People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-16

children, supported in comfort and ease
Georgia's Commissioner OF Agriculture,
his wife and children, and the attaches
of his department. their wives and chill
dren, and all for the unselish reason
that they could not support themselves,
their wives and children; but as the tax
is small, we farmers (for I am a farmer)
might pay it just for the luxury OF
having so valuable Commissioner of
Agriculture. But when he notifies Wall
street and Liverpool and the money
sharks of the world that we can make
cotton for 81 cents per pound, regard 1t
in all seriousness the most fatal and
deadly stab he could have made at our
interest. 1t is folly and sin against
light and knowledge to-day that the
money to buy our cotton comes from
Wall street and the Eastern cities, or
from Liverpool and Europe through
New York and the East, and that Wall
street and the East, in conjunction with
Liverpool, fix the price upon the basis OF
India cotton, regulated by the value of
our deprecated silver bullion.
We have no money. We can't hold
our cotton. They fix the price and 1t
must go at their bid. They fix the price
upon cur toll and labor. Gold and not
labor is the unit of value, and Col. Mes
bitt says that our labor is only worth
81 cents for every pound Of cotton we
make, when he could not make it for
ten cents per pound. Col Nesbitt denies
saying, or meaning, what he did say.
will give him credit for not meaning
what he said, for I have no idea that
Georgian. who had the most remote
idea of the relation of labor to capital,
or the least interest of his people at
heart, would have made a statement so
full Of disaster to his people. But what
did Col. Redding, his Superintendent of
the mis-called Experimental Station at
Griffin, say on the same subject Let
the delegates present answer. The only
reason that we have not seen and felt the
effect of that statement is that nobody
who had ever made bale of cotton by
his own labor, or had it done and kept
an accurate account, believed it. But
mark it in the opening prices. Wall
Street will hold cotton down as low as
possible and sec how cheap we can make
it.
That experimental farm is also part
of the same department, with Col. Mes
bitt at the head. You farmers are taxed
for that too. Unlike the Atlanta affair,
farming in the Capitol building with
workmen who don't know the use of
tools, they have farm at Griffin and
have demonstrated what can be done in
Georgia, on Georgia soil, without regard
to cost. They can make enorn GUS crops
of cotton, and the cereals, and grasses,
and have demonstrated that they can
make cheese; and that dairying is profit
able I; and yet have not made forage or
hay enough to feed their own horses that
are used on the farm. Here is another
luxury for which you are taxed.
It is rumored that Col. Nesbitt is pro-
posing to establish a cheese factory in
Cobb. If ON the same principle as ex-
periments of the Griffin concern, the
COWS will be fed on bought food cotton
seed meal and bulls, I suppose. The
salaries will not, assume, be 80 good as
at Griffin for the State won't pay them.
We need and must have cheese factories,
diaries and larger yields of all crops
which our soil and climate favor; and
we must know what they are, but we
will never know but instead get deeper
in the dark until we organize and man
age our Department of Agriculture very
differently from the present and adopt
methods which will be blessing to the
toiling farmers.
If elected shall apply the means and
adopt the methods which have done SO
much for France and Germany, Eng
land and other countries, and if I, like
my friend Col. Nesbitt, prove to be an
other failure, don't surrender your de-
partment but yet some man who has the
knowledge and ability to help you i'm
prove your methods Of farming and to
realize some profit on your labor. You
create the wealth and should have the
profit which you do not get at present
prices while burdened by Ubiquitous tax
alton.
Very respectfully your fellow-oitizen,
JAMES BARRETT.