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BDIIS COUNTY PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered an necond-clnnn matter, Nnvem
*'r 8,15*07, at tlie postoftice at Jarknoti, <Ja.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications are welcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to £OO words, as communications
aver that length cannot be handled.
W rite on one side of the paper only,
sign your name, not for publication,
but as an evidence of good faith.
Swat the pessimist and the
war-alarmist.
Eggs are worth 20 cents each
in Hamburg. Germany.
Just sit steady in the boat and
pull for that county fair.
Not too late to buy a bale. Buy
it from somebody who really
needs help.
Help the Civic League which
is trying to help you by cleaning
up the town.
The farmers are getting plenty
of well-meant advice along now.
After all they will do as they
please.
The Southern Express Compa
ny has raised its rates. Seems
to have forgotten that the parcels
post is on its trail.
There will be general regret at
the passing of Gus Morrow, one
of the ablest and most popular
newspaper men in the state.
This is not the first time that
cotton has been cheap, but the
first time that food prices are so
outrageously out of proportion to
the price of cotton.
If the war continues very long
Georgia will have thousands of
trained card writers. Incidentally
it is h—on the printer who has to
wade through such greatness.
The two daily papers in Way
cross will be consolidated on Oc
tober 1, under the management
of L. Volney Williams. It is a
fine thing when a one-paper town
realizes that it is really a one
paper town.
The Macon Telegraph and The
Albany Herald, which have been
sometime at war, have declared
an armistice. The only casuality
was the reckless disregard with
which the King’s English was
hurled back and forth.
The “Buy-a-hale” plan boosted
the price of cotton all right. Now
why not another movement in
the opposite direction, “Refuse
to-buy-at-present-prices,” and
knock the bottom out of pri
ces? It can be done and is worth
trying.
Colquitt county is to market
26,000 hogs the coming year and
it is figured that this crop will
bring over $500,000. This is half
the value of the cotton crop of
Tift county. So much for the
good work of the Moultrie pack
ing house. Before long we expect
to see hogs and cattle the big
money crops of this section.
Tifton Gazette.
THE MAN WHO VOLUNTARILY SELLS COTTON
AT PRESENT PRICES IS A TRAITOR
This then is the situation: Not over 10 or 15 per cent of the
world’s splindles are likely to stop; even this decrease in consump
tion in Europe will be partially made good by the increased con
sumption of American mills; and as soon as the war is over, as Dr.
Carver points out, “these countries which have not been able to
get cotton will be clamoring for it.”
And yet, there are foolish American farmers in every State
simply giving away their cotton at ridiculous prices before the cot
ton exchanges open, and before the financial world has time to
catch its breath and find out whether it is really hurt or only scared.
Perhaps some of these farmers are compelled to sell, and we
may excuse them, but for the others there is just one thing to say.
That thing is that every man who sells a bale of cotton at present
fictitious prices, unless compelled to do so by necessity, is not only
playing the fool so far as his own interests are concerned, but is a
traitor to his fellow farmers.
If he himself only were getting hurt, we might let him alone,
but he is depressing prices for everybody else in the South. Four
or five thousand farmers scattered over the South by accepting the
ridiculous prices recently offered, or else by insisting on giving
away their cotton to somebody when there was no market at all —
these few irresponsible cotton growers have come mighty near es
tablishing an eight cent level for prices that it will take energetic
action from Virginia to Texas to overcome.
It is our belief that if the cotton exchanges could have remain
ed open, prices would have gradually adjusted themselves to lower
levels, but that the abused New York cotton gamblers would never
have brought prices so low as farmers have done by the South-wide
“bear” movement they have themselves instituted.—The Progres
sive Farmer.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Why Not Federal Aid?
Editor Progress: The public
press reports from Washington
that the southern farmers need
not expect any legislation from
the present congress and admin
; istration to aid in handling the
cotton crop of this year. The ex
cuse is given that the regional
banks will be organized in a few
weeks and they will grant the
needed relief. The regional banks
will be permitted under the law
to lend to their member BANKS
money on cotton receipts. It
therefore arpears the banks may
borrow money on a farmer’s cot
ton in the warehouse to lend to
the farmer, yet the same farmer
can’t borrow a dollar from the
regional bank on the same cotton.
Is this right? Why shouldn’t
the farmer be allowed to borrow
money from the government at
three per cent on his cotton the
I same as a bank? Why should the
I government lend this money to
the banks on cotton receipts at
three per cent for the money to
be re-lent to the farmer at from
eight to twelve per cent? These
are some questions the present
congress will have to answer.
The government through the
postal savings banks could lend
this money direct to the farmer
at three per cent per annum as
easily as it could lend it to the
national banks and would thereby
serve the people direct. Does
this government exist to sorve
the national banks or was it cre
ated to serve the people?
If the government as at pres
ent administered is determined
not to help the farmers in the
present crisis, the congress ought
to have the decency to repeal the
ten per cent tax on state issues
of money and then the state of
Georgia couth issue money either
direct from the state treasury or
use the state banks as an instru
ment to get the needed currency
Don’t Take
Wrong Medicine
If your liver gets lazy you need
a liver tonic, not merely a laxa
tive for the bowels. Many peo
ple take a simple laxative when
the liver gets sluggish rather
than take calomel, which they
know to be dangerous. But a
mere laxative will not start a
sluggish liver. What is needed
is a tonic that will liven up the
liver without forcing you to stay
at home and lose a day from your
work.
You have such a tonic in Dod
son’s Liver Tone. Dodson’s Liver
Tone is all that is claimed for it,
because the druggists who sell it
agree to hand back the money
with a smile, to any person not
satisfied with the relief Dodson’s
gives.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is a vege
table liquid with a very pleasant
taste and is a prompt and reliable
remedy for constipation, bilious
ness, sour stomach and torpid
liver.
Slaton Drug Cos. give it their
personal guarantee. Large bottle
of Dodson’s Liver Tone is only
50 cents. For children or grown
people it is the ideal medicine.
Try it on the guarantee, adv
in circulation.
Senator Smith and Congress
man Hardwick have made every
effort to give relief, but they
fought single handed and alone.
Why didn’t the other senators
and congressmen from Georgia
and the South join in the fight in
this supreme hour of need? Judg
ing from the Congressional Rec
ord it would seem the above
named gentlemen were the only
ones who were interested in the
least in the welfare of the cotton
grower. They should have had
the support of every southern
congressman.
Respectfully,
O. M. Duke.
Flovilla, Ga.
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Can Be Reduced if you Have
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