The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-09-28
GRENADA. MISS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S. 1899

of cheaply improving their lands and
counteracting the depress n effect of an
enormous oVer-production.
We are free to admit that we have not
given the subject of recuperating our
lands the attention that its importance
demands, and why have we not done
so? The time for making and hauling
fertilizers is that intervening between
harvesting and marketing one crop and
planting the next, when labor is most
unreliable, and when money, with most
Of us, is scarcer than at any other time.
The fact is we are too poor. 1t takes ali
our crop omeet the Obligations incurred
in making it, and as credit does not open
until planting time comes around again,
it is then 100 late to buy fertilizers or
make composts and haul and apply
manure, at the same time our immediate
necessities az 80 pressing that it is out
OF the question for us to wait two years
tor results from std lands, but are
compelled to utilize the whole II order to
meet expenses and pay debts.
But the Alliance las 70 immedate or
direct interest "in manufactures, trades,
legislation, Constitutional Conventions,
the price OF supplies, the interest on
money, monopolies," says the Gazette.
For twenty-five years the farmer has
buried himself from public concerns, eX-
cept when perioulca!iy called on by his
party to come out and assist in beating
back the common enemy and leaving
on guard the many things he had no
'ilnmediate or direct interest ln," he has
unremitting y and uncomplaining(y ap-
piled himself to the task of feeding aud
clothing the world, and according to
"pleuty ahead' he has succeeded to the
satisfaction of the most eXacting, n
this year of grace, 1889, he unbends his
STOPPING form, relaxes his tired muscles,
wipes the sweat from his sunburned brow
and looks about him to note results, lie
discovers that his lands are poorer than
they were of yOre, his garments are ta'>
tered, his children are growing up in
ignorance, his larder is scantiy supplied,
his houses AID fences are dllapldated,
and he sees constant reminders OF the
debts that have been accommodating tor
many years, and he casts about to find
the cause of his poverty in spite of his
wonderful success in produc ion. He
notes that his clothing is manufactured
Of cotton sold by him for eight cents a
pound, and that it costs him from twet>
ty-iive to fifty cents a pound, with She
like difference in favor OF all WaaHtuctH|-
cd goods He contemplates the high
pr1cc3 he has paid tor &gPplies high rate
of interest on money he has pnid, ranging
as high asthirty per cent per annual. H.
secs the Ely dra RoaoF2lY rs 1t g",Hers IL,
and feeds aad gre" $ mad ttu"n" W.. -
the fruits 1i his toll Wruug iuam Am
through q protective tariff demontlihad
silver, Uuiled States bonds, Credit Mo-
biers, contracted currency, ali jhe result
Of imbeciltty, corruption aud iNvorlttsm
in the national legislature, while lcgjsIa-
ton in his own State Is tettered by 4
constitu ion, the proCu of aliens and
enemies that in almost every article
breath. IS hostility 70 the best interests Of
the people of his State. Ana with this
survey 0t the situation, he asWos him>
sell, the Gazette" to the contrary, no .
withstanding, that he has some imm'dl~
ate aud direct interest'in "mrru c.rr g,
trades. legislation, constitutional cNyr0.
ton. the price OF supplies, iu'ers' on
money, monoppIies and everything "s',
For all hess like so many vampires ave
hovc,in9 around his farm, rrgylng upH
on its products, and rejoicing in 'he
,;rbt nj nhlivinn'a lohnr ,yhirh had Spt-