The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-07

! gang taste of their indignation.
As a soldier Roosevelt was IA very
| picturesque figure. As Sto0l-plge0n
| for PIatt. he must take his place among
! the ordinary r0ustahOuts employed by
that remarkable man to further his end,
Georgia's Agricultural Strength,
In discussing the success with which
| Georgia entered into competition with
| the great Agricultural states of the
| northwest in the Omaha exposition, Tho
| Constitution has already pointed out
| that this is by no means single crop
! state.
In tho days of the greatest cotton
! area when prices ruled so high as 10
| command the speculative attention or
| the people scarce more than half the
| state WIS ever devoted to it's culture.
! During the ante-War period when the
| state achieved its great agricultural
successes, Il bore the character not OF
| cotton state, but Of a general food
| producing state That this was pre-
| eminentlv the fact is attestod by the To-
cation on the part Of the confederate gov
! eminent Of the great prison camp at
! AndersonviIlc. That point was selected
| because it was in the center of re-
! gion whero corn grew which would
have shamed even the famed fields OF
the west and where the meat products
| were also in abundance.
The farmers Of southwest Georgia,
while raising cotton, at the same tIme
raised ali their home supplies. All
through wircgrass Georgia thousands
upOn thousands Of cattle and sheep had
the right Of way. while up in middle
GEORGIA ard to the northern part Of
thl state, corn and wheat were the
rival crops. The exclusive cotton area
was confined to localities here ana
there where II could be carried on on
an extensive plan.
All this being so. It may be asked
why H. was that a state, admittedly the
home Of general agriculture, should have
come 10 be regarded as among those
which were devoted to a single staple.
Briefly. it may be answered, that when
the people returned TO their fields upon
the close of the war, they found con
diti0ns so dem0raliZed that there was
Onlv one crop with which they could
trust their terants, and which would
bring the ready money which would
purchase needfu articles at that
time Then the four years famine OF
cotton, which the world at large had eX-
perionced, sent the price mp so cXtrava-
gantly that the people, one and an
from the cotton buyer in Ne" York,
almost to the cotton picker in the field,
were swept away by the speculative spir-
it, For years TINS poilcy fu'ed over
the falfeSt part Oh the Sl"'e' an" """0,
its Impetus the COTTON area was pUs"eN
Up to the hlgh@F Po'hlS o. ihlu"I1 Noo'
gia, until at last II IeacnSu ue tH".'d-
hOOch@e ana went even b"S ouI l5d'
limit But even IN Jle ptilou or 'He
widest speculative spirit georgia never
did, as q matter OF TACT become d SIN
gle crop state mere never was d
year III winch mere were nor hido7 iil
menSG crops Oh wheat, 'oIH' "a'9 an"
0tner products "hI'a are necessary ~
the sustenance or NE.
1t IS 10 TINS latter TACT thaL (He state
OF Georgia owes hef escape from
condlt0n WhIch "ouId nave bt'h ~
inevitable had 1t suecuInbed 10 the all
cotton poilcE' mere Always was
large number OF farmers IN every "ouh-
" in the state VINO raised tAeIf own
supplies ana never went 10 town IoT
market. me success 0l lHsae men con-
stiruted an object lesson. so that ten
wears ago, when the change when point
ed 70 Inc 10" 'otLDl pii'e VI III" iul"iV
began, there We're those who were able
to point the way to freedom from eX-
action and to prosperity in other lines.
It was in pursuit of this great awaken
ing that the late Mr Grady, in his
articles on Corn Versus cotton raj
lied the people to the standard Of the
new lIing-a king which would not be
dethrOned and in whose wake would
follow the true success OF the nome.
In the years which came after, cotton
continued in its downward march, but