The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-07-14
WEST TENNESSEE FARMERS AS
ISOLATION.
FellO,O-Farmers Of West Tennessee:

Farmers Association for West Ten
nessee similar to the Farmers Asso>
Citations already organized and suc>
cessfully operating in East and Mid,
die Tennessee, the following resolu-
tons were passed:
Resolved, That this meeting APP
point committee of FIVE to issue an
address to the farmers of West Ten>
nessee, calling them in convention at
jackson, on the 18th day of August
next, for the purpose of organizing
farmers association for West Tennes-
see. That this committee also to
prepare a plan of organization for
said association and present the same
to the general convention. That the
committee be further empowered to
appoint subcommittee to arrange for
and provide barbecue and dinner
for the occasion, and this committee
be further empowered to take any
action necessary to carry out the
above plan. The report was unani-
mousily adopted with the following
amendment.
Resolved, That the committee re-
commend and request the farmers in
each civil district of each county in
West Tennessee to meet and form
farmers clubs before the day fixed
for the meeting of the convention,
and see that their sections are repre-.
sented in the convention.
The following named gentlemen
were appointed as committee to car
ry out the plans embraced in the res
olutions adopted above: Capt. A.
D. Hurt, M. V. B. Exum, VIM.
Anderson, Robt. French and w. G.
McCaslin.
We ask and urge your cooperation,
one and all, in the wise and necessary
movement set forth in the resolutions
quoted above.
This is an age of progress, of COM
binations in special interests, of earn
est and far-reaching policies. The
interest that fails to appreciate the
spirit of the times must suffer the
consequences of inaction. Of all the
interests of this country, especially of
West Tennessee, that of agriculture
in its various branches is the over>
shadowing one. And yet other pur-
suits, through the agency of organic
cation and intelligent manipulation,
are out-stripping that of primary pro-
duction, upon which all true prosper
ity and progress rests. This is an
alarming fact and is exercising the
deepest thoght and the profoundest
anxiety of political and social econo-
mists. The threatened evil is over.
development in adjunctive or second
airy lines of industrial lite, develop
ment that is breeding communists,
unsettling society and fostering agra>
rianism by exaggerated growth under
the hot'house policy of sumptuary
legislation. The remedy against the
threatened peril lies in the elevation
and development of the agricultural
interest. Agriculture is the basis of
all national and social health and
prosperity. Farmers the world over
are the conservative force in politics
the power that holds fastest to estab.
lished orders. But in an age like
this-an age in which a single year
counts more than centuries did in
distant times-the agricultural inter.
est must move in its own behalf, or
unfathomed evils will result to socie-
ty and government. We therefore
urge you to meet with us In jackson
the 10th CT August, for the purpose
of organization and cooperation.
Let us combine to make our industry
as powerful in fact as it is in theory.
Let US stand together in demanding
and shaping legislation for our own.