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VOL. XIX
PEEBY, GEOEGlA, THITESDAY, SEPTEMBEB12,1889.
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Sanford’s Gns.no Bill Criticized.
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Mr, Sanford’s Guano B3L It is,
in my opinion, the greatest Indig
nity ever offered to the planters o£
Georgia, a slap square in the lace
; of every farmer id the state. This
BIB proposes to put ns entirely at
the mercy o£ one man, the State
(Chemist. I suppose that he is
man made of. the same Mnd of
dirt that other men are made of,
and subject to like passions and
temptations, This guano bill is
so framed^that the farmer who
uses guano is a mere cipher, not
being allowed to say a word; his
lips are hermetically sealed: his
judgment and integrity are boldly
and unscrupulously set aside as
not worth, considering, and all is
left to the gentlemanly and infalli
ble chemist^ and from his decis
ion there is no appeal, blow, the
chemist may be the silent partner
of a half dozen gnano companies,
or he may receive a fixed salary
from them, and if so. he will make
chemical analyses just. what the
guano companies may desire and
direct. Hr. Sanford may say the
chemist is a Christian gentleman,
and cannot be bought up. How
does he know that he is honest?
Is it possible to open the portals
of his breast end there read the
the kind of heart he has I Men in
this covetous age go in the direc
tion of their interests. As far
back a§ the light of history shines
the fact is revealed that men can
be bought; they have been bought
from Judas Iscariot down, and it
is reasonable to suppose that they
will continue to be bought until
the final, consummation of all
things. Mir, Sanford’s bill does
not allow a farmer to go before a
jury of his countrymen with his
complaint, and if a thonsand farm
ers of unquestioned integrity were
willing to go into court and swear
that a certain brand of guano was
worthless, their testimony would
he entirely disregarded, and the
testimony of the chemist taken,
his testimony crushing out of ex
istence the evidence of a thousand
farmers. This bill seems to regard
the planters as unworthy, s set of
scoundrels who cannot, tell the
truth even on oath. Therefore,
we must have the state chemist to
tell it for ns.
If all of the manufacturers of
guano had put their heads together,
they could not have drafted a bill
that would have suited them bet
ter. If the farmers of Georgia
submit to such a law as this, they
are a set of credulous, ignoble im
beciles, who do not deserve to life
in a civilized eoontry, much less a
land of liberty. The bill smells
like guano, to me. and must have
been drawn up in the eatntmg-
room of some gnano- factory. If
we submit to innovation piled on
fop of innovation; right after right
swept away; we Will soon have no
rights, and we will be a mere set
of slaves to powerful moneyed
corporations, "We will be entire
strangers in the land of our birth,
to the glorious inheritance be
queathed to us by our liberty-lov
ing ancestors. A people .who will
allow their rights set aside merely
for She purpose of protecting a
i guano factory, are St instruments in
foe Tianrlsrif gmn
to teirdown the
can liberty, and to rear, in its
stead, the most galling despotism
Shades ofthe
look down
with sorrow upon the .degenerate
scions of a once fELnstrioTis race!
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bare of at the
the taxpayers. The
planters, proper, do not want il
The writer, has propounded this
question to hundreds of them:
Has the Bureau of Agriculture
ever been any benefit to you?
They unh esitatingly answer, “Ho.”
. We pay fifty cents a ton for the
inspection of fertilizers, when we
believe that not one ton in a thou
sand is inspected. A few years
ago a lot of gnano went down the
road that was not tagged, and the
inspector sent onecf his .ereatpres
down to tag it at the depots along
the road where it had been depos
ited- The tag man was in a great
hurry, and at one of the stations
he hooked the tags to a lot of bar
rels containing Irish potatoes. Ho
harm was done; the bit of paper
was just as serviceable there as it
would have been anywhere else.
Those tags are very eontehient,
they can be hitched to one thing as
well as another, and are worth as
much hitched to a barrel of lard
or potatoes as to a sack of guano.
A few years ago a guano agent at
this place had a lot leftover, the
sacks rotted off, and he sent to the
company for more sacks; the com
pany sent them* but they were of
an entirely different brand; the
agent was instructed to resack it
at once and ship it to Borne, Ga.,
as the new brand was very popular
up there. The company also sent
tags, and hiie agent hitched them
on, and by that simple operation
the guano was magically .changed
into the new kind at once. TeriLy,
these tags are wonderful things.
Under the laws of Georgia certain
words can be put on a sack, and
this wonderful tag hitched on, and
it will transform- a sack of coal or
sand into a first-class' fertilizer im
mediately, if not sooner. Some
people, and Mr. Saurord is one of
them, are clearly of the opinion
that sve farmers cannot gef along
without the Bureau of Agriculture,
and those wonderful tags. Thou
sands of practical farmers differ
with Mr. Sanford, and they are
witling to try to male a living with
out thebureau'or tag. Sink or
swim, I am willing to risk It.
How, in conclusion, let me say a
few words to the alliancemen. Take
the business of the country into
your own hands. Send your own
men to legislate for you; have all-
laws repealed that are obnoxious
to you; have enacted such laws
that you desire; do not risk your
enemies, such as are always on the
side of corporations. Don’t, I frtt-
plore.you, risk men who are op
posed to your going into court with
your complaint, before a jury of
your countrymen. Do not risk
those that are in favor of the one
man power. You are the back
bone and sinew of the country.
All other classes are. mere pen
sioners upon your country.
The farmers produce the suste
nance of life, and furnish the ma
terial out of whieh our raiment is
made; they cause the earth to bring
forth its fruits, upon which all
classes are dependent; they own
the country, and they should con
trol it. Mr. Sanford is sot con
tented with drafting a bill that for
bids our pleading failure of con
sideration, and driving us entirely
from our courts, but his bill for
bids a jury to set upon our eases
in court, and this places us entire^
ly at the mercy of one man, the
state chemist; but he has gone fur
ther, end now is in favor of, de
priving ns. of the privilege ox
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■ They are fat and. sleek, making a
splendid living, and they know the
entire lay-out is a humbug, and
ewes its existence to the ignorance
and credulity of the people. While
those two worthies are engaged in
this contemptible humbug, I have
often wondered whether or not
they could look each other in the
face without laughing, Alliance-
men, the practical, clear-thinking
men of jhe country are in your
ranks, and X beseech you to stamp
this fraud out of existence, and as
soon as possible.
I will not pursue this hateful
subject any further. I turn from
it with s heart swelled with Indig?
nation and grief. To see attempts
made by one of our number to
drive the farmers from our courts,
and from the ballot box, also, I
feel like exclaiming from the bot
tom of my heart, “and thou, too,
Brutus.”
Plain Basher.
TSe Country.. Growing Rich.
“It has been stated,’’ said Comp
troller Wright, “that the eities-qf
Georgia are growing rich at the ex
pense of the, country. There was
never a more mistaken idea. The
tax returns this year show that the
counties where there are no towns
or cities have increased in value
more than any others. This is es
pecially noticeable of the counties
situated in the lower part of the
state which are known as thb wire-
grass countios. The reason of it
is the turpentine stills and saw
mills have greatly increased the
value of the lands, and it has been
found that where the woods! have
been cleared, the ground yields a
crop which is surprising. These
reasons together have made a won
derful increase in the value of
property.”—Atlanta Constitution.
The Boston Herald mak§s this
observation: The frequent fail
ure of manufacturing establish
ments In the protected industries
of the country since the great vic
tory for protection last autumn
ought to convince the most preju
diced and obtuse that the present
form of protection does not pro
tect. The number of republican
business men that it has already
persuadedjts ominous of a ehange
that is likely to he the More radi
cal the longer it is deterred.
A London shoemaker has in
vented a boot to make small peo
ple appear tall. The invention is
an odd and ingenious one. In
stead of tacking six inches on to a
person’s heel, a] pair of; entirely
false feet, made of cork, is put in
to the shoes. When the wearer
gets into them, he or she is raised
according to the inches of cork.
Of course, in this Invention the
original foot is made to combine
with the cork one under the leath
er in such a manner that the line
of demarkation is not perceptible.
The size of the foot is sacrificed, it
is true, and a larger boot is neces
sary with the cork “elevator” than
would be the case naturally.
Badgers advanced the idea that
jute could be raised by Ge
farmers and woven into ba*
here at home. And, . since
the cultivation, of jute in this sec
tion and in the manner proposed,
has been a live topic. Mr. Badg
ers has given*, the question mueh
thought, and has made many in
quiries about the cultivation of
the article. He Is so favorably
Impressed with the Idea that ft
can be grown in this section that
the . firm of which he Is a member,
Badgers, Worsham <§r Co., intend
to devote a considerable amount of
money to make a practical test of
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While off on his recent summer
trip, Mr. Badgers visited Wash
ington City and the Department
of Agriculture, where, he ■ learned
many interesting points that will
assist him in the development of
his plan. . x ;
The following will be of inter
est: , , _ • _•
“Ante will grow in any of the
Southern states adapted to ramie.
It will not thrive in very sandy soil
but in lands of alluvial bottom or
in flooded valleys, or ; in high
moist, sandy loam. Alluvial mold
is favorable to its growth. The
land for this crop must be well
broken up in the field until the
soil is thoroughly, pulverized,
deeply exposed to the sun and air
and manured. March and April
are the best months at the South.
Harrowing is necessary both, be
fore and after sowing. It is well
to sow after a rainy day. The
seed is sown broadcast from twen
ty to thirty pounds per acre.
From the the time of sowing to
the timS of harvesting, say about
four months, the only work to be
done is to keep the land clear of
weeds and .to thfn . out the ja
that grow too thiekty. This work
is done by hands going through
the field, and facilitates the groth
of the plants. i ,,„ __ *
“Jute must Be cut while the
plant is'in flower,'beenase the fi
bre is then more glossy and less
woody; the cutting of the stalk can
be done either "by a mower or a
case-knife. The stalks are left in
the field three or four days until
the leaves Ml off and ere
carried to the deeorticator. :. •
“Jute when sown broadcsst at
the rate of twenty-five pounds of
seed per acre, gives eight stalks
eleven or twelve- feet; high, to the
square foot The 44,000 square
feet of an acre will, therefore,
give 350,000 stalks, which average
abotrirone and a half pounds of
marketable _grod.net to the hun
dred stakes, or 5,200 pounds of jute
fibre, worth two cents per pound,
yielding $104 per sere.
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The Yew Postal Cards.
But few are aware that iameim+
portant'ehanges trail be made' soon
in the style, quality* Cpaventeuce;
etc., of the United State, postal
cards. The changes, however, are
in favor of the publie, and will be
appreciated. ,:VZ..z ' -P.T ?
cards.in the new contract are svk>
perfor in quality to those fn ffife
old one, and besides the .public
will be afforded better feejKfTpg for
the addition of two new sizes; of
Cards. -Size Ho. 2 measures 212-18
fey 4§ inches, and weighs I pqjjndA
12 ounces a, thousand, tha cost tof
this card will be 37 cents a thou
sand- Size Ho. 2 is of the same
5 ounces a thousand. Size Ho. 3
measures 3j. by 6§- inches and.
weighs 9 pounds 1 ounce a thou?
sand. The contract price is 50
thousand. a ' 1-
The estimated number of casds-
to be required during the four
‘ is 2,—
060,000,000, at a cost of $800,000.-
Thereduetfon in cost for the four
years w21 amount to full !
as compared to the price in 1
The postage on the es?-
ed- for during the four years
amount to $20,000,000. Tha
tract will require 7,000 tons of pa-,
per, or an average of about six
see a man on business who i
not for from his own home,
started out on. this -
mersed in profound
the merest accident in Ms i
ings he came .to his own i
He .paused in front of his
had evidently
original purpose in
for when his son
ring,
lad whether his father
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