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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,” PAGE SEVEN