The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-01

afford 70 lose one crop, much less two
II rotation. Behold the sad coase-
quences to these mistaken bnt best Of
men! The once beautiful farms of
bountiful Hardeman have become bar
ren wastes, in the continued exactions
of the last twenty years, following up
on the skinning work Of the preceding
fifty years Our farms in 1901, are
scanned with yearning gullies and dis
figured with wide extended areas of
sunbaked clay, from which the sur
face soil, with all husnus, has been en-
tirely washed, and from which the last
remaining elements Of plant food
been leached out and extracted in
clean and shallow culture, III an end
less succession of ruinous cotton crops.
Her noble people have for a long
twenty years, suffered all that is in
Guided in the expressive term, "hard
times" Their ca pital (Which is their
SOLD has been exhausted. It could
not have resulted otherwise. Suppose
one Of these lour citizens of Harde-
man) had in 1881, placed $4,000 to
his credit in the bank Of Madison; that
ne hal continued to draw upon this
fund, $1,000 annually, without repla-
cing the amount taken out with other
money put in its place IN the bank;
how lozg would it have been before
his drafts would have been dishonored
because Of 10 funds to his credit?
This process is an exact Illustration Of
the unwisdom of the exhaustive de-
mands we are now making upon our
soil, which is the farmers bank. If
continued, twenty years from to-day
we will all be bankrupted. Then may
be seen 4 touching sight A lean,
hungry looking sheriff. fac smile
Of old Nick himselt-vainly trying to
collect the state and county taxes in
June, in blackberries that we're still
found growing in scattered spots which
the land killer could not appropriate
to cotton raising.
The governor Of the state, ike peer
less Burns muse CATER an excise had
been put upon whisky,) could be seen
sitting fiat in the dust" covered with
sackcloth and ashes, and lamenting
with heart almost bursting with the
plentitude Of woe, the hard fate of
democratic old Hardeman, assevera-
ting ''as goes Hardeman, the demo
cratic salt Of the 10th congressional
district, 30 goes the state. If the salt
has lost its agricultural SAVIOR, where
W tn shallit be salted" And attuning
his lamentations over Hardeman to
those of the sweet singer Of Israel over
his wicked and disgraced but dead
son, he would be heard exclaim-
ing:
"Oh, my son AbsaIom, my son, my son,
Absalom,
Would to GOD I had died for the,
Oh, Absalom, my son, my son"
And there might be seen the cadav-
erous looking clerks Of IIardeman's
courts writing wp from huge dockets,
with ink made from blasted wheat
heads, judgments indiscriminately
against the people. Whilst the law
yers in the sadness arising from despair
| (for they are a tender hearted sYmpa-
thetic race of men, for the first
time had failed to come to the
front.
They are to be seen in back-rooms
of thei Offices drawing up bills of ejec-
ment for John Doe VS.. Richard Roe,
which WIS really loves labor lost, for
if the agriculturally 'snowed-under
Richard should only be notified Of the
legal proceedings contemplated he
would Instant iuake his appearance,
aud willingly transfer Especially to
his bitterest enemies) the possession of
the farm he had reduced to huge
pile of red dirt devoid Of proGu tive
ness; if for no other reason than toput
upon him an elephant which had
stuck to the said Richard as persistent
ly rs did the great horrid horse" to
DIr. Pickwiek AMI his friends OF
their memorial visit 70 "DingIey
Dell"
Now, candor compels NE to admit
that there is some little excuse for the
Hardenan farmer sticking to all cot
ton. He AYERS that he IS precluded
from divelsifying the products Of his
farm beyond the home consumption,
KS the cost Of transportation to market
is such 4 gobbling-up tax upon the
products ofIabor IS to leave no profits
to labor when the exaltions are paid.
/ That cotton stands this tax better than
bulky articles Is because Of its capaci-
ty for enabling the planter to compress
O larger amount Of value in so small
compass that it can thereby the better
stand the exorbitsnt tax upon s'way
= freight" exacted for transportation to
market. But it Is undoubtedly better
that lie should diversity the produc-
= tions Of his labor in different crops