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A JOURNALDEVOTEDTO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY.
VOL. XIV.
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
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purity, Rtrenjftn am! \vln>U*«oimM»eßß. More !
economical than lli«* ordinary kinds, and
cap not he sold in competition with the inul- !
titude of low test, short weight alum or!
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
Royal Haki.no I\»wi»ku Co., MN> Wall street,
New York*, novld-ly
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AND
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H prepared to manufacture Engine Roil- j
era ; will take orders for all khi'ls ot Roil- .
crs. We are prepared to do all kinds ot
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Maohin- |
ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass j
fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam GuagesJ
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Tron and Brass 4
Castings of everv Description.
ONKOUN Jk WALCOTT.
PROFESSIONAL VA IU)S.
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MeDonoroh (* a .
Any one desiring work done can he ae
roinmodated either hy calling on me in per
.on or addressing me through the moils.
Perm* rash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made,
fi KO W. Buy an j W.T. Dickkn.
Hit VA > A IMCKEA,
attorneys at law.
McDonocoii, t ■ a .
practice in the counties composing
v ‘ i | mlicial Circuit, the Supreme Court,
■hie FliD- j (hc ITpited States District
iifUeorfjia. a pr27-ly
Court.
j ,s li.
ATmfflrVvnaw.
Ml Dono. ; tieg composing
Will prance the ttourt of
lithe Flint Circuit, the L states District
Georgia, and the United ‘
Court. mar . - J
p A. kkawani,
J ‘ a ttorney AT I.AW,
«li Ui*. llwuil't s ol
Will practice in * ft , flllf
Special attention givT" . the OmwU
other collections. Will a ■ over
at Hampton regularly. Olhi r
Wkkkly office. , _
f \ WALL,
*' vf-'XOUNI'IY AT LAW,
MnDoNomiH, Ga .
'efwirt ,‘n the counties composing I lie
Willpr.. ' Cise,pit, anil the Supreme and
Ffint Judieiit. Prompt attention
District Courts o * oct.s-'7ll
given to collections. — —
W. A K,to ' v> , w
ATTORNEY AT L.i ’’
McDovoi’on, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties coi,
ing III? Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly |
fj a. nix.
1 * ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hamiton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ot the
United Stales. Special anil prompt atten
tiongivento Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jso. D. Stkwart. j lI.T. Danikl.
STEWART A 1> VYI 111.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Gaums, Ga.
||R. K. .1. ARNOLD.
H ami-ton. Ga.
I hereby tender my professional service to
the people of Hamptod and surrounding
country. Will attend all calls night and
day.
j 01l > «- T»T.
attorney at law.
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta. Ga,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts.
For Nnle or Kent.
■\~lfE have a splendid farm of lKli acres
\\ lying 4 miles from Stockloidge, Ga.,
near Flat Kock,known as the Nancy E.
Crumbly! place, for -itl-- or rent. Wilt sill
for $1,200. one tenth eath. and the Balance
in ten equal annual installments, inter
est on deferred payments, payable annually:
or will rent for third and fourth to good
parties. Apply at once to C.M. Si-ill,
McDonough.Ga.
>uti< t: ro ittiitioßH.
All persons indebted to Dr. .1 C. Tt-rnip
seed, late dee. used, will take notice that a!!
the notes and accounts due him are placed
in our hands lor collect *on, ami unless set
tlements aie made at once, we will l»e com
pelled to institute legal proceedings for col
lection. BRYAN A DiCKEJi.
THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
r pDeunuirk. aha riyveden pay out $lO to our
x and '.France, nearly SIOO to our sl, and
> (freely and .promptly. Let us ask
do .rights, .equal privileges and
for a _ S&^ion;”—.West Chester (Pa.)
equal i 'strife?! 1 Record.
Cor. Philo*. wer—
AS*'
The Foi 'afcigai tersely .express
[ Ex-Governor Lari. n jren.;uked:
j ed the situation win SOB' g Ljjs.hel,
| “With corn at fourteen c 'tkw ffcjgb
the farmers of lowa are not t.
j tariff to any extent.” 'va a
•, C'°ri) raising in lowa is not alw. 't
"sinful occupation. It cost severaLm
j- ol a dollars more to raise last year’serop
.. 4 't fetched upon the market. There
is no re- n wlly “V lowa congressman
should voU ,bo ? ntie9 to ,l<>n-sclf-3ustnin
ing industrie. ' the . state-like
the- sugar and s ind.mtnes
aud not proixrse . to conl
or beef raising among his own ,
constituents. The <*■“" °j„. lowf
however; would be pci willing to
forego the voting of t anhe , H t,J ald
them if they could lie allo\ i /> ''-‘'ChP*-'
taxation for the benefit of thi ''fii»w lUt -' v _
turersof the east. The right to
sell in the markets of the work j
they want.—N. B. Ashby, Lecture ! Fa*-
mere’ Alliance.
A Farmer’s Statement.
A western farmer, quoted by 'The,
Kingston Whig, has been showing W» |
the yeoman is handicapped in the i ■* ce
for prosperity, and puts it in this w *>&■'■
“His candle is burning at both ends. Be
loses 20 per cent, on nearly all he p •se
duces and sells, and pays 30 per cent, ai *d ,
upwards on all he buys. You will east, V
see that it is impossible for the farmer t- » j
prosper under the present condition ot 1
things and fight against the odds of 50 r
per cent., and it is not easily understood 1
how the farmer submits to this heavy
taxation without a grumble. For he
mutt*know that this national policy is
continual leakage, going on every day of
the year. There is no doubt but tlie
manufacturers and combinesters are •
making money out of the national policy,
but out of whom do they make it? Th< »|
farmer is the man who has to foot th j
bill and bear the heavy burden.”
A New York ConjreMman’it Views.
1 Mr. Flower said, in the committee on
ways and means, that the farmer woi rid
do well to manage his domestic aff (iis
without government interference. fire
currency system of the present was
■wrong. The government had not n tin
aged it piroperly and could not do so. , It
had taken from the states the rig At to
issue currency, although it was its* if n®
judge of the needs of the people, The
states and their people were th* lAbest
judges.—Washington Star.
PENNSYLVANIA FARMERS.
A Demand for Kqual liighta, hqual Priv
ileges and Kqual Taxation.
John I. Carter is one of the best known
and highly respected farmers of Chester
connty, aud the paper read by him on
“Unequal Taxation a Burden to the
Farmer,” before tho last meeting of the
West Grove, Chester .county. Farmers’
club, has set the husbaudinen of the
county to thinking. Among other things
he said: “The depressed condition of
farming warns us to stop all the little
leaks and bids uSjto be just to ourselves
before we too generously shoulder more
than our share of the public burdens.
As honorable farmers, we do not object
to paying a fair share of tho espouses of
running the government, but justice and
equal rights demand that it be a fair and
equal share only.
- "The whole Vend of the legislation of
our country, both state and national, is
in the direction of conferring more power
to moneyed interests as against the mid-
dle or poorer classes, as evinced by tho
influences supporting our present high
tariff and other forms of legislation, con
tracting our currency and driving three
fifths of the whole wealth of 00,000,000
people into the hands of a few thousands.
All this kindred legislation springs from
the same motives.
“Now let us see how unequally this
taxation wears upon the people of the
commonwealth. The whole value of
real estate in Pennsylvania is, in round
numbers, $1,800,000,000, while the per
sonal property, as far as we can get at it,
is about 12,000,000,000, one and a half
times as much as the real estate value.
The whole amount of taxes paid in this
state for the support of state and local
government is about $40,000,000.
“Real estate pays $33,000,000 of this
sum. Various corporations, etc.., pay
$4,000,000, while licenses, inheritance
tax, money, etc., pay $1,000,000. Re
membering that the value of the proper
ty paying this $7,000,000 was one and a
half times more than the value of real
estate, which is mainly farms, you will
see the glaring disproportion in the two
levies. Now, where .is the justice in
such taxation as this? Then again, look
at the character of these two classes of
property as regards their returns of
profit. A late valuation of the Pennsyl
vania railroad gives it as being worth
$200,000,000, with net receipts of $13,-
000,000. Other railroads in the state
pay as high as 81 i>er cent, on their
stock. And this is not all. The Penn
sylvania railroad bought property of the
state worth millions of dollars for a very
insignificant sum—and which, by the
way, it has never paid for; and it has
also received of the state privileges of
immense and peculiar value.
“We pay inspectors of coal mines $48,-
000; for coal field hospital for miners,
$37,000; for the geographical survey,
$22,000; for the University of Pennsyl
vania and other medical institutional not
including public hospitals, $40,250. Com
pare these with the purely agricultural
appropriations and see how we stand.
For State Board of Agriculture, $10,250.
Here we have $158,803 paid in tho direct
interest of miners and doctors, as against
$10,250 to tho fanning interest. I need
hardly ask you to compare the number
or importance of these two desses, A
<Hauce shows tho folly and stupidity of
the croakers who olHect to asking state
in carrying out objects likely to
■benefit agriculture.
1 “Why, the benighted countries ot
‘Europe «,;•) far ahead of us in fostering
[farming |ty governmental assistance.
McDonough, ga.. Friday, junk ia, ihdo.
Gen. Rutler*n Statlatfes.
A. P. s Morey, of Sedalia, Mo., in a
communication to The Boston Journal,
takes issue with Gen. Butler's remarks
before the Butler club. Referring to
the general’s assertion that tho farmers
could not, if they would, pay the mort
gages on their properties, Mr. Morey
gays:
“If Gen. Butler refers to tho so called
arid region west of the 100th -meridian,
his criticisms may be to some extent
just, but it is obviously unfair, nay,
even libelous upon the thrifty fanners of
Missouri, lowa, eastern Kansas and Ne
braska to make the sweeping assertion
above quoted that their mortgages will
never be paid.
“Imagine the feelings with which the
many ancient dowagers and spinsters of
Massachusetts, who have their few hun
dreds of savings in western farm loans,
read Gen. Butler’s “SpScK. "How many
sleepless nights and gloomy days has he
caused the thrifty and frugal New Eng
lander folk by bis rash utterances? The
real fact is that, aside from mortgages
for purchase money of land, and also
leaving out the naturally unthrifty peo
ple who would fail iti everything else as
well as farming, and everywhere else as
well as in the west, the largo majority
of mortgaged fanners within the sections
alluded to above have enough, or more
than enough, personal property around
them to pay every dollar they owe.
“I will give him some practical facts
which can be easily proven. There is a
loan agency in Pettis county, Mo., loan
ing tho funds of private persons in the
eastern states, which hae been in busi
ness for nine years. It Ims made .in that
county alone 885 farm loans, mostly for
five years, with tho privilege to the bor
rower of prior payment. One hundred
and twelve of these loans have lieen jiuid,
most of them at maturity, some before,
and not by renewals or reborrowing, but
a full payment and entire release of the
mortgaged property, and not one is now
past due.”
Tho GenltiH of the Ago.
By education from iny youth up, by
personal interest aud by every consider
ation of the welfare of our people my
sympathies are deeply enlisted in all the
high purposes sought to be accomplished 1
by the Farmers’ Alliance. I rejoice that j
the genius of the age—the genius of or-
ganized co-operative effort—has at last
possessed, aroused and (impelled to action
the great body of the‘tillers of the soil.
With wise counsels to guide them to
conservative action:*with full repogni- i
tion of the rights oft others, but uncom
promising resistance to wrongs upon
themselves; with relentless opposition to
legislative or congressional discrimina
tion in every phase or form, whether dis
crimination bo against landed interest! l
through pet banking systems, or against
the masses of the people through un
equal taxation, uncontrolled* corpora
tions and monopolies, or iniquitous finan
cial policies. By unitedly combating
all these governmental partialities aqd
special privileges the success of tliit
great movement by tho brotherhixid oi
farmers will be doubly assured, and that
success will bring not only to the farm
ing classes, hut to the toiling masses ot
tho people, sjieedy and substantial re
lief, and inaugurate an era of prosiierity j
never known before in the history oi!
this republic, —Governor (Jordon, oi l
Georgia. •
Farm Mortgage* in Six States.
The Banker’s Monthly, which surely
would not over estimate the matter, in
speaking of the farm mortgages in six of
our liest states, gives the amount carried
by each us follows: Kansas, $235,000,000
Indiana. $645,000,000; lowa, $.507,000,000:
Michigan, $500,000,000; Wisconsin, $357,-
J 00,000; Ohio, $1,127,000,000. Here art
mortgages on the farms of only six states
aggregating $3,431,000,000, the interest
on which at 0 per cent, amounts to over
$205,000,000. Now the whole production
of gold .and .silver in the United States
per year is not half enough to pay the
interest on the farm mortgages of six
states. And yet these same bankers are
demanding the destruction of treasury
lakes, the demonetization of silver and
ho establishing of a goU standard. Nor
i. the bankers alone in this demand;
are 'Sg politicians are trying to bring
the be 'same state of affairs,—Pacific
about the 'thuid, Ore.
Express, To. > 1
‘ tb*> Faruier,
Facts foi 'nation a few facts
I beg leave to m ’t the people were
through your paper, a. '« their present
more conversant with fac. -t lust long,
depressed condition couhl n*. '-♦niul that
First*—lt is law and not rax. 'nine of
makes money. Second —The vo. -,
mouev in actual circulation alwaj
s*.l .Hahns the price of all coinmoditk
Third— I There was absolutely no occa-
sion, fort he government to issue a single
bond. Fourth— The national banks are
an institution originated for the express
purpose of making the rich richer and
the poor poorer. Fifth —The railroads
are now paying* interest and dividends
on waterod shx-fcio the- amount of three
tunes the actual cost of'the roads. Sixth
l The tariff liaa notliing-whatover to do
v,*fh .fcstabtisßiiig the price of labor.
The ah o '’® propositions can be fully de
monstrated and are the questions of the
q a y, Noah Risley in Chicago Express.
With Ki«eptluns.
•\Ve have before remarked that legisla
ture i and ptfitlcal parties never inaugu
rate v iseful reforms, and they never do
anvtht ng for the general good till com
nelled 1 > dIJ so. When the voice of the
Lo.de ia 80 loud and so authoritative
tLt itou-uot bn! be heard and obeyed,
1 then the K-g 'slalom a™ * U *“ d
tin guess to a* ,rve the people.-Colorado
Farmer. _ -
The federal re> ort for May shows that
t-rops will make "f at lea 6“
percent -this year: The decline would
kuve tjeerq greater bad pot the recupera-
Us.tt.from .the effecbAot an unfavorable
j gjanug lx-eil\ unusuallyaithong.
The New Work Bun.contiaaes to call
mfMbem of ftie Potmen’
1 aeedySocauUsta,” and
, against “wealdyXyielding UMbeir clam
or." _
LOANS TO THE FARMERS.
jtMWtiir Stanford*. K.|ilaiiaUoii of 111. '
Now l''lnaiiclul I'iilirj.
Tho power of the government to create
money is conceded, and its value is the
same whether metal or jiaper. The im
portant point is that it should bo stamped
by a government whose credit is unitn- ■
peachablo and which has the power of
making money.
The next imjKirtant consideration is:
How can the government without in
jury to itself place the money in circula
tion. That can lie accomplish' d by tak
ing agricultural lands as security uptfii
the terms prescribed in tho bill. No pres
sure for redemption can lx|brought to
bear, as only those who are ready to have
their mortgages released oeu make a
claim on the government. The govern
ment loans its credit bythc y>"rividual in
order thut the whole people may have a
sufficiency of money with which to pros
ecute their business. Tho money issued
under the provisions of tho bill shall be
legal tender for all debts, public mid pri
vate, except interest on the national debt
and redemption of national notes. There
is no analogy between this scheme and
any other financial proposition that was
ever suggested.
We can all well understand the great
advantages to the people at this time of
a loan made by the government of 00 jxt
cent, upon its own securities. One hun
dred thousand ilollm-s of government
bonds at 4 per cent, only produces $4,000,
yet, when its value lieeomos energized to
the extent of 00 per cent, (which the gov
ernment advances), tho power js so in
creased that the SOO,OOO, in its activity,
may in tho course of a year double its
value and pass from hand to hand many
times, stimulating the varions industries
of the country. So, too, this bill will
have a corresponding energizing effect.
The money issued is not intended to ac
commodate the farmer alone, but, as it
comes into circulation, it will put the
means of prosperity within the reach at
those who are engaged in tho smaller
and larger industries of tho country.
This money issued by the government
becomes automatic. It will contract
when there iB less use for it, and expand
when there is a greater demand. Thus
disastrous final contraction will cease to
be possible.
The rate of interest proposed—2 js>r
cent. —is fixed for good reasons. No
funner will borrow unless he needs the
money, and when he ceases to have use
for it will return it. But this will sel
dom occur, for money borrowed of the
government at 2 jier cent, can readily
find use at higher rates in other inter
ests, and thus the farmer will lie bene
fited. A 6 per cent, interest is a burden
that the farmer cannot well l>ear, while,
owing to the activities of business, the
merchunt finds it a reasi .liable rate to
pay. Tho valuo of money lies in its ac
tivities.
This plan of loaning money upon land
at 2 percent., with the privilege to the
borrower of returning it \shon lie has no
use for it, creates a moneyed system that
will me-it financial expansion and con
traction as they may occur without in
convenience to any. Under its provis
ions, the real estate of the country being
to vast, there will always Be the pissi
bility of obtaining the money necessary
to carry on the enterprise.- of tu coun
try, and when there i i no fun her use for
the money the borrower stops paying in
terest and takes up the mortgage upon
his farm.
The bill, while not perfect, provides
fairly with the machinery to carry out
its design*. It adopted, with such
amendments as shall seem wise to con
gress, it will largely increase the pros
perity of the humblest classes in labor,
and assist the wealthier to suceies in
their enterprises. The bill provides for
what may, perhaje, not iiapro[M-rly be
termed a revolution in finance, and I do
not expect that it will he adopted until
it bus l*een fully considered by the peo
ple and has met with their approv;il.—
Senator Stanford’s S[>eech in the Senate
Anxtouft Ofll<‘*‘liol<ler*.
Congressmen from several of the
southern and western states are very
much exercised "over the political situa
tion. The cause of their anxiety is
found in the .organization known as the
Farmers' National Alliance. It has a
very large membership In the cotton and
wheat growing states. Its objects are
such us can be gained only by legisla
tion. It is, therefore, to that extent a
political, though it is not a party, organ
ization. So far it professes an intention j
of aiding within tlie linos of the two
regular parties. Of course, if they fail
to gain their 'purpise in that way they
reserve to themselves the right to enter I
tho field as a sejsirato political party.—
Critic,
In Nebraska.
matters tho farmers want
, , Ktafe 11 Vi will enforce the laws
local officer, w txxiks, and a leg
alrcady on the sta- 0th ,,. ( t<)
isiaturo which will . , io:i u . tortiollß .
toct them from < orpo. .. Wtherto
Adherence to party b , .
failed to give them either, r. . *
quite at lilierty to l*><’k out f"* \
selves. The farmers might not. V*r
haps, be able to organize a neW par.r
sufficiently disciplined U> V Hl ‘-' •
state, but they certainly h' : U
ance of jx>wt*r, and cau
whicli ever party they vote with.-
Omaha World-Herald.
Mr. Macune, of the Farmers’ Alliance,
says, concerning the snb-trcasurv uiea -
are before congress, tluit the National
Alliance hud not sent out a single print
ed petition, and tliat those Jietiturns and
demands now pouring in upon congress
were the sjoutaneoui* offerings of the
fanners of the United States, who Wire
convinced that they knew what they
wante<l and were going to have it.
The tsutli about the hiirbandumn is
the saddest tlmhriq b;- told of an Ameri
can citizen. Tax ridden, oppress- i. the
victim of federal laws enacted lor the
enrichment of favored manufacturers,
tff? faruuLT is WIT)') n -» 0,1 a bu--.iia s
which everj- year plm*g<* M"! more deep
ly in debt. —New York ft oH*i
SI.OO CASH, $1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT.
Down witii l!to CoiubtnuH.
lor a number of years past the oue
great cry which has gone up from the
hearts of the millions has been “D>\vn
with tho combines." But tho combines
have not downed. Throughout this
Wood land, the land of energy, of entor
pii ic, of industry an l of thrift, we have
been t 11 times out of number that the
rich were growing richer ami tho jxior
poorer (.very hour of the day, every
month in the year, and every year, and
the progress gix*s ou uuni sited, just as
though n > ery was heard, and as though
this startling truth had not lx*on told us.
Tiv • combines and the trusts, the million
aires and the manipulators of greut
schemes generally, have been weighed
in the balance, but what is in five other
balance to outweigh them? Wo have
talked and worked, have toiled early and
late, but have spent our strength for
naught and exhaustixl ourselves in mo
tions, meetings, resolutions and talk to
little purpose. What remains to lie doner
Fewer politicians and more statesmen
in both state and national legislatures is
the demand of the times. The farmers’
voice is now liuurd throughout the west,
and it will not lie silenced until it has
reached every state in the Union. Work,
not talk; legislation, not polities; practi
cal results, not unending speeches to no
purpose; workmen, not theorists; men
who will serve the people, instead of
bossing them, are tho demimds of the
day. If the farmers will only bo true to
themselves and not jxTmit tho wily
schemers to Ikmxlwink them at the pri
maries and h) swindle them at the
polls, they can elect men of their own
class who know their wunts and will not
vest until thoy secure them. -r Rural
World.
Tho I'urinera Hiid Money.
The Fanners’ Alliance ami Industrial
Union demands a change, to the end tlmt
money may he used according to its
proper function, so that the people, fot
whoso use it is mode, sludl get the use of
it without paying any private person in
terest charges. All persons aro entitled
to the iiso of money on precisely equal
terms, just us they aro entitled to the
use of u railway, or a public fountain, or
a jiark, or highway, because it is made
for the people's use. Public conveniences
are maintained at tlui public expense,
and individual citizens puy their proper
share of the exi*‘iiso according to
their several abilities. Bo it must be
with money, each person paying for
what he uses. < )no jier cent, per annum
is enough for the use of money when
issued by the government to the people
on long, and 2 and !l per cent, is enough
when issued on short, time. Just what
it costs is what the jieoplo ought to pay,
and not a cent more. That is the issue;
money which is made by the people is
made for the people, and no private in
terest charging agency ought to he per
mitted to interfere. Money of the i>eo
ple, by the people and for the jteople.—
Kansas Farmer.
A Conmiomliiblo Kfl'ort.
One feature of the Farmers’ Alliance
in some of the southern states that is
specially commendable is its determined
stand in liehulf of better school facilities,
it demumls that the children of all lsta
ple, rich or poor, may be able to obtain j
a good, practical common school educa
tion. This righteous principle is Is-ing
carried to such an extent that in several
states the Alliance is asking the legisla
tures to increase the taxes for the purjxise
of enlarging the school fund. Still
further, iti sections where the value of i
education is not fully appreciated by
the residents, county and sub-alliances
are appointing committees to talk the
matter up with such families. It is
work like this, effectively pushed by a
powerful organization, that must prove
a tremendous incentive to the develop
ment of the country. Free sjieooh, free
schools, free press, freo religion, free
IKilitics—these make a people great and
prosperous.—Farm and Home.
Woklw of Wimloiu.
There was a conference recently at
Doylustown, Pa., of over 800 farmers,
representing Pucks, Chester, Montgom
ery an<l Delaware counties. The dele
gates came from various granger and
clut»s. In his introductory remarks at
the opening of the league, President
Powell sj>oko of the wonderful advan
tage of this country over all others. He
commented earnestly on the pristine
prosperity of the farmer in contrast to
his present state of oppression. The
farmer, he said, was well represented in
the house of representatives and state
legislatures in those days, but where are
wo now? Fully three-fourths at our State
legislators are lawyers, whose places
should be filled with level headed fanners.
He then urged the necessity of every
funner putting his shoulder to the wheel
and righting tlie wrong. He Instructed
them to attend the primaries and inter
est themselves in politics.
from Georgia.
There are 136 county alliances and
about 3,310 county sub-alliances, with a
total membership of about 05,000 males
and 30,000 females, in the state of Geor
gia.
The alliance at Elko, Ga., will build a
warehouse for cotton
and guano. Enough money was raised
(a a few minutes to insure the ware
house* TJje farmers there see the neces
sity of a suitable place to store their cot
ton at horns rather than store it else
where. — Atlanta Constitution.
Congressman Hutto worth stated he
•‘could name capitalists whose profits ex
celled those of all t'.i ■ agriculturists of
hiiv state in the l uioii. Phis is un
doubtedly true, and it is a in
dictment of any system under which it
is possible, He «nld further that he
knew of an industry th*| made $60,000,-
UOO in a few years on a capital of sl.-
250,000.
Tbs pr<i*i>erity of the farmer will set
iti motion the spindles of the country,
start tlte wheels of industry in a thou
sand mills, fill tiie coffers of the mer
eiuuit and bring back to the land its old
tuner prosperity. —Buffalo Express.
VERMONT SETTLERS. ’
Owners Lssviug l'am* IWaiue They
Cannot Make a Living.
An interesting contrast is certainly to
be drawn between the conditions under
which thi> first settlers of New England
labored in making for themselves new
homes and those conditions which the
state of Vermont is offering to a colony
of seventy-five Swedish iinmi,'rants to
settle on some of the deserted fan i lands
of tho state. The sturdy people who
went up into Vermont in colonial times
had to begin with the ax and construct
for themselves rude log bouses and to
clear lands so that they could bo planted.
Stumps had to bo dug out and bants
built. Their inipl -uwnts ol’ agriculture,
what few they hail, were primitive.
They had no markets to speak of. It
was a struggle to pull a livelihood out of
the soil with the lmuds. Then tho forces
of society had to be organized. Churches
had to lw built. Education had to be
provided for. It was a hard struggle,
and the people were sturdy and thrifty.
The woods disappeared and cereals waved
in their places. Tho ludians fell back,
and in the course of time a strong and
prosjierous commonwealth was formed,
and so it continued till a reaction set in
against New England agriculture, and
the farms and the farmhouses, tho re
sult of so much labor aiul self denial,
began to bo deserted.
But apparently much more fortunate
tlmu the pioneers are the Sweden who
have lx>en brought overby the state com
missioner to take these deserted farms.
They come to get for practically nothing
all that cost the pioneers and their de
scendants so much. They find hou.es
and barns, with plenty of goyd land, nil
ready for cultivation, about them. In
the town of Vershire, where fifteen fam
ilies are about to settle, there are as
many farms of from 75 to 125 acres each,
with good buildings thereon, for from
$3 to $5 an acre. The new settlers will
Ist loaned $25 In cash to make a l>egili
ning, and they will lie guaranteed the
opportunity of purchasing a cow on
credit. They will settle in a town with
schools anil churches, to become part of
an established government of seventy
five millions of jieople. They will find
railroads where the pioneers found no
roads at all. They will find neighboring
cities and villages, which ought to offer
good markets for tho results of their
toil. Truly it would seem, when their
opportunities and what they pay for
them aro compared with tho opportuni
ties of the pioneers and what they jmid
in tho lalsir of overcoming difficulties,
as if tho lines of these Swedish colonists
had fallen in exceedingly pleasant places.
Looked at in anotlior way it upiioars
like u somewhat harsh comment on the
wonderful development of a nation for
250 years to :isk jKior Swedes to come
over hero into the heart of Now England
at this day to take, at nominal terms,
homes already built r*.d farms all ready
to bo cultivated, to help preserve from
increasing poverty and decay an old Ver
mont town with a railroad within ten
miles of it on either side. Yet this town
is by no means an exceptional one. The
commissioner of agricultural interests,
who is arranging for the settlement of
Swedes on vacated farms, finds, from re
port* from the listers in various towns,
that there are at least a thousand va
cated farms, containing 118,000 acres of
land, which can bo bought for less than
$5 an aero, nn l most of these forms have
buildings on them in a fair condition.
Many towns failed lo make any report,
but the commissioner estimates that in
tho whole state tlmro aio at least 500,000
acres of unoccupied land, exclusive of
timber land, and a largo part of it held
to lie excellent land. It does not seem ns
if ttio Swede- , desiring to find homes in
this country, would need to l>e coaxed to
settle upon these lauds.
Yet it evidently is not an easy matter
to find settlers, and tho success of the
settlement of the Swedes who have just
Ison brongliUover is still doubtful. If
the YankiH) jieople who have deserted
their farms found them not worth living
ujhjii after years of developing, is it to be
expected that, these Swedes are to find
them much letter? There are many
farmers in Vermont from the old stock
claiming that it is a difficult matter to
get enough from their acres to snpjiort
tlw ir families and pay taxes, especially
when burdened with mortgages. Are
the Swedes to do bo much better? It is
true that they may live more cheaply;
their desires nuiy not be so numerous or*
so exjiensive, but, on tlie other lumd,
-they cun hunlly make ut first so good use
of their farms as Americans boro and
bred upon them. TheSwodos must learn
some of the ways of American agricul
ture Imfore they begin to secure the best
possible returns. Nevertheless they are
well circumstanced comiMtred with tlie
original settlers, and if they cannot suc
ceed it will lie largely because we have
developed as a people away from the
farm by a systematic discrimination
against it us an industry.—Providonct*
Journal.
Kail road Uula.
From Columbus, Neb., to South
Omaha is about' ninety miles on the
Union Pacific railroad, tlie charges Ufion
which for the transportation of cattle
are $29 for one thirty foot car. The
charge for the same car to Chicago,
which is 500 miles further, is but $55,
more. If 500 miles of transportation
can be done for $55, a proportionate
cluugo for ninety miles Would bo a little
over SO.OO, instead of S2O. Naturally
the sliipjiers are indignant at this unjust
discrimination, and-a complaint against
the railroad company will l>o lodged
with the state board of transporta
tion, the majority of the members of
which, being creatures of the railroad
and holding their positions only at the
will of their masters, will decide that
the rate is a perfectly fair one, in tie
absence of competition, and the disgust
complainants will doubtless find in the
end that they had as well save! their
stationary and notary fees. Omaha
World-Herald.
The National Farmers’ conference will
be held at Council Bluffs, la., on Aug.
36, 27, 28 and 20. This will be the tenth
annual meeting.
Co-opcratlon |,i Georgia.
['resident \Vi%E. H. Searcy, of the
Fanners’ Co-operative company, of
Griffin, made the following statements
in liis report recently submitted:
Assets of the factory uud machinory,
$12,000;bills receivable, $32,282.12; goods
on hand, $0,100.25; real estate, in Geor
gia and Florida, not counted in plant,
$11,500; total property and assets, $96,-
141.37. Tho liabilities are—bills payable,
$26,000.90', bonds, $15,000; total, $40,-
069.90, leaving a clean margin over and
above liabilities of $56,072,47, which
shows that the Farmers’ Co-operative
Manufacturing company is about as sol
vent an institution as the country af
fords. Hfii
The part of tho pr< >perty represented
by the bonds will not only pay the inter
est, but will also discharge the principal
of the bonds, and leAtda profit, as will
readily appeal- from this calculation—
sls,ooo bonds, 25 per cent., $3,500 inter
est. The company pays 8 per cent.,
$1,200; one bond payable per year, SI,OOO
—52,20(1; profit over anil above retiring
bonds, $1,300,
It id seen that the 1 Kinds will redeem
themselves and leave 8 per cent, per an
mun to the stockholders.
That the mill will make 25 i>er cent,
and over is no longer a debatable ques
tion. The rejxirt went on to show
the still greater profits that follow
tho erection of ail acid chamber, and
stated minutely the general condition of
the company, dosing with tho statement,
“We have not accomplished our work
without trials and tribulations; lmt we
have finally overcome obstacles. If
any dark clouds lowered they have all
been dissipated, amt we find around us
today not the storms we expected, lmt
the gentle dews of God’s provldenoo.”—
Atlanta Constitution.
Corn In Kiminiih.
Tho state agricultural department has
been making an investigation as to
whether, under the prevailing low prices
for furm products, the farmers aro 'mak
ing money. It is found that tho corn crop
of last year sold l'or less than it cost to
produce it, and that on tiie entire crop
there was a loss to the farmers of tho
state of over $2,500,000. These figures
are arrived at from careful estimates
made in each county as to the cost of
growing tho product. The state was di
vided for this purpose Into three sections
or belts—the eastern, central and west
ern.
Tho estimated cost of growing a bushel
of corn in the eastern belt was found to
bo twenty-four cents, in tho central belt
twenty cents and in tho western belt
nineteen cents, anil in no instance did
tho market price of tho product reach
these figures. Tho secretary of the de
partment made a report to tho governor
in which ho gives tho result of his inves
tigations.
Ho says: “The uverngo cost for tho
state of growing corn, with an average
•yield of thirty bushels per acre, is esti
mated at 21 cents. If tho corn crop of
the last year had cost 21 cents to" grow
it, the loss to the fanners of the state
would bo, counting the market price
now at 15 cents per bushel, about $15,-
000,000; but the average yield this year
was about forty bushels per acre, which
reduces tho cost per bushel to lOf cents,
which is still a loss to tho fanner of II
cents, or $2,500,000 on the entire crop.
The only way a farmer can realizo a
profit from corn this year is to feed it
into stock.”—Topeka Special to St. Louis
Poet-Dispatch.
Do Not Believe In Htoron.
Tliero are forty-two branches of the
Farmers' Alliance in Buchanan county,
Mo. At a recent general meeting held
in St. Joseph there was a short discus
sion of the co-operative store system,
when it was discovered that a majority
of the delegates were not in favor of tho
establishment of this class of stores, so
the idea was abandoned.
The matter of organization for tho
purchase of farming tools, machinery,
binding wire, etc., was considered at
length and arrangements perfected for
procuring these supplies. Each union
or school district alliance gave an esti
mate of tho amount of these supplies
used in its section during tho year,
upon which an estimate was made of
the saving that would occur by the en
tire fanning community represented jn
the school district purchasing all tlio
supplies needed at one and the samo
time. From figures submitted it was
discovered that tho method of buying
farm supplies would enable the farmers
to get their tools, machinery, etc., at a
much reduced figure, and the plun was
adopted in preference to the co-opera
tive 9tore plan.—Special to St. Louis Re
public.
When Will They Act?
Tho fabricants live focalized in the
cities, and plot and scheme for the pro
motion of their selfish Interests and
bring their united lobby influence to
bear on members of congress, whereas
the farmers live isolated und scattered,
and can't or don't combine i* defense of
their interests. Hence they are unpro
tected, unrepresented und unconscious
of what keeps thorn poor. They are cap
tivatedffiy the sjxscious cry of “protec
tion to American industry,” though they
get none of it; and of the value of “pro
tected” horde markets to them, as if pro
tected monopolists eat any more tluui
other men. Not until verdant, im
posed upon agriculturists wake up to a
realization of the confidence game being
played upon them will tlie war tariff be
reduced or reformed; but whon will they
get their eyes open and act? —Chicago
Tribune.
After- some investigation The New
York World has about decided that the
chief causo of the depressed condition of
New Jersey farmer's is to bo found in the
outrageous charges of the railroad
octopus.
In an address before the ways and
means committee, Mr. Livingstone, Al
liance lecturer, said $16,000,000 would
build all the warehouses the farmers
asked of the government.
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