The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-01
GOSSIP FROM
WASHINGTON.
Mr.. McKinley's mdignity to
the South.
Secretary Wilson Wants Our Farmer
TO Use His Raw Material aud
Quit Shipping Abroad.
Interest to "Bryan Day. at the
Tennessee Centennial on Oc-
tOber the Sth.



WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept 28.-
Thirty years after General Grant
said, "Let us have Peace" and peace
reigned supreme throughout the
length and breadth of the land, Cor
poral Mark Hanna, of sixth days
service, and Major Mckinley,
startle the world by prOclaiming
that "the war is over and sec
tionalism is dead" But General
Grant was not only thirty years in
advance of the these liberal-minded,
philanthropic patriots in his an
nOuncement, but he never offered
the contemplate indignity to the
people of the South of appointing
negro postmasters in its most re-
fined and highly cultivated cities
and towns, and negro revenue col
lectors for great states. On the "On-
trarv, he showed his respect for their
feelings and his confidence in their
loyalty to the Nation by choosing
a member of his cabinet from among
Southern Republicans when the
men of distinction belonging to that
party in the South was much smaller
than at present, and by selecting
others to fill various high positions
abroad. But then we must remem-
Der that neither Corporal Hanna
nor Major Mckinley can be COM
pared in any sense during the same
century with General Grant, who
was elected by the voice of CRATE
full people to the Chief Magistracy
of the Union that he had saved from
dissolution, and his election not
bought by the many-milliOned cor
ruption fund contributed by the
Rothschilds, PierpOnt Morgans, and
the monster rObber trusts and COM
bines.
Secretary Wilson is giving con-
siderable attention to the methods
by which the condition of the far
mers may be still further improved,
and thinks it is within their own
power to largely increase their in
comes. He wants our farmers to
produce the large" part of the i'm
pOrtatiOns of sugar, hides, wool,
silk, fruits, rice, barley, beans,
wines, etc, amounting to over $3.50,
600 900, and have this vast sum to
increase the wealth Of our people.
1--WE pay" as the Secretary says,
"$lO0OO0,0O0 every year for sugar.
made mostly from the German
sugar beet. We have distributed
seven or eight tons of beet seed
among 22OOO farmers in two-thirds
> of the states for the purpose of ascer
= tanning where our profitable sugar
belt is. We will get reports from
, many of these farmers in the fall
and give the Information to the peO-
Pile through farmers bulletins. The
. $50 10000 worth of butter purchased
by the British each year is almost
wholly carbOnaceOus, and the 500,
100000 worth of sugar we buv every
year is wholly carbonaceOuS. | sug
r guest that if we sell them that $65,-
, 600 600 worth of butter, we are DIS
posing of what comes from the
atmosphere. and when we buy thai
800 100000 worth of sugar we are
paying tor what comes from foreign
l atmosphere. | have never heard il
= questioned but that there is plenty
: of atmosphere in the United States
plenty of fresh air. If the farmer
cannot so arrange his business as tC
sell heavily of butter, which doe:
not deplete his acres, he can rro
duce sugar that does not deplete his
acres.n The American farmer,
continues the Secretary, produces
: too much raw material with which
r the foreigner makes high priceC
e products. We send abroad cheaI
grains to enable the foreigner t
, make butter that completes will
i ours in the worlds markets. W.
S should not sell bushel of corn t.
/ any people under the sun. We NEE
: the Danish people in the British
markets with our dairy products
I We furnish them with the cheapes
COW feed in the world to enable then
TO compete with us. 1t would b.
= much more sensible if the American
. farmer would turn his raw materia
: into high-priced products. Th,
European markets for meat, dair,
products, poultry, etc, if we con
- slider the conditions of the two local
' tiles, belong to us. If we use tn
: skill and enterprise common t,
., those people who buy our cheal
grains to make meats, poultry, anC
dairy products from them, we will
' control the situation"
And we are to have another eX
pertinent in corporations colonial
- tion. Grave doubts were expressed
as to any possibility of success whei
t Eugene V. Debs succeeded in merg
4 ing the American Railway Uniol
n into the social Democracy, and an
nounced that cooperation and col
OniZltiOn were to be the war cries o
- the order and the ballot its Onl,
d weapon; but everything points to al
4 early movement. Col. Richard J
Hinton, the head of the colonization
: commission has been in Washing
= ton and is now about ready to star
0 west with the other members of tht
commission In search of lands suit