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THE DAWSON NEWS.
>BV E. L. Rainey.
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ONE STARTLING FIGURES
\
ORE FOOD SHIPPED TO GEORGIA
{HAN HER COTTONIS WORTH.
se of the Yery Best Arg:nnm'lfs We
jave Ever Seen For Diversify
ing Crops.
[n a speech maae by I\‘lr.'l’. -I‘. Mm‘an’
fAtlanta before the Fruit (:ruwe‘rs
npvention of North Georgia a? For
;m he gave the following figures
.\lhivh make a most foreible :lrgumt?n.b
hat should be p ndered by every citi
en of Georgia: o
wome few weeks ago, while care
bossly ooking through a (:olu.mn of
oures—very disagreeable reading and
Fosorted to by people only when t,her(f
k< nothing better at hand—l o'bserveu
L table giving the exports of this coun
1y to foreign nations. There came a
ngmguf pardonable pride upon the
iscovery of the fact that while we
,ad imported into our country $600,-
00000 worth of products, we had sold
o the other fellow $1,200,000,000, and 1
had almost reached the corclusion that
[ would go out next morning and buy
» Delkalb county farm and go into the
gising of cottou. Just in that mo
pent I became interested in the items
¢hich made up this list of exportas
kions, and [ became still more interest
i the pointas to how much we had
ntributed to the grand total. Sub
racting from the exportation those
vhich were of an agricultural charac
bor. or which grew on the farm, I
kound that it amounted to about $850,-
00,000. This still strengthened my
besolution to become an American
armer, when out of such an immense
sportation about three-fourths of 1t
mfi been furnished by the brawny men
n the field.
But here again I began to subdivide.
01 the $850,600,000 worth of farm pro
lucts which were sent abroad, only
§232,000,000 worth was in the shape of
otton, All the rest was in products
arising 1n the states of thre north and
he west. This $232,000,000, 1f it rep
esented a surplus crop, that could
e called a profic would haye been a
good showing. But what were the
ffacts? When the state of Kansas, for
instance, shipped wheat and flour and
neat products to Europe it was after
paving first fed themselves during the
past year, and subtracting enough for
feeding, breeding and replantir g for
he year to come, Therefore, the $600,-
00,000 which came across the Atlantic
or northern and western products
ame to stay, and that really lepre-
Bt the $600,000,000 of balance of
rdein our favor about Which our
lasticians are now boasting. The
282,000.000 which came to the south
fresented a cleaning of the field,
i people who raised 16 did so upon
rrowed provisions, an unpaid por
ion of which they have added to the
@rrowed provisions upon which they
il bave to work during the coming
ear, 4
“Now here was the developing of an
larming situation, and one which de
inds immediate attention. If our
tople should continue upon this sui
idal course nothing short of bank-
Plcy awaits them, At every station
POt every railway 1n the south you
"% poorly dressed men standing
Yild trying to strike a trade with
Py merchants to carry them
"Uigh the coming year, so thas while
ire going through the form of
PEAring to be cotton planters, rais
-8 roduce to sell, they are in reality
ting more than cotton serfs with
“Wiips at their backs, working for
“Un who hold the mortgages
"“{"wtand between them and the
Mg orop.
“Ttis terrible condition of things in
%2 little mope inquiry, and going
¢ of the railroad offices I made
4y a 5 to the importation of food
Utts ingg this state. I'hese figures
®le of such 5 character as to chal
8¢ a further investigation. Taking
“Uple of railroads at random, I
Uod that during one month, and that
* Cnsidered an off month in freight,
- lad shipped into the state 607
. *arloads of grain, 190 solid car
a.d; ° meat, 571 solid carloads of
:‘“" <8 solid carloads of hay.
.IS_(}“""?,m an agricultural codntry
U:let % desert? Jam sure that were
haral *flatavhhshed in the midst of the
ry artn‘(f’l;mportat,ion of the neces-
Teater, €8 of food could not b‘e
from ghjs 1 went on and secured, as
best I could, from all the different rzil
roads entering the state an approxi
mation of the original entries into the
state for the same month under ques
tion, with this result: That there was
imported Into Georgia 887 carloads of
grain, 350 of wheat, 706 of flour, 378 of
hay, making a total imported into the
state of 2,321 carloads within thirty
days.
“But there was another month, that
of March, which caunot be anticipated
right now, but’which can ouly be judg
ed by the figures of March one vear
ago. In that month there were receiy.
ed into Georgia 4,642 carloads of agri
‘Cultural produce, every pound of which
should have been raised in our own
midst, and thus we would not have
been under the necessity of sending to
the West for meat and bread.
“As a result of this Investigation it
is shown that Georgia during the past
year has paid to the northwest and to
the north for meat and corn and bread
stuffs, which she could have better
been raised right here at home, the im
menseisum of $21,736,000. In this isjrep
resented $5,600,000 for pork and beef,
$5,136,000 for flour, $3,500,000 for corn
and meal, $3,000.000 for potatoes, roots
and garden stuff, $2,500,000 for hay
and forage, and $2,000,000 for miscel
laneous products of the farm, every
one of which could have been raised in
the hittle yards around about your
houses.
“From this picture of agricultural
imbecility lev us turn to another, which
[ cannot present better than by the
figures presented by the letter of TLas
tham, Alexander & Co.:
“The cotton crop of 1896-97 was 8,-
757,964 bales. The ayerage export
price of that crop was 7.46 cents, equal
ing $327,647,864; while the crop of
1897-98 was 11,199,994 bales, which was
marketed on an average export basis
of 5.96 cents, which equals $338, 342,458,
‘‘ln other words, the cotton planters
of the south raised last year 2,442 030
bales of cotton more than they did the
year before, and yet, by reason of the
overproduction that, crop realized
only $10,885,605 more than the crop of
the previous year.
“*Or, to put this unfavorable result
in another shape, it might be said that
the planters of the south last yaar sold
to the trade of the world 2,442,030 bales
at 88 100 per cent. per pound, or $t.45
per bale of $507 pounds.
*Or, to put it better still, our farm
ers raised a cotton crop which was so
large that in their generosity they
presented the factory barons wish 2,-
000,000 bhales.
“Taking these figures and applying
them to the making of the crop which
is now immediately before us:
“lThe farmers of Georgia, on the ba
sis of last year's crop, will earn $25,~
307,934,27.
“In order to make this crop these
same farmers are right now crowding
around the supply merchant to ‘carry’
them for next year—-that is, to give
them a whole year’s provisions jbefore
they have earned them.
“This will call for the Importation
of $21,736,000 worth of provisions.
“As the local merchants must make
something out of their risk, it s en
tirely conservative to say that taey
will make these provisions call for
$5,000,000 more before they pass to the
tables ot the farmers.
“Knowing the high rate of interest
which is charged on these time sales
would it be extravagant to call it
$1,000,000?
“Thls will call for $27,736,000 to be
liquidated with $25,307,934.27 obtained
for our cotuton.
The line of Mr. Moran’s argument,
based upon this, was that we should
by diversified crops, cut off this im
portation, and make cotton our sur
plus.
SNOWED IN WITHOUT FOOD.
Forty-two Paesengera in a Stalled Tralo
Wwith Nothing But a Few Beans to Kat.
An urgent message for relief has been
received at Cheyenne, Wyo., from the
Cheyenne and Northern train in the
snow at Iron Mountain. The provisions
are reduced to a tew beans and a httle
coffee, with forty-two persons cn toa:d
to be fed, They have been suowed in
for six days and the conditi ws are dess
perate, as the adjacent ranches, where
food has heretofore been obtained, are
about out of provisions.
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Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, March 15, 1899,
CHRONICLES OF GEORGIA.
WHEREIN IT I 8 NARRATED HOW
THE CAUCUS WAS INVENTED.
And How the Rulers and Elders Ap.
pointed a Commission to Teach
Them Their Business,
And it came to pass in those days, ev
en in the first days of the rule of Allen,
who was also called the plowboy, while
the rulers and elders of the people still
spent their days in jowering at $1,400 a
Jower and their nights in the dalliances
of the Kimball.
That Clark, who was also ap Howell
did howel much in his organ touching
the grievous burdens that were laid up
on the people by the tax gatherers.
Aud there were many of those that sat
in the council of the rulers and elders
and likewise many others throughout
the land of Georgia who were in the
babit of sneezing whenever they
thought that Clark, who was also ap
Howell, had impinged upon a dose of
snuff, :
So that at that time there was lifted
up a great noise throughout the land in
favor of reducing the burdens of the peo
peo; for verily the yoke of taxes was
heavy and giievous to be borne.
But there were those also at the tirae
in the council who winked with the eye
aud laid the finger on the nose,
And these said to one another, Go to,
The spasm will soon pass and then our
fingers shall be thicker than William’s
loins.
And others of them in like manner
said lo the peoples are fools and Clark’s
organ is working a smart racket, Yea,
he will even give the people the razzle
dazzle.
And one of the rulers did put forth his
tongue so that his cheek was even more
extended than the cheek ofsa govern
ment mule, harder zlso that Stone Moun
tain granite or the hardoess thereof,
And be did likewise with his thumb
punch another of the rulers in the ribe
even as tLe roysterers do.
And he said unto that one, Let us lie
low eyen as the festive possum lieth low
when old Trailer trees or Tige doth get
him by the seat of the breeches. .
Behold, we will let this uproar spend
itself a while and then we shall even so
direct its force that we shall *yank yet
other and many more shekels out of the
penple,
And in those days there weut upa
great clamor from the people desiring to
know why the council who were jower
ing away the fifty days at $1,400 a jower
did not make 14ws to relieve the people
of the tribute. :
And therulers and elders of the peo
ple caused Clark, who isalso ap Howell,
to write in his organ and say, Lo it 1s
necessary To STUDY THE SUBJECT.
Aud ore said let us even appoint a
€ 'mmnission.
And thereupon they did clap with the
hands and shout aloud for joy. And
they all lifted up their voices with one
accord for the space of ten minates and
said, Yea, we will appoint acommission.
And one who was not oato the racket
but thought the game was honest asked
of the others, What for?
And they langhed him to scorn and a
sc ffer said unto this one: Why, to find
out how to make laws and then they
cau teach us,
And the unsophisticated cune answered
and said unto the others, But were we
not chosen of the people to make the
laws because we were the wise ones f
‘lhe land? :
And tbey said, Lo he is no better than
the sinner whose name was Watkins and
who dwelt in the land of Gilmer.
And they turned him out of the cau
cus and made him to eat grass with
Watkias and t‘he pops.
l For aforetime when the rulers and el
ders bad first assembled at the begin
ning of the/fitty days it was discovered
that there were two pops in the counecil
and the other hundred and seveanty and
three were afraid and went and hid
themselves;
And sent for Flem and said: Lo thou
wise man, there are two pops in the coun-
Icil and we are only a hundred and sev
enty and three and we are afraid;
For peradventure the pops may cor
rupt us. Do thou therefore tell ns what
we shall do that we may vot be devour.‘
ed of the pops.
Aud Frem did council the rulers and
elders and said anto them that they or
ganize a caucus whereuuto the pops
‘might not come, ;
_ Aud thereafter whatsoever the caucus
?’ gk g B PMLgy e ~"'flz«}u ot oo
should bid them do. that they should do
with a Common Front.
Theref.re, said Flem, ye will no longer
fear the pops.
Moreover [ also may come unto the
caucus though I be not of the council,
and Eddard and Clark and Albert and
old Limerick and the boys.
Which also we could not do in the
council.
And it pleased the rulers and elders,
for it was as wise even as the cunning
of the serpent is wise, and they did ac
cording to all that Flem said.
And now therefore they sent the
doubter to flock with the pops.
But as for all the others they appoints
ed a commission.
And they said unto the commission,
Lo we have only blown in about $68,297
at this session and more than a thousand
shekels will be left of the people’s trib
ute when we adjourn, \
We have not done all our duty, for
verily we could have spent that also.
But do ye come back to Atlarta and
spend the balance as a commission and
find out and tell us how to attend to the
business for which we were chosen.
Oaly see to it that ye fix the game so
that we shall get from the people next
yoar more shekels than ever before in
the tribute. ‘ :
And alter some days the ruleis and
elders laid heavy burdeas on the people,
even as heavy as those of the days of
Bill whose surname was Atkinson. |
And when the 50 days were out they
said, Lo we will declare that certain of
the days don’t count so that we may sit
yet other days.
And it was so that they ablished cer
tain days which were past and declared
that there had been no such days and
they sat yet other days in their stead.
And at last they had used up
eyen the other days and had turned
back the hands of the clock till it was
nigh to bust, ‘
Theu all the rulers and elders quit
and went home, though they forgot not
to demand their per diem to the tune of
$£68,297 or other large sums from Wil
liam the Spear, who was head keeper of
‘he Treasure House and had also several
otlier fat j bs. —Decatur New Era,
TOO MANY EXPOSITIONS,
These Showe Are Becoming to Expebsive
to the Government.
It is not surprising that Mr. Cox of
Kentucky asked on the flo.r of the
House on Thursday, ** When is this show
business going to stop?'’ The demand
for government aid for expositions
in different states and in foreign lands
has become so great that the people are
beginning to grumble about the matter,
Most of the expositions are projected for
the purpose of booming local trade, and
the country is becoming tired ef being
taxed for the benefit of a few cities. On
Thursday over a million dollars were
appropriated for fairs. And there are
quite a number of bills pending asking
for appropriations for a similar purpose.
With what has been appropriated at
this session of congress the appropria
tions for the Paris fair amounts to $l.
000,000. On Thursday there was appro
priated for the fair to be held at Toledo,
0., $500,000, and for the fair to be held
at Buffalo, N. Y. $500,000. There had
already been appropriated $350,000 for
the Commercial fair at Philadelphia,
and St. Louis will soon be asking $500,~
000 for a great fair, which it is proposed
to hold 1n that city in 1904 in commemo
ration of ,the Louisiana purchase by
Jeffersen.
When congress began giving money in
aid of fairs it whs not suspected that
precedents were being made that would
eventually cost the government many
millions of dollars. About every impor
tant city in the country could find an ex
cuse for holding a fair, and most of
them will find ome if congress continues
to show a disposition to pay the ex
penses of fairs. The sovner congress
calls a halt in spending money for fairs
the better the country will be satistied.
If a city wants a fair let it pay the ex.
penses of it. There is no reasom why
the whole zoantry should be taxasd for
the purpose.—Savannah News.
e 4
Punched His Eyes Out,
A Missouri girl punched both eyes
out of a dade’s head with her parasol,
recently, because Le tried to bhug her,
It makes a gir] as mad as thunder to try‘
usurp her rights of selecting her own
huzger.
————— O e
Flushed cheeks, throbbing temples
nauses, lassituae, lost appetite, sallhw
complexioun, pimples, blotches, are warp
ings, Take Dr. M., A. Simmons Liver
Medicine. ) Y
Vol. 15.—N0. 27.
GOING WEST BY CARLOADS.
STEWART AND CHATTHOOCHEE
COUNTIES SHORT ON LABORERS.
’ls the Work of Mrs, Levette Who Is
! -Under Bond Yio'ating the
Ewigration Law.
A special from Columbus says there
is a general complaing among the farm
‘ers throughout that section of the ship=
ment of negro hands to the west, The
negroes have been sent to Arkansas by
the carload, and many of the farmers
are finding themselves in an embarrass
ed position. Farmers who had made
annual contracts with the hands for the
year were surprised when the darkies
caught the emigration feyer and went
with the rest to the west, leaving them
in the lureh. In many cases the ne
groes who are carried off are the heads
of families, aud leave their families be
hind, hoping at an eariy date to get
the money with which which to carry
them to the “land of promise.” ‘l'hese
families wili, of course, be suffering
soon., Complaints have been heard
from various sections. TLast evening a
gentleman just trom Stewart county
said that the farmers of thag county
were considerably indignant over the
way in which they were being stripped
of hands,
The negroes are being shipped by
Mrs. M. E. Levette, ‘reference to the
prosecution of , whom has been made
by the press, It is claimed that
she 18 the agent of an emigration
societdh A case was made against her,
and she 1s under bond to be tried at
the next term of the Chattahoochee
superior court. She claims that she is
getting the hands for the plantations
of herself and relatives, claiming to
have extansive farming interests in
Arkansas. Her attorneys will make
the point, besides, that the Greorgia law
imposing a tax of $5OO on emigration !
agents is unlawful, as it interferes
with interstates commerce., In the
meantime, Mrs, Levette continues her
shipment of negroes, pending the re
sult of the prosecution.
Whether the general complaints
from the farmers caused 1t or not, Mrs.
Levette now says thai she will suspenu
her operations. She wired tc The En'
quirer Sun from Birmingham, Ala.-
tonight: ‘““You can say to the farmers
I shall make only one more shipment
this season.” _
e el W——
FORMING A COFFIN TRUNST.
It Will Soon be More Expensive for Peaple
to Die.
A special from Upper Sandusky, 0.,
Bays: v
A gigantic casket trust is now form
ing, and should expectations he realized,
one dying three months after this date
will do so at a greater expense than now,
It bas just leaked out here that sever
al agents of the trust now in process of
formation, with headquarters at New
Yurk, were here during the past week
taking an inventory of the big Stoll cas+
ket works with a view of including it in
| a combine,
A Female Sam Jones,
“A female Sam Jenes is stirring the
people out in Missouri,” says the Sweet
water (Tenn.) Tvlephone. “In a sermon
recently she said: *‘There is a man in
this bouse who is untrue to his wife! I
am going to throw this hymn bpnk at
him."” She raised the book as if she
was going to throw it, and every, man in
the house ducked his head bu) one to
avoid the book. Then she blistered the
dodgers and lauded the one true maun.
It was afterwards learned that he was
deaf and dumb,”
Sol @ W iot \
Has Been Drunk Fifty Years.
Capt. Arch Horner, who is widely
known as one of Kentucky’s most pict
uresque characters, is dying. He
claims to have been drunk fifty years,.
and is now 70. His house, a double
one, i 8 on the line between Lewis and
;Greenup counties. He has sold whisky
for many years, and when indicted in
Greenup he walks to theopposite end of
the house, and is in Lewis c¢ounty. In
dicted in Lewis county he goes to bhis
bedroom and is in Greenup county.
WarnALLA, N. D., Mar. 15, 1808.
; For loss of appetite, geueral debility
aod convalescence after any illnes there
is notbing so beweficial as Dr, J. H.
MclLean’s Strengthening Cordial and
Blood Pq;i’fier. lam enjoying vigorous
health from its use. K. A, SHARPE,
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