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A n n ounceme n t!
NEW YEAR 1905.
TT|TE wish to extend our grateful thanks 1o our customers and friends for their patronage the past year.
▼ f E hare enjoyed the largest year’s business we ever had. We are ready to start out in the New Year
better prepared to serve you than ever before. We have more room, more goods and more capital and we
are always ready to serve you when you need anything in our line.
Thanking you for your patronage in the past and trusting we may continue to do business with you. We
wish for you all
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A Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Your Friends,
Lewis Drug Company,
Phone No. 2. Broad Street. Camilla, Ga<
The Appeal Of Common Sense
And Self-Interest To South¬
ern Farmers.
There was a big meeting of
farmers held atHawkinsville last
Saturday to discuss the cotton
situation, and a paper was sub¬
mitted by Hon. J. Pope Brown,
farmer, chairman of the Railroad
Commission of Georgia ant’ pres¬
ident of the Pulaski County Agri¬
cultural Society, which was unan¬
imously adopted as voicing the
sentiments of the large number
of farmers present.
Mr. Brown presents the sit¬
uation so clearly and points out
the true policy ior the farmers
of the South to pursue with such
convincing argument that it can¬
not fail to impress every* cotton
planter who reads and thinks.
Mr. Brown’s paper should be
read by every farmer, and for
that reason the Enterprise
prints it. It follows:
“December 24, 1903, middling
cotton brought 12 cents here;
December 24. 1904, middling cot¬
ton brings 64 cents here.
“December 24,1903, the cotton
crop was supposed to be notover
10,000,000 bales; December 24,
1904, the cotton crop is supposed
t° be not less than 12,000,000
bales.
“A crop of 10,000,000 bales at
11 cents brings $600,000,000.
“A crop of 12,000,000 bales at
64 cents brings $390,000,000.
“This is the story simply told
as it has been told before.
“Which do we prefer: $600,
000,000 or $390,000,000. That is
the question for us to decide—
upon our actions the whole mat¬
ter rests.
“We can be the most indepen¬
dent people on earth or the most
dependent—-the choice lies with
the farmers of the South.
“Old England and New Eng¬
land spinners would reduce us
to serfdom if we take their ad¬
vice, such as was published in
some of our journals before the
present crop was planted.
‘Plant for 12,000,000’ was the
cry sent broadcast over the land.
It was the voice of Jacob, but the
hand of Esau. The New England
spinner says we must produce
15,000,000 bales aud calls upon
the railroads to flood the South
with labor. To that end they
would assist the spinners in their
immigration schemes, pauperizt
the labor of the South, and, as
Ireland is to England, so would
the South become to New Eng¬
land.
“We congratulate the last leg¬
islature that it refused to become
a party to the scheme, and re¬
fused to contribute financial aid
for the importation of pauper la¬
bor, thus placing a tax upon our
lands which would render them
worthless except to the spinners.
That the spinners should want
cheap cotton is hut human, but
we should not be expected to
pay for the rope with which to
break our own necks.
“It is urged by some of our
friends that if we don’t make it
at the other fellows price, that
we can no longer enjoy the proud
distinction of having a monopoly
of the cotton-raising business.
“The price of cotton is not a
question in which the farmer
alone is interested, the banker,
merchant, and all others are
equally interested. It is not an
individual question nor a county
question nor a state question,
but a Southern question. Is
there manhood enough in the
South to solve it to our own in¬
terest rather than to the interest
of New England.
‘‘Many farmers have neglected
their food crop. They must buy
supplies to be paid for with 6
cent cotton. With the usual acre¬
age planted, it will take much
cotton at six cents to pay ex¬
penses, therefore, a big crop
must be planted again and the
food crops neglected, thus the
endless chain will will keep us at
the mercy of the bears—we will
complain and whine because the
bears will not help us, as if we
thought they were not human
hut divine.
“We beg the bankers to assist
us, and be it said to their credit,
they are willing. We complain
at the ginners’ report, which in
truth was inaugurated in the ir:
terest of the spinner, but if the
truth should be concealed the
advantage would only be tempor¬
ary.
“We complain that the Agri¬
cultural Department seems not
to be in sympathy with us—and
we commend the efforts of Con¬
gressman Livingston to know all
the facts. But in all and after
all the farmers must be the arch¬
itects of their own fortunes, and
can we succeed or must we fail?
“During the next three months
is the time to decide the answer.
We can succeed, if we will, by
planting only ten acres of cotton
to the plow.
“Ten acres of cotton to the
plow. Let this be the slogan
from one end of the cotton belt
to the other.
“It may be said that the cut is
too deep, but the trouble is next
to the bone, and the remedy to
be effectual must be heroic
“Ten aci’es of cotton to the
plow will stop the importation of
corn, mules, pbrk, wheat, hay,
lard, butter, chickens and eggs.
Our own field will then produce
these things in abundance better
than we can buy.
“Ten acres of cotton to the
plow means one-half the work
and double the profit, It con¬
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verts the life of the farmer from
one of drudgery to one of pleas¬
ure. It will restore the fertility
of the land and build up the
waste place.
“It will fill the country with
^•osperous and happy families,
build up the roads, build school
houses and churches and bring
back the Southland to what God
intended it—the home of the far¬
mer who will receive the plaudit
‘Well done’ because he has used
the fields as nature intended they
should be.
“We recommend that a cru¬
sade be made in favor of ten
acres of cotton to the plow. We
recommend this idea to the in¬
terstate convention soon to meet
and suggest that missionaries be
put in the field in every congres¬
sional district, in every cotton
growing state and organize the
farmers for self-protection and
have every member first to sign
an oath to plant only ten acres of
cotton to the plow.
Providence only helps those
who help themselves. We now
have an opportunity to throw off
the shackles. Don’t let it pass;
it may not soon return.
“We think cottonseed at the
present prices should be used as
fertilizer. We do not advise sel¬
ling for less than $20 per ton,
but if any one is compiled to
sell we advise farmers who are
able to buy them as manure in¬
stead of buying commercial gu¬
ano.
“The oil mills are paying $10 a
ton for seed and claim to make
only$l per ton by crushing them.
Let the farmers pay the mills $1
per ton for commission and use
the seed far manure. Farmers
who sell seeds buy corn and those
than sell corn buy seed.
“We advise the purchase of
guano on a cotton basis and ad¬
vise making notes due Dec. 1.
“We would also advise farmers
to be as sparing as possible and
if they have not sowed oats to do
so immediately after the holidays
and plant other crops to supple¬
ment the food crops.”
F. & A. M. Officers For 1905.
At the recent election of the
Camilla Lodge F. &. A, M, held
for the purpbse of electing offi¬
cers for the year 1905, the follow,
ing were re-elected:
I. A. Bush, Sr., W. M.
D. W. Faireloth, S. W.
Wilburn Williams, J. W.
J. L. Palmer, Secretary.
E. V. Faireloth, Treasurer.
A. G. Shirah, Tyler. .
Camilla Lodge is in a flourish*
ing condition with a steady in¬
crease in new membership.
Taking Stock.
Our stores will be closed Mon¬
day Jan. 2nd, until Friday night
Jan. 6th, inclusive, for our an¬
nual inventory. We will appre¬
ciate it if our friends will fill their
immediate wants before date
mentioned. After our inventory
our doors will again be opened
and we want to make the coming
year a record breaker. Give us
your business, and we assure all
that we will make an effort to
please you.
Yours truly,
Camilla Supply Co.