The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-01-09
(GUOO HARD SENSE.
aFoy FARMERS .MAYi GET RELIEF.

a PLANTERS AbleaDiscusstOn ON al Much
Mooted Ouestion--AbOut Labor.
planter in the Americas aTimes-Re-
cOrder.
tits stubborn fact that the farmers
OF Georgia are gone, so long as they rent
gaud To a class of labor that takes no
.,.zpe whatever of the lands and mules. l
apean bv the above that renter us rule
will pay no attention whateveri TO run
ming his rows, as he had just as soon run
them down hill as any other way.
He will take your mule and work nm
i've DAYS in the week with comparatively
z,othjng 10 eat, and ON Saturday and Sun
day will drive him to CONFERENCE.-THE or
ten miles hitched to an old one horse
wagon that perhaps has not been greas-
cd in a month. and with at least four or
i've women aboard, and the mule Will
stand all day without drop OF water or
n thing to eat.
So at the end of the year you are 10 re-
ceive eight or nine hundred POUNDS OF
cotton for the rent of your lana ana
twenty-five dollars for the rent Oh mule
Rut when YOU cone to find out he has
ahout run off all of his poor little ola
,,ron and sold it, and as consequence
you only get about one half OF what he
mas promised you and get the mule BACK
50 poor and much abused that 1t taxes
at least twelve months to fatten him.
Then again l have said nothing ABOUT
she amount it takes to run him. Ihat is a
question of how smart the tenant is, and
wbo il is that is furnishing him. have
seen some that could actually talk mon
ev out of two or three men in our mast
4hat are so stingy that preacher hash
cheek enough to ask them for donatlon
EOr foreign missions.
Now as to their trying to lay up any
ching for the future 1t is thing rarely
Eno1n. They will sell off nearly every
ear of corn for forty cents in trade ana
aapv on credit the nextyear at one dollar.
They will take from their lands every
hushel of cotton seed and sell them at any
mace the factory will pay, and then pay
them any price for guano; say about $50
sDer ton or one and one half bales of cot
ssoa. Now what does this all mean? 1t
.aneans this: you are forced to break the
gsenant up, and when you do, your neigh
bor stands waiting with his team, ready
10 move him and give him the same offer
as the one you have just given him. so
yau see why the country is in the Tx IL
rs. The white people are in worse con-
a1ition than the negroes are, but II we
will all come together and quit renting
eur lands to sorry tenants, move BACK
csn plantations ourselves, quit selling our
cotton seed to the oil mills, then we will
yet the benefit of them on our lands. |
contend that land we'll terraced and
planted each year in the running pea
aeats all the guano you can give it. We
have certainly made very great failure
4 our planting interests, and 1T is evil
aEsnt that we have 10 adopt new rules,
aaad 6be sooner the better, So prepare
che following:
4. Quit buying guano and make more
aaaaure at home.
3. GAIT renting lands TO sorry tenants.
4. Allow no cotton seed to be sold off
e5he land.
i. Terrace all lands we cultivate.
.. Neighbors adopt rules and stick to
Ghem.
.. Pay labor according to the price of
cotton: cent cotton, pay $4 per month
Gor hands; &c tton, pay So per month
fer hands; 7c cotton, pay 81 per month
EOrhands, and so on up.
4. Build more pasturage and raise
snore OF what you neelat home.
s. Have better barns f your stock.
3. Live close and quit borrowing so
ugluch money until you get ahead.
40 Do not advance any hand at Christ