The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, May 04, 1911, Image 5
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. i 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. Do You Have Headache **‘*f\/TAKE ONE j V' JT OF THESE ,w TABLETS *' " ■” AND THE PAIN IS GONE. “My first experience with Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills was a sample package handed me. They relieved the pain so promptly that I have never been without them since. I have given them to many friends when they had head ache and they never failed to relieve them. I have suffered with neuralgia in my head, and the first one I took re lieved me. They have cured me of neuralgia. I would not he without them.” MISS LILLIE B. 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