The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-07-26
Good Advice.

the following extract from an ad-
dress recently issued by Mayor
Hut, of Macon, Ga, to the people
OF upper and lower Georgia, in
relation to the State Fair.
The address is full of wisdom
and plain practical good sense,
applies not only to Georgia, but
to all the Southern States. We
heartily wish that in every State
of the South there we're a Mayor
Huff, who had the intelligence
and capacity to compose, and the
manliness to utter the sentiments
of this address:
That transportation which foSt-
ers and encourages our improvi-
dence while it deplates our peck
cts, may be the transportation
least of all others wanted in this
country. And the objections now
SO strongly urged against our
railroad systems might not be en-
tirely overcome by these proposed
water lines. 1t it not, however;
the practicability of these grand
schemes for reducing freights that
we must stop now to consider
for no matter how feasible they
may be, Georgia, is in no condi-
ton to wait their completion.
The emergency-bread-is upon
us, and we must go to work, and
60 to work today. We must
teach our boys, by precept and
example, that the great virtue of
life and the necessity of the age is
to be found in the truth of the old
Latin maxim, Labor omnia uincit.
The people of Georgia should new.
er be dependent upon any line or
any system of transportation fo1
the meat and the bread, the hay
and the fertilizers used upon their
farms. Such a policy will bank.
rupt and starve out any people in
the world. Show me the man
with a fat smoke house and vel
filled barn, and l will show YOU
one who is not affected by low
priced cotton or high transporta
ton. On the other hand, point
me to that farmer with lean
smoke house and an empty corn
crib, and l will show you a miSer
ably poor and mistaken wretch
whose dependent and destitute
condition can never be reached by
higa-priced cotton, or relieved il
any way by cheap transportation
The truth is, we have been bet
ting our bottom dollars so long OIL
three fatal cards, called "credit'
cotton" and caterpillar tina
we now have nothing left us bu
our mules and lands; and in sever
cases out of ten these are pledged
to some warehouse firm Tor sup
plies to make this years crop with
And yet, in the face of all Thu
crouching poverty and embarraSs
ment, we learn from the newspa
perS of the country that NOR
land is planted in cotton this yea
than last, or even any year sine
the war. No wonder, then, tina
we should be crying out for NOR
transportation.
Fifteen years ago, when | frs
commenced the produce bushes
in Macon, my little orders fo
grain and meat seldom went fail
er west than the fertile hills Z
Cherokee, Georgia, and the nal
row valleys in East Tennessee.
had time then to write and sen
letters for these supplies and wal
the returns of quotation befoI
buying. L, with other merchant,
purchased there, at our leisure
all that was necessary to suppl
the wants of Middle and Soutl
western Georgia. Now we sen
our immese orders BY Telegraph
wires to the rich fields and broa
plains of Illinois and Missouri
and if, by any chance or i'll lucl
a railroad bridge is burned or
? transfer boat is sunk and a lit
blockade occurs en- route, a pan.
ensues, and a meat, bread, an
hay famine at once threatens ever
man and beast south of Chatt
nooga. This is our miserabI
: poor and helpless condition to-da
fearful and unreasonable as
may appear TO outsiders. 81
, that annual deficiency OF fifty mi
: lions OF bushels of grain in fol
States of Georgia, Alabama, Flo
, ida, and South Carolina, CONNIE
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