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THE JACKSON ECONOMIST. VOL. VIE Headquarters —FOR— SMS! 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 vere and dangeitms results of throat and lung troubles. What shall you do? Go to a warmer and more regular climate! 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 pation aud liver troubles. G. W. DeLa- Perrier e. NO 53-