The Southern farm gazette., November 21, 1908, Page 13, Image 13

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How the Government Can Help.
Toni Watson point* < hit the Need of Hotter Foreign Markets,
Better Ih'gulatfon of Trusts, arul More Cotton Manufacturing
at H‘*me.
Much enthusiasm *>« shown when the audience caught sight of
Tom Watson, of Georgia, during the last session of the Farmer* Union
meeting at New Orleans, and hi* happy way of »taUng what he wishe* to
impress on an audience kept up en*hu*iaam to the end of his speech.
«hlch, in part, is as follow*;
"Mr Barrett tell* me that no one
ha* alluded to the fact that the
farmer 1* the backbone of the coun
try. Probably thl* I* *o because no
one baa been able to explain shy
there i* so much backbone That
we hare got spinal trouble of a eery
complicated sort Is very plain. Year
after year, for many year*. I have
devoted my time to atudy of govern
ment a* It relat'-a to the farmer 1
believe It Is generally known that
I am the friend of the farmer, and
1 believe that the Southern farmer
is my friend (except on the Unit
Tuesday In November in Presiden
tial years).
"I take it that this Is a gathering
of serious men for a serious pur
pose. and I will try to explain whs*
is the trouble with the backbone
The Heal Function of (enersorat.
"In cirlllxed government there are
three gr**at departments upon whi'-h
prosperity depend*. Agriculture Is
one, manufacturing Is another and
WHS UITIVT IS SMVUfVV, II »
eminent keep* hand* off and merely
protect* each man In the pos*e**ion
of bit property. It la an open field
and a free fight, root hog. or die*
The Government can do thla. or It
can protect each and every one of
these department*. In which c**e
the result would be about the «atne
•• In the drat. Hut when the Govern
ment taken up one at the expense of
the others, the other two are In
jured When It taken up two at the
expense of the third, the third lan
guishes and suffers Analyse this
situation and you will begin to real
ise what la the matter with the
backbone of the country.”
The Protective Tariff sad the Farmer
Mr. Watson reviewed the hlstor»
of protection in thl* country, and de
dared the manufacturer* have n**t
only made * per cent, but also cleared
|2 000.000.000 be*.dew He said that
the farmer has never asked snrthing
but a free field and a fair fight, and
had been denied these; that he had
never naked to have other mmm«d
ttkt ta**%d to put money In hia own
pocket; that no more unselfish man
a as ever made In Goda image on
• this earth; that when there la a pea
tUwntial swamp to drain, the farmer
drains it; that when there a re taxes
to pay, the farmer pay* them; that
In the early hutory of the country
when there were savages to drive
back It was the farmer who shoul
dered bla musket and did the work
The capture of Andre was referred
to and It was stated that the farmer*
* ho captured him could not he
bribed
The Trusts and Furrift Hsurhete.
"We cotton farmer* of the South
are the only people In the world *ho
have a monopoly and don't know what
to do with It,” continued the speak
er **The steel Tru*t ha* a monopoly
and knows what to do It eell* you
plow*, and hoes and rakes, and you
have to pay the price. The Harves
ter Trust makes you pay the price
And all the lime they are selling tn
South America and Kmarfa at cheap
er prices than at homo. The Coal
Truat fixes the pries of the coal It
la their business to fli the prtew and
>uurs to pay th* price
'Ton*r«**» mold have said: ‘So
I won't burden the agriculturist with
^nch toads a« these Congress could
have broadened your markets, ob
tained greater mercantile trade by
reciprocity and other treaties One
commodity could be exchanged for
another on terms fair to both. But
Its policies have caused the other
nations to adopt retaliatory tactics
and narrowed the foreign markets
to the products of the American ag
riculturist President McKinley sent
a Commission to France to negotiate
a treaty that would hate meant the
entry into that country of cottonseed
product* from the South, valued at
$20,000,000 a year Hut*the Senate
killed It. and killed it because It
contained a clause favoring the im
portation of French hosiery. Some
little old New England mill would
hare ?>een affected, and so $20,000.
00O a y car to the South bad to be
v*cri fired
Why Not Manufacture III Onion at
Home?
"In 1*07, the *a»o of edition abroad
amounted to 9,70S.000 bale* Thl*
cotton »« manufactured and ship
ped bark again and sold at higher
prices, so that the net profit to our
country «a« only f? 000.000. Don’t
that show that »e at# selling cotton
too low 7 Why not manufacture ev
ery bale right here*
W ar»-t*n**■ I'Ua 1 W»t f«*c Immediate
RHM.
The high tariff and trust system
has restricted and narrowed the
market, rut off the demand and left
a surplus The remedy lie* Jn a low
er tariff l^et the foreigner in. re
duce the price of American goods
that are now protected, and thereby
increase the demand for raw cotton
for the greater the demand la the
greater will be the price That’s
the permanent remedy Sow for Im
mediate and temporary relief ! like
that * a rehouse plan That takes It
off The coffee grower* wer# con
fronted with a situation almost slm
liar to that which now confronts the
cotton farmer IHd they swamp the
market »lth their over production*
Xo, they pul all their surplus in
warehouse*, raised the price and
compelled the consumer to pay for
not only what was marketed, but
also for what was never sold at all
llird* Th*i H 111 Help V<w l the
Weevil.
According to the Mississippi Au
dubon Society the following birds
eat the boll weevils and are valuable
In the order named
'Cliff swallow, bank swallow, olive
sided flycatcher, barn swallow, night
hawk, least flycatcher, alder fly
cat* her. orchard oriole, American
kingbird. plpplt, yellow-breasted
chat, pboebe, Carolina wren, kll
deer. meadow lark, dirk sense!, pur
ple marten painted bunting, tow*
hee, shrike, field sparrow, savanni
sparrow, cardinal, mocking bird,
white-throated sparrow, yellow warb
ler. tufted titmouse, cowblrd. red
winged blackbird, brown thrasher,
bronsed grarki#, lark sparrow bob
w hlta."
Forty-sev*n weevil* have W#*n
found In tba stomach of one cliff
swallow.
OATS =. and ===== PEAS
Will enrich roar land. fatten roar stock, and put nionev In
lour pocket. The best war vo plant tame crop* is to u»e
The Cole Grain Drill and Guano Sower
IIKUK ARK MIRK KKASORK:
V >u can *>w oat* anr time in fail or winter and the oats trill not freer* out.
_»od The open furrow* *t the winter ra;a» sink into the earth and thus enrich the
•oil instead of w»*h:n* It aw*r
Jr*i. Heasdr-.i d a « U th.s machine yie'd more full pods, the trines do not fall
down so had i and the drill seres its cost tr ustn* fewer roet) eeed.
tth Os^s will rle.d toorr jier arre ofwn twice a* much
AC. Tbr Dru. is • rth :u cost »» e Guano Distributor for all purposes
The pr-.c* is low enough for earbodj and ret the bi* farmer* cannot bur anrthsn*
wiser They u*» t so preference to the costir two-horse *r*tn drills
Now .» the time to bur Writ* st once for further information
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In every par
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e also make Boden; Tanka and
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Machinists*, and Steam Fitters’ Supplies;
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We solicit your correspondence.
l»o vou haul them to the depot, aell them at ten I
to fifteen dollars per ton, buy the meal at twenty I
to twenty-five per ton aad five away your hulw I
In the trade? Why not make your meal and bulls at I
your g n and save this enormous kim? 1
Wa build a line of plantation cotton aoed hulkrs and ■
aavaratom. < I to 13 tens daily capacity >. that can bo ■
run in connection with any gin or aaw mill and will ■
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