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FARMERS’ COLUMNS.
THE GEORGIA KXPKKI SIFTS T STATION,
LXrKRIMEXT, GA.
Weevil* in Corn and I’m
The value of the eorn annually de
stroyed, or greatly damaged by weevils,
in the southern states must reach intc
the millions of dollars. Of all the rem
edies, or preventives, that have lieen
more or less relied on. none heretofore,
has proven so effective as to meet the
demands of farmers generally. But it
seems that an effective method of treat
ment of the stored grain has at last
been discovered. At this station no
convenient opportunity has been afford
ed for testing the merits of the remedy
on eorn, for the simple reason that the
weevils do not depredate on corn, in
this section of the state, to any extent.
The remedy consists in the proper use
of carbon bi-sulphide, a fluid compound
of carbon and sulphur. It was first
recommended by Dr. C. V. Itiley in
18*9. This fluid is very volatile and
quickly passes into a vapor which is
heavier than air. The vapor is also
very inflammable and explosive, and
therefore no tire should be pennitb-d
about the building where it is being
used. In order to the most effective
and economical use of the remedy a
tight crib is necessary. Where a far
mer has no tight crib it would be well
to construct at least one close bin or
box that will hold one hundred bushels
of corn, which may be used as a sort of
quarantine, in which the corn can be
placed as gathered from the field, and
successively treated. The corn should
be husked (or “shucked”) to do the most
effective work and with the least ex
pence. The method is as follows:
When the bin or room in which the corn
is to be treated is about half filled,
make a wooden box, two or three inch
es square, with open joints, and long
enough to reach the top of the bulk of
corn when the bin is full, and place it
upright on the centre of the bulk, and
finish filling the bin. Then saturate a
ball of cotton lint with the carbon bi
sulphide and push it down to the bot
tom of the box. Saturate another ball
of cotton and place it in the box a few
inches below the surface of the mass of
eorn. Then cover the open end of the
box with a guano sack, or anything
handy. The foregoing are the essen
tial points and the details may be va
ried according to the operators con
venience. The idea is simply to place
the balls of cotton, saturated with the
liquid, in such a way that the vapor can
easily penetrate the entire mass. Some
recommend that the entire surface of
the bulk of the corn be covered over
with old sacks. The vapor will not
rise—being heavier than air—until it
has filled the lower portion of the bin
or crib, when it will rise, as it fills up
the interstices, just as any other fluid
would do.
The same treatment is applicable to
corn, peas, wheat, beans, etc., and the
grain will dot be injured for any use, as
the odor of the liquid (which is very
disgusting) will pass away in a few
days. Twenty-four to thirty-six hours
is long enough to treat one bin. The
carlon bi-sulphide is sold by Edward
11. Taylor, chemist, Cleveland, Ohio, at
10 cents per pound, in fifty pound cans.
One pound u sufficient to destroy all
the insects that may be in one ton of
grain, if the room or bin containing the
latter be tight or nearly so ; but if the
corn is in the shuck a larger quantity
will be required. The treatment may
be repeated at intervals during the win
ter and spring, if found necessary.
—R. J. Keddixo, Director.
State Dairyman’* Association.
The late convention of Dairymen of
Georgia, which met at Griffin on the
22d and 23d of August, was a gratify
ing success, both in the number and
character of the individuals, and in the
enthusiasm that was manifested. An
organization was effected to be known
as the Georgia Dairymen's Association.
A short and simple constitution, or
articles of association was adopted. Un
der its provisions, the folloAving were
elected officers for the first year: R.
J Redding, President; R. E. Park,
Vice-President; M. L. Duggan, of Han
cock county, Secretary ; A. L. Dalton,
of Chattooga county, Treasurer. The
following were elected members of the
Executive Board: James T. Anderson,
of Cobb; George H. Carmichael, of Cow
eta ; H. M. Ed wards, of Baldwin ; J. M.
Jones, of Burke; G. 11. West, of Car
roll.
As the meeting was the first of its
character in the state, and for the pur
pose of organization, no set program
had been previously arranged; but
several instructve and interesting talks
were delivered by members. The rules
of the association provide that any rep
utable white person, interested in dai
rying or stock-growing, may become a
member upon the payment of one dol
lar, to be paid annually. Any such per
son not present at the late meeting may
become a member by forwarding his
one dollar to the Secretary, M. L. Dug
gan, Linton, Ga., Or to the Treasurer,
A. L. Dalton, Summerville, Ga. The
time and place of the next meeting
will be designated by the Executive
Board, and it wifi probably appoint
Atlanta in the place and some time dur
ing the Exposition as the time.
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES.
[Under this head short inquiries from farm
ers on practical farm topics will be answered
by one of the station stall and published, if of
general interest otherwise the answers will be
sent by mail. Make your inquiries short and
to the point, always Rive your name and post
office and addressed to the “Director Georgia
Experiment Station, Experiment, Oa."]
High vs. l.ow Oracle Fertilisers.
T. J. 0., Davisboro, Ga.: lam of the opin
ion. after fifteen years experience in the sale
and use of fertilizers what we need a better
tirade. How will a fertilizer having the fol
lowing analysis do : Available phos. acid, 12
I>er cent ; potash, 4 per cent ; ammonia, 8 to 4
per cent f
Answer by Director Redding: I do
not know what quality you have been
using, but it is qnite clear that the only
advantage in using a “high grade” fer
tilizer consists in the saving of freight
and labor of handling. For instance ;
200 pounds per acre, of a fertilizer con
taining 12 per cent phosphoric acid, 4
per cent potash and 4 per cent ammo
nia, and costing —say 24 dollars a ton—
delivered, would be no more effective
on a crop than would 400 pounds per
acre, of a fertilizer containing 0 per
cent phosphoric acid, 2 per cent potash
ami 2 per cent ammohia, and costing 12
dollars a ton. delivered. In either case
you would he applying 24 pounds of
phosphoric acid, 8 pounds of potash,
and 8 pounds of ammonia; and in ei
ther ease the cost per acre would be
82.40. Hut if you were required to pay
freight in addition to the prices sup
posed. the higher grade would be the
cheaper fertilizer, but not more effect
ive. The lalx>r of hauling the lower
grade would be twice as great, and the
handling (putting out) would also be
somewhat greater. Asa matter of fact,
liowi ver, the very high grades of fer
tilizer often cost more in proportion
than their higher grade would justify.
The most important point is to be sure
that a fertilizer is well balanced, i. e.
that it contains the different elements
of plant food in proper proportions to
each other. A low grade migr have
these correct proportions just as well
as a high grade. For instance: a com
post of lot manure, cotton seed, acid
phosphate and kainit, would be a "low
grade” fertilizer, yet it may be made so
as to contain the elements of plant food
in correct proportions, and it will only
be necessary to apply it in proper quan
tity to the crop in order to get just as
?'oodand often much better results than
ollow the use of the "high grade” fer
tilizers. The proportion you suggest
12, 4 and 3 to 4 (phosphoric acid, potash
and ammonia) is a very good one for
general purposes : but it contains rath
er more potash than would be required
and not enough ammonia for corn, on
most soils. It would good for cotton
on your sandy soils.
Pinching Potato Vine*.
H. W. C., New' York City : 1. Does It make
the sweet potato more productive to prune the
vines ? 2. Will the rooting of the vines lessen
the size of the tubers? 3. Is it a good plan to
keep the vines' from rooting and prune to with
in one and one-half to three feet of the hill ?
4. Will the vines make good food for stock ?
[Answer by Hugh N. Starnes, Horticulturist.]
1. It does not make the sweet potato
more productive to prune the vines.
Experiments result irregularly, but the
increased yield obtained by pruning
has never been sufficient to pay for the
extra moor involved. even mciuumgtne
value of the pruned vines as stock feed,
and the result is generally directly
against pruning or “pinching,” as it is
more frequently termed. The Georgia
Experiment Station is now conducting
this experiment, and details will be
given at the end of the season.
2. Measurably, under certain condi
tions the rooting of the vines lessens
the size of the tubers. When the soil
is highly nitrogenous, or in a very wet
season, the vines, if undisturbed, will
make, of course, a very rank and vigor
ous growth, but will at the same time,
and in consequence, root at every joint,
and the tendency will lie to produce
small tubers. On the other hand, in a
dry season or on ordinary soils there
results no reduction in size of tubers
from allowing the vines to remain un
disturbed ; in fact, quite the contrary.
All vines, however, are more or less
“disturbed” up to a late date in the sea
son—into August, as a rule—by the or
dinary process of cultivation; being
“turned back” periodically' for the pur
pose of plowing out the alternate "mid
dles," and then again reversed. Hence
they seldom get a chance to begin root
ing until late in the season, and it is
this normal treatment that appears to
produce the largest yields, irrespective
; of the economic result when the cost oi
loosening the vines Is taken into con
sideration. The station is also con
ducting this experiment.
3. Unless land is very rich in humus
or the season abnormally yvet it will
hardly pay either to prune or loosen
the vines. In fact it is more likely to
prove injurious than beneficial in an
ordinary season or on average land.
4. Used green, syveet potato vines
make quite a palatable and nutritious
food for stock, and our Station Dairy
man reports excellent results. They
are reported, however, _as becoming
slimy in the silo, and their use as ensi
lage is not advised.
Fokeberries.
R. N. S., Thomson, Ga. : Is there any de
mand for dried pokeberries by any of the drug
men of the country. What is the market price
of them and who buys them ?
Answered by Director Redding:
Dried pokeberries are yvorth about 4 tc
6 cents per pound. Allaire, Woodward
& Cos., Peoria, HI., are buyers of such
things.
Cow-pea Vines as a Fertilizer and as a Food.
J. M. 8., Stinson, Ga.: What is the relative
value of a bushel of cowpeas to a bushel of cot
ton seed, as a fertilizer. In other words if 1
should turn under 10 bushels of peas per acre
how many bushels of cotton seed would that
many peas be equal to, as a fertiliifcr ?
Answer by Director Redding: In
fertilizing value one bushel of cowpeas
is equal to about 2 1-10 bushels of cot
ton seed. So, then, if you turn undei
10 bushels of cowpeas the fertilizing
effect would be about equal to 21 bush
els of cotton seed. But the bushel oi
cowpeas is worth at least 75 cents —the
past season much more—while the
2 1-10 bushels of cotton seed may gen
erally be bought for 30 cents. So, 1C
bushels of peas, yvorth in the market
(or for feed) 87.50 yvould do the crop nc
more good than 21 bushels of cottoD
seed, yvhich are rarely yvorth more than
15 cents per bushel, or 83.15 for the 21
bushels. You could afford to use cow
peas as a manure rather than sell them
for less than 30 cents per bushel.
Grape Cuttings.
R. E„ Carsonville, Ga.: Please give the bes;
mode of propagating the grape from cuttings
When is the proper time to put them out ant
In what kind of soil ? How long should tin
cutting:, be, and how many buds above ground:
Should they be set in the ground perpendicu
larly or r.t an angle of 45 degrees ? Shoult
new wood or second year's growth be used?'
Answer, bvdlugh X. Starnes, Horti
culturist : Cuttings should be made
when the vines are pruned. Time oi
pruning differs yvith the preferences oi
different individual*. Some vineyard
ists prune early in the yy'inter. Vines
so pruned are earlier in putting out in
spring. Others prune in mid yy'inter
and still others in late yy'inter or earl}
spring. Late pruned vines are less lia
ble to injuly from late freezes, but it
is so seldom that the vine is injured by
severe yveather in Georgia, that early
pruning is perhaps preferable. Our
practice at the station is to prune as
soon after December Ist as possible.
The cuttings are made from the
canes of this year's groyvth. All growth
of the current year is knoyvn at
‘‘shoots” while immature or unripened.
After frost the “shoots” become hard
and woody and are then, and during the
folloyving season, knoyvn as “canes.”
third j'ear and thereafter, if al
lowed to remain, the canes become
“arms,” # and are tough and covered
with stringy bark. It is from canes oi
the present year's growth—growth
yvhich started the past spring as
“shoots” —that the cuttings are taken.
The canes so used should be about
the size of a lead pencil in diame
ter —neither larger nor smaller—their
length and number of joints being a
secondary matter. In long jointed
vines the cuttings can be made to con
sist of one joint only, yvith two buds,
one at the bottom and one at the top.
The cane should be cut through with
the pruner close to the lower bud and
at nearly a right-angle yvith the cane.
Cut through about half an inch above
the upper bud and at an angle of 45 de
grees. Your cutting will thus have an
easily distinguishable bottom and top.
The lower bud will make the roots—
the upper bud the vine, next year.
In short jointed vines two or more
joints may be used—cutting through
below the lowest bud and half an inch
above the highest bud, as described
above. In this ease one or more budt
may send out rootlets, and one or more
develop aerial groyvth. The cuttings
should not be under six inches long nor
over a foot; this, for convenience in
handling, merely. When you have a
good sized handful, bunch them like
asparagus, binding wi*h small copper
wire, adding wooden label with name
of variety. When all are secured, bury
them top downyvards, yvith butts at
least six inches below surface of
ground, in any convenient corner. Dig
up after all danger of freezing—say
last of March—and plant.
Prepare furrows deep and mellow,
three feet apart or four if ground is no
object. Open out with shovel; lay cut
tings in furrow on one side—at an an
gle of course—and about four inches
apart, and cover with a scooter furrow,
pressing down dirt yvith feet after
wards. If cuttings are long-shanked
you can cover yy'ith a turn plow or
‘‘twister.” The place selected should
be good, rich deep soil, though yvell
drained. Vines so treated will make
a good groyvth the first year—three to
six feet—and with a good season from
80 to 90 per cent will live. The folloyv
ing fall they will b® ready for use. but
if not put out in their permanent place,
should be transplanted, after cutting
back to two buds, to royvs 4 feet apart,
yvith vines 1 foot in royv. These will
make extremely vigorous vines by the
seeond fall, but two year old vines are
not recommended. Better use them at
one year.
These directions refer to all grapes of
the Labrusca class, as Concord, or Niag
ara. Aestivalis grapes, as Warren, Nor
ton’s Va., or Delaware. will not groyv
readily from cuttings and must be “lay
ered” for successful propagation.
Celery.
M. E. C., Cartersville, Ga.: Will you be sc
kind as to advise me where I can procure the
seed or the roots of the tenderest and most de
sirable variety of celery for protitable culture :
best time for planting : whether it is best to
start w'ith seed or rodts ; if with the latter,
what distance in trenches, and any other use
ful points you can offer pertaining to celery cul
ture for protit. I have just the place for it.
Answer by Hugh N. Starnes, Horti
culturist : If you have “just the place
for it” the battle is more than half won.
Celery requires a very rich, light, deep,
mucky soil, which must be well drain
ed. and must in this climate, moreover,
be capable of irrigation. Irrigation
can be effected by hand for a small gar
den plat, but must be readily effected
by gravitation for economical field cul
ture. Therefore, if your plat has a
spring branch on a liill side above it
so that it can be diverted into the plat
and used freely when necessary, it will
pay you to make confident preparation
for celery growing.. If you nave no
such stream available, you had better
put your plat in something else.
There are two crops of celery made
at different seasons —not howeter, on
the same land. The summer crop is
perhaps the easiest to handle and the
surest. The old “trench” system is so
laborious that it has been entirely su
perseded. For the early crop, begin the
first of January hy sowing seed in hot
uea or even m ooxes m-aoors ana i>uu* I
sequentiy “pricking out" as it is termed j
—that is, transplanting to yvider distfin- j
ces —say in rows three inches wide and j
one inch apart in the rows, to give the j
roots a chance to expand and make the :
plant stock}’. Water well and keep:
them lightly shaded for a day or so in
bright weather. Set out as soon as all |
danger of heavy freezing yveather is
over in royvs two and one-half feel
apart and six inches in the ror,\ Culti
vate yvith hoe and Planet, Jr., hand
cultivator until the plants attain their I
growth—say last of Mav or first of j
June. Keep land on a level. Bleach
by taking Ixl2 plank and leaning up
against the royv of celery from either i
side. This will sufficiently bleach it in i
a week or ten days. Of course the I
boards can be used over again from
season to season uad are a permanent
investment. Moreover, a section can j
be bleached at a time in this yvay and
the crop be made continuous the entire
summer. The original cost of the
boards yvill thus not amount to a great
deal and a continuous supply be ren
dered possible.
White Plume celery is the only varie
ty advised for this simple treatment,
and, while it is not of the best quality it
will sell readily yvhen conveyed to a
market fresh and crisp, yvhich is never
the case yvith Michigan celery.
The late crop is more difficult to han
dle. and is not advised unless some ex
perience in celery’ raising has been at
tained. Giant Pascal is the best varie
ty to use. Plant in open air bed. care
fully prepared, in May, and “prick out"
as before in June.. Transplant finally
in July, using a twelve inch board lean
ed slantingly on stakes driven in the
ground, to shield the plants from tht
southern sun. For this purpose the
royy’s must run east and yvest. Board
up for bleaching in September or Octo
ber as in case of early celery. Earth
ing up, however, will give better re
sults, though more troublesome and
expensive. Still it enables celery to be
kept in our climate indefinitely and
marketed at leisure. Let tyvo men
work on same row, one on each side,
drayving the earth with hoes up to the
plants, thus covering them deeper as
the season progresses. Time can be
saved by riveting a yvide piece of sheet
iron or an old cross-cut saw blade on a
stub of a hoe. If royvs are planted
three feet yvide, it would be best to em
ploy the Planet, Jr. eultiy'ator, with
celery hiller attachment and do the
work by horse poyver.
It is possible that celery planted' in
the bed in August, set in the field in Oc
tober and kept through the winter
earthed up, would prove profitable in
Middle or even North Georgia, as it un
doubtedly is in South Georgia. This
experiment yvill be tried at the station
this fall, but it is not yet advised.
Full information on the methods
practiced at the north can be obtained
from T. Greiner's “Celery for Profit” a
little book sold by W. Atlee Burpee &
Cos., Philadelphia, for fifty cents. Af
ter understanding fully the principle
underlying celery culture, its adapta
tion to local situations must be a mat
ter of experiment and judgment. Thus,
yvhile yy’ater is not essential in the mois
ter climate of Michigan, it is indispen
sable in Georgia for the second crop,
though not absolutely necessary for the
first. At best the cultivation of celery
“for profit” is a doubtful employment
anyyvhere, and especially so :n this
state, except in a feyv favored localities.
It can, hoyvever, be made on a small
scale, an adjunct to every kitchen gar
den, with reasonable attention.
Why Stock-Growing Pays.
The English say they raise stock to
buy more land to raise more grain to
feed more stock, etc. No grass, no cat
tle, no manure; no grass. This is a
rotation which yy’ill pay well. Live
stock is our chief reliance in maintain
ing the fertility of the soil. While the
raising of stock yvill enrich our soil and
renew its productiveness, it will mar
ket the farm products better than to
ship the feed ayvay.—Breeders’ Gazette.
Let Them Answer.
The News haß often asked the
leaders of the Third party how their
party, if it were in power, would get
control of the railroads and pay for
them. They stand on the railroad
plank, and declare their belief in the
wisdom of government ownership of
railroads, but they have never ex
plained to the people their plan for
purchasing them.
There are only two ways by which
Uncle Sam could become the owner
of the railroads. One is by the issue
of about ten billion dollars of paper
money, which would be practically
worthless, and the other is by floating
bands for good money with which to
pay for them.
Now, let us examine into these
plans and see if either of them is
practicable or wise. The issue of
$10,000,000,000 would make the per
capita of so-called money about $175.
Tom Watson, in his Cartersville
speech last Tuesday, said he realized
that a government could burden it
self with too muoh money. If $175
per capita would not be too much (of
the kind) we should like for Tom to
name his limit. Not only would it be
unwise and impolitic to purchase the
railroads in this way, but it would be
dishonest. To foice the owners of
railroads to accept so inferior a money
would be the same as forcing a farmer
to give up his farm for a note which
he could not collect.
To issue $10,000,000,000 worth of
bonds would be worse, if possible,
than issuing the same amount of
worthless currency. We could not
issue bonds for less than 8 per cent.,
if at all, because everybody would
doubt our ability to pay even the in
terest, much less the principal. But,
taking it for granted that we could
get the money at 8 per cent., the an
nual interest would be $800,000,000.
Do the farmers of Georgia really
desire to have this debt saddled upon
them ? If not, they sheuid lay aside
their prejudice and vote the Demo
cratic ticket.—Lawrenceville News.
That Tired Feeling
Is a dangerous condition directly due
to depleted or impure blood. It
should not be allowed to oontinue, as
in its debility tbs system is especially
liable to serious attacks of illness.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is the remedy for
such a condition, and also for that
weakness which prevails at the change
of season, climate or life.
Hood’s Pills are purely vegetable,
carefully prepared from the best in
gredients. 26a
If women would extend one-half the
charity to each other that they accord
to men, such a thing as a wicked
woman would be as # rare as a truly
good man.
TO THE CREDIT OF DEMOCRACY.
Congressman McCreary Reviews the
Work Which Congress Has Done.
James B. McCreary, chairman of
the foreign committee, and one
of the Democratic leaders of the
House during the present session of
Congress, said to a representative of
the press today:
“The House has passed more good
bills and enacted more important leg
; islation than any of its predecessors
I in ten years, or any with which I am
i familiar, and I have been watching
the course of legislation for twenty
years. The repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman silver act was
of immense importance to the whole
oountry. We were in the midst of a
financial panic when the President
called Congress together, and after
the repeal of the bill the panic seemed
to bo checked. When the Senate
passed it and the President approved
it, the monetaiy condition of the
oountry improved and bank failures
ceased.
“Then a bill was passed repealing
thß odious federal election law, dis
pensing with supervisors and marshals
at the polls and wiping from the
statute books all statutes which
menaced the freedom of the ballot
box.
“There has been important legisla
tion reclaiming about 50,000,000 acres
of public lands given by Republican
congresses to railway corporations,
and which,under the terms of the va
rious acts, have not been earned.
These lands ought to have been held
for actual settlement, and should
never have been given to corporations.
“The Chinese exclusion bill, which
saved $8,000,000 by providing leg
islation which the Chinese accepted,
rather than be deported ; the bills to
give effect to the Behring Sea awards,
which regulated our sealing interests
in Behring Sea, and the Hawaiian res
olution, sustaining the President in
withdrawing from the Senate the an
nexation treaty, which required our
government to pay $3,500,000 for the
Hawaiian Islands, are amoDg the
good and important measures passed
by the House.
“The tariff bill is not as sweeping
and as comprehensive as I desired,
but it is the best tariff reform bill
since 1867, when a Democratic Con
gress amended the Walker tariff bill
of 184 G, by reducing tariff rates to an
average of 18 per cent. It ebould be
remembered that the Republican party
has, by its record, shown that it is a
high protection party, because when
it came into party the average rate of
duty was 18 per cent. From 1802 to
1860 it raised this rate to an average
rate of 40 per cent.; in 1883, to 41
per cent, Rnd it reached its culmina
tion in 1890, when the McKinley bill
was passed, fixing the average rate at
a fraction under 50 per cent.
“The new tariff bill places wool,
salt, lumber, farming machinery, cot
ton ties, cotton bagging, binding
twine and a number of other necessary
articles on the free list. The duty on
woolen goods and clothing has been
reduced from an average rate of 98
per cent, to 48 per cent., and millions
of dollars annually will he ea?ed to
the people on clothing and woolen
goods alone, and the average rate
under the new tariff bill is 38 per cent.,
as against an average of 60 per cent,
in the McKinley bill.
“The sugar bounty, amounting to
$12,000,000 annually, has been re
pealed, and, from my standpoint, the
tax of 2 per cent, on incomes is a just
and proper tax, and will make these
people who have grown rich under
the iniquitous legislation of the Re
publican party pay their part of federal
taxation. Congress had to raise s3©, -
000,000 annually in addition to the
amount already provided for to pay
the necessary expenses of the govern
ment, and this could come only from
increased tariff taxation or from a tax
on incomes, and I prefer the latter.
“The passage of the bills enabling
Utah, New Mexioo and Arizona to
come into the Union are good bills.
“I am sure business will begin re
viving, now that the tariff bill has be
come a law. Confidence is always nec
essary to prosperity. There has
been a want of confidence for man}
months, but with the repeal of tbf
three great and important acts passed
by Republicans, to-wit: The purchas
ing clause of the Sherman silver bill,
McKinley tariffbill and the federal
election laws, and the feeling of secu
rity that always comes after such im
partant legislation has been agreed
upon, in my opinion it is certain to
start business into the old chann -Is
Money is plentiful, the crops are good,
and, with returning confidence, there
must be returning prosperity.
“The expenses of the government
have been reduced at this session ol
Congress in every department, and
the aggregate appropriations are S2B,
000,000 less than at the last session
of Congress and $51,000,000 le6s
than in the second session of the R-ed
Congress. Pension reforms have also
been inaugurated, whereby fraudulent
claims are being dropped, aud pen
sion appropriations have been reduced
over $30,000,000.
“Indeed, I may say, ‘we have
fought a good fight, we have finished
the cours°, we kept the faith.’ We
have done enough for one session.
We will go on with the good work
when Congress meets again.'’
That which is most deadly the
devil often makes most beautiful.
What Populists Want.
It is the boast of Mr. Watson on
the stump that while there are all
sorts of Democrats there is but one
kind of Populist. When you meet a
Democrat, said he, you have to in
quire if he is a free silver Democrat,
a gold-standard Democrat, a free trade
L emocr&t or a protection Democrat;
but when you meet a Populist he is
nothing but a Populist—everyone be
lieves alike, and all are demanding
the same thing. Now, if this be true,
it may be interesting to some of the
men in Georgia who are consorting
with the Populists to know just what
their party is demanding.
Their platform declares against the
extravagrnt expenditure of the public
money, but in the face of this plank
in the platform the Populists in Con
gress have introduced a number of
bills that will be quite interesting and
surprising to many who are allowing
themselves to be misled by the boast
ings of the Populist leaders. Con
gressman Pigott, of Connecticut, has
made a speech in Congress which sets
out in detail, but without elaboration
or misrepresentation, the bills intro
duced by Populists in the last two
sessions of Congress, and computes
the amount of money it would require
to carry them into effect. Where two
or more bills on the same line have
been introduced only one was used in
the estimates, so that the calculation
is fair and not misleading.
It will surprise many Populists and
dissatisfied Democrats who are giving
countenance to Populism to learn that
the money appropriated under these
bills of Populists in two sessions of
Congress aggregates the marvellous
sum of about fifty billions of dollars.
As the total estimated money of the
world, including paper, gold, silver,
copper, brass and iron tokens does not
exceed ten and one tenth billions of
dollars, it appears that this party of
low taxes and economical expenditures
of the public money only proposes to
spend about five timeß as much money
as there is in the world.
Will men of sense and the power to
think for themselves allow themselves
to be led by the nose on such a rain
bow chasing expedition as the Popu
list party is engaged in 1 Their speak
ers abuse Democratic extravagance,
but their chosen representatives intro
duce bills into Congress before which
the wildest extravagance of Republic
ans pales its ineffectual fires. They
clamor for low taxes and Senator
Peffer introduces a resolution that it
would take fifteen billions of dollars
to carry into effect, and in the same
resolution demands that all revenues
of the government bo raised from
taxation on real estate.
Our farmers are thus put in the ab
surd plight of demanding lower taxes
and less extravagant expenditure of
the public money, and at the same
time throwing up their hats for a
party whose representatives have in
troduced into two sessions of Con
gress measures that would require
five times as much money as there
is in the world to carry their provis
ions into effect, and propose to tax
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the real estate of the farmers for all
government revenues.
And Mr. Wat?on says all Populists
think alike and demand the same leg
islation. To sum up in a nutshell the
case is this: If the Populists had con
trolled both Houses of Congress and
could have passed any law they
pleased, the measures which would
now be in effect would saddle a debt
upon this country that it would take
five times as much money as there is
in the world to liquidate. That is
the party of reform and low taxes
that our farmers are humbugged
by.—Augusta Chronicle.
More Dangerous than the Railroad
Plank.
When Judge Hines makes the as
sertion that the Democrats have prac
tically adopted the creed of Populism,
he ignores all bnt one item of the
Ocala platform. It may be admitted
that considering the mere wording,
the “financial planks” of the two plat
forms are very nearly similar; but in
the interpretation placed upon that
wording there is a difference between
Democrats and Populists as wide as
the poles.
But besides the demand of Popu
lism for the creation and issuance of
money until every one shall have as
much as he wants, ihere is the rail
road plank, which to the apprehen
sion of the masses, means a govern
ment ownership which will allow
every man to go where he pleases
without paying any fare, and to have
his freight carried without aDy cost.
But far more objectionable than this,
though attracting less attention, is
that clause which declares land the
common heritage of all. If this be
not Socialism in its most decided form,
we would like to know what would be?
There are many farmers our country
who own little homes which they have
as rewards of their industry and econ
omy. There are many renters who
are struggling on with the hope of
reaching the point of independent
ownership. Many of those who are
paying taxes on large bodies of land
that are yielding no profit would gladly
see the number of small homesteads
increased. Could all of theso classes
appreciate that the triump of Populism
would be the utter destiuction of this
hope, their adhesion to this party
would come to an end. It should, I
think, be more clearly omphasized by
our speakers that Populism is a de
claration of war against every form of
accumulated wealth. Could it tri
umph, the creditor class would be
placed entirely at the mercy of the
debtor class, with no rights that the
latter would feel bound to respect.
To such a creed Judge Hines would
hardly assent; yet it is a plain inter
pretation of his party’s platform.
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