The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-13

other sections and other countries.
A western delegate said that he did
not understand how with such a climate
and such fertile soil land could be offered
so cheap.
A delegate from Mississippi said that
the reason that Gen. Burkitt offered land
for IS an acre that cost him SIS was that
cotton sold for Is cents pound when he
bought 1t and now sold for cents
THE TROUBLE WITH THE FARMERS.
A northern delegate said that the fact
that land could be bought In Mississippi
for one-half now that it brought twenty
years ago was no reflection upon the soil
or the climate. THE same thing is true"
he said ''Of land in New York and Penn
sylvania and Ohio and all over this coun-
try. Farming land nowhere brings to-
day what it did ten years ago. It is the
policy OF the government that has caused
this. | bought farm ten years ago that
cost me $50, 900 that will now sell for
one third that amount. Wheat brought
81 bushel then and now brings only 65
cents bushel. That is the trouble with
the whole country.''
The delegates statement was ap-
plauded.
A Pennsylvania delegate said that in
tensive farming would settle the whole
question.
Henry Brown, of Atlanta, spoke upon
the same line. He said that the trouble
with the farmers of the south was that
they had confined themselves to one crop,
and depended upon it to purchase every
thing else. They had pursued this pol
Icy, he said, until some of them had almost
lost hope.
Mr.. Rankin, of Tennessee, said that the
solution of the whole question was that
the delegates did not live in Gods coun-
try. Sixty acres of land, he said, ad loin-
OF hnv. 10 f,,
acre, just to raise corn, wheat and hay.
SOUTH GEORGIA THE PLACE TO GO.
A delegate from South Georgia said
that he had rather have 81 in South Geor-
gla than anywhere else in the country.
South Georgia" he says. has more I'M
developed resources than any other sec
ton of country. We have diversified
crops and can raise anything that any
other section of country can" He gave
an instance Of what could be done with
South Georgia land.
DR.. Spencer, of Pennsylvania, said that
the difficulty with the farms of the coun-
try was the undue favoritism shown to
the manufacturing industries.
Mr.. Tewks0ury of Pennsylvania, said
that the whole trouble with the farms of
Pennsylvania and other northern states
was that the farmers paid Sc taxes where
the railroads and other corporations paid
81 in proportion to the amount of prop
erty owned
The discussion continued until 8 o'clock
when the congress adjourned for supper.
LIST OF DELEGATES PRESENT.
Col, and Mrs. Daniel Needham, of Bos-
ton, Mass. Walter n. Allen, of Meriden
Kan. j. b. Mcdowell, of E'airburn, Neb. /;
Dennis Kenyon and d. c. Wagner, of
Peru Line, H.; /. B. Vancil, Modesti,
Ill; Frank V. Dilatush, Monticello, III. (;
Inv 10 IT
den, New Castle, Me-; Col. John S. Gun
ningham, Cunningham, N. c.; w. G.
Clapp, Kearney, Neb. ; ]. T. Wade, Haidee,
| Ga. James .. Garrett Sparland, Ill. T.
J. Cunningham, Chester, III. ID. H. Hefe-
| bower, BucyruS, Kan. l.. Newton, Spring
Hill, Kan; Henry Hayden, Indianola,
Iowa; Samuel Weaver, W. H, Weaver and
M. A. Weaver, Cutter, Ind; T. j. Apple
yard, Sanford, Fla; w. A. Rankin, JAS
per, Tenn; H. G. Brown, Atlanta, Ga. ;
| David Chenarth, Castorian Springs,
| Tenn; T. H. Black Americas, Ga !;
George w. Spencer, Collinsburg, Pa !;
! r. B. Mason, Athens, Ala; S. H.
Broadnax, Walnut Grove, Ga; Hector
D. Lang, Montgomery, Ala; w. G.
| WILDLY, Atlanta, Ga. r. w. Jackson,
| Frankfort, Pa. A. A. Graham and d. M
McRae, McRae, Ga. John NJ. Stahl Chi
| cago, Ill. A. p. Brantley, Blackshear,
| Ga; j. L. Hand, Pelham, Ca. Il. Baylor
| ThurmOnd, Ia. ; j. r. Lee, Summerville
Ga; Edward M. Tewksbury, Catawissa.
Pa; E. e. Dunbar, Damariscotta, Me- !;
| Charles B. Rounds, Calais Me. r. j.
Denmark, Quitman, Ca; B. Powell,
Barlow, Ga. f. M. Anderson, Emit, Ga !;
John d. Shaw, Hirsh Point, S. c.; S. F.
Barber, Harrisburg, Pa; Robert H.
| Browse, Grape Island, w. Va; Mr.. and
Mrs. b. E. Thomson, Stockbridge, Mich. !;
George Gilmore, Warthen, Ca. Thomas
Hardeman, Davisboro, Ca; A. e. Moy-
nelo, Savannah, Ca; c. w. Brantley,
Dublin, Ga. George A. Stockdell, Provio
dence, II. Z. Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Bumgart-
ner, Elizabeth, w. Va; j.
W. Mallard. Statesboro, Ca. !;
| c. c. Talaferro, Mason, Va. |:
w. ]. Strickland, Iric, Ca, T. B. Thorn
Iric, Ga, Oscar Clute, Lake City Fla,
H. B. Donaldson, Dublin, Ca, M. A.
| Newton, Sam, Ca, T. H. Oliver, SYLVIA
MIA, Ga, Will B. Powell, Shadeland, Pa.
John Mansfield, Cadillac, Mich, A. P,
Carruthers, Shelbyville, KY, Mrs M. M.
Coad, Fremont, Neb., B. F. Clayton, In
dianola, Ia, J. B. Brown, c. F. Cox, Ella
bel, Ca, d. G. Purse, Savannah, Ca.
There were a good many delegates who
! had not registered their names when the