The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-01
Common Sense Talk From rillman.


If Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina,
were to show as much good sense i'll polit-
ical matters as he did in his response to
the address of welcome at Augusta
Wednesday, he would be "a much more
useful governor than he is. In substance,
he said that the southern people must de-
pend upon themselves to build up their
section, and that what the southern
farmers particularly need is an immigra-
tion of ideas and intelligent agricultural
methods, He declared that southern
farmers would not prosper as long as they
spent six months in the year trying to kill
the grass in their fields and the next six
months in buying hay from Maine and
other northern states
The ideas Gov Tillman wishes the
farmers to adopt are good ones. Instead of
spending all they get for their cotton in
purchasing supplies, they ought to pro-
duce the supplies they need. The vegeta-
bles, corn, meat and hay they buy they
could get from their farms. The cot
ton farmers pay very little attention to
the raising of vegetables and fruits, and
it is only recently that they have begun
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hay, not one in dozen of them ever gives
a thought to it. The amount of money the
south sends north each year for hay is
enormous, and yet the south can easily
raise all the hay she needs.
Attention has been called often to this
matter, and the names of the grasses that
grow well in this section have been given
time and time again. Still, the farmers
stick TO the old method of buying their
hay from the north. In this immediate
vicinity and round and about Augusta it
has been demonstrated beyond a doubt
that hay can be made at good profit. It
is question whether the rice lands can
not be made far more profitable than they
are at present by turning them into hay
fields.
The cotton farmers think perhaps they
know much better than Gov. Tlllman or
any OF their other would-be advisers how
to manage their farms to the best ad-
vantage. They thought that way few
years ago when the newspapers began to
advise them to diversity their crops.
Gradually they have been giving heed to
what the newspapers say about diversi-
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they were mistaken. And so it will be
in respect to hay, If they will make
their own hay they will be surprised to
find how much more ready money they will
have than they had in previous years.
Senator PETER. in his address to the
Coxeyites at a negro church the other
night, told them that all the ills of the
times were due TO the newspapers, Wall
street and the tariff but the day of de-
liverance was at hand, for with the open
ingof the new century the populists would
come into power. OF the manner in
which the populists would prosecute their
work of PROSECUTING he said: Some men
you must sit down with and convert with
reason, others must be reached by warm
ing their hearts, while there are others
still that you must take by the throat and
intimidate' That probably isn't the way
Gov. Waite, of Colorado, would have ex-
pressed it, but the sentiment afforded joy
to the audience of idlers.
Mrs. Leases doctors have quarreled,
and the lady is getting better. 1t is said
she had rheumatism, one effect Of which
was to prevent her from talking sylla-
BILE. She could not even say yes" and
no" Her suffering must have been
terrible.