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GEORGIA’S PROGRESS. HER AGRICULTURAL AND INDUS. TRIAL DEVELOPMENT. The annual meeting of the Young Farmers' (Tub of the Houtheru States was held In Mualc Hall at the State fair grounds lu Macon Ga., on Friday, October 24th, Preai ldent Robert E. Park, presiding. The orator of the occasion was Hon. Albert H. Cox, of Atlanta. TUB ADDRKSS OF MR. COX. Mr. President, Ladies and Gen tlemen—Twenty-five years ago I was paroled near this spot. Well do I remember how dear and deso late all things looked then. The gloom was universal. Mourning was on every door—nay, so deso lato was our laud that it had not crape for Its grief. The hand of in du-try knew not what to grasp. The mind of our men was at sea about policy, about the theu preseut and the future. Every heart was a broken heart. What contrast does this day pre- seuttotbat! Here lu the center of our state we behold trade decked in galacolors. In this, our central city, we behold such a trades’ dls- play, such gn exhibit of resouices, such products of art, industry, In vention aud agriculture as seldom salute the eyes of man. All is brightness and hope! The marble mountains of our State are being quarried; our coal runs a thousand* new furnaces. Our grauite paves the streets of cities and the cities of sister Ktates. Our Iron Is being rolled and mould ed into numberless useful shapes. The pine forests of the wlregrass are aiire with progress. Our eorn fields are russet lu abundant har vest, and our cotton, because of itB superior staple, and by the superior skill and Industry of our people, holds its own In successful produc tion against the cotton made by the coolie labor of India and Egypt. Our whole State rises in glorious fbcuperatlon. From the general country, as from a vast reservoir, our cities have prospered and grown. Our Capital City lias built herself beyond file breastworks which once defended her—has built herself beyond them in policy us well as material. Macon, our “Cen tral City," has risen up in might like a young giant “faciugthe ris ing and not the sutting sun," and all the trade centres of our State, by their constant aud wonderful advancement, prove the health and progress of the rural districts, upon whose prosperity their trade and prosperity does now nnd will always depend. Hurcly (some foreign mind might well reason), surely this marvelous recuperation has been aided in every direction by a wise and pa triotic government; surely this magic change could not have been effected save under the fairest of conditions; surely upon these har vests the sunshine and showers of beneflclent administrations have fallen. The nobler Is the honor to these people, the more astounding this rebuilding and advancement, when the real truth Is known that these strides have been takeu under every handicap which could have beeu placed upon our State. Glo rious, uud ever to be remembered, are those victories which our heroic aoldiery won against odds on the battlenulds of the "war betweeu the Stales"—but not less glorious and not against less odds lias this our victory of our peace; been won. What have beeu these odds? Brlelly let me state some of them, though time does not milllce for a complete analysis of them aud their obstinate effects. First, lu 1865, all our aqtleu!tural labor (save that of (he land owners themselves) was demoralized—was deluded into laziness hy false hopes which acted as bribes to Incapacity, unreliability and unrest. This damage to the land owner and the laborer was doubled in effect bjy the change of the laborer from a slave to a freed- mnn, and the incident excitement of his Ignorant and easily deluded mind. He was easily duped—and was duped into the belief that the white people here were his enemies; that distant people were his only friends, and that there was no ne cessity tor him to labor In order to Uve, to enjoy his liberty and to prosper. All this has been happily modi fied and In many cases completely changed. Our labor la orderly ex cept In local and exceptional In stances. The freedmen have made a Urge aggregate accumulation. Many of -them own homes and land. We are exempt from the disorder! and damages of strikes. Onr Increased crops demonstrate the industry of all onr people of all • This reorganization of a labor aytem bsa been effected by no legis lation. Ho theorist baa dona this - • service to the country. The farm ers of the South met this, the most delicate question of modern times, face to face, mail to man, day by day, In the fields and In the shops, and by their dally patience and tact and innate sense of Justice, they and they only In spite of the dlfilculties hindering the great work, have done|this signal service to their country, to the colored people, and to humanity. Another, aud next to the great est, odds against which our peopie have contended was the total de struction of all money circulating In the south at the close of the war. This was a confiscation,'not as plain to the eye, but more deleterious In fact, thau would have been the con fiscation of half the lands of our section. Juit as millions of wage earners were to be paid for work, every dollar which the landowners had with which to pay them, was puddeu'y destroyed. The signature of every southern state was stricken from its paper by the sword of power. We talk, and rlghtl» too, of the evils of contraction of tbo currency. The government should see to It that the business body of our coun try is properly supplied with a sound, a healthful aud sufllcleut currency, ofteu compared (aud most happily) to the blood of the human being, which, to perform its. duty, must be pure and strong aud sufficient for every vein and artery. As the blood ndapts Itself to cli- mute, so such a currency should be flexible—but only flexible enough as to volume to meet the uormal de mands of healthy trade, not flexi ble enough to produce uncertain ties, congestions aud fevers in busi ness, yet Inflexible in value—for money must be a standard—and It should never be forgotten that even small issue of bad money would frighten and drive into its vaults (its forts of de fense) all the good money of the land. But grave as is the pres ent necessity, It doeB not compare with the unfairness of that condi tion under which websgaintocllmb the difficulties to reach our present liight of comparative prosperity. All the expedients which could he suggested were tried to supply the universal deficiency. Laborers were paid part of crops, liens on growing cropB were given to mer chants, who themselves short of capital were taking exceptional risks In tbelr strain* to carry the business; and the high rates Inci dent to such risks and the only in surance against them, fell with crushing force upon the farmers of our section and upon the laborers In our fields. Plied on this oursectlon had to as sume, and without murmer did as sume, Its part of the gigantic ex penses Incurred by the general government In the overthrow of the separate nation which our States had striven to establish. Aud, too, as a bribe to the union soldier in the North our congress began shortly to run wild about pensions to the survivors of our civil conflict on the Northern side. Patriotism "has do parallel to the standpoint on this question. Cheer fully voting just pensions to the scarred maimed heroes who had been our foemen but who are uow our fellow citizens, we knew as we cast each vote that it meant mil lions per annum to be collected from tbo South and distributed only to the North. And yet—aud yet truth and honesty demanded 1 the declaration that the instant such a pensloq becomes a party proffer, it infamizes him who re ceives aud the hand that gives. Hut by all odds, as mountain to molehill, as Niagara to a tlp-spaut, stauds the high protective tariff as the enemy to the southern planter aud 'eborer, the great Incubus on their Industry, the persistent, never-Batlslied blood-sucker of their vitality. Southern cotton preserves the commercial inde pendence of the United States by preserving our balance In trade with Europe. But for the gold brought over by our cottou Amer ica would be annually short mil lions of dollars In her trade bal ance. Does American statesman ship favor this patriotic American export? Nay, while we are raising It In competition with coolie labor, In order (they faUely say) to pro tect other laborers competing with the skilled labor of Europe, we must endure the exactions of this extreme system. In other words, out of the wages of those who make eight to ten dollars per month ex actions must be reaped on every necessity in order that those may be protected who earn as much In half a week as our laborers earn In a month. In no wlae does this great export of our country re ceive a compensating benefit. Its price la fixed in foreign parts—fixed In competition with the lowest paid labor, and Jet the people who raise this export seem to be considered fit subjects of plunder by the country whose commercial Inde pendence ’largely depends on this chief product of this industry. There—right there, Is the great ene my of the American farmer. Let nothing divert your fearless gaze from the eyes of that inveterate and dangerous foe! Recounting those many and fearful odds wh ocan blame the farmers of the land for rising up,not In passlop but in pacific enthusiasm,to struggle for fair conditions for their indus try ? Recognizing that government at best is a burden to be borne for tbe sake of social safety, yet by un fair apportionment of these bur dens it becomes despotio and op pressive, and by a fair apportion rnent of them furnishes fair condi tions for tbe Industry of all Its peo pie. If, despite these odds, wo have prospered, to wbat a height might we not have climbed by now If our labors had been shone on and showered on by equal and fair ad ministrations? Apd what lathe ex. planation of this progress In spite of these ods? Why do we survive, why flourish and grow? Let the voice of experience answer to the ear of hope and confidence? Here Is a land blessed above oth er lands in soil and climate and health. For men <>f moderate moans no other country affords such fields for the reward of labor aud for theeujoymeut of the whole some luxuries of life. Around the humblest cottage of tbls state the poor mau’s hand can plant every beautiful vegetable aud every pal atable fruit. Purer water tban ours never quenches the thirst of man. More generous sun tban ours never painted color into flow er or lluug sweetness Into fruit, or gold upon grain. .With just enough cold to tone blood, with no more inclemency tban indoor work can utilize, the arm of the worker in Georgia need not be lowered any day tbe year round. Health is na tive here. In our borders epidem ics are unknown, and have been save upon the fringes of of our sea board wheuce the sanitary hand of patriotic and enterprising foresight have now for many a year driven the only spectral visitant from our shores. Our soil, naturally fertile, is easily reclaimed, responds with generous harvest to the touch of kindness, and if men butcher it, tbe Lord, with a second-growth forest, reclaims It to more than Iti pristine value before an infant can grow to liaudle an Inheritance. This blessed land Is inhabited aud controlled by a noble and well de scended people. They inherited industry from fathers who hewed their way through the wilderness. They inherited the aspirations of thrift from ancestors who built up fortunes In the country which they settled; they inherited high im pulses of patriotism from forefath- Ars who defied raonarcy aud estab lished this republic, Straight de scended from a sturdy Anglo-Sax on strain, with less cross-breed.ng than any other section of .this whole country; here Is the center of.the pure blooded English Ameri can. If the perpetuity of the old ooutlnental principles depends up on the blood of Sidney and Hamp ton here must be the center of that defense. If the Just development of these principles to befit the pro portions of perfected American government shall depend u(>on Sax on vigor ana English justice, sure ly we staud now where the flag of real liberty shall wave at last in Impregnable triumph, or where in her last breastworks that liberty shall make its last and Immortal struggle. To further luspire that Inherited and Indomitable blood has been addpd the example of our fore fathers. No southetn man can fail to be a patriot when be remembers that Washington was a Virginian. Butmore than this—as the Scot, though loyal to Victoria, remem bers liU own Bruce, the Brittain, though loyal to his queen, reveres hts own Cromwell, and Is each In spired by his hero, so out of the memories of our civil strife we are the worthier Americans, the surer to be heroes and the safer to be pa triots because we revere and honor our own Davis and Lee, our own eloquent Hill, our own dauntless Gordon. Our whole people have beeu enuobled by following in faith the best Inspirations of these noblest products of northern char acter, and they have ^been worthy of this land and competent to the great task of Its wonderful recuper ation. But something more was needed and will be necessarry. These peo ple have stood together in complete unity. While straggling upwards under heavy loads they have not pulled against each other. The discords of class against class, of center against circumference, • of ambition against ambition, have not been allowed to disturb tbe harmony by which every step of this mighty phalanx was timed. If some for self, and others for state, have diverged or thought of di verging from tbe great line of march, It has been on some local skirmish—but tbe unity of the main movement has not once been broken. History may search all other lands in all past times, but never find -a nobler theme for praise tliau this public virtue, uni versally exemplified, of these southern people. Khali it not be preserved? Is It not the dictate of profound wisdom tliut we struggle still together? If new thing* are proposed, shall not the i>ro|<oui)ders still recognize that conservatism is the most valuable virtue when new and untried pro jects are submitted? If all agree in general purposes, shall not all view with consideration aud con filiation such extra zeal as may be enlisted in the common cause And If in ultimate object, we are like interested and undivided, is it not wise to confer together, rather than conflict about mere ways aud means? There can be no essential differ ence nere justifying the peril of deatructlon of southern unity Here there are no millionaires and no paupers. Here are prosperous land owners, and well fed, well treated and o'derly laborers. Here are no plutocrats or autocrats—all here are democrats—aud there is uo class against class in our midst Here there eaji he uo real con lllct between the city and the country. The country supports the eity hy its trade, aud the city might as woll be an enemy to its own reservoir of water as an enemy lu Its own reservoir of commerce Tbe city, ou the other hand, js a depot for the convenience of the country, to which the people can go when they will to get what they want. The city gets more trade when the country prospers, and the country can get more accom modations when the city prospers, No, no! there Is uo necessity for dissension in our midst. By our unity we are improving under un fair conditions. By united efforts we will struggle for fair conditions, and all prosper the more. «Vnd whether we gain our equal rights soon or late, let no man despair or deem desperate measures needed. The duy is not distant when grass will take Its proper place on the Georgia farm. When more grass will mean more eattle and more stock—home- raised cattle and stock—aud this means more compost, and less out lay and more product to the acre age, and then smaller farms and population, with school houses lu every neighborhood and enough children near by to fill them ; and then our mining, manu facturing and agricultural people will strideto prosperity aud power with triple speed; aud then our sparsely settled states being peo pled and equalized with the states North (already full to overflowing), there will be a complete equaliza tion of rights, resulting from equal powers, and sectionalism will die and be buried, and all the people of our noble and great country will be equal under tlie laws of liberty, Tlte prayer of all the patriotism I claim and of all the ambition I have will have been answered If I can but live to see what I believe to be the certain, the sure, the hap py future of my state, and her peo ple, of nty country and all the peo ple in It. E XECUT SIBMV£v MTFR * OCNTY. before the court home door hi the city of AmericuH, (}»., Haul county, «n the first Tuemtay in December next, tbo following deNcribed real entntc, to-wlt: Fifteen hu idred (IfliiO) acre* of land, more r Ichm, Hltuuied In Terrell County, v»a., twelve miles HoutheiiNt of Duwhoii, ami eleven tnlies north of Albany, and located early tuvan»idde w'tb the CoIuuiImis nithern rut I road, nnd known n* the old M. iv. Taylor plantation. Four huudr-*d and five (UV>) hutch, more or less, shunted In l**e County, (in , one-half mile fruit Southwestern railroad, live miles from Leesburg, said county. Two hundred, twos ml a half (202,4) acres situated In Nnmter County. Da., two rnllex from Amlersonville, known hu the Me Corkle place ninety, (UO) acres, more or less, In the town of Andersonvllle, uimI known as the IHinelry place ** ur hundred and seventy-five (47*>) acres the New 2tith District of Sumter county, ad joining lands of W. M. Kidd and others. Thirty (:I0) acres, tim e or less, one mile a* ,| u quur er from the city of \inericus, adjoining lands of Mis. Hartley l'atker, Mrs. Htanford and others. Two houses and lots tu the suburbs of the city of * tnerlcus, north of the court house. All of the above property sold us the es tate ot the late Harney Parker, deceased, for the purpose of distribution among the heirs of said estate. MALIHHA PARKER. Executrix. J.C. PARKER,Executor, New • Quarters, Stoves, Stoves, The cheapest and most varied assortment of (Ming Stoves, Ranges and Office Heaters, G-AS FIXTURES. IX THE CITY. just‘received, a large lot of Fiovsrer Pots and Grates! Call early ami Inspect our goods. A. large lot of hardware ordered and will soon be in. Plumbing and Repair Work Our Specialty CALL SEE TT3‘ Harris & Payne, Artesian Block. - TelephoneJNo, 12’ AMERICI r 3, GA. For Sale. 050 acres—One of the ’most desirable homes and farma In tho vicinity of Atneri* eus.tt mllcHfrom Americua Healthful local Ity, good Improvements, church and school privileges convenient. Rents this year for 24 bales of cotton, besides a four-horse farm reserved, on which the owner says he will make this year about :J5 bales or cotton and l^UU bushels of coru. Lands mostly level and easily cultivated; with a railroad flag station on 8. and W. rr" * ••*-—*- of the moat—If not th farma near Amerlcus. ept7-tf. . CANCER CURE. Mr.O. J. Cannon's Cancer Cure le truly the King of blood partners. His months since 1 woe taken with a moot severe aiuok Of while .welling, and after Inking two botttee 1 find myself almost well, * „ „ J.C. HOOKM, M. D. For Sale at Wholesale and Retail by D. F. Davenport, Druggist, Amerlcus, (la. Notice to Subscribers. All those who subscribed to the Houth* west Alliance Manufacturing Company, (Cotton Bagging Factory) will pleuecome forward and pay the same. It Is now due C.B.BEIO, Bee. and Treat. O.B.r. 200 to 400 Founds. We wan* every man weighing from I’W to 300 pounds to know that nur “Stouts and Extra Size” Suits, Pants and Overcoats will fit von like order garments, cost much less wear just as well and win von over in the wnv <>f bringing your fellow sufferers to us. SPECIAL SIZES known as “LONGS” for tall men rhe right length of Sleeves, length of Wnlst aud Skirt to Frock Coats lensrtii of Pants and general proportioning just pleases our LENGTHY friends. Regular men, of I'lmrse, we can fit to the "Queen’sTaste." Did you ever try JOHN R. SHAW uud didn’t get fitted? If you did it was "a long time ago.’’ SUITS MADE TO ORDER. We represent First-class New York and Baltimore Houses. SAMPLES NOW READY. Measures Takeh and Perfect Fits Guaranteed—NO HT—NO SALE JOHN R. SHAW. Th® Champion” Clothier of S, W. George -CALL AND SEE- T CT_ W- 3VEXZEI, At his new quarters on Cotton Avenue, under Hawkins House He keeps the finest Wines, Whiskies. Cigars, Etc., Etc. in town. Ho always has on tap kegs of tho Famous Cook. Boor. , The BEST Beer ever sold In Amerlcus. Fancy Drinks at Lowest Living Prices I Ho keeps nothing but flrst-elaas goods, and don’t oharge fancy prices far them. GIVE ME A CALL. BUILDERS’ SUPPLY CO. HOUSES FOR! RENT AND SALE ON THE INSTALL- WENT PLAN, lOl.NTowJxrAuao* Now IRoady, Xfiuuber sold’on Installsmta. Vacant!