Smyrna times., 1892-09-07
For The Sm yrna Tim
PHOSPHATE AND POLITICS.
New SMYRNA, VoLUsIA Co. FLA

~, Aug. 1892.
The Farmers Alliance or PeoDle',
Party Is stronger here perhaps than in
any of the southern States. The Plat
form, if one may judge from platforms
IS intended to voice the disaffection ot
Observation-Disclosures and Democrats
who, being tired out with class legisla.
tlon and personal aggrandisement.h hone
TO bring about a millennium in the polit
lcal world by sending to power men
who are in sympathy with the DeoDIe
The calling in of the bonded debt of
the Government, an increase in the
money circulation, a tariff for revenue
ana revenue for tariff, thereby taking
the only course left open to happy or
unhappy mean. 1t is said that the
negro is loved far better when he is a
thousand miles away than when he is
next door neighbOr. The labor
troubles at the North has given the
stump speaker of the South the neces-
sary pabulum to get in good points
upon the evil the two existing parties
nave wrought upon that ever present
Oone OF contention,--th negro by wav
of contrast.
will quote from one ofth speeches q.
ut is an undeniable fact that both mar.
ties to further their interests, have
never scruPled to appeal to the pas.
slons and prejudices of the negro as
we'll as to array him against his best
interests in these States. Through
the teaching of servile emissaries the
national prosperity and progressiveness
OF the race have been set back fiftv
years and the baneful influence which
they still exert over him has placed
him IN an attitude which has well nigh
caused his own disiranchisement: and
to-day he stands before the American
people pitiable spectacle of their de-
ception and duplicity. They have led
the negro, in all his stupidity, against
the wealth and culture of the South.
thereby keeping up an irrepressible
political conflict that must ultimately
terminate in the practical disfranchise-
ment of the negro by his own act"
On the other hand a storm like this
IS brewing at the North: the applica-
ton of the above is the difference being
In the location. Corruption and de-
ception can have no other outcome
than revolution. Both of the old par-
ties are thoroughly corrupt, a fact
winch the people are just Leginning to
lind out. Men, honest aud inoorruDt
ible men, are what the people prefer
now, and they care naught for the
name they bear. Hence let no one be
surprised if, In the coming election
there should be much disregard of
party name and obligation, such utter
indifference to the party joke and lash
as to work complete change in poll
tics. Lay low honest Republicans.
honest Democrats, and witness the
glory of the new creation ii eI teople's
Party. 1t is coming as sure as the
dawn precedes the day.
Between these lines one NAV see the
furrOw OF the political plOw of the Farm
ers' Alliance is endeaVoring to make
the same fiascO the Prohibition party
vainly attempts to make in appealing
to the honest men of tho old parties
yet the old parties continue to do the
voting and electing.
| was little surprised in picking up
q Florida Times Union to see it stated
that the total shipments of Phosphate
ROCK Tor the past eighteen months
nave been AZ, 423 tons from this state
alone, of which q, $50 tons have been
shipped In the past sig months. In
looking over the points to which it
was consigned England and Germany
appears to have received the greater
portion OF the above shipments. This |
increase in the past six months shows |
a wonderful increase in the develop. |
ment of this mineral as against the |
large output from the Cooper and |
Ashly rivers in South Carolina. In
the reduction of the crude Phosphate |
rock into a pOwdery state and also |
that of cotton seed into fne meal the
South is indebted to-day for the enor. |
nous crops of the great staple-cotton.
While acidulated rock and cotton
seed meal forms the proper plant food
Or almost any crop, it may be inter-
ssting to take look at the machinery
hat impresses this pre-. Adamite min
'ral into 80 useful service. A fertili-
ser factory at the far South is generally
corporation with ample means. we'll
We will say on paper. The plant Is 0
curious adoption of rock grinding rock.
sort of upper and neither millstones'
)nly revolving horizontally. These
Mills are of the Sturvetant patent and
'un with straight and crossed belts.
This has the effect of producing two
notions contra to each other and as
zach end is geared to high speed to
'ttain momentum, the hard fiint.like
'Ock is ground one piece against an.
'ther as easily as amber wheat under
! French Burr milestone,
Formerly the process to reduce
phosphate rock was very tedious
me; first, kiln dried, then passed
through a breaker, then on reciprocal
ing rolls, then on to vibrating screens.
md next finished on Burr mills. It is
doubtful if the immense demand could
% met unless machinery speeially de.
'ised were not at hand TO meet it. The
,utput of two of the leading mills of
iharleston S. c., exceeds 10000 tons
'ear. All over Georgia are reduction
nils adding to the output. Through
Alabama, the same and until now
Florida is developing immense "flnds"
u the stuff that makes the staff of life.
JAMES B, sooTT. !