The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-03-06
MILAN CREAMERY.
Mr.. Wilson says Il will be Started--.
enthusiastic Meeting Yesterday.

Mr. wilson says IL Will De othrteu'-'
enthusiastic Meeting Yesterday.
An adjourned meeting Of the friends
of creamery WAS held in the Mayors
office yesterday, when the committee
reported that the product Of more
than two hundred aud Fifty cows had
been guaranteed, and half of the COM
mittee were not ready to report.
Fine speeches were delivered by
Col. McWhirter, state commissioner
of agriculture, assistant commissioner
Gates, Ga ot. j. W. Morton and others,
all encouraging the scheme. We have
not room togive details, but announce
that Mr., Wilson says he will start to
work on the creamery right away. In
the meantime, the committee will
continue tn enroll the names of those
who will furnish cream. We give
Col. McWhirters remarks below;
Mr.. Chairman and Gentleman Farm
ers Of Gibson county:
This is not the first time that |
have had the pleasure of visiting your
beautiful and thrifty town of Milan,
hut it is the first time that | have had
the honor of pressing the hands Of
your farmers and Kidding them God
speed in the noble, the eevating and
the pleasant avocation they have
chosen.
Upon the success Of agric lltural
pursuits depend all other industries in
our land. Were it not for the persist
ent, the never ending toll Of the
farmer and the result of his labor,
this aud all other countries would pres
sent a barren waste. But for agri-
culture these structures of brick aud
mortar and of wood, these ar .eries of
trade and OF travel that pass your
thresholds, would never have been
built, or having beyn constructed
would mould and rot.
You represent an economy which is
notalone the found: ION stone butlhe
key to individual aud state and ma
tional grandeur and wealth.
Do you profit by your position?
How often do your representatives in
the state or national councils misrep-
resent you? How long will you per-
nit this misrepresentation?
Your national congress is now stir,
ring to deprive you of the only local
currency you enjoy. The demouili-
cation of silver will prove the death
wall to agricultural pursuits through,
out the length and breadth of the
Union. DO your representatives
ia your state legislature represent you
in the enactment of laws which will
protect your property rights in the
propagation Of sheep? Do they Ell.
act laws that will afford your dairy
products protection from those wills
famous compounds Of oleomargarine,
hutlerine or suine? Do they repre-
sent you upon the subject Of an ops
tional County mean no fence law?
Upon this subject of "N1 fence or
pound law, my friends, it is difficult
to compute the savinglhat would flow
to the Tennessee farmer from this law
alone. We have a four mile liquor
law Why not Insist upon county
option uo fence law?
The farmers Of Tennessee represent
81 per cent. OF its voting population,
and by organization they can direct
the legislation of the state in all mail
tiers pertaining 10 an elevated and sue
cessful agriculture. Will they do ilp
Gentlemen: We have met here to.
day more particularly to talk about.
the advantages this community may
derive from creamery thoroughly !
and established within the
precincts of your beautiful and
healthy town. An intelligent aud
enterprising citizen of Iowa, Mr.. vii. |
son, a gentleman we'll acquainted
with the creamery business in all its
details, has concluded to cast his for
tunes and plant his ready money here
with yOn if you will guarantee to him
the cream from 300 cows. He does
not ask you to invest one dollar in
this plant, exclusive of the cows
necessary to run the creamery and the
cream delivered to his gatherers from
these cows. Permit me to say that
the farmers of this section cannot af- /
ford to let this favorable opportunity /
escape them. Had Mr.. Wilson have /