The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-10
The BIight OF Politics.

The people of Texas are neglecting to
develope the limitless resources of their
matchless state, and are engaged in use
less frittering away the gray matter of
their brains in an attempt TO solve ques-
tions of financial statecraft instead, says
the Texas Stock Journal. There has
never been a time when the elements of
prosperity were in as advanced a condi-
ton as now. everything SEEMING to have
turned that way, yet the people are
straining their eyes seward. where" TIE
phantom ship of financial LEGISLATION pur-
sues its elusive career. They have turned
their backs on industrial advancement,
and, led by the politicians, who promise
them surcease from their embarrassment
are letting valuable time slip away, look
ing for help from a source from which il
can never come.
on the hilltops and in the valleys, men
with selfish motives of personal aggrand-
isement are melting contention and strife,
the like of which has not been witnessed
for many years, and the sturdy yeOman
ry of the country, attracted by the gilt
tering promises held out, are neglectinG
their fortunes to listen and become in
volved III the bewildering maze OF gov
ernmental finance, leaving what is the
true basis of countrys prosperity to
shift for itself
The picture is not over-drawn, the evil
dences of the conditions cited being APP
parent on every hand, and while public
opinion precludes the possibility of inter-
necine actual warfare, the results of the
present uncalled for agitation will damage
the country equally as much, as the lack
of confidence in the nations securities
engendered, makes our proud country
borrowing, non-self-supporting dependen-
pH- gOO1 will nd favor # thor
nations, whose financial policy is certain
and secure.
What is true in Texas is likewise true in
Georgia. Too many of our farmers are
wasting good mental and physical energy
in discussing the money question that could
be put to far better uses in discussing
those things that pertain to the farm The
time expended in going to hear political
speeches, in joining the idle crowd that
collect at the corner grocery or the one al
the cross roads or other like resorts. / say
if this wasted time were expended in APP
plying more manure to the crops or an ex-
ira cultivation of the same there would
would be far more to show for the spent
energies this fall than there will be under
the miserable misuse of them as remarked
by the Journal 1t is. sad. 1t is pathetically
farcical to see the farmer small and large.
leave the work of the farm, in which ktere
is some profit and HE himself away TO
swell the audience of some little oDerhoFse
politician who attempts to tell the people
how they may be made rich by the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, etc" He
knows about as much about the question
he attempts to discuss as the majority OF
his audience but nevertheless they admire,
what to them appears an unequalled expo
sition of the great question. At last it is
made perfectly cfear-alas about as clear
as Jones county mud, and they go home in
the conviction that they know all about it.
No further argument need be wasted upon
them. Politics and farming do not go very
we'll together We farmers had better let
politics entirely alone from January to
October, when voting time comes we can
vote right and that is about all we need
do. Let those we have selected to manage
state affairs do the best they can and on
the other hand we will do likewise in coax
ing nature to do the best she can for us
under all the adverse circumstances. Eth?
j. Smith Farmer.