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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
DAWSON, GA., Mar. 13th, 1895. i
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THE NEXT COTTON CROP.
We have very little confidence in the
various plans that have been proposed to
get the farmers to co-operate in reducing
the cotton acreage, or to hold back cot
ton. The cotton area is altogether too
large for any such scheme to be success
ful.
There will be, however, a great reduc
tion in the area planted in cotton for the
reason that farmers are satisfied that
they cannot make any money in planting
¢otton at present prices. Even in Texas,
where cotton can be grown and prevared
for market at less cost than elsewhere,
the farmers are preparing to plant less
cotton and togive more attentioa to grain
and stoek.
Farmers, however, who can raise cot
ton at five cents & pound on account of
the richness of their, land, or because
they do all their farm work themselves,
with the assistance of their famlies, will
plant as much cotton this year as they
did last, and no scheme for reducing the
eotton acreage will prevent them. The
extent to which the cotton acreage will
be reduced depends upon the cotton
farmers themselves, each one acting
on his owam account. No doubt the
pablications in the newspapers,
showing that other crops can be
raised at a greater profit than cot
ton, will have some influence in bringing
about a reduction of the cotton crop, but
the farmers cannot be bulldozed or
coraxed into doing what is contrary to
their own judgment in the matter.
,A DANGEROUS PRECEUENT.
No onethat we have heard of ever ac
cused Senator Sherman of being
a believer in- paternalism. That he
is one has bean proven. He introduced
a bill appropriating $lO,OOO for the re
lef of the poor of the District of Colum
bia. .The, bill was passed without de
bate, showing that thie whole senate of the
United States believes it the duty of the
fovernment to relieve the poor, for the
fnhabitants of the federal district have
2o more claim on the government than
the suffering people of Nebraska, or the
mian in any other place who suffers from
poverty.
This is a brave precedent that the sen
ate has set, and, if carried out logically,
the hundred millions in bonds will not
be a circumstance in supplying money
for the demands that will be . made on
the treasury,
Too many of our public men are red
hot philanthropists—when it does no
ecost them anything.
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SoMEe of the papers, presumably for
the want of something else to talk about,
are still scoring ex-Priest Slattery, who
Bas been lecturing in Georgia. Why
Slattery should not be allowed free
speech as well as Ingersoll or Talmage or
Dixon or Hawxthorne or dam Jones or
any priest or preacher in the land is a
thing a fellow will not be able to under
stand. This is a country for free speech.
it was dedicated and set up for that
avowed purpose, aad that gives it its
distinctive advantage over other coun
#ries. And the right of free speech will
¥e maintained to the end.
ACCoRDING to the Secretary of Agri
eulture, ¥Mr. Morton, the plow must
go. He declares that the plow used by
the American farmer is a humbug and
an euemy to fertility, The secretary
kandles the ancient implement without
glovés, which, he says, has been less
fmyproved than any other that man uses.
He bas asked ClLancellor Canfield, of the
aniversity of Nebraska, to bring it be
fore the sixteen huudred students in that
institution and ask them to think out a
new implement of agriculture which shall
supercede the plow.
CoNGreEssMAN HoLmAN, of Indiana,
who retir:s to his farm and to private
life aftsr thirty-five vears in the house,
says he would not advise young mon to
enter politics. ‘There is nothing inlt,"”
says he. “From a financial standpoint,
at least, 1t does not pay one. I have
lived frugally since I came to the thirty
sixth congress, but I have never been
able to save a penny out of my silary.”
The venerable ‘‘watchdog of the treasu
ry”’ fsays he leaves congress, wtually
poorer than he was when h 2 entered it.
“Tug prominent politician” who
made a slight ripple on the placid sur
face f the political situation in Atlanta
the other day by hints of a gigantic con
test for JUnited States senator in 1896,
would have conferred a favor on mauy
anxiously interested citizens by naming
a ‘few of the giants who will be in the
race. :But he did not commit himself
further than to say that Major Bacon
would not be ic it, and that the Major
regards the fact with undisguised pleas
ure,
CouNTY ATTORNEY ROssSER, of Fulton,
has made a discovery. He says that in
many instances the law is being violated
in the hiring of convicts to individuals.
In a recent decision of the supreme
court it was held that ‘‘the county au
thorities had no authority to hire out
convicts to private individuals, whether
heing so hired they are worked in a
chaingang or not,”” It seems to be an
op2n question if all such convicts could
l not be released by means of habeas cor
pus.
IT seems as if the blacks of the south
would be the perpetuil prey of unscrup
ulous emigration agents. Time and
time again the blacks have been bun
coed out of their meagre means by hun
gry emigration agents, and time and
time again the newspapers and the
white people have warned them against
believing the agents' flowery tales of
lands in which grow trees producing
pancakes and syrup.
GARZA, %the famous jMexican bandit
who, according to reports, has been
shot to death a half dozen or more
times, has turned up again unpunctured
and lively as a three-months-old kitten.
He is down ip Colombia, invol7ed in the
revolutionary movement and staving off
the collection of the $5,000 prize offered
for his head by the Mexican govern
ment.,
THE Louisiana sugar planters, having
obtained their bounty, will come back
into the democratic party. They are
democrats for revenue only. Congress
man Ben Russell's vote against further
increasing the riches of these sugar
leeches meets with the approval of his
constituents.
ATLANTA was done proud again the
other day. She had within her borders
a real live presidential candidate in the
person of Governor McKinley, of Ohio,
who was on his way to spend a few days
with a friend down at Thomasville.
~ Tane farmers of Georgia do not seem
to take kindly to the Mississippi cotton
growers' combination scheme, as very
few counties in the state have perfected
organization.
WomaX’s de'ermined design on jour
nalismis making itself;feltjin Albany and
woman’s fingers and brains will get out
out an edition of the Herald. .
CoNareEss adjourned, and nobody
cared if it did. The whole layout was a
lot of obstinate cusses. . :
CoLHNEL SuUsAY ANTHoNY and Dr.
Anna Shaw slopped over Fred Douglass.
The Culmination.
From the Christian Advocate.
Our late little congress, after wasting
time for months and years and violating
all the expectations of the people, cul
minated its career by violating the laws
of God and t4e country in a continued
working session last Sunday. When our
law-makers become open, flagrant law
breakers we may look for lawlessness
thioughout the land. The plea of
necessity is a poor one when we remem
ber how the last two years have been
spent. But we hope our people will not
look to vur congress for their examples.
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—After his narrow escape Zeb
Vaaghan of Pasadena fell on his knees
and thanked heaven for a miraculous
deliverance from certain death. So would
any one else who had been grasped in
the iron clutches of a 1,400 pound grizzly
while ten miles from a gun or a cabin.
Zeb never lost his presenee of mind and
began tickling the bear’s ear with a
feather he had picked up+~absent mind
edly, and the bear began laughing so
hard that he could neither close his arms
to squeeze nor his mouth to bite. Zeb
continued tickling until the bear laughed
80 hard that he burst a blood vessel and
fell down, dying.
The World’s Fair Tests
showed no baking powder
soo pure or so great in leav
ening power as the Royal.
NEWS AND VIEWS.
—Maj. Black’s resignation took effect
March 4, and the turbulent tenth'is now
without a congressman,
—Qae of the contestants for a seat in
the fifiy-fourth coagressis named Booze.
Of course, he will be seated, for all
congressmen are fond of Booze.
—Ex-Queen Lil, of Hawaii, has brem
sentenced to five years impiisonmoant
and $5,000 fine, while about a dozea of
the most: prominent in the insurrection
were fined $lO,OOO each and thirty-five
years imprisonmant,
—The m st costly pipe in the w rld is
that used by the Shah of Persia when
he sm kes up n certain state occasions.
It is incrusted from the top of the bowl
to the amber mouthpieze with diamonds,
rubies and pearls, and is valued at $320,-
000.
—A girl in Kalamazoo who was not
satisfied with squeezing a 26 inch waist
into an 18 inch corset of the ordinary
comnstruction, devised one of rope yarn
ribbed with clothesl’'ne. Thus arrayed
she took a bath, when the wetted and
contracting fiber brought the moasure
ment down to 94 inches. lun delight she
gasped: ‘Oh, haven't I got—a just
Lovely figure now? Anund it's—so loose—
and comfortable.”
~ —A couple of Montana turkeys, recent
ly killid, had taken into their aristocrat=
ic craws to assist in deglutition 13
'vahlable sapphires, several ounces cf
‘gold and just emough silver for change.
It is now fashionable among the Montana
poultry to have jeweled interiors, and it
is estimated that the emulous fowls of
the new state have within 11 months of
1894 scratched up and swallowed $ll,-
537,514,65 worth of gems and precious
metals.
—Secretary of State Chandler has dis
covered amolg the musty t>mes of his
office the first marriage license ever
irsued in Georgia. It bears the date of
the 7th of December, 1754, and in the
twenty eigh h year of the reign of His
Majesty Kingz George. It was issued to
Johu'Reynolds, Esq,, chaplain and gener
al governor and his commander in chief
in and over his m\ljesty’s provinces in
Georgia, authorizing ‘Le Rav. Bartholo
mew Zouberbuchler, miaister of Savan
inah, to solemnize the rites of marriage
of Thomas Bassett and Elizabeth Mills.
Abraham Lincoln.
From the St. Louis Globe-Dem crat.
_ ““Abramam Lincoln’s name was Abra
ham Linkhorn,” said Major Dan Sea
bright, at the Southern. ¢‘'His onigin,
when contrasted with his subsequent
greatness, must be a sad rebuke to thos>
who prate loudly of birth and breeding.
It well illustrates Burns’s truism that ‘a
man is a man for a’ that.,” It proves that
in America a child of the humbl 8t
origin may reasonably asvire to the high
est honors within the gift of the nation,
to the most exalted niche in the temple
of true greatness. I donot suppose Lin
coln, wise as he was, really knew his own
father. He was three or four years old
when Linkhorn, & farm laborer, who
worked with the negroes inj Kentucky,
and took his pay in salt pork and whis
ky, ‘tuk up’ with his mother, as the
natives called it when a man and woman
entered into marital relavdons without
the sanction of a minister. I knew Link
horu and the mother of the future presi
dent quite well. They were very ordi
nary and very illiterate people. Whether
his great talents were descended from
some ancestor generations back—were
due to atavism—or were inherited from
an unknown father, is a question that
cannot now be satisfactorily solved.
The fact that he took the name of Lin
coln when he grew up would indicate
that he did n>. regard Linkhoin as his
tather. His was a life begun in shame
and ended in glory. We can well afford
to forget the frailties of the mocher
while contemplating the virtues of the
son.”’
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