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Barrett Warns Farmers
Against Monopoly Farms.
Special Letter to Montgomery Monitor.
To the Officers and Members of
the Farmers’Union: p
From the first moment that I
was entrusted with the presiden
cy of this great organization, it
has always been my effort to
avoid the note of the alarmist or
the sensationalist.
But the time is come to speak
plainly regarding a matter that
is of the first importance not on
ly to the farmers of the South,
but as well to the business and
the people of the South generally.
It has not escaped the attention
of the more thoughful that an
English syndicate recently ac
quired a large acreage of fine
cotton lands in one of the central
southern states.
The tacit purpose is to produce
cotton on these lands for Eng
lish spinners, thus avoiding de
pendence upon the southern cot
ton farmer.
If this were just one instance,
it need not occasion concern.
But it has come to my atten
tion that similar negotiations
are on foot in other portions of
the cotton belt.
What is more significant, I am
also informed that foreign spin
ners generally are contemplating
the advisability of buying large
tracts in the southern states, and
produce their own staple.
Os course, in each one of these |
cases the most scientific methods
will be employed, as much cotton
will be raised to the acre as the
specialist can extort, rotation
and fertilization will be used to
retain the richness of the soil,
and the latest improved farm
machinery will be on the pro
gram.
We cannot censure foreign
spinners for projecting this
movement. It is simply a busi
ness proposition with them.
It should also be a business
proposition with the south to
take cognizance of a movement
that may throw the balance of
power in our socalled “monopoly”
of cotton into the hands of for
eigners.
And such is the inevitable con
clution of the policy under de
bate by English and Continental
spinners.
The meaning of such a develop
ment is plain.
Hundreds upon thousands of
southern farmers would be com
pelled to compete upon the open
market with a product raised by |
the buyers upon our own soil
and by the most improved meth
ods.
The demand for native-grown
cotton would dwindle as these
foreign-owned farms came into
their full productiveness.
Prices might, probably would,
be controlled by mill interests as
absolutely as they used to be
controlled by cotton exchange
operators before the days of the
Farmers’ Union.
The penalty would not be con
fined to the farmer.
It would be visited in a greater
or less degree upon every busi
ness in the southern states, since
southern business and cotton are, ;
as yet, inseparable financial fac
tors.
The stream of gold now com
ing into the South each year
from Europe would be lessened.
Cotton, which is now one of the
country’s greatest reliances for
preserving the international bal
ance on the right side, would
lose much of its vitality in that
direction.
I am speaking temperately, be
cause this menace is yet no larger
than a man’s hand. We can
avert it, and we must go about
the task without delay.
Conditions under a general in
vasion of foreign land-buyers
would be disastrous. The ab
sentee landlordism that is mak
ing life such a struggle in Eng
land, and more of a struggle in
Ireland, might be reproduced on
a proportionate scale in this coun
try.
The one way is for Southern'
farmers to acquire their own
acres and, what is of equal im- '
portance to use upon them the,
most scientific of cultural moth-;
ods. It is a case of fighting the!
devil with fire.
We may as well face the truth
now as later. And the truth that
cotton growing in the South will
not reach a genuine business basis
until every farmer makes every
acre return • its maximum, until t
he reduces the cost of produc- 1 (
tion to a minimum and raises his
own food products. * j.
You may ask how this is to be,
done when hundreds of thous-! :
ands of farmers do not own their
own farms, or are under obliga- ,
tions to landlords.
We can, first, help ourselves. :
We can do that by sacrificing. ,
pinching and scraping, until alii
of us get out of debt and accumu- j
I late enough to make first pay-j
ments upon farms.
We can, next, reinforce this;
policy by utilizing scientific'
methods, and all the help we can I
get from the Farmers’ Union
lecturers, and government agents
and state and federal agricultu
ral departments and experiment
stations. Hand in hand with
this should go scientific market
ing and distribution under co
| operative auspices.
In this battle with a problem
i
that is going to grow in a geo
metrical ratio, the aid of the sou-1
them business man is needed. I
The banker, the merchant and
the capitalist will find it to his
ultimate interest to co-operate to j
the end of enabling the farmer!
to own his own acres, and fur
jther, to take scientific agricul
ture to him in the most practical
form. He should likewise en--i
courage the farmer to co-operate
with his fellows.
In this matter, as in every
other that goes to bedrock, we
are all in the same boat.
Providence has given to us
what amounts to a world-mono
ply, or control of cotton produc
tion.
To hold the control, we must
meet world-wide conditions in the
proper way.
It is equally to the interest of j
the richest and poorest man in
the South to see that the farmer
owns his acres and that he uses
upon them the most modern and
intensive methods.
We shall take this issue up at
the next national convention. In ;
the meantime every class of bus- j
. iness men in the south should be
analyzing the situation and its
grave* meaning.
Chas. S. Barrett
Union City, Ga., May Ist., 1911.
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GEORGIA EDUCATORS
ELECT NEW OFFCERS,
Macon, Ga., April 20. The
closing session of the convention j
of the Georgia Education asso-’
ciation was held at the city au
ditorum this afternoon, when 1
the following officers were elect
; ed for the ensuing-year:
K. G. Matheson, Atlanta, pre
sident: H. G. Miller, Americus,
first vice president; Miss Florence!
J Bernd, Macon, second vice pre
, sident; C. L. Smith, LaGrange,
• secretary, and T. K. Pollhill,
- Hawkinsville, treasurer. The
I board of trustees is as follows:
K. G. Matheson, Atlanta; Jere
M. Pound, Barnesville,chairman;
r Lawton B. Evans, Augusta, K.
1 B. Daniel, Columbus; Otis Ash
t more. Savannah. The new
board of directors are: K. G.
Matheson, Atlanta; C. L. Smith,
4 LaGrange; T. G. Pollhill, Haw
kinsville: Ralph Newton, Bruns
wick: K. T, Alfriend, Macon; A.
G. Miller, Americus, and M. L.
( Brittain, Atla?ita.
The next meeting of the asso
. ciation will be heid at Cumber
land Island.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY,- MAY 1 1911.
AINSWORTH QUITS
WESLEYAN COLLEGE.
Macon. Ga., April 30. Rev.
W. N. Ainsworth, one of the
ablest and best-known Methodist
ministers of the south, has re- j
signed the presidency of Wesley- j
an college, which he has held for
the last two years.
The announcement, made to
day by him created quite a sen
sation in local church and educa
tional circles, as it was wholly
unexpected. The resignation is
to take effect at the expiration
of the present scholastic term, j
ending in June.
President Ainsworth’s letter
of resignation was mailed Satur
day night to Colonel Isaac Harde
man, chairman of the board of
trustees. In it he states that he
is anxious “to turn to his chosen ;
life’s work at the earliest pos- •
sible moment;” that is, to re-en-,
gage in the ministry. He hits
held the leading pulpits in the
south during the last twenty
years.
Since his connection with Wes
leyan college. President Ains
worth has succeeded in raising
$260,000 of a proposed $300,000
endowment fund, and has en
larged the capacity and scope of
the institution in many particu
lars.
A meeting of the board of
trustees will be held on the 1 last
Friday in May, when Dr. Ains
worth’s resignation will be acted
upon and his successor probably
chosen. It is believed that l)r.
Ainsworth will return to the
south Georgia conference.
COOPER KILLED BY
DICK ROWLAND,
Dublin, Ga., April 30. Dan
Cooper, engineer at the Dublin
mill of the Southern Cotton Oil
Company, died this afternoon
from the affects of a blow on the
right temple inflicted last night,
about 10 o’clock by Dick Row
land, the 18-year-old son of Dep
uty Sheriff d. W. Rowland. Row
land is in jail.
Rowland claims that Cooper
cursed and kicked him, and that
he picked up a clod of dirt and
threw at him. Cooper lost rmi
sciousness immediately after be
ing struck, and never regained
i his senses. He was operated j
! upon at a local sanitarium today, j
Cooper was from Social Cir- j
cle, and his body was shipped}
'there for interment. He had;
been here only since January. I
He came to Dublin from War
renton, Ga. He had no relatives;
here.
The blow evidently was given;
with some heavy and blunt in
strument. The skin was not
,broken.
BANKRUPTCY NOTICE.
i Distric Court of the United States, j
Eastern Division, Southern
District of Georgia. In Bank-j
ruptcy.
I Notice of application for dis
j charge in Bankruptcy in the mat
ter of T. A. W. Rowland bank
rupt, County of Montgomery,!
Georgia.
To the creditors of the above
; named bankrupt: You an.* here- 1
by notified that the above men
jtioned banrupt has filed hisap- i
■ plication for a discharge from j
all the debts provable in bank-;
'ruptcy against the said T. A. W. :
Rowland.
The said application will be
heard by the Hon. Emory Speer,
Judge of the United States Court
for said division and district, at;
| the United States Court House,!
lat Savannah on the 30th day of
May, 1911.
All creditors of said bankrupt
are notified to appear at the time
and place stated, and show' cause, ;
if any they can, why the prayer
contained in said petition should
not be granted.
Dated at Savannah, Georgia,
this Ist day of May, 1911.
T. F. Johnson, Clerk.
j If you take a deed, you w'ant
I the correct form. It can be had
from this office. New supply
just printed.
WRECK ON COASTLINE.
Tampa, Fla., April 30. Walter
Hagens, of Chicago, was killed
and T. F. Cook, baggage master,
was fatally injured when Coast
Line train No. 30. from Jackson
ville to Tampa, was wrecked near
Odessa.
Twelve passengers were in
jured.
The wreck was due to spread
ing rails. The tender, baggage
coach and express car turned
over, the engine and other
coaches remaining upright, al
though derailed.
Hagens, who was but 12 years
of age, was in the baggage car
at the time, feeding a pet dog.
When the car turned over he fell
out of an open door and his head
was crushed. Baggagemaster
Cook was injured in trying to
save the lad. Hagens is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. A. 1,. Johnson,
of Chicago, who own eonsidrable
property at Largo.
Os the passengers injured none
are considered serious. A. L.
Briekman, of Birmingham, had a
leg broken. A relief train was
sent out from Tarpon Springs.
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