago, coming to Texas when quite a
lad and gained the title of an old
Cow Puncher; he was taking the
Jeffersonian and about eight months
ago gave me two or three
copies, and I read them and became
so delighted over your way and
method of handling the political pot
in general and the Leo. Frank case,
and the Roman Catholics and the
Hog-eye Man, in fact, your method
of handling everything just suits me
to aT. I argue and talk Tom Wat
son so much that my friends call me
Tom Watson. I tell them I consider
it a great honor; for I consider you
the greatest man I know of in the
United States, and only wish today
you were President of our United
States.
. I wish you were here in San Anto
nio with your press, as this is a
splendid field to gather Catholic
dope, as you no doubt know, this is
a great Catholic town, as we have a
great many Mexicans; especially
since the Mexican war broke out.
The town is also full of priests and
nuns coming from Mexico here.
They go in droves here and remind
lliß Roman Caihofe Hierarchy
& book which is the result ©5 years of study
Cy Thos. E. Watson
Contains historical data showing the evolution of the
Papacy, and its adoption of Pagan ceremonies and rites.
It cites Roman Catholic rheological authorities, whose
instructions to priests as to questions to be asked women
caused Mr. Watson to be indicted.
Richly illustrated Third Edition
PfttCE, SI.OO
The Jeffersonian Publishing Company
Thomson, - Georgia
me of a drove of Jacks and Jennies.
Bro. Watson, advise through your
paper what they have done with the
Frank case; as I am very anxious to
know that that brutal murderer gets
justice. I am enclosing you a clip
ping from the San Antonio Daily
Light giving an account of a prelimi
nary trial of Victor Innes and his
wife charged with killing the two
Nelms sisters of Atlanta. What do
you think of such a Dial? It sounds
funny to me, in a civilized country.
Well. I will ring off, but 1 could fill
the Jeffersonian.
Wishing you much success and a
long life. Yours very trulv,
Texas. W. 51. CROW.
(Comment.)
Mr. Crow’s letter is very inter
esting. Texas has so many Georgians
who love our good old State that
when I was out there on a speaking
tour in 1896 I felt quite at home.
It’s mighty pleasant to have such
a testimonial to our paper, on which
we do at least six days’ work every
week.
When my beloved pastor gets after
me about not coming to church, my
excuse is that I am a preacher my
self, and some of my Halleluyah licks
are hammered out on Sunday.
The swapping of the 135 acres of
land for the blaze-face pony reminds
me that the land on which Nashville,
Tennessee, is built was exchanged
for a cow-bell.
In those days when cattle roamed
at large in the woods, a bell was
valuable property: it advertised the
whereabouts of the herd.
I hope that Mr. Crow never
grieved much over his trade. If
all that the newspapers are saying
about certain parts of Atlanta is
true, I’d rather own a decent pony
now, than to own those parts of At
lanta.
What’s especially queer is, that
some of the most eminently respecta
ble people in the cities are the own
ers of these vice dens, which are
the plague spots of Christian civili
zation.
Need I say that the eminently re
spectable Pharisees go to church
regularly, sit close to the pulpit, and
speak out loud for Foreign Missions?
The Pharisee type is about the
same that it was in the days of
Christ.
Elsewhere, I answer Mr. Crow’s in
quiry about the Frank case.
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