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IT Gailey has informed us that this month will be a Bargain Feast lor the people of
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dale and adjoining counties as prices will be made on goods that will keep crowds
ing to have them wrapped up.
what e-
11 should see this firm is doing. He leaves for New
Irk the 15th.
I
Speech.
[ Hon. W- L- Peok
larbecue July Rlst.
m friends, ladies and gentle
IlYou who have had the
Be of being at this
■ which has been so nicely
Bind conducted so decently
I P uch good order should
Kod, as President McKinley
I We ought to thank God
Bus in this glorious land, a
Bit has no equal in many
p. We do thank Him
Be heavens and the earth
Bho come before us and with
parts and determined will
lie woodsman’s axe opened
■ds built our houses,
ies and preached the gospel
purity, viz—Love our neigh
lourself as the world we go
Ing through. They gave us
1st constitution, the best eo
lud the best laws known
lition.
Ihcse days our father’s words
■heir bond-notes and mort
Ivere unknown, confidence in
lity was at its zenith. They
i the truth as a pillow
■by day and of fire by
jide III them to the promised
is of such parentage
I boast.
Ir good old time religion is
legion of to-day; their fields
|i‘ fields, and their lands to¬
re our lands.
in my experience, association
ravel I am glad to say that I
pet with no better people
hose before me to-day.
pt been'cast congratulate all whose
9 in Georgia, a
unsurpassed in natural re¬
’s All things t-hat are nec
' b> sus! .in the life of man
c-st and in.„ke us coniforta
ut happy can be, and is, pro
iu our state.
have the early and the late
a blessing a large pait of
not enjoy, but from
>a s mountain tops to the
leas a nd gurgling rills pours
r i ng waters so assential to
b 11 ^ and happiness. Yes,
fends our possibilities can
! overestimated.
lwho8e lot it has been to
g 1 faster in the county
~have been extremely
late. Go where you
f 11 hear it said may
that we have
F t 0< unity and town la Geor
; e area.
yet neverthelel
people who have eve
a year or more
Ilf Tfin FEnpIe, Bu Ths FehtiIe, Fur Hie PsnpfE.
CONYERS, GA.. FRID AY AUG, 9, 1901
leave but come back
later either dead or alive.
Is it the magnetism in the
the people? or is it the
to eternal gloyy?
Farmers as a rule are a social
people and believe in the
hood of God and the brotherhood
of man ; that the earth was made
all men to till and enjoy the
thereof.
We are the most unsuspicious
people on the top side of tills
We dream not that
unrighteous among us, and
that part of the Good
which tells us “to watch
nell as pray.”
Of late it is said that our wealth
$1,200 per capita. Now, if
be true, there should be no pover
in thi* land ; and again, if
be true, some have more than
for all wealth in its origin¬
ality comes from the soil, and
those who till the soil are not rich
but they should be independent
comfortable.
The southern farmer ought to
can be, if he will, the most in¬
of all men. We have
the advantage in climate of any
country. We produce all oi
the vitalizing crops of the world
no other part of the world cai
with us in in growing cotton
Egypt and most all other
that attempt to grow cot
ton do it by irrigation. But here
we have the early and the later
and nature has fixed it that
great south shall clothe the
fear no competition from any
them. As to Russia, we taught
all she kn r ws about cotton
in the years of 1886 and
1888. We taught her well, too.
She has to import her seed eveiy
and depends largely on iivi
consequently she will not
much of a figure iu the pro¬
of this staple.
So you see we have a monopoly
this most wonderful crop. No
crop can compare with it.
crop has, after it is harvested
long a life. Properly cared for
believe it will keep fifty years.
has been kept thirty cr more
and then spun and woven as
years’s cotton. It bears
with less loss and less
than any other product that
or feeds man. Together
this great staple, we grow the
two vitalizing crops to per
viz: corn and wheat.
Then, why should we not be the
and most prosperous
on this globe?
There is but one reason. We
,re not organized. Farmers are
litre sheep—one wolf can
t re whole flock, and one
speculator will scatter a
farmers. We are all at
on ms own plank at the mercy
tne waves and the sharks.
should put our planks together
niaicea ship strong enough to
tne waves and land us into
haven of rest. Will we do it?
We can. if we will. It is
ble for the land owners,
and business people of the
to organize in-self-defense.
is a clay of organization. It
come to stay and as long as
are unorganized they
a orey to speculators and
no control of their crop.
All business and industrial
suits are combining. Yes,
tarmers out west are
ana uricing their corn, wheat
meat, and we southerners are
aoout begging the speculators
cotton manipulators to price
cotton and take it at their own
price.
1 want to again stress the fact
that our cotton has no equal and
that it is the surest money
crown in the world, and that in¬
stead of the cotton growers of
south being the poorest of all
mers we should be the richest,
nest educated and most cultuied
people under the sun.
Organization, and nothing but
organization, will bring about this
great revolution in our life.
We are oftea told that the sup
ply and demand conrtol the price
of cotton. It may have in time
past, but it cuts no figure now.
Combination controls the price
of cotton; combination controls
the price of iron, steel, coal, salt,
sugar, coffee and on through all ar¬
ticles of trade. Neither have we
any overproduction of food or rai
inent. God in His wisdom did
nor, fix His inimitable laws that
wav. He gives us seed time and
harvest every year, and every year
provides for it'elf. He establish¬
ed this rule when the children of
Isarel set out on their journey to
tne promised land. Ilegave them
dav by day their daily bread.
Sorne years we have bountiful
crops and other years wo have
crops, so the equilibrium is
kept up and all in all production
oniv keeps up with the inciease
of demand and it will not be but a
tew years before there will he a
demand for a 20.C JO.000 bale crop
of cotton. All intelligent farmers
with five years’ experience knows
that with cotton 10 cents per
pound —1 .ruling » a hard road to
travel, consequently our sous leave
the farms for easier and more
profitable work. If we would
ganize it would be just as easy
get 10 cents for our cotton as it
to get 5 cents now.
Good prices for cotton and
by-products will not only build
up the country, but will build
all business ojenpations and
fes?'ons and make the cotton grow
ing states the Eden of the world,
Then let us come together in
Cotton Grower’s Protective
ciation that we may put a
able price on our lint cotton
cotton see and gin our own cotton
where we please.
Col. W A Broughton, of
Ga , president of the Cotton
ers’ Protective Association
Georgia, has been instructed
is anxious to complete the
zation as soon as possible in
state. Hen. Harvie Jordan,
ident of the Interstate Crowers’
Protective Association, is now in
Texas rapidly organizing
state, and if it was possible to or¬
ganize the south in sixty days the
present growing crop of cotton
would net us $100,000,000 more
than it will otherwise.
Grganizat’on is our salvation.
The Good Book tells ue that “a
prudent man forseeth the evil and
hideth himself, butthesnnpie pass
on and are punished.” Will we
bo prudent and save the golden
haivest that our great staple
brings in every land and country
where cotton is manufactured and
make ourselves easy and comfort¬
able, or will we be on simple, un*
organized and continue to punish
ourselves with poverty ■; and
want? Time only will tell.
And now in conclusion, I wish
to say that all old time customs,
which we have liv^d under so well,
m the way of working our public
roads is to be done away with. I
am glad oir ordinary,Judge Helms
whom I know to be one of the best
ordinanes in the state, is w ith us
to-day, and I believe will agree
with me that under tins new sys¬
tem of working roads, we need a
of commissioners of roads
revenues. We ought to have
board of five commissioners, one
from each of the four militia dis¬
and one from the city of Con
Why we want one from Con¬
isthat ourcity friends will have
pay a property tax, and our pop¬
d< ctrine, or as some would
democratic doctrine, is no tax¬
without representation.
is it wisdom to place too
power in the hands of one
not even in a man with so
wisdom and integrity of
as our distinguished ordi
Judge Helms has a white ele-
o CO CO m
pliant on his hands and knows not
whether to take hold of his snout
or tail. So much responsibility
will either kill him or get him
so the devil will not have him, for
some days m the flexibility of this
road law we are to pay five dol¬
lars or ten days, or one dollar and
fifty cents or three days work, and
at all times a property tax.
Judge Helms will aid us in pre¬
curing a Board of Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues. Now is
the time to login. I favor good
roads if th iy must be had by tax¬
ation ; we are all interested in this
subject, We are told “that in the
multitude M council there is safe¬
ty” and we say in a Board of Com¬
missioners of Reads and Revenues
there is safety.
A Minister’s Good Word.
“I had a severe attack of bil¬
ious colic, got a bottle of Cham¬
berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Di¬
al rhoea Remedy, took two dos¬
es and was entirely cared,’says
Rev. A. A. Power, of Emporia.
Kan. My neighbor acroas the
street waa sick for over a week,
had two or three b./tiles of med¬
icine from the doctor, He used
them for three or four days
without without relief, then call
ed in another doctor who treat¬
ed him for some days and gave
no relief, so discharged him. I
went over to see him the next
morning. He said his bowels
were in a terrible fix, that they
been running off so long
that it was almost bloody flux.
I asked him if he had tried
Colic, Cholera
Diarrhoea Remedy and he
‘No.’ 1 went home and
him my bottle and gave
one dose: told him to take
dose in fifteen or twen*.
minutes if he did not find re¬
, but he took no more and
entirely cured . 5 } For sale
Gailey Drug Co,
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