The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-01-24

| buyS thousands or dollars worm ol
meat from Chicago, yet she would not
buy that mans hogs! That is fair
sample Of the spirit which am tryiag
to show up. II is lack of State pride.
Everybody, it seems to me, ought to
Want to see their own State on top.
Every Georgian ought to want to see
Georgia self.supporting-that means at
the top of the ladder. The only way
to be seif-supporting is for US all to
work together and make it q matter
Of principle not to buy anything, from
pin up, that is made outside OF our
State, when the same thing, or so:le-
thing that will answer the purpose
equally as we'll can be had that is MAGE
within our borders.
In this year Of 1884 there ought not
to be anything used by anybody in the
State OF Georgia that was made, raised
or manufactured outside of the State
until the capacity Of the State was ex-
bausted in that article. for two years
we would strictly folio n. this as a prin-
cip'-; continue the economical, self
sustaining policy which has been large
" developed in the past two years, we
wouidbe out of the reach of hard times,
and might be in danger of having our
spending money seriously reduced by
the ''inc0me tax" to be levied on In
comes exceeding" million year." 1
am like Colonel Sellers@"There are
millions in it" if We will only try.
lam young man with happy sur
roundings and fair prospect ahead OF
me. I was raised in Madison and vol
unfairly chose the profession of farm
ing. married city girl and we wens
to the country to live just twelve years
ago. Tonight I am sitting up to greet
the new year. My wife and children
are all asleep, and thinking 10 retro
spective way Of what have left be-
hind. It forms for me an experience
from which I have learned much that
will prove useful ia the future.
was reared with the idea. instilied
into my mind that I must be farmer;
that il was the aim and ambition Of
my father that I should take his place
when be was gone, and live III his
house-the one be had built when he
settled the place whereon / now reside,
in the year 1917. That idea was so
thoroughlyinstilled into my mind that
felt it would be almost sacrllege
should I disregard his wishes so often
spoken to me. Thus my destiny was
fixed, and at his death, which occurred
in 1880, took his place on place of
600 acres of land, which he left me.
Looking back now, over these twelve
wears, have lived life as happy as
mortal need to be, and the comparison
of what life has been to me with what
/ see of it in men engaged in other bus
iness pursuits, makes ME wonder that
so many of the best men of the coun-
try will not live on their farms where
they can be self-supportlng, free and
independent, and where the amount of
happiness 3 man may enjoy simply
depends on what he is capable of en-
joying. 7 have lived comfortably and
well, have not stinted myself or my
family in anything; have had the
pleasure Of being with them all the
time, enjoying their society and trying
to train my children as best [ know
how. I have added three-fold to the
possessions that my father left me aud
am we'll satisfied with my position,
even in these hard times.
Now. Mr.. Editor, l hope you will
pardon the above personal illusions.
They are not made with any spirit of
brssgadocia, but with the hope that if
you publish this letter it may Head
some man who is hesitating in his
course as to what to do for another
year to at least stop and think and
ponder we'll what he is leaving when
he leaves the country to 60 to town.
The lack of white men, land owners,
living on their farms is the the grea est
trouble with Georgia to-day. Farmers
who love to sit around store and talk
themselves, make as an excuse that
they must move to town to educate
their children. It is merely an excuse,
there is 20 reason in it. When man
leaves his farm, be can do nothing
with it but rent it out for so much cot
ton and corn. He cannot raise hogs,
COWS, goats or anything else Of that
sort. Those things in themselves will
make him enough money by staying
on the farm and looking after them / o
hire q teacher and pay the whole sal
ary himself; or his house rent in town
will pay teacher for eight or nine
months time. He can better afford to
hire a teacher and pay 5000 a year out
of his own pocket than he can afford
to leave an eight or ten-mule farm and
rent it out and move to town to edu-
cate his children. It's all bosh! In
almost any community in Georgia, if
some one man will 60 and employ a
good teacher and guarantee the salary
-S2O, S25 or $50 per month-there
there will be enough scholars to come
in to reduce the amount he will actually
have to pay to very small amount.
am anxious to see good, sensible men
90 back to their farms, quit the crowd
ed, overruu towns and go back where
they can be free and independent and
easy. Where they can get up with the
sun, feeling fresh and invigorated,
buoyant and full of life as in their boy
hood days.
There is field of good work to he
done by you, Mr.. Editor. You know
what say is true. Take any county
in the State and what proportion of the
land is occupied by the landowner?
Urge upon the young mon to stay on
the farm. Give them facts and figures.
Bring it home to them that their best
interest remains in their land and in
living upon it; that the percentage of
successful men in the towns IS very
much smaller than the percentage Of
successful men of like ability in the
country, and the success which you
may attain in forcing conviction 10
their minds on this point will rebound
to your credit in making a grander
citizenry of the grandest State on earth.
r: specially, P. 6. WALKER.