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EFFECT OF ORGANIZATION.
During the summer of. 1900 active and
ffectlve efforts were made in the
interests of organising southern
cotton producers. Local branches
of the Georgia Cotton Growers’ Pro
tective association were perfected in
about sixty counties tn the state with
an enthusiastic membership of several
thousand progressive, prominent farmers
who were sincere in making an earnest
effort to make the organisation a success.
The movement, which had the endorse
ment and co-operation of bankers, merch
ants and warehousemen, as well as farm
ers. rapidly spread that year over all the
states east of the Mississippi river.
M aen the movement in the interest of
organisation for the purpose of advancing
the price of cotton to 10 cents per pound
was started in June of 1900. cotton was
then selling for 7 cents per pound, and the
buyers and spinners of the staple public
ly stated that the crop to be harvested
that fall should not sell for more than 7
cents per pound for middling grades, not
withstanding the then strenuous efforts
being made by the producers to advance
the price to a higher and more fair and le
gitimate basis. As president of the organ
isation I received monthly reports from
the entire cotton belt, and sent out thou
sands of circular reports each month, giv
ing the statistical condition of the crop
covering the entire cotton belt, and ad
vised strongly the holding of the crop at
the opening of the marketing season until
the price of 19 cents per pound was offered
and paid by the buyers. The entire pro
gram worked out successfully and never
before was the good effect of organisation
among the producers more fully exempli
fied. The staple could not be purchased
at the prices offered at the opening of the
season.
. .Cotton was ginned and either stored on
the farm or in warehouses the banks
freely advancing 75 per ceniof the value
of each bale stored at all inferior points.
The spinners were running short of sup
plies and contracts made by exporters and
speculators tor September delivery had to
be filled. The price of cotton advanced,
notwithstanding the strenuous protests of
the buyers, under the dogged determina
tion of the producers not to sell until ear
ly tn September 10 cents was freely bid on
all cotton offered for sale and the fight
was whipped. It Is well established his
tory that exporters could not buy cotton
east of the Mississippi, where the organ
isation and co-operation of the producers
was made effective that season for less
than the popular price asked and they sent
their buyers to New Orleans. Galveston
and Houston to get their supplies with
the hope that In retiring from the markets
tn the old states-they could break prices
and get what they wanted in the south
west.
Enormous Texas Crop.
ITnfOrtunately for the complete success
of the movement throughout the entire
season, an enormous crop was that vear
harvested In Texas, and the farmers there
being unorganised and unfamiliar with the
true state of affairs and the value of their
staple, began to rapidly market their cot
ton in the face of falling prices.
Texas gave the buyers the necessary
leverage to break the market and with
the enormous crop the producers of that
state were harvesting it rendered the
farmers east of the Mississippi powerless
to bold up prices, as enough cotton was se
cured at Texas ports and New Orleans to
keep all the spindles in the world moving
for three months independent of cotton
from any other section.
The overwhelming success of the move
ment in the early season, when cotton was
forced up to a price beyond the most san
guine imagination of the producers, cre
ated an enthusiasm and faith in the price
of the stable that caused many to hold
their cotton for higher prices even when
II cents per pound was offered for the
staple.
Merchants especially saw what they con
ceived to be a big chance for speculation,
paying W and 11 cents for cotton and hop
ing the price would advance to 12 and 13
cents. Th* price went off as a result of
the Texas rush during the month of No
vember and all who continued to hold for
the higher prices above 10 cents were forc
ed later to part with their holdings at sac
rifice.
Local merchants were harder hit than
anybody else, as » per cent of the pro
ducers sold their cotton promtply under
STRICTURE
This disease demands th* skill of an *xp«rt. When improperly treated
serious complications result and year* of suffering ar* in store for th*
t victim. By my skillful original method of treat
ment a permanent cur* Is quick and contain.
Many practitioners still employ obeolete, pain
ful methods of treating Stricture, and do not
seem to know that an operation is not neces
sary to effect a cur*. I employ no crude meth
ods in my practice. By arduous study and de
votion to my specialty, keeping in touch with
the latest discoveries of science, I have per
fected now and entirely original methods of
treatment which are prompt In effecting cure*
and succ«*sful In some of th* most obstinate
case*. My cur* for stricture is gentle and
painless. and often cause* no detention from
burin*** or other dutlee. It promptly stop*
all unnatural discharges, allays irritation, im
parts ton* and elasticity, and renders the
urinary channel free for th* performance of its
natural function*. I want to talk to every man
woo ha* Stricture, and explain to him th* advantage* of placing hl* cm*
tn th* hands of an expert who has studied and treated th* disease for twelve
years and whose knowledge of It le not equaled by any other physician jn
th* United States. Consultation free either at office or by mail. Write
•nd learn about my perfect system of home treatment. Correspondence
confidential
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.
38 Inman building. 23 1-1 South Broad Street, Atlanta,
the advice of the association after the
staple had reached remunerative prices.
The statistics and estimates on the sise
and condition of the crop were proven
true and it was admitted by the mills that
10 cents per pound for the staple was not
excessive.
Notwithstanding the break in prices
caused by the rush of the staple on the
market In the southwest, the crop har
vesed In 1900. although not a large crop,
netted many millions more to the
producers than any crop ever before
or since grown In the south and an un
usual era of prosperity was developed.
Organization in Texas.
Last summer the organisation secured
its first foothold in Texas, and much good
work was done perfecting subbranches of
the state association In many of the best
cotton growing countlee in that state. For
some reason, however, the producers east
of the Mississippi seemed to be satisfied
with the successful effort they made In
190 CK and apparently decided to let the
buyers have their way again In forcing
down prices to the cost of production. The
local branches In the different counties
failed to respond to the efforts of Colo
nel W. A. Broughton, who was elected
last August as the head of the Georgia
association, and but little or nothing was
done.
The consequence was that with but lit
tle or no larger crop made In 1901 than
was harvested in 1900, and with all the
spindles running on full time and the price
of cotton goods selling at an advance, the
producers rushed their staple on the
market and sacrificed It at the low price
of 7 cents ’per pound. If cotton was worth
10 cents !n 1900, it was certainly Just as
valuable, if not more so, in 1901, because
the conditions for its manufacture and de
mand by the trade was far more favora
ble. Those few of us who did hold until
late this spring received 9 cents per pound
for the staple, and many holders got even
better prices than that. If It was worth
9 cents In March, it was worth 9 cents
In September, 1901.
What of the Future.
The crop now being cultivated, unless
seasons are unusually favorable from now
on, is not likely to yield more than 10,500,-
000 to 11,000.0000 bales. With the depleted
stocks at all the mills and no surplus to
carry over from the crop of 1901, with the
present heavy demand for cotton goods in
all parts of the civilised world, certainly
there can be no plausible reason why the
crop of 1902 should not sell for 10 cent*
per pound. The method of marketing the
next crop will fix the price at which the
staple will be sold. If the crop is rushed
on the market we may confidently expect
that the buyers will force the price down
to € and 7 cents per pound.
If we study the situation, keep posted
through organisation, and by co-operation
market the crop slowly at the opening of
the season, and demand the true value
of our staple, we can as easily secure 10
cents per pound for the coming crop as
we did tn the fall of 1900. There are no
debts due before the first of October, and
there is certainly no occasion for rushing
the staple on the buyers in August and
September, thereby lowering the market
when obligations are due. The only busi
ness way to sell cotton is to hold it when
the price is below its legitimate value,
and sell slowly when prices are good.
The crop should be marketed through a
period of ten months instead of four
months.
The United States interior department
will actively begin this season to promptly
secure reports from ginners each month,
and the statistics will be promptly issued.
Through that source we will know at the
end of the ginning season the exact site
of the crop, and the speculators who are
always figuring on big crops, even after
January, in order to keep prices de
pressed. will have to go “away back and
sit down." I appeal to every member of
the association of 1900 to make an earnest
and active effort to get their organisations
together again. I appeal to farmers in
counties where no organisation has ex
isted to issue a call for a meeting and or
ganise a sub-branch of the state associa
tion.
Literature will be furnished by writing
either to the state president. Hon. W. A.
Broughton. Madison, Ga., or to myself at
Monticello, Ga. Either he br myself will
promptly respond to calls from counties
where the people want t« meet and discuss
this question with a view looking io or
ganisation. There is a good state organi
sation now in all the cotton growing
states, and all that is needed to secure
results in the sale of the coming crop is
for the farmers in the different counties
to get together and pledge their mutual
co-operation. Every member of the asso
ciation who is a subscriber to this paper
will be kept fully posted on the entire
cotton situation as the reports are gather
ed from all parts of the belt. With corn at
91.25 per bushel and meat selling at 15
cents per pound; with labor scarce and
high, how can any farmer expect to make
both ends meet if he is forced to sacrifice
his cotton this fall at 6 and 7 cents per
pound? It is a business proposition which
will not work out except disastrously for
the producer. No need to sit quietly down
and expect the buyers to pay one-hun
dredth part of a cent more than they are
absolutely forced to.
If by co-operation we demand a fair
price and refuse to sell at the opening of
the season until that price is paid we
will in that event rebelve compensation
for the value of our labors and the rental
for our lands. Hard, laborious work is
done in marketing the crop and every ef
fort should be made to sell It at a profit,
because out of the sale of our crops comes
the remuneration on our buslnes.
One man can accomplish nothing by
himself, but let us all get together and
make a strenuous effort to sell the coming
crop for as much money as we did the
crop of 1900. It can be done and will be
done unless the farmers voluntarily re
main indifferent.
HARVIE JORDAN.
It is better to attempt suicide in shal
low water, so that if you change your
mind you can wade out
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1902.
ARE COTTON MILLS IN A COMMUNITY ..
A REAL BENEFIT TO THE FARMERS?
BY T. LARRY GANTT.
INMAN, S. C., July 5.
I have received several letters from my
old friends in Georgia asking me if the
building of a cotton mill in a community
was really benfidal to neighboring farm
ers. I must reply to this question with
two directly opposing answers: “Ye*,"
"No."
Here are the benefits that land owners
and an agricultural class derive from the
establishment of a cotton factory in their
midst: The prices of surrounding land,
for an area of some three or four miles,
is considerably Increased, its value being
certainly doubled, and in some Instances
thribbled and quadrupled. This Is attri
butable to the fact that a mill population
are non-producers of agricultural products
and the farmer finds a ready market for
not only every stick of wood he cuts, but
all manner of vegetables and surplus
crops, much of which would otherwise go
to waste. Again, those mills furnish re
munerative employment to the families of
many farmers. I know In Spartanburg
county of a number of land owners who
became involved In debt and being unable
to pay out with their cotton money rent
ed their farms, moved their entire family
to a cotton mill and were thus able to save
enough money to lift the mortgages.
And Just here let me state that while in
some states and sections cotton mill peo
ple are “looked down upon,” it is not so
in this Piedmont section of South Caro
lina. Many highly respected and promi
nent families work in cotton mills, and
they hold their heads as high as any one.
Taken as a class, the cotton mill opera
tives of this section in deportment, dress,
morality and general bearing and charac
ter will rank with the best agricultural
or village communities.
But the building of a cotton mill In an
agricultural community has also Its draw,
backs to a land owner, but these do not
overbalance their benefits. In the first
place, a cotton mill naturally creates a
scarcity of labor on the farm and tends
to advance the wages of field hands.
Again, laborers within hearing of a fac
tory whistle during the long summer
days, insist on regulating their work
hours by the mill operatives, and which
Is a serious loss to farmers at the bus
iest season of the year. It is also a mis
take about these mills paying farmers
a better price for their cotton. On the
other hand. I notice that the markets of
Athens, Elberton and other interior Geor
gia towns are several points higher than
our mills pay for cotton delivered at their
Village Communities and Farm Lands.
With our difficult labor, its scarcity and
high prices in Georgia, we must fall upon
some plan to make farming easier and the
advantages greater—or southern agricul
turists must go west (or go at some other
buesiness), for the sake of family com
fort and Improvement of their own indi
vidual satisfaction and progress.
It is the dull life in rural districts which
dissatisfies young men and women; and
it is said that seventy-five per cent of the
insane women of the country come from
the poor farms. Os all people to be pitied,
it is this depressed class—shut off from
recreation and confined to a treadmill life
of toil and apathy—that arouses my heart
felt sympathy.
The men folks can quit off their work
on Saturday afternoons, go to town, talk
with the neighbors and get out of the
rut that they have tolled in from day
dawn until dusk, since Monday.
But the housewife —the mother—general
ly finds she is harder pressed on Saturday
than any other day, and if a child is ail
ing or anything happens to prevent going
to church, she has no let up from week
to week or month to month, and she gets
disheartened, and this depression affects
mental health.
When will this world wake up to the
fact that motherhood is the most precious
treasure to be guarded in our earthly ex
istence! „ ..
The Infant's life and its traits and predi-
GEORGIA DELEGATES.
Continued.
Applications for appointment as asso
ciate delegates to .the coming session of
the Farmers’ National Congress continue
to come in, and the lists received in the
last few days are published In this Issue.
Several hundred appointments have been
made direct by the governor, so that the
full list up to date numbers about 1,000
delegates from this state. Those coun
ties not yet reported can send their lists
either to me or to Governor Candler:
Colubia County—A. W. Smith, Appling;
W. W. Hamilton, Grovetown; R. L. Neal,
Winfield; T. H. Dozier, Cobbham; R. E.
Ramsey, Hayen; J. C. Auliff, Appling.
Gordon County—S. H. Browne, Resaca;
W. H. •Moss, Sugar Valley; Z. T. Gray,
Calhoun; J. B. Erwin, Fairmount; Char
ley Banno, McHenry; George Harlln, De
cora. George N. Broddgen, Decora, W. R.
Jones, Resaca; J. O. Everett, Sugar Val
ley; C. L. Easley, Tunnel Hill.
Thomas County—E. L. Neel, J. C. Bev
erly, Thomasville; Dr. M. R. Mallet, J.
B. Everett. Charley Mcßea. J. J. Wilson,
J W. Ducket. John Neel, Boston; Dr.
Harris, Pavo; Hon. J. B. Roundtree,
Barwick; George M. Dekle, Ozell; N.
R. Spangler, H. L. Watkins, Boston;
Robert Alexander, Thomasville; W. B.
Rotenbery, Cairo: Abe Foreman, Pavo;
W. W. Greene, Ochlockonee.
Habersham county—E. Martin, Cornelia;
B. F. Colbert, Cornelia; Tom H. Ellard,
Turnerville; Thomas Spencer, Clarksville;
Glenn Davis, Toccoa; Tillman Perkin, Mt.
Airy; Tom Rucker Ivy, Baldwin; W. L.
Middleton, Clarksville; G. W. McConnel,
Pole; Frank Stevens, Mt. Airy; I. L. Cand
ler, Cornelia.
Miller county—C. C. Miller, Eugenia; R.
F. Hardy, Eugenia; James Cheshire, Col
quitt; W’. S. Bush. Colquitt.
The following are individual applicants
made from their respective sections:
T. J. Perry, Dublin, Laurens county; W.
A. Garner, Dublin, Laurens county; W. B.
Parker. Conyers, Rockdale county; W. E.
Dennis, Monticello, Jasper county.
Dodge county—Colonel John F. Delacy,
Eastman; L. M. Peacock. Eastman; W. E
Paul, Eastman; J. C. Rogers, Eastman; J.
C. Rawlins, Eastman; John R. Giddins,
Eastman; Hamilton Clark, Chauncy; Ben
Harrell. Eastman; B, H. Harrell, Engle
wood; T. P. Wilcox. Englewood; Ben
Burch. Eastman; Walter Clements, East
man; J. D. Faucett, Yonkers; Axam Phil
lips, Yonkers; C. W. Rawlins, Eastman;
C. W. Bowers, Eastman; L. W. Peacock,
Eastman; Job Herman, Eastman; Hamil
ton Clark, Eastman.
Stump Sucking Hog.
W. 8.. Sevier, Ga.:
Please give a remedy in your valuable
paper, The Semi-Weekly Journal, for
for what I call a stump-sucking hog, one
that will suck the end of a rail or suck
the ground. Any Information will be
highly appreciated.
Answer—The trouble is doubtless caused
by a species of indigestion from which
hogs suffer, some times due to improper
food or worms. In other cases it is due to
the formation of a habit, for which no
cause can be assigned. The best treat
ment is to place the hog for a while in a
pen made of close fitting plank with a
plank bottom. Give a variety of food in
limited quantities. Fix up a mixture of
half bushel of salt, charcoal and ashes
into which mix an ounce of powdered sul
phate of iron. Recovery will usually take
place in a short time and the habit cured.
warehouses.
But all things considered, it is undenia
bly beneficial to any agricultural commu
nity to have a cotton mill established in
Its midst. I know of more than one farm
er in this county, living near a mill, who,
on Christmas, make it a rule to invest
every spare dollar they save from the sale
of cotton, and start the new year with
empty purses. They then sell, during the
year, enough wood vegetables, and other
products from their farms to pay all
expense for making the next crop.
Spartanburg is one of the most prog
ressive counties in the south. Our farm
ers produce about 50,000 bales of cotton
a year and our local mills consume more
than three times that number. We have
now in county about 30 cotton mills, and
new ones arc being constantly built. I
presume that four-fifths or more of the
capital invested comes from the north.
With the exception of one or two small
factories, every mill built in our county
has proven a success, and a profitable in
vestment. The result Is that when a new
enterprise Is projected, there is no trouble
to raise all the outside money necessary
to start it up.
Without intending any reflection upon
my agricultural friends in Georgia, I
must assert that, as a general thing, the
farmers of this and other upper counties
in South Carolina are somewhat leading
them in progress and enterprise. This is
attributable to the fact that the land
holdings in Georgia are generally too
large, and your people must depend main
ly on the negro for labor. In Spartanburg
county I can drive you for miles and
miles over certain roads and where you
find one man owning over one hundred
acres I will show you three or four whose
land holdings range from 40 to 60 acres.
In comparison with middle Georgia,
there are very few negroes In this county
north of the Southern railway. Those
small farms ar* owned and worked exclu
sively by white people, and it would sur
prise a Georgian to see how nicely a man
supports his family from a forty or fifty
acre farm.
It is a rare thing to see a field thrown
out, and washes and gullies are disappear
ing svery year. Land is growing too val
uable to let it go to waste, and in ansr
desirable community a farm, with even
the crudest Improvements, readily sells
for from >ls to 930 per acre. If there is
an acre of land around Inman that can
be bought as low as ten dollars, I do not
know where it is. The land here too is
lections are moulded and infallibly in
clined according to the mother’s mind and
affections nt a time when her life is also
its own. There has been too much indif
ference, too much apathy, too much neg
lect of the value of this high calling—gen
eral ignorance of the necessity for com
fort and protection to both mother and
Infant at the most critical period of hu
man life has prevailed.
Pre-natal influences are so potentially
vivid, and the little child Is so visibly
affected by the home into which it Is
born, that there should be earnest en
deavor to make all home-life the principal
mainstay In our human existence, espe
cially in selecting a suitable locality for
home-making as well as money-making,
and In providing for all concerned so that
the environment shall be good and whole
some, for both old and young, to secure
the best results.
The conditions which favor the best de
velopment of the masses In rural dis
tricts appear to be connected with village
dwellings convenient to small farms—
many small holdings—but no great ones.
The day of great plantations and mas
ters and overseers has passed In the
south. Such conditions are not favorable
to agricultural expension by the way of
adding acres to acres, but the idea that
seems nearest to emphatic fulfillment may
be expressed In the lines of the poet—“A
little farm well tilled.”
There are some communities in Georgia
where small farms lie near and adjacent
to small towns that would Illustrate the
idea in my mind at this time.
I know of a Georgia town where the
land lies well—with a railroad passing
through—about equl-dlstant from two con
siderable towns of several thousand in-
r A STUDY OF THE
Moods of a Day average man.
7 a. m.—The Hour of Melancholy.
The hour of waking is the individual day
of Judgment. It is then, if ever, we are
absolutely honest with ourselves. At that
moment the condition of our souls, our
minds and our bodies appears to us in the
true light. Unconsciously we go, as it
were, into the confessional. The average
man is ashamed. His character, which by
and by he will dress up for himself and
for the world, is naked; looking at himself
as in a glass, he perceives his life with all
its shortcomings. With the real he con
trasts the ideal. In the end he declares
himself, quite frankly, a miserable sinner.
8 a. m.—The Hour of Inspiration.
The action of rising from sleep affects
the nature of man like the rising of the
sun, which quickens the spirit of the earth.
The mists of melancholy disappear. Be
hold a new creature, refreshened and res
olute. The body is strong, the heart full
of courage, the mind aglow with inspira
tion. It is the moment of invincipility. In
resuming the functions of everyday life
man puts behind him his true self and as
sumes the part of that role which it is
necessary for him to play in the world.
He becomes filled with ambition. There
was yesterday—yesterday, when his old
nature died. But since then the night has
passed. The new day gave birth to a new
man. This man is fired with determina
tion. He sees himself in all things a con
queror.
9 a. m.—The Commonplace Hour.
It is the fact, however, that the hero
ism of the heart dies away greviously in
the commonplace atmosphere of the dally
life. From the sunshine of dreams we en
ter into the fog of very ordinary routine.
The man who can resist this influence is
a genius. The average man steps down
regularly every morning from the pedes
tal that his imagination had created. He
meant to fight invincibly: as a matter of
fact, he drifts miserably. He intended to
be one; he becomes part of a machine.
The landscape which, surveyed from the
heights, appeared level, he now finds
rugged and uneven. The advance he has
mapped out—the going from here to
there, which is real achievement—now
seems prodigously difficult; nay, impossi
ble. At all events, not worth while.
The great mind, seeing only the goal,
is not in the least disturbed by the details,
the apparent obstacles that lie in the way
and to which the mind that is not great
succumbs.
It is like this:
The layman, seeing the great buildings
of a city, the undulating country, the wide
expanse of desert, broad rivers and soar
ing mountains, cannot even in imagina
tion picture the railway that to the
trained calculations of the engineer is
certain of construction, not withstanding
difficulties.
So the average man, seeing in his dally
life brick walls, ups and downs, unproduc
tive periods, abysses, immeasurable bar
riers, stands still in despair and is amazed
when he sees the end of his dreams really
accomplished by others. Standing still—
or, let us say, walking in a circle. Yes,
naturally thin, similar to the soil in Gwin
nett, Hall and other Piedmont Georgia
counties.
And another noticeable fact is that land
owners here are generally clear of debt,
and make their farms self-sustaining.
Like unto other sections, “we have the
poor always with us”; but. as a general
rule, our farmers are well-to-do and pros
perous. Many of them have a bank ac
count oy have no trouble to borrow money
when they need it. A leading merchant
of this county recently told me that h«
knew the financial condition of every
farmer within eight miles of his store, and
with the exception of a few young men
who had not as yet finished paying for
their farms, there was not a mortgage re
corded against a single farmer.
There are not better or more intelligent
farmers in the south than Georgia can
boast, but what your state most needs to
reach that high stage of development she
so richly merits, Is for your large land
owners to carve up their plantations into
small farms and sell them off on easy
terms to Industrious white men. This pol
icy would greatly increase the value of
the remaining land and add both to the
wealth and population of your state.
In Spartanburg county land readily rents
for one-third of all the crops produced,
and desirable low grounds belng one-haif.
I have several farms rented exclusively to
white tenants, and do not stand responsi
ble even for the guano that goes under
the crops. My renters keep up terraces
and the lands Improved, and they can buy
all the supplies they need on their own
account. One of them, who runs a one
horse crop, has several hundred dollars
loaned out at interest.
In my next letter I will tell The Jour
nal readers how easy it is for any town
or community to secure a cotton mill, if
they will only go to work with the proper
energy and in the right way.
There are no new developments in our
state campaign. As I predicted In my
initial letter to The Journal, the hardest
licks are passed between Messrs. Evans
and Latimer. But as the campaign prog
resses, the speakers wHI “warm up” and
I would not be surprised to see one or two
personal encounters before the end. Os
the senatorial candidates, Col. R. S. Hen
derson married a sister of Mr. Tom Rip
ley, of Atlanta; ex-Governor Evans is a
nephew of Captain William Gary, of Au
gusta, and ex-Congressman Latimer is a
brother of Mr. W. A. Latimer, of the well
known Augusta cotton firm of Garrett &
Latimer.
habitants each; that represents tn its
history the value of small farm holdings
and community of interest as to schools,
churches, business houses, etc., among
th* fifteen houndred people who are truly
proud of the homes, their farms and their
many advantages.
They are a unit in all proposed munici
pal Improvements, and while there is no
wealth to boast about, there are neatly
painted houses, nice flower yards, spacious
lawns and fine drinking water for the peo
ple who are thus clustered together, and
everybody seems to be doing well finan
cially. I was told that nearly everybody
had a small farm contiguous, and at the
end of each, year generally had some
money in bank to start the next crop
out of debt.
There was no discord, all coud pull to
gether with a hearty good will, everybody
Is ambitious to have a. clean-worked crop
and a good-looking, comfortable home for
the family, without selfish rivalries.
Fanning under such conditions must be
satisfying and the young people are con
tent to remain in the village and walk
along in the steps of their fathers and
mothers instead of rushing away from
the old homestead in disgust because of
Its isolated dullness and lack of progress.
So far as I can Judge the way to agri
cultural prosperity In the south lies in
the way of small farms and village homes.
EVERY HEALTHY BOY
likes to get himself into places of danger.
Hence bruises, strains and sprains. Mother
scolds and bring* out the bottl* of Perry Da
vis’ Painkiller and rub* it on th* injured spots
with an energy and frequency depending on th*
seriousness of the ca«*. There to nothing like
Painkiller to take out the soreness. There 1*
but one Painkiller, Perry Davis'. Price 25c
and 50c.
it is in that way the day is passed. The
average man becomes lost in the great
forest of Routine. He follows the easiest
paths. As for the packs he must carry
he is always on the lookout for others
who will bear them for him. The conquer
or of the early morning has become the
shirker of the noonday hour.
6 p. m.—The Hour of Contentment.
Somehow or other the day passes. That
it has passed seems to the average man
very much to his credit. If he has done
nothing else, he has killed time, and he is
conscious of that pleasant glow of self
righteousness that is the reward of ac
complishment. Having been once in the
confessional this day he does not now
stoop for retrospection. On the contrary,
he Is In the mood to gloss over things.
They might have been worse. He feels
himself as good as his fellow men—prob
ably better. As for the resolutions of the
morning he has forgotten them. A revolu
tion is not to be effected in a single day.
After all, there is still tomorrow.
8 p. m.—The Hour of Enjoyment
To the laborer belongs the reward of his
toll. It Is night now and the average man,
throwing off all cares and anxieties, is
bent on pleasure. For this hour he has a
favorite maxim—"We only live one life,’’
or, he says, "Let us eat, drink and be
merry, for tomorrow we die.”
Whatever the blinking eyes of early
morning looked at with repulsion now
seems the most enchanting. Nothing is
more certain than this —that after a hard
day's work relaxation is necessary.
Relaxation—that is to say, a letting go.
One cannot be forever counting the cost
of things.
So the average man follows his inclina
tions “What will anything matter a hun
dred years hence?” he asks.
No answer belqg forthcoming he is de
lighted. Clearly there is no reason why
he should not enjoy himself, regardless
of everything.
In this man you coula hardly recognise
the champion who started out in the
morning to slay heaven knows how many
giants and dragons. He has put off his
armor and is feasting at the giants' table
and caressing the dragons. This man who
saw himself in the morning as he really
was now sees himself in all the glare and
enchantment of the footlights and is am
ply satisfied that he cuts a fine figure on
the stage of life. He is, in fact, splendid.
Something whispered in his ear that with
tomorrow will come the hour of melan
choly.
He knows of no such thing.
NINE OF THE JURY
WERE FOR RUSH
MEMPHIS, Tenn., July B.—A Scimitar
special from Jackson, Miss., says:
The jury in the Rush treasury embez
zlement case was discharged by Judge
Powell at noon yesterday after being out
since Saturday. i
They stood 9 to 3 in favor of the defend
ant, Rush, who was released on bond.
SUGGESTIONS FROM I
OUR CORRESPONDENTS I
B. M. DAVIS DISCUSSES
RECENT STATE CONVENTION
Editor of The Journal:
With your usual enterprise I notice that
you have already given space to a com
munication reviewing the action of the
recent state convention. Permit me to
contribute another.
1. By the rules of the party each county
was entitled to two delegates to the con
vention for each member of the general
assembly from said county. This was
presumed to be the voting strength of
each county in the convention. In prac
tice this did not prevail. A great many
of the counties appointed more delegates
than they were entitled to. Clarke county,
for instknee, appointed 45, taough it was
only entitled to two votes; Coweta 41;
Greene 45, while Morgan county, in its en
thusiasm for the successful candidate, ap
pointed even 50. This would have been
all right if their voting power were con
fined to double their representatives; but
there was no rule for reserving places In
the hall simply for the number of dele
gates a county was entitled to. The mul
tiplied delegates, regardless of the voting
capacity of the county, were admitted to
seats on the floor and to vote in the con
vention under the ruling of the chairman.
It is presumable that In the enthusiasm
of being a delegate for the winning candi
date more delegates for him would at
tend the convention than those from
counties going for a losing candidate. In
fact it did appear that several counties
that went for One of the losing candidates
were unrepresented upon the floor. If the
convention was controlled by a viva voce
vote or a poll of the delegates Instead of
a vote by counties Morgan and Clarke
counties could have been more patent in
that convention than the 35 counties that
went for Mr. Estill, while Clarke, Coweta
Greene and Morgan, entitled to only 12
votes in the convention, by the multipli
cation of delegates, could have voted
down the 126 votes to which Guerry and
Estill together were entitled.
How did it work in practice?
On tne calling of the congressional dis
tricts for the nomination of the commit
tee on the platform, the chairman of the
Sixth congressional district reported that
his district had been unable to select the
two platform comltteemen they were au
thorised to appoint; that the Guerry and
the Terrell men in the distret were evenly
divided and he had been directed by that
district to report the four names to the
convention that had been placed in nom
ination and for the convention to select
therefrom two. Guerry delegates stated to
the convention that at the time the con
gressional delegates held their meeting to
select this committee the delegates from
one of the countis had not arrived in the
city of Atlanta, that they were now upon
the floor of the convention, and if the
Sixth district would reconvene the tie
might be settled by the district Itself, and
therefore moved that the delegates be ex
cused for ten minutes to see if they could
not select their own committeemen. A
Terrell delegate then moved as a sub
stitute for this motion that the chairman
of the convention select from the four
nominees two to represent said district on
the platform committee of said conven
tion. The substitute being first in order
the Guerry delegate called for a vote by
counties thereon. The chair promptly
ruled that he would not allow a vote by
counties unless a majority of the conven
tion so determined, but that all measures
would be determined by a poll vote. The
substitute being put to a viva voce vote
it was overwhelmingly carried. Doubtless
many of the multifold delegates swelled
the noise of that vote and drowned out the
opposition. The chairman of the conven
tion exercised the authority Just conferred
upon him by promptly selecting the,two
Terrell nominees and turning down both
of the Guerry nominees, though the dis
trict was evenly divided upon that ques
tion.
2. I desire to call attention to some no
ble sentiments expressed by the speakers
during the course of the convention.
Mr. Brown, chairman of the convention,
uttered the following sentence that did
him honor:
“I congratulate you that the party re
mains without serious division; with few
personal enmities, and no partisan bitter
ness; secure in the confidence that honest
men have been honestly chosen and will
honestly administer the state govern
ment.”
Mr. Warner Mill, in his nominating
speech, beautifully spoke as follows:
"It may be truly said that Georgia
Democracy was never so harmoniously
organised as now, and Georgia citizenship
was never more universally pleased with
the result of a contest for state repre
sentation.”
While the nominee for governor delight
ed the hearts of Democrats all over Geor
gia by the following patriotic declaration:
”In the disposition of the patronage and
appointments vested in the governor I
shall endeavor to select the best man,
without fear, favor or affection, and when
practicable to obtain the wishes of the
people in local matters, and select that
person most acceptable to them. All Dem
ocrats qualified as prescribed by law, re
gardless of their position in the late pri
mary will be eligible. I have no promises
to fulfill and no old score to settle. We
are one family now, and all shall be treat
ed alike. Merit, competency and acceptl
bility of the people shall be the controll
ing reasons in making all appointments.”
All Georgians who love the Democratic
party will, no doubt, read these senti
ments of unity and harmony with a great
deal of pleasure. "A word fitly spoken is
like apples of gold In pictures of silver.”
Only one of these gentlemen, however, has
had the opportunity so far to put into act
ual practice some act illustrating the
want “of partisan bitterness” and show
ing that “Georgia Democracy was never
so harmonious,” and proving to the party
that "we are one family now and all shall
be treated alike.” Mr. Brown In the selec
tion of the platform committee above re
ferred to. There are divers ways of se
curing unity, peace and harmony. It is
stated that General Smith, of the United
States army, was so enamored with the
beauties of peace and the fruits of harmo
ny that come in its wake that 1n order
to obtain them he Instructed a detachment
that he sent through the Island of Samar
to destroy all the males over 10 years of
age and leave the Island a howling wil
derness.
Under the rules of the convention, each
congressional district was authorized to
select three members of the new executive
committee and two members of the plat
form committee, and the chairman of the
convention was entitled to appoint four
members of the executive committee from
the state at large. In the recent primary
Mr. Terrell secured a majority of the del
egates in the second, third, ■ fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth congressional
districts. The members of the platform
committee in the late convention and the
new executive committee from the above
congressional districts, my Information is,
were ardent supporters of Mr. Terrell,
save one each in the second and third
districts, who were a supporters of Mr.
Estill. There was not much difference be
tween them on state issues. But for the
following circumstance I would be ready
to agree that this must have been purely
accidental, that it was not intentional.
During the selection of the committee by
the sixth congressional district It was ad
mitted by the Terrell delegates therein
that on the preceding night they had met
in caucus and determined to fill these ap
pointments solely with Terrell men and
to exclude the Guerry delegates from all
participation either on the platform of
the party or in the future management
of the party. This was Justified In that
conference by one of the Terrell delegates.
on the theory that to the victor belong ,
the spoils. All the Terrell delegates pres- |
ent acquiesced in this save one delegate
from Butts, who stated publicly when the
Terrell delegates were taxed with said
caucus, that It was unfair and he would
not abide by the caucus further. This dis
trict sent to this convention twelve Guer
ry delegates and fourteen Terrell dele
gates; Terrell carrying the district only
by a majority of two. The delegates from
one Terrell county had not arrived In At
lanta when the district meeting was held.
Hence the tie that was referred to the
chairman of the convention to solve as
above given.
Fourth. On the other hand allow m*
to state the fact that so far as I am
aware, the only mention of the selection
of said committeemen among the Guerry
ry delegates In this district prior to their
discovery that the Terrell men had so
caucused and determined to ostracise the
Guerry delegates was as follows: A
Guerry delegate from an adjoining coum
ty said to the writer: “If you will taka
one of these committee nominations our
delegates will support you. You are their
first choice.” To this I responded that
one of my colleagues, having greater fa
miliarity with public affairs, I thought
would make a better committeeman than
myself. I preferred him for that posi
tion, that I did not want it. The dele
gate replied: "You are the first choice
of our delegation and Ruf Roberts is our
second choice.” (Ruf Roberts was a
Terrell delegate from Baldwin.) When
the delegation from the sixth congres
sional district met the first question taken
up was the selection of members of the
executive committee. The Terrell dele
gates nominated the three men that they
had agreed upon in caucus. In addition
thereto one Guerry man was placed in
nomination and when the vote was taken
the Guerry delegates voted indiscriminate
ly for the Terrell nominees and it was
by their votes that the Terrell nominees
were elected; as the delegates from one
Terroll county were absent, if the dis
trict had then split purely upon factional
lines there could have been no nomina
tion.
Allow me further to call attention to
the fact that the opposition to Mr. Ter
rell carried the first, ninth, tenth and
eleventh districts. They had it within
their power to exclude representatives for
Mr. Terrell from both the platform com
mittee and the executive committee in
those districts. Let us see how these
delegates In that convention acted.
In th* first district Mr. Terrell carried
one county, Emanuel. There were two
delegates from Emanuel in this conven-.
tlon and one of them was placed by this
almost unanimous anti-Terrell district up
on the new executive committee. The
ninth district went largely in opposition
to Mr. Terrell,, yet strange to say, that
on both the new executive committee
and on the platform committee the nom
inees selected by the district, so I am
informed, were exclusively from Terrell ■
supporters. Neither Mr. Guerry nor Mr.
Estill have a single representative upon
either of these committee* from that dis
trict. The tenth district went *tiU mor*
largely in opposilon to Mr. Terrell. Upon
the executive committee from that dis
trict there Is one Terrell supporter, pos
sibly two. The writer is not Informed M
to the part taken by the member* upon
the platform committee in the primary.
In the eleventh district the opposition to
Mr Terrell was still more emphatic, both
Mr Estill and Mr. Guerry secured mor*
delegates, yet Mr. Terrell’s supporters se
cured more committee appointment® in
said district than those of either of hl*
opponents.
Th* Guerry and the Estill delegate* to
that convention seemed to have been of
tne opinion until they were taught bet
ter. that “we are one family now and all
shall be treated alike.” Perhaps it may
be said of the Guerry and Estill sup
porters, they were too arcadian. In the
eyes of the machine politician they have
no doubt too little appreciation of th*
boodle and the spoils of political victory
to be entitled to win. •
Respectfully,
BUFORD M. DAVIS
Macon, Ga.
THEFT OF FIDDLE
BROKE OWNER’S
HEART
WHEN HIS VIOLIN WAS STOLEN IT
IS SAID VIOLINIST BOTT DIED
FROM SHEER GRIEF AT
HIB LOSS.
NEW YoftK, July 7.—Jean Joseph
Bott’s 85.000 Stradlvartus violin which was
stolen eight years and for the alleged
larceny of which Victor S. Fleichler was
sentenced to a year in the penitentiary,
will be exhibited in Recorder Goff’s court
today. A subpoena has been Issued for
Mrs. Bott and it is the intention of the
district attorney to return the violin to
her. Bott is dead—killed, it is said, by th*
loss of his favorite instrument.
Fleichler has been granted a new trial
and the Indictment against him probably
will be dismissed. The violin was traced
to a pawn shop where it was left on th*
day it wa* stolen from Prof. Bott.
CHAMBERLAIN IS HURT
IN ACCIDENT TO HIS CAB
LONDON, July B.—The colonial sec
retary, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, wa*
somewhat severely cut on head yesterday
morning as a result of a cab accident in
Whitehall.
The secretary’s hansom was passing
through the Canadian arch when th*
horse slipped and Mr. Chamberlain Wa*
precipitated forward with great violence.
Hte head struck and shattered the glass
front of the cab.
When extricated it was seen that Mr.
Chamberlain’s head was badly lacerated
and bleeding profusely.
A policeman helped the secretary into
a cab and accompanied him to a surgeon’a
office.
Mr. Chamberlain was taken to Charing
Cross hospital, not to the surgeon’s office,
where his injuries were dressed.
INDIAN TRADING POST
DESTROYED BY FIRE
GUTHRIE, Okla., July 7.—The town of
White Horse, an old Indian trading post
off the railroad in Woods county, was de
stroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is es
timated at 9100,000. A Phillips, a farmer,
was fatally burned.
fM.OO Steel Ran ge 88100.
Our free circulars give Cut
-'lj - || prices of everything.
Stoves 86.40, Dinner Sets
V 24 P lece ’ Flated Table
’4 Sets 82 00-
PADGETT FUR. CO.,
Augusta, Ga,
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