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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 * 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¬ gDhomaguillg |gu#mg0$ (Eo1Uhu\ write The for keystone particulars. of success is a Rood business ANSON education. W. BALL, If yon President. are interested^ ^ 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.