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and “suppressed.” Here again ap
pears to be collusion and fear of pub
licity. What it portends we know not.
The small farmer only wants an hon
est test of his milk, a fair price for
his butter fat, and to sell his skim milk
calf made into baby beef for what he
is worth, nor is he the clown you
think him; he has a school house
every three to four miles; Old Glory
floats proudly over these school
houses; it is a distinction to the boy
named “to raise the flag”; these chil
dren sing the Star Spangled Banner,
repeat the sermon on the Mount and
believe in Santa Claus, to them George
Washington’s hatchet, Patrick Henry’s
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.”
Ben Franklin’s kite, Tea in Boston
Harbor, the Minute Man, Lexington
and the Old Liberty Bell, are vivid
realities. When you meet our boys
on our quiet country lanes, they come
with firm, elastic step, heads up, bright
faces, pride of country stamped all
over them. “Breathes there a man
with soul so dead” as to be willing
to tell these children that these are
all illusions? The farmer has always
been the mainstay of the country,
stood for law, order, the state; he
regards the packer, the railroad and
all other parts of commerce and trade,
his friends; because they are an in
tegral part of the great nation of which
he is so proud, but force him to go
to his children; tell them it is a dream,
that conditions are unequal, that mat
ters have reached the point where
the things George the Third imposed
on the Colonies were mild compared
to his burdens and he will not do
like the French peasant, whose only
instincts were to kill, but will in
voke the parasite of of money, and
usurped power, beginning as follows:
We hold these truths to be self-ev
ident, that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their crea
tor with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness.
That to secure these rights gov
ernments are instituted among men;
deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed; that when
ever any form of government has
become destructive of these ends, it
is the right of the people to alter or
abolish it.
The indictment folowing will be very
similar to the counts in the original
document. J. W. SIMCOCK.
New Boston, Mich., Feb. 15, 1907.
THE INDEPENDENT FARMER.
(The Coffee County News.)
A news item in one of the big dail
ies last week should cause every farm
er in Georgia to take notice, says the
Nashville Herald. The item is to the
effect that a farmer in northeast Geor
gia is the champion cotton holder of
the state. He has held all his cotton
of the last three crops and is still
holding it while he is planting a
fourth crop.
Now it is not for us to say whether
or not it is the best financial policy
for the farmer in question to hold his
cotton so long. He may have not
made any money by the operation.
The thing that impresses us Is, that he
is ABLE to hold it. And he is able
to hold it for the reason that he raises
every bushel of corn, every bale of
hay, every pound of meat and every
thing else that a farm of that section
can produce to support itself.
The northeast Georgia farmer is not
the only one in the state that raises
on the farm the necessities for the
farm. Many others in that section
and numbers here in south .Georgia
do the same thing, but his plan, or
mode of procedure in preparing him
self to hold his cotton, is the key to
the whole thing. This plan, if fol
lowed by the mass of farmers, will
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
THE EVANGELISTS
Sy SAM W. SMALL
Lift up the gates and let them in who come
In Christ’s name —Man’s name —and for sacrifice!
They come with Love aflame in all their eyes
For those submerg’d in sin’s unfathom’d slum,
Or those whose crying need through pride is dumb,
And those behind the bars in whom Hope dies
Because they do not know how in them lies
God’s gift of Charity, its strength and sum!
Like those who fared from far iu days of old,
To honor Him who came to save the lost,
So come these wise men of this later day,
With that same spirit of desire to hold
A helping hand and rescue at what cost
The millions whom the world would cast away!
be the greatest factor in solving the
south s prosperity.
Suppose the farmers generally had
been in the condition of the one in
question and carried out his plans, or
a part of them at least? Cotton would
have been fifteen cents now instead of
ten or eleven cents.
With this plan every farmer owns
and controls his own warehouse. He
holds as long as he pleases. He sells
when he gets ready; no storage
charges to pay. He is absolute mas
ter of the situation. If the farmers
throughout the cotton belt would adopt
this plan the financial world would be
at their feet.
TOBACCO VS. COTTON.
(The Gwinnett Journal.)
King Cotton is just about to be de
throned in Decatur county. And this
condition is not surprising when it
is known that in this county last year
there was raised over 1,500,000 pounds
of tobacco. All of the shaded tobacco
brought from 60 to 75 cents per pound.
It requires an expenditure of $250 or
S3OO per acre to produce shaded tobac
co, and usually about 1,000 pounds of
tobacco are raised to the acre.
Sixteen miles from Bainbridge is
located the Cohn Tobacco Syndicate,
at Amsterdam. This plantation is said
to be the largest tobacco farm in the
world, employing over 3,000 hands.
Since it has become an established
fact that Decatur county alone pro
duces more tobacco annually than the
whole state of Georgia, the lands in
this section known to be tobacco lands,
are bringing fancy prices. Hon. W.
E. Smith who has a plantation ten
miles below here, was offered $115,000
for his place a few days ago, but re
fused to accept it. .
LIVE-AT-HOME FARMERS.
(The Dublin Courier.)
Judging from the press dispatch
Mr. Pierce Is all right, but we vent
ure the assertion that before he be
came a “hog and hominy” man he
attended all of the farmers* institutes
held in his section, subscribed for
several farm papers, read all of the
bulletins issued by tho agricultural
department and the experimental sta
tions and generally informed himself
as to his duties as a farmer.
Attend any agricultural meeting or
farmers’ institute and you will see
present the men who raise their own
farm supplies and have credit at the
banks. The men who will not go
out to these meetings are those who
are farming in a haphazard way and
may or may not succeed.
There are men who have made
themselves what they are, but it is
rare that one such be found. Educa
tion by absorption is a good thing and
many of our best farmers learned
what they know from others. They
can best learn by attending farmers’
meetings and exchanging experiences.
We venture the assertion that Mr.
Pierce is a great reader of farm lit
erature and never fails to attend any
meeting where he is likely to learn
something about farm life.
SOUTHERN RESTLESSNESS.
(Southern Farm Magazine.)
It is estimated that within the past
40 years at least 2,500,000 natives of
the south have made their homes
elsewhere, and that at present there
are at least 1.500.000 of them absent
from the south. The deficit is being
made up by a constantly accelerating
movement of men of other parts of the
country toward the south at the rate
of between 2,00,000 and 300,000 a year,
thanks to a long-sustained and intel
ligent campaign made largely by the
railroads of the south. This move
ment is bound to overcome to a great
extent the restlessness of southerners
within the south.
How great that restlessness was dur
ing the last quarter of the 19th cen
tury is suggested by the fact that, in
1900 while 4,363,624 natives of the 14
southern states and the District of
Columbia were living in states where
they had not been born, the 14 states
and the District had within their bor
ders only 3,456,368 natives of other
states than the states of their res
idence ,a balance aggregating 907.256
against individual states. The unfa
vorable balance aggregating 2,065,-
460 was against nine states, as fol-
lows: Virginia 453,148, Kentucky 330,-
456, Tennessee 297,522, North Carolina
244,335, Georgia 216,779, South Caroli
na 178,076, Alabama 161,110, Maryland
105,145, and Mississippi 78,889. Against
this should b e set a favorable balance
aggregating 1,158,204 in five states and
the District of Columbia, as follows:
Texas 630,055, Arkansas 233,644, Flori
da 125,293, District of Columbia 103,-
751, West Virginia 48,453 and Louis
iana 27,008.
ALL RIGHT IN CRISP.
(The Cordele Rambler.)
The Farmers’ Union is progressing
all right in this neck of the woods.
As yet, there are no patriotic politi
cians telling u s what to do, but it will
not be very long before a lot of these
benevolent gentlemen will condescend
to give us a lot of advice, such as
“keep out of politics,” etc., but the
Union is composed of full grown men
who are entirely capable of managing
their affairs without the aid of the
small-fry politician.
TARIFF REVISION.
(The Houston Post.)
“We have long felt that the Demo
crats have not paid enough attention
to the demand for tariff reform and we
still believe it is the issue which prom
ises the best results next year. There
are so many evils allied with tariff
spoliation that if the Democrats are
once able to secure the attention of
the voters some wholesome changes
may be looked for, beginning with a
Democratic victory at the polls.”
THE PEOPLE’S FAULT.
(New Orleans Picayune.)
People who possess the constitution
al power to govern their communities
and rights of the people, and either
and to protect society and the lives
through corruption or pusillanimity
and cowardice permit a gang of ras
cals to govern them, are only fit to be
slaves under an absolute despotism.
They are far below the level of the
Russian peasant who are just now
awakening to the idea that they are
men and possess political and social
rights.
HOME FERTILIZERS.
(The Dublin Times.)
The members of the Farmers’ Union
of South Carolina are discussing the
question of home manufacture of all
fertilizers. It seems likely that some
such plan will be adopted.
WHOSE VERSION?
(The Louisville Courier-Journal.)
There is but one platform for the
Democrats to stand on in the next na
tional campaign, and that is the con
stitution of the United States. “Back
to the constitution” should be our
rallying cry. That constitution em
bodies a remedy for every evil—So
cialism, Populism, Hearstism. Even
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness let Mr. Bryan lift up the
constitution on the hustings.
IS IT A FAMILY TRAIT?
(The Mineapolis Journal.)
The king of Siam, called “the broth
er of the moon,” is to visit the United
States soon. The king will visit us at
the full of his brother.
IN PLAIN ENGLISH.
(The Portland Oregonian.)
We shall have less stealing at the
bottom of society when we have less
at the top of it. A grafter is noth
ing but a thief, rich or poor.
HAVE TO HUSTLE.
(The Indianapolis News.)
Cheer up, Mr. President! Existing
conditions absolutely protect most of
us from “a life of effortless ease,”
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