The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-31
,co,cULrURAL DEPARTMENT.
Tbe sisid. Farm ana Garden.


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address communications or inquiries to
.gri Editor, box 81, Milledgeville, Ga.
nota Your Land Rich and Thereby Bs-
+ahl,sh Your Own Treasury.
Tbare may be a few simple>minded farm
wbo are resting under the delusion that
tba state may enact some law or laws that
,r;ll tenn to their enrichment, whether their
,ro,s NAV be good or bad. In the past year
~ :, we nave seen a great many farmers at
ovorv season of the year attending various
meetings. and applauding with all their
-,i,bt the wild and enthusiastic utterances
~ numerous speakers who have been ap-
nointed in one way or another to enlighten
he farmers upon the several matters relat-
inc 70 their calling. We are sorry to say
that in all these "speakings," the reports of
which we have read in the various papers,
wa have rarely noticed any very sound adj
via to the farmers after all. great
many speakers have aired what little
knowledge they possessed of
the national banking system;
of the possible benefits to be derived from
per sent. loan; the government owner
shin OK railroad and telegraph; the election
Of the President directly by the vote Of the
people; the free coinage Of silver. ETC.. but
we remember no instance where any of
these wouId-be Moses have told the farmers
in plain and unequivocel language that
whatever the government may be induced
70 do in behalf of the farmer it all would
avail him little if he continued to cultivate
soil that was already impoverished and fol-
loved the practice of planting the same
crop that everyone else did and without re-
gard b food supplies We have read the
speeches" Of great many farm" orators
in the past twelve months, but we cannot
Just now recall any speech wherein this sub
stautlal truth was set forth before the eager
listener, the alliance farmer, as it should have
been Let the government do everything
that paternal government of the first
water" can do, and what will it be able to
do for a man who has been cultivating
night along for twenty-five or thirty years
the same old fields In cotton and corn with
no disposit on to make the change that is
plainly called for by the progress Of events'
So long as be looks upon cotton as the
magnunt bonum of agriculture, plants it to
the exclusion of nearly everything else in
many instances, excepting only corn, per-
hsps, so long. to be sure, will he need help
of some kind, whether it happens that he
gets the right kind or not.
Legislation cannot be depended upon to
bring prosperity to the farmer who Guilt
Yates soil SO poor that it will not make
profitable crops, or who diversifes his
paintings so little as to risk ever thing
upon one single crop, or at most two Ali
the legislation in the world will not be able
save a man who follows this practice.
Money at l per cent. won't do it. A
at every crossing of
the roads won't do it. No. my
dear farmer and alliance man. We need
uOt lOOk De1Ollu our own DThWn anu OIdlu
for help We must enrich that land and
plant crops that will bring money and
raise everything in the way OF food that
we possibly can. We must organize aud
our own sub-treasury and borrow
money from ourselves at 2 per cent. if we
find that we cannot get along really With
out borrowing a little. We must turn a
part of our attention to improved pastures
and meadows, and have stock enough to
make manure to restore the old worn fields
TO a condition of fertility that will enable
them to respond fairly 20 the labor that is
expended upon them. This much done, we
will, supplementary thereto. stand square up
TO the old democratic party in its manful
fight for lower tariff on wooden goods, farm
implements, etc. Whatever you do, don't
mortgage the farm if there is any possible
way to avoid it. Borrow as little money
as possible even at ''2 per cent Don't
bother yourself about tho railroads, the
telegraphs, and national banks and
make your land rich and plant judiciously,
and do not live beyond your Income. You
may be poor, but you may have a happy
home that many a millionaire would have
cause to envy you.
In conclusion, weigh well the words of
the demagogue, if you listen to him at oil.
In this country just now demagoy CUES are as
thick as hops in hop field or leaves in Val
ambrose Your own reason must tell you
they are preaching false doctrine, the out
come OF which must necessarily be dire dis
appointment. s. A. G.