The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-11
PLENTY of room in Georgia.

nous recognition of the fact that there are
still millions of acres OF Southern soil
ready to be converted Into smiling farms
and happy homes If they would only enter
upon the undertaking with that same
energy and spirit of self-denial that they
would be called upon to display land that
they would gladly exhibit when they
emigrate to far off Texas, Oklahoma, New
Mexico and other regions where distance
lends an enchantment far beyond the pos
sible realization of the promised blessings.
Compared TO what will be found in these
newer sections of country in the Far
West here we may find in the most thinly
populated sections of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and other Southern
states something of society, of school and
religious facilities, of roads and meaps
of transportation, of everything that a
man with a family forming about him
would most desire. Grant that the young
man must first make a home complete
before he gives any thought to establish
ing the family that it was designed by his
Creator that he should is 1t not far easier
for him to establish that home here than
1t will be in the wilds of a new country,
where money is dear where markets are
more or less inaccessible, where there is
little or no cooperation, where there is
iO NOAiSNHldt oOSAGlgs MAlGANs dS - usually
the case, there Is much malaria, etc. Com
pared to European countries and even TO
parts of our own vast United States,
Georgia may be regarded as open to i'm
migration for long time yet. With her
5000 square miles and 100000 of acres
of land and her 100000 of people,
there is room for many millions more be-
fore we are really settled" like Belgium
or France or England. There are counties
in North, Middle and South Georgia to-
day where one can go for miles without
seeing more than one or two habitations
and there are many thousands of acres
of land yet to be brought into cultiva-
ton that will produce twenty-five bushels
of corn or 400 pounds lint cotton for
number of years without the aid of ma
nure. And there are thousands of acres
that have been in cultivation for many
years that need only to be seeded to grass
of one kind or another to enable each
acre in the short period of two or three
years TO make more clear money in beef
and pork and mutton than it ever did
at any time from the first in either cotton
or corn. Considering the price at which
these lands can be bought
they can be restored TO prestine
fertillty-more economically than 1t would
cost to open up and fit property new lands
for cultivation.
The young man with $1,000 or $1,000 or
to Invest his sum in land in Georgia. sell
ing al the low price that it does than to
buy richer land on the confines of civili-
zaton at the same price, but usually he
will pay more for the latter. The young
man that has common sense and any
knowledge of farming and is willing to
work as hard on old Georgia soil as he
will have TO do in Texas or elsewhere to
succeed will find no trouble in making all
reasonable Roadway as a farmer right
here. He will not succeed in either place
if he does not practice the most rigid econ
omy.
Georgia is still an agricultural state, her
manufacturing interests amounting to a
trhe compared to her investments in
farming and this will continue to be the
case for very Dong time. II should follow
that whatever of craftsmanship there ex-
lists in this state should concern itself with
the advancement of our farming interests
above all others. There are many who CON-
tend that there are few or no statesmen in
Georgia nowadays, that we have nothing
but politicians who are concerned only for
their own personal POLITICAL advancement
and are not disposed to jeopardize any
present popularity by proposing or assist
ing new measures that may at first be OBJ
| jectionabie to certain classes, oftentimes
simply because they are not understood
by them. For it is the fate of many good
proposed measures not to carry on their
face how really good they are and time is
needed for demonstration of their mer t.
The average mind, only moderate cult
waited or enlightened cannot readily see
| how old established customs are to be bel
! tered. They cannot see the need for change
| to keep step with the progress of events
! Thus we must have contests over the fence
| question, the sheep-dog question. the LIQUOR
| question, the road question and others. To
! lead in the fight of progress must of ne
! cessity risk present popularity by arousing
! opposi ion from the gaggards of progress
! Intelligent craftsmanship based on patriot
! ism and humanity must be willing to take
all risks of the kind. England is great
| because she has plenty of men animated
| by this spirit. Ii may be true as charged
! that we are sadly in need of men of this
style in our own national and state gov
! ernments.
should il not be taught more in our
! schools the need for craftsmanship and the
vast difference between a politician
1 ofiiceholder and statesman. And can IL
| be denied that the true object of states
manshp in Georgia to-day is the advance
ment Of agriculture, relying as we do upon
it for whatever position we occupy in the
| great family of states.
There must be something 20 manufac-
ture We cannot all be manufacturers. A
state whose prosperity is founded upon an
! intelligent and prosperous agriculture is
| the state that can be counted on to en-
dure After all it is the raising of what
we eat and what we wear that makes the
commerce of the world. All Industry is
based upon what the farmer does, let the
parasite that fattens upon him ridicple
| him as he may.
Just as Ii is proper for a state 10 aid tho
establishment of new railroads and water
ways. so would 1t be proper for a state
TO lend aid to the establishment Of new
farms. There is a way to do it for the
betterment of humanity-the object of ana
excuse for all government and we believe
the time is not far distant when GOOD
! craftsmanship will take ho.d of the grand
| idea that government can greatly advance
| the happiness and material prosperity of
all its people by cooperating with and be-