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R i/iER & DOZIER, Wholesale and Retail
HARDWARE, Columbus, ©a
THE FARMERS’ ALLIANCE.
WHAT THE ORGANIZATION PRO¬
POSES TO DO.
An Interesting Interview With the
President, Hon. R. H. Jackson.
Atlanta journal. of
Hon. R. H. Jackson, president
the Farmers Alliance of the state, is
in the cit / to day.
A Journal reporter desirous of keep¬
ing the readers of The Journal pos¬
ted in regard to the movements of
this great organization, asked Mr.
Jackson how it was progressing:
“vVe now have forty thousand
members in Georgia, and when you
remember, that we began to organize
about the first* of March, this shows
a remarkable growth, and before the
present year expires wc will have in
Georgia one hundred thousand mem
hers. Our organization is not only
great in numbers, but it is compact
and solidified by a common purpose,
and that is to greatly improve our
condition.”
“VVe are desirous of. knowing,
Mr. Jackson, what you are;, teaching
your members in the way of improve¬
ment.”
“Well,” said he, “first.we are using
our utmost influence to get our farm
ers (membefs of the order) to diveri
fy their crops, and as a result, in all
sections where we .have a foothold,
there is at least one third more corn
planted than last year, and in a few
years we hope to have our members,
each and every one, self sustaining.
Another thing we are doing is to re¬
duce the cost of articles of necessity.’’
“Our plan is to get bids from re¬
sponsible merchants to furnish our
members with goods at lowest price
for cash or on time, and if sold on
time we stand each othei’s security,
and thus make the dealer safe, he
can afford to make his per cent
small.”
“Tut,” continued Mr. Jackson,
“what we have done and are doing is
as nothing compared to our plans for
the future. 'To give you an idea of
this, I will 'rt.ention what the Alliance
i 1 Texas has already accomplished,
viz: Established an agency for hand
ling commerce of its members. Mem¬
bers of the Alliance ship their cotton
to this agency and buy their goods
from it. Only the cost of handling
the cotton is charged them, and in
, the purchase of goods they are only
charged cost of manufacture and
freight. Within a year Georgia will
have several of these agencies.”
“Your plan, if cariied to its full
extent, will do away with the necessi¬
ty of having any merchant?, except
your agencies,” we suggested, “You
do not intend to do this ?”
“I am of opinion,” said Mr. Jack
son “that we are on the eve of a
,
commercial revolution. The farmer
has been plucked so often and for so
long a time that he is going to rise
up in self defense and make a revo
lution and its influence will be felt all
over the country, You may be sure
it is coming, We hope to have al^
the farmers in the south in our organ
ization, and they will buy from our
agencies and ship their produce to
them. There will likely be one in
Atlanta and another in Savannah,
with sub agencies in every county.
In Western Georgia we have already
commenced this business on a small
scale. VVe have “alliance stores,”
and do not trade with any other, even
if the others try to “bait” us with
lower prices.” in
“And,” said Mr. Jackson * con¬
clusion, “there are other things which
will do that may startle people who
think the farmer has heen ridden un¬
til he no longer resists. Wait and
see.”
CONSOLIDATING GEORGIA
ROADS.
Speaking of the recent trip of Pres¬
ident Alexander and his party of Cen¬
tral officials, the Savannah Morning
News says:
. The party visited Columbus, Ope
lika, Montgomery, Eutaula, Americus
and Macon, all prosperous and boom
ing cities, distributed equally between
the two greatest states of the south ?
Georgia and Alabama.
The object of the trip was to bring
about a consolidation of a number of
smaller railroad companies into one
single corporation and one organiza
tion-^p other word, to bring them
under the systematic management
and control of the Central system,
which had already secured a comroll
ing interest. Conferences were had
and a plan of reorganization was sub
mitted to the board of directors *of
the seven different railroads in ques
tion, and in each instance a resolu¬
tion was passea adopting the plan
suggested, and recommending the
stockholders to meet and ratify their
action, This will follow, as a matter
of couise.
The roads consolidated under the
Central system are the Columbus and
Western, th* Columbus and Rome,
the East Alabama, the Eufaula and
East Alabama, the Buena Vista and
EUaville and the Savannah and Co¬
lumbus, forming a through line from
Savannah to Birmingham. These
roads, Major Belknap sard, represent
337 miles of railway already construct
e< 3 -
The machinery in the wood work
ing department of the new shops of
the A. G. S. railroad was started in
motion for the first time yesterday
morning. The machinery for the
iron-working department of the shops
will arrive this week and be put up
at once.
The Central, of Georgia, will spend
about $750,000 soon for equipments
for the Columbus and Western and
other of its branch roads. The com
pany has an agent in the north con¬
tracting for twenty-six new freight
and passenger engines of the latest
design, several thousand steel rails,
a large quantity of miscellaneous rail¬
road supplies,and several newpassen
ger cars. In addition to the above
the company is now having built in
their shops five hundred ne.v freight
cars. The largest portion of all these
equipments will be for the use of the
Goodwater extension of the Colum
bus and Western. j
HEALTH HINTS.
There is much sickness just now in
town and country. Generally the
bowels of the people, big and little,
old and young, white and black, are
out of fix. Green and wormy fruit
has upset the little folks and poorly
cooked vegetables or the lock of veg
etables has upset the older ones,
The weather is changeable and the
system, even when people diet them
selves properly and preserve the body
at an even temperature or what is
just as well go gradually from one
extreme to another, it is a trying
time upon the health. But we are
all too careless and rely too roach
upon physic to restore us when we
suffer from a violation ot the laws of
health.
It is best to use a vegetable diet
when vegetables are in season. They
ought to be well cooked and properly
seasoned. They should be gathered
in the early morning when the dew
is on them and not allowed to stand
in the sun until the sun has wilted
the leaves. When the final record is
made up it will be faund out that the
poor cooks have given the ferryman
of the dark river more to do than
war, pestilence and 'amine The
poor cook gets in her work early and
often and her field is as wide as civi
lization. Our cook is up on the laws
ot health and our folks do not often
need the doctors, but our neighbor’s
cook was out hunting greens for din
ner the other day at half past ten
o’clock, pinner was served prompt¬
ly at twelve, as usual, and r-e he doc
tors were called in.
Fruit is good in its season It
should be ripened on ihe tree or vine
and gathered while the dew is on it.
Children are disposed to swallow ber¬
ries without chewing them, Check
them in this, give them dewberries or
blackberries at one or two meals each
day, with sugar and cream, and our
word for it the doctors have nothing
in their saddle-bags that will restore
them to health more speedily if they
have the general complaint or that
will so surely keep them from having
it if they £re well.
A good appetite is one of the lux
unes a good constitution
is more to be desired than the gold
of Ophir. Wholesome food
served is always appetizing and exer
cises an elevating and refining
ence upon man.
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Y our medicine was recommended v
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Mrs.
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I
| with a sore throat for over a remedies year j
used a great many other
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