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THE JACKSON ECONOMIST.
VOL. VIE
Headquarters
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Everybody knows that
KILGORE, KELLY & CO’s.
is the place to buy
Our Sales are growing
LARGER
every week because we have
the
SHOES
and the I ->RICES
to suit the people.
If you doubt this come
see for yourself.
Any grade and Style of
SHOES
can be found in our im=
mense stock.
Remember we are offer
ing special bargains for the
next few weeks and that the
place to get your SHOES is
at our Store.
Kilgore, Kelly l Cos.
WINDER, JACKSON COUNT'V, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY n, 19(0.
ORGANIZATION
OF COTTON HILLS.
From ‘Manufacturers Record’s ’
Baltimore-Southern Supple
ment by Cuyler Smith, of At
lanta, Georgia.
The i outh is indebted to your paper
for a true representation of its indus
trial advancement during the past, and
will be more deeply in your debt i". the
future for keeping the eyes of the com
mereial world fixed on her progress as
well as the me.,ns of inducing capital to
turn soushward for investment.
I estimate that in the p- st ninety
days $2,000 000 has been invested in cot
ton factories throughout Georgia, about
one half being expended in improve
ments on the mills now in operation,
many of wnich doubled their capacity.
The total value of the capital stock of
the companies projected or actually
formed during that period is $t 575,000.
Seventy-five per cent of this is Georgia
money, which was invested by all
classes of our people, from the capital
ists, city and village, the village mer
chants professionol men md especially
the farmers. The percentage from
each class is shown in a company I re
cently erganizad: V llage merchants
aud residents, $16,000; farmers of the
county $19,000; local bank, $lO,OOO, and
Atlanta capitalists taking the balance
of the capital stock in this $70,0)0 cot
ton faotary. I have found it best to
arrange the payments for stock to be
made one-half down at the time of
chartering and election of officers, the
remainder in twe payments of 25 per
cei t. each, fixed in about eight or
twelve months. Local banks will ad
vance the money to make the two de-
ferred payments at a low rate of inter
est. to good men, t king the stock as
collateral for the loan. By this plan
small investors can have two >ears in
which to ppy or market two crops of
cotton before making final payment.
This arrangement is especially advautu
geous to our farmers, who tell me that
it is impossible to pay all their -mb
scriptions out of one crop, and always
subscribe in liberal sums where this ar*
rangemeut is made. The farmers are
the strongest supporters of our new en
terprises, giving more in proportion to
their means thau any ot ier class. They
tell me a factory in the country means
a home market for their cotton, a sa
ving of expense in marketing the bales,
also giving their younger generation
employment, and in the increased pop
ulation of the mill village they find a
ready market for the products of farm,
garden and dairy. I investigated this,
aud find that the mod prosperous far
mers of Georgia are those living near
old factories, such as those at Trion,
Athens and Augusta. For a quarter of
a century these men have had a steady
market for their produce and meat*, ac-*
tually supporting themselves and fam
ilies from tnis trade, their cotton going
to the mill as clear profit year after
year. Farmers tell me that their stock
is a collateral ou which they cau b>r
row money at a lower rate of interest
than is outainable in any other way.
Country merchants never fall to sub
scribe liberally to the proposed cotton
factory if no commissary is added to
the mil'. Their experience has been
that it is a good investment to put a
few hundred dollars in a factory, oven
if it never paid a dividend, finding
among the operatives an increased
trade, the profits derived therefrom
more than compensating them for their
liberality to the factory. The strong
est and most effective arguments made
to people of town and oounty are that
tho cotton factory will disburse $5,000
to $6,000 a month, give employment to
the younger people, afford a home mar
ket for cotton and farm products and
furnish the best investment lor small
sums. These arguments never fail to
bring subscription.
Cotton factories pay best in those
sections of Georgia in which, from geo
graphical cond'tions, agriculture is not
profitable. This is mainly applicable
to the Piedmont section of the State,
embracing a belt reaching 120 miles
north and 150 miles south of Atlanta,
from South Carolina to Alabama. The
farms will not support the ever-in
creasing population, so the young
whites of both sexes naturally turn to
the towns and cities for work. The
factory suits these people, giving them
profitable, pleasant and suitable cm
ployment. The Georgia operative is ra
ernitej from the farms, and a pay-roll
of one of the mills in which I am inter
ested shows the same nvme, evory one
purely Anglo-Saxon origin, that are
found on the regimental rosters of the
Revolutionary, Indian, Mexican and
Civil wars.
They' are people of the soil, born in
log cabins of land owning parents,
raised as Christians n> and workers aud
taught from the first to work earnestly
and give every man his due. They are
bound to all classesol Georgians by the
ties of blood, friendship in peace and
companionship in war. Not one of the
elements that are productive of t-trikes
or any kind >.f labor troubles are found
in our operative class. Those people
are as good as their employers, accord
ing to the pure democratic principles
existing in Georgia, aud their social po
sition among the farming class is in no
way impaired by labor at the loom. On
Sundays I note the operatives going
into the country for a day’s visit to the
old homestead, and ti us never leave
the conserativo influence of their sires.
These people made Georgia what she is,
aad will never retard her progress by
strikes. The wages South may not bt
any higher than those of New Eng
land, but a dollar here has greater pur
chasing power than iu Massachusetts.
Iu Georgia fuel is the cheapest, ford
next aud clothing last. The use of
cornmeal is universal among cur peo
ple—it is pure, nourishing, healthy oud
cheap. Pine wood is sold by the far
rners at a low figure and fires are not
necessary, beyond preparing food, ex
ceeding seventy days in the year. This
is November 17, and neither firos nor
heavy clothing have been needed yet.
Clothing need not be h eavy or ex
pensive, and our climate is mild aud
village conditions conducive to health.
Doctors reap practically no benefit from
operatives, as they fiud little practice
in the factory settlement.
These couditions, so much sought
after by the manufacturers, spring
fr <m and are a part of the sturdy vir
tues of the Southern farmer, who nevor
seeks redress for wrongs in labor com
binations or mob violence, but adjusts
all of his troubles as an individual and
not as a mass. I find that when the
Georgia operative, which is so rarely
the case that I had to seek for an in
stance, fancies his wages or hours no
longer suitable, he goes, alone, to his
employer, and if things are not adjusted
to his liking ho quits work, silently
packs up and seeks work in another fac
tory. That is his worst. He abhors
labors union*, as he is suspicion* by na
ture and of the stuff that sent his fore
fathers into the forest to work out the
South’s greatness—alone. Ho considers
himself amply able to settle all his
troubles iu person; he is the individual,
.not a combination of laborers. It is
claimed that these conditions will
change as factories increase in the
South. I deny this—not so long as the
operatives are recruited from the coun
try in which the factory is located
The Southern cotton factory will
solve the race question. The negro is a
natnral farmer, happy with his mule,
his Holds and his illiteracy. In town,
educated and idle, he breeds crirno and
strife. On the farm he is happy, con
tented, and no man is his superior in
tho productiou of cotton Negroes are
not a success as operatives, being at
present employed only in “outside”
work at our mil's. They can be worked
to a certain extent, but only in wlxat is
distinctly understood to be a menial
capacity to the white operatives. As ,
engineers, stokers, warehouse hands, j
truckmen, messengers, scrub women ;
and scavengers iu the village they are
found useful, and uo exception whatev
er is taken by tho whites to their em
ployment in this way. Iu the gins
they are used entirely, uudor the direc
tion of oue white man. In the oil and
grist mill white laobr in difficult to
work. Negro women are universally
employed iu cottonseed-oil mills to
stitch press bands for the presses. Any \
effort to change these conditions will
only result in disaster to those who try
it. Georgia negroes are building a cot- j
ton factory to be owned, managed and j
operated by their race. This is an ex- j
ception, and I do not think will be fol- j
lowed by others. Let the 700,000 ne-.
groos of Georgia turn their attention to
agriculture, and the whites to manu
facturing, all for the good of the State
and the prosperity of the individual.
It is in the savings that tho large
profits are made, and it is nothing un
common for Georgia factories to earn 20
percent. E'vn iu such years as 1893,
1891 aud 1895. Southern mills paid 10 to
12'tj per coot, div deads an l laid aside
money for improvements. It is pro
posed to operate fins in connection with,
our fac ories, ginning the eottou free
for tho farmer. This will save him
over $2 per b lie, being the cost of gin
ning, bagging and ties and warehouse
charges, which, iu the end, the mill has
to pay.
To-dnv I scarcely know of a county ia
my State that is all suitable for cotton
spinning that is not inukiug an effort,
through press, promoters and bankers,
to get a mill located there. 1900 will bo
the greatest era of our prosperity, and
the home mill will break the lond igeof
European domination of the cotton mar
ket and pri-es.
CUYLER SMITH,
DOEB IT FAY TO BUY CHEAT?
A cheap remedy for coughs and colds
is all right, but you want something
that will relieve and cure the more se
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lung troubles. What shall you do? Go
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Yes, if posstple; if not posible for yon,
then in either case take the ONLY rem
edy that has been introduced in all civ
ilized countries with sucoess for severe
throat and lungs troubles, Boschee’s
Gorman Syrup.” It not only heals and
stimulates tne tis-ues to destroy the
germ disease, but allays inflammation,
causes easy expectoration, gives a good
night’s rest, aud cures the pUieut. Try
one bottle, Recommended many years
by all druggists in the world. Sample
bottle at Wind r Drug Cos. Winder,
Gu„
A Red Hot Controversy.
The discussion of the eud-of-the-cen
tuvy question has reaohed a very gener
al and acute stage. Tno newspaper!
are giving up much space to ic, aud the
authority of scientific societies has been
invoked for its settlement. More than
this, some of the debate? over this
really very simple issue have degenera
ted into sharp personalities and ended
in literally knock down arguments.
The adherents of the theory that the
twentieth century begins wioh the
yea 1900 thought that they had been
vindicated oy the n cent decree of Pope
Leo NLII. Their joy, however, was
shortlived, for tho official text of the
decree aud the statement ci the official
organ if the veiicau shows taut the pope
does not sanction tho effort to c'ip a
year on the nineteenth century. Car
dinal Gibbous, moreover, has stated
that tho midnight mass recommended
in Catholic churches December 31, 1899 f
‘is intended as a celebration ushering
in the final year of ihe present century,
which, as all scholars understand, ends
with 19J0.”
The Century Dictionary, tho In tern v
tional Dictionary aud all the other la
test and most coinp.ete lexicons are di
rectly against the contention that the
nineteenth tentury ends with the pres
ent year. The International Dictionary
gives the following explicit drfimtioo
of the word esntury:
"Century in the reckoning of time,
although often used in a general way
of any series of a hundred consecutive
years (as a century of temperance
work), usually signifies a division of the
Christian ora, consisting of a period of
100 years ending with the hundredth
year from which it is named; as, the
first century (A. D. 1-I(X>, inclusive); the
seventh century (A. D. 60 1 700), the
eighteenth century) A. D. 1601 1800).’*
The Royal Asionooiical society of
England aud tho astronomer royal have
declared emphatically that the twenti
eth century does not Legiu until Janu
ary 1, 1901. That there should be any
difference of opinion on this question is
passing strange, but you will meet per
sons every day who will contend in ef
ffect that ninety-nine years make a cen
tury. —Atlanta Journal.
DeWit’s Little Early Risers purify
tho blood, clean tho liver, invigorate the
system. Famous little pills ior cousti
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Perrier e.
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