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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1890)
OFPCAL ORAN O WARISOS CONTY b gAtgy e i SI.OO PER ANNUM. e isarhmnpiana i, JAS. R.GRIFFITH, Editor and Propsictor. e bk bt Entered at the Post-office at Buchanan Georgia, as second-class mail matter, Buchanan, Georgia, October, 10, '9O. ————W Wmn. Sims and Edward Forrest were killed and J. M. Stillwell and Peter McCann were fatally injur ed by the explosion of a cotton gin ] boiler on Mr. Sillwell's planta tion, near Griffin, last Monday. ‘ Judge Sam Lawrence of Mariet ta died last Thursday morning. Judge Lawrence was# very promi nent in the Masonic fraternity. It is said that he wrote several books on Mansoury and was con sidered the highest authority in the United States on Masonic Ju risprudence. E 0 SR R Geroge Ramspect, Jr., the sev enteen-year-old son of George Bamspect, of Decatur, aceidental ly ghot himself last Friday morn ing while cleaning a revolver. The ball took effect in the lower portion of the abdomen. It is‘ feared that the wound will prove fatal. Boys, be careful how you handle old pistols. ‘ The county alliance of Decalb has passed a resolution requesting their Representatives and Sen ator elect to the next general as gsembly to use their influence to defeat Gen. Gordon, and to vote for no man who is not fully in ac cord with alliance principles and measures, and squarely upon the alliance plaform, sub-teasury and all. Is there any democracy in such rerolutions? Martin V. Calvin, the Alliance member to the Legislature from Richmond coanty declared public ly during the primary that he would vote for General Gordon first last and all the time if he should be elected. After Mr. Cal vin was elected the county alli ance, of Richmond, passsd a reso lution requesting him to vote against Gordon. In reply to this request Mr. Calvin said that it was a religious duty for him to obey the instructions given him by the Democracy of Richmond county ; that he stood to day as he did the day of the primary and would cheerfully rep resent the Democracy rather than comply with the instructions of the Alliance. : WOOLFOLX TO HANG. Tom Woolfolk was resenten ced by Judge G. I, Gober in Houston Superior conrt last Thursday to hang on Wednes day, October the 29th. The exccution will take place at Perry, within one m&f of the count house, and in p&blic. In response to the question from the Judge, Wooltolk said: “I have nothing to say except 1 am innocent of the erime charg ed. I didn’t doit, but I had rather be in my grave than be alive under the circumstances that surround me, I am an innocent man. o fays Evathing a 0 Mum. " Was there ever such a political muss in Georgia? Gordon and Norwood and Livingston and Peek all fussing, and ex-Governor Smith and Judge Hines in the bushes with their coats off. Gordon says Norwood is a demagogue and uses langnage on Livingston. Of course they had to bring poor Tom Lyon mto it as a side show. But Tom can stand it. Norwood says he does not like the word ‘demagogue, and challenges Gor don for a talk. They all seem to be friends te the farmer, and are almost ready to die for him, Thisi sndden and extraordinary love for the poor farmers is very touching and pathetic, and I wish there were four or five Senators to elect. Such devotion deserves to be re warded. To a man up ina tree the whole thing looks peculiar, i and somehow reminds us of the soldier who got scared early andl wanted to go home. So, while‘! the minnie balls were singing and whistling all around him, he was found behind a tree with his arms outstretched, and was waving them up and down vigorously. “What are you doing, Jake?” said a comrade. ‘I want to go home,”’ said he, “and I'm waving for a furlongh.’”” He wanted to get shot in the hand. There is many an office seeker, many a po litical soldier waving for a fur lough now. What is all this racket about, anyhow? Who started it? Who told the farmers that they were oppressed and mistreated and im posed upon by all the rest of man kind? General Gordon says he ‘has been sympathizing with them for seventeen years, and Mr. Nor ‘wood has been troubled all his life about them, Governor Smith is awful sorry for them. Living ston has wept in great anguish for them. Well, it must be a bad, sad case, but to save my life I can’t cry a bit. I wish I could. When I see folks weeping all around me, and I can’t shed a tear, it makes me suspect my own heart. I'mafraid I've got callonsed in my old age. 1 farmed as hard as I could for eleven years, and never.found out that I was oppressed. I worked in the field with my boys. We planted and plowed and hoed and mowed grass and raised horses and cattle, and sold our produce for a good price. Our corn always breught fifty cents a bushel at the crib and our hay S2O a ton, and nobody ever came and told me I was imposed upon, and I was such a fool I nev er found it out. Joe Bradley has been farming righ close by me for twenty years and hasn't found it out yet. He must be an awtul fool. Joe used to bring his cotton to my gin before I got up and 1 asked him one day how he man-% aged to make so much cotton and corn and wheat and oats, and ruisel so many fat hogs, and send his daughter to town to school, and buy a piano, and all that. Joe smiled and said: ‘“Well, youn must know that if I don’t see the sun,l rise in the morning 1 have the headache all day, and as my house‘ ie down in the hollow, Ihave to go to the corn field or the cotton patch to sce the sun rise.”” Tl'll bet $lO that Joe don’t belong to the alliance. He hasn’t got time. When a rainy day comes you will find him in hig work shop making J PAR SRR TR, |RTR Nl a@@f&%”@*é%hl‘*&wfi yard manure aud puts it on his land. Ihad one tenant who work ‘ed hard and prospered. I had two others who were always behind. They had a power of business at the mill or at town, or at some meeting house, and when the creek was muddy they were just obliged to go seining. Their crops were always in the’ grass,‘ and they are in the grass yet I reckon. They belong to the alli snce, and are waiting for some thing to turn up. This is plain talk, but it is true talk. The greatest enemy the farmer has got is his own indolence. No man succeeds at anything who does not work diligently. If a man wonlk work as hard or his farm as Rube Satterfield does in his store, he would prosper. Mr. Sat terfield is a good merchant. He is at his store before I get up. His dinner is sent to him on business days. After supper he goes back to his store and works on his books. He is never idle, and is making money. It is the same way with all trades and prefes sions. It is very nice and pleas ant to sit about and talk and read the news, but the lawyeys in this town who get most all the busi ness are rarely seen on the streets, and they entertain no loafers. Diligence, diligence is the secret of success, and diligen¢e ought to be the secret password of the alli ance. 1 wish I knew exactly who it was that is oppressing the poor farmer. I think I would get a big stick and go for him. 1 wish I knew the distress that hangs like a mi‘llstoné_ over my friends, Gus Bates and Tom Lyon, and old man Burge, and C. M. Jones, and Connor, and Tumlin, and John Brown, and a host of !other big farmers in the county. ‘They have all go t rich enough to Jeave home when they please and send their children off to college, but still they are mnot happy. ‘They seem to think we have been doing something against them, but I declare upon my honor I hav en’t. They say they wanta ware house and a loan from govern ment, so they can hold their cot ton and force the manufacturers. to pay 15 cents a pound for it. Just so—the great west wants warehouses for their grain, so as to moke us pay $2 a bushel for wheat and $1 for corn. 1f this thing all happens, what is to be come of me? 1 won’t have more than a shirt and & half all the yearround, and my wife will wear her eyes out patching undergar ments. Carl and Jessie won't have but one biscuit apiece and nothing but tartars to cary to school, What will become of the shoemaker and the blacksmith and the carpenter and the brick mason and the day laborer? What will become of all the poor folks and the negroes and the cotton pickers? I have before me the tables of the last census, and I find that there are 4,250,000 famers in the United States, and there are‘; 13,000,000 laborers—toilers—wor-, king people whe are not farmers. There are over 3,000,000 laborersi on the farms who work for wages. What will they say to flour at ssa‘ 100? There are over a 1,00,000 f mechanics and nearly as many{ railroad operators and half as many milliners and factory hands, “ women and children.. What is to become of them if the farmers get up a new corner on the nessariesi otk pavrastit shotKes Abotistiod he duty on grain and the insoriy tion on Lis monument is *‘He guve the poor cheap bread.’’ o ‘ltell you my farming friends, this thing will not do. You bave gone far beyond reason in your demands. Demagogues have led you astray—l say it considerately J ——demagogues have led youn far away from the original purposesi of your order. Don’t yen knw that you will never live to see your ¢otton in a governmeut ware, house? Don’t yon know that you will never see a dollar of that §64, 000,000 that your leaders say is coming right away from England to advance on your cotton? Don't you know that all these promises are a delusion and a snare and will fade into a mist after the elections are over? Ido confess to some grief and mortification over the eredulity of my farmiug friends. I feel kut little interest in politics. My politics is for the South to go on prospering as she has done since the war The farmer, the laborer, the mechanic, the merchant—every class has prospered. Diligence in business. and a contented disposition will mak us all happy. There are no people upon earth that have as much to be thankful for as we have. 1 feel like lam alone in these views, for I know that the press is against me, and most of the pecple, but I feel better for lhaving kad my say whether it pleases anybody else or mnot. I} [see politicians dancing and pranc ing around the alliance, and ta]k-f ing big about corn and cotton who' don’t know the difference bet-ween‘l a bull-tongne and a twister.‘ ‘Heard of one the other day who said that there would be a very short crop of cotton for he had no ticed that the red blossoms were all falling off. He said that just as soon as a poor farmer had any thing to sell the price went down. Cotton was down, fodder had drop ped from $2 a hundred to sl, and sweet potatoes had already gone down to 60 cents a bushel, and in two months from mnow corn would fall 25 or 50 per cent. We must bhave a big warehouso, said he, and store the produce and keep it until the specuvlators and the mo nopolists are wiped out. Maybe that man wants to be a friend to the farmer, but he don’t know how. He knows nothing of the. lawe of supply and demand. Dur ing the tabernacle meeting I had to pay 25 cents for chickens that hadn’'t done sucking. Before that they were plenty at 15 cents. The Methodist preachers did that, but they didn’t mean to and I'm mnot complaining. I'll do anyshing for a preacher. Bru. Are. Pronounced Hopeless, Yet Saved. From aletter written by Mrs’ Ada E. Hurd of Grotton. S. D. we quote: ““Was taken with a bad cold, which settled on my Lungs, cough set in and finally termina ted in Consumption. Four doctors gave me up saying I could live but a short time. I gave myself up to my Saviour, detirmined if I could not stay with my friends on earth* I would meet my absent ones above. My husbanp wasad vised to get Dr. king’s New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles; it has cured ‘me and thank God lam now a well and hearty woman.’”” Trial bottle free at Neill & Cos., Buchanan, ‘W. H. and G. R, Prices, Waco. regular size, 50c and 1,00. Ve “’W’é”""” . 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