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A JOURNALDEVOTEDTO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. VOL. XIV. RpY/U &AwH 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. Thia«luwdiM- i^K‘1 1 varies. A marvel of | 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 GRIFFIN Ft •UN 11 IIY j AND Machine Works. \\[e announce to the Pulil.V tlmt we are j 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. nW. (j. I*. ( DIIMII 1.1.. DENTIST. 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. XO. 43