The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-15
MEN WHO RUN THEFARMS
TEE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION
IN SESSION.

Richmond county, 4AahS9 IAIp
pesnonse-The Annual Address
nelivered by President Northen.
WAycRoss. GA, Feb 14.-The Georgia
S.o+e Agricultural Convention convened
occording to appointment i'll this city to-
Jav The convention was opened with
nrayer by Rev. DR.. j. NJ. Marshall. Then
.o,,e the address of welcome by Col j. L.
sweat. which was as follows:
n, President and Gentlemen Of the COnUel-
IN behalf of the Ware County Agricultural
cocety. the Mayor and Council of Waycross,
md ali the people of this beautiful and grow
ing Young city extend 70 you most coralal
asen+atiye men from every section OF our be-
ioyed state, and because of the great interest
which you represent an interest which forms
The basis for the prosperity OF every other IN
taraet and about which you have met to take
connsel together. To consider how it is that
his Great underlying interest is not more pros
,oroiis and remuneratlve to those engaged In II.
~. il is that money may be had in the com
nerciaI world at reasonably low rates, to be in
,ested and used in the conduct of almost every
.thor enterprse and class of business. while in
tbe conduct of this great interest which
Won represent either that you cannot get
al ALL or if So at eXorbltant rates,
and if run on the credit system, how, in the
purchase of supplies, you have to pay prices
rninolls In their consequences; and how, at last,
mon the agricultural implements you use, the
fIothing YOU wear, and upon all the neceSsaries
Of life except such as you produce yourselves,
,.ou have finally to pay the duties imposed by
The present unjust and onerous tariff laws, I'M
der the guise and false pretense of practicing
otber struggling industries and the labor therein
oDonloved hut in reality to swell the bank ac
counts of the millionaire mOncpoliSts of the
land and to increase the already large and dan
Consider how you may remedy these evils
which in the past have crippled the great inter
est YOU represent and which threatens its future
prosperity, by improved systems OF farming,
producing everything possible required for
| home consumption, econOmizlng in your eX-
penses and making your voice heard in the halls
If legislation, demanding that these oppressive
and Ubiquitous tariff laws be reformed, and the
present banking system be so changed as that
national banks shall not longer be prohibited
from lending money on land and for such
length of time as may be agreed upon between
the parties. Procalming to the world that
while abstract questions of politics have no place
in your councils, and are not to be here conSld-
cred by you, yet that the great economic sub
iects which in their last analysis are but ques-
lions of food and raiment virtually affecting
the great agricultural interests of the
land, are questions proper for you to
consider here elsewhere and everywhere
Mr. President and gentlemen, in extending
| to YOU TINS welcome, desire to remind you that
/ WaycrOSs was first settled only few short
wears ago, yet, owing largely to the enterprise
Of such philosophical citizens as the late Dr.
Daniel Lott, the late Dr. w. B. Folks, and
others, and it's splendid location as railroad
center it has already reached a population of
$500 or 5000, outstripping older places and
with its heathfulneSS and its numerous superior
advantages is destined at no distant day to oc-
cup the first place in all this section. And in this
connection desire to state that the saying that
CORPORATIONS have souls, has in one sense
proven to be untrue in the history of Waycross,
FOR to the philosophical hberality of Col: H. 5.
Hanes, General Manager, and Capt. r. G.
Fleming, Superintendent of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway and of their subor
dinates very much of the present prosperity and
its future bright prospects is due. During your
stay in our midst we wantsyou to witness the
evidences of prosperity to he seen on every
hand in the diversity and success of our numer-
GUS business enterprises, our churches, our
public schools operated under system re-
Gently adopted, with nearly 900 pupils
in the white school and a Furnishing
colored school, the adaptation of our soil
to agricultural purposes, and especially to
gardening and truck farming, with lines of rail-
road leading to Savannah, Brunswick, Albany,
Townsville and Jacksonville. And we want
your stay among us TO be so pleasant, and the
Impressions which you shall here receive of
wiregrass Georgia to be so favorable that when
you leave us you will go forth giving such testi-
mony of our advantages that into Waycross,
Ware county, and all of wiregress Georgia, the
tide of heathful immigration and capital seek
ing investment shall be turned, and brighter
and better days dawn upon us all.
COL. BARRETT RESPONDS.
Col. James Barrett, of Richmond county,
made the response in happy effort, paying
much eulogy to the thrift of WaycroSs and
her citizens
President Northen followed in his semi
annual address to the society, which was
exhaustive and full of wise suggestions to
the farmers of Georgia. He said that the
common saying had gone abroad that each
descending sun found each day the people
Of Georgia poorer. He asked If this
terrible charge were true, and If so,
were the farmers responsible for it,
He took uD statistics from 1879 to 1887 to
prove that it was not true, showing year
by year that the wealth Of Georgia had in
creased, making in 1887 an aggregate of
SlO7 600 900 increase since 1879. But, said
he, the record answers that the farmers of
Georgia have but little of those shining
heaps Of gold, and perhaps, because OF their
own failure to look to the sources from
whence comes success. He said that the
value of farming lands in Georgia was
$lO4 COG, 900, and that SAC, 0OOOOO OF 1t was
under mortgage, but there was bright
side to the picture. The world is only dark
TO those who look down, the heavens are
Jul Of stars to those who look up. Courage;
Commissioner Henderson made an ex-
haustive report, which was burdened with
practical information.
In the afternoon the Committee on
Agricultural Legislation was called to order
oy chairman j. q. Mccall and retired &c
private rooms
The committee appointed at the last con
vention to draft a constitution and bylaws
ior the farmers clubs in the counties asked
Tor further time
John R. Lewis, of Sparta, addressed the
convention on Farming in Middle Georgia
II was sound, practical lesson of advice
and review.
THE NORTH GEORGIA CRACKER
Col. Newman, of Canton, followed in 6
nappy effort delineating the character and
T,glstoms of the ''North Georgia Cracker.
dis speech, while humorous, captured the
convention and contained many useful
ANTS underneath all of which there was q
patent moral.
Col. De Jarnett, of Eatonton, not being
present., the delivery of his address, 1.-The
Leaks on the Farm, was postponed.
Inc Memorial Committee asked foi
!urt9er time to offer resolutions on tht
geath OF Col. Lewis and DR.. Nell, recently
deceased. Memorials were offered III
memory of Gen. George S. Black, who dice
u loN1, and Alexander NJ. Allen, of Column
ua county, and were ordered spread on the
A COUPLE OF INVITATIONS.
an invitation was extended to the con
,ehtlon by II. w. Reed, proprietor of the