Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-17
A WALKING NEWSPAPER.

ELI Perkins Turns Up With Huge. Fund OF
Intelligence-Few Places In the United
States, That He's Not Posted On and
Willing to Talk ABOUT.
On the Erie train last night was Eli Per-
llins, just arrived from an extensive trip
down through the Southern States. eyes, F."
he said to a New York Sun reporter, IL am
| just from Texas and Missouri via Charles
| ton, Savannah. Atlanta, Birmingham, Vicks-
| burg, San Antonio, Galveston, the Staked
| Plains of Texas, Arkansas. Kansas and
Missouri, and can give you the last news OF
the entire United States. What do you want
| to know?"
"Well, how are tho crops9"
"The immense cotton crop Is swamping
the entire South. They raised 9.0oO.o 900 bales.
| and a million bales more than the world
! wants. The price has fallen from 10 cents to
| 5H in Texas, and the surplus is piled up
around the stations with no one to buy it."
Who is hurt by the low prioe?"
"The cotton merchant. Many farmers Solo
at 8 cents. but ruin stares the Southern mer-
chant in the face. The entire South Is de-
pressed and they cry out to the North Tor
Fort Smith. The Red and Brazos rivers are
Iincd with It. The farmers corn bin Is
empty, and the merchants who have not
other crop Meetings are being held ali over
the South, recommending che restriction OF
the crop this year."
"How do they expect to restrict it,"
Trouble In the Sugar Country.
"By putting in more sugar, rice and corn.
The price dropped too late for wheat crop
They are in trouble in the sugar country in
Texas and Louisiana, because just as they
want to plant more sugar Mr. Breckinridge,
! of Kentucky. jumps up in Washington and
I<,fFay n1,rkio &olxo hnn no
of of sugar. This would destroy the sugar
industry and throw 100000 more bales Of
cotton upon the market. Then South Car.
olina, which used to make J., 600 600 barrels or
rice. and Louisiana, which made goo, goo par
rels Of rice. want a tariff against cheap Chin
ese rice, which has about broken up Amer
ican rice planting"
"what arguments do they use in speaking
ton?"
"They say: You Yankees put a tariff on
tobacco and wheat to help your farmer. and
WHY can't we have a tariff on Chinese rfcef'"
How Is the winter wheat crop2"
Superb Prospects for Wheat.
IT bring good news about wheat" said
Mr.. Perkins. "It is simply superb every.
where. I have not seen such a stand OF
wheat in 16 years. The last Government re-
about whent. But there have been recent
warm rains from North Carolina to the
stnked Plains in Texas and every kernel
sowed has come up. It could not be better
in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, !lli-
nois, Indinna and Ohio have told me within
four davs that they never had such pros
ground but it is even and looks just as they
want 1t to look for n splendid crop. Along
the Atchison and Missouri Pacific roads.
clear into Colorado. tho ground is soaked
with long, warm rain."
'sDid YOU see any political changesS'
"Yes; the Farmers Alliance is peteEtng
out like the old Greenback party. They
Weaver, the old GTeenback candidate. is
their man for the Presidency. The Farmers
Alliance In Texas legislated against aliens
Of dollars were driven out Of Texas. The
Texans blame Governor Hogg, the Alliance
Governor, for all the depression in Texas.
will be trIumphantly elected Governor. he
says: 'Hogg drove out the Scotch and Bn-
glish aliens, and they now let their
money to the Yankees at per cent
and the Yankee comes down and lets 1t to
the Texan at 10 per cent The Alliance fell
lows in Kansas have SO ruined the State by
talking repudiation and free silver that al
most all mortgages in Kansas are now
written payable in gold"
"What about the old Southern Democrat?"
German Solid in tho South.
'oThe old cast-iron Democrat has given
up Cleveland. The Stuffed Prophet never
enthused them, and now that he has spoken
against free silver the Democrats have
cropped him. They have also begun to talk
about German. They say German can carry
the solid South and all the silver States be.
cause he has traded his silver influence with
Wolcott for votes against the election
BILL"
"Did you see anything funny in the
South?"
II found the Texan Is given to making fun
of the Arkansun. The Rev. DR.. Prichett,
President of the Normal College at Hunts
ville, told me that he asked q passenger on
the Texas Pacific where he came from.
"'Whar'd KUN from?' repeated the man,
why, you're the twentieth man that's asked
that to-day. l KUN from Arkansaw. Now,
dog on you. laugh!
"At Texarkana, where they burned the
negro at the stake, )" continued Eli, II saw
little Texas boy in the depot Patting him
ON the head, Iasked inquiringly:
care you a good little boy?'
"'You bet l am he said proudly. I'm the
best boy i'll Texas; you ask my father and
mother
".Do you say your prayers every day7' I
continued.
"'No, not every day. he said thought
fully. Il didn't say 'em yesterday, and I
haven't said 'em to-day-and-if get
along pretty we'll shan't say 'em emmy more
It ALL
"'Why not2'
go. 'caus' paw and maw's goin' to live up
IN rLa On