The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-15
NINE STARTLING FIGURES
,opp FOOD SHIPPED TO GEORGIA
ru,yHER COTTON Is WORTH.
o,o Of the Very Best Arguments We
nave Eyer Seen For Diversity
ing Crops.


ing Crops.
- snppch mace by Mr.. 2. J. Moran
/, Atlanta before the Fruit Growers
.canrontion of North Georgia at For
18th he gave the following figures
's;ob make a most forcIble argument
+hot should be pondered by every citi-
zen Of Georgia;
Dsome few weeks ago, while care
,.sIv looking through a column of
acrrps-very disagreeable reading and
rs.orred to by people only when there
oothino better at hand-I observed
tobIe giving the exports of this coun-
+rv to foreign nations. There came a
foaIing of pardonable pride upon the
discovery of the fact that while we
bad imported into our country $780,
No 900 worth of products, we had sold
ID the other fellow 81, 200, 900, 900, and |
bod almost reached the conclusion that
q
would go out next morning and buy
DeKalb county farm and go into the
,osing of CottOu. Just in that mos
ment became interested in the items
(which made up chs list of exporta>
HONS, and became still more interest
Neiln the pointas to how much we had
oOtributed to the grand total. Sub
tracting from the expectation those
(which we're of an agricultural Charac-
ter, or which grew on the farm, |
Hound that it amounted to about $780,
100000. This still strengthened my
resolution to become an American
farmer, when out of such an immense
expectation about three-tourths Of 1T
bad been furnished by the brawny men
in the field.
But here again began to subdivide.
sOf the $3.50, 600 worth of farm pro-
duets which were sent abroad, only
S232 OO0,0 900 worth was in the shape of
cotton, All the rest was in products
arising IN the states of the north and
the west. This 1922, 900, 900, If it rep
resented surplus crop, that could
be called profit would haYe been a
good showing. But what were the
facts? When the state of Kansas, for
lnStance, shipped wheat and -four and
meat products to Europe it was after
haYlng first fed themselves during the
past year, and subtracting enough for
Feeding, breeding and replantlr g for
the year to come. Therefore, the $780,
&VWVOO which came across the Atlantic
lOr northern and western products
game to stay, and that really repre-
'eOtS the f6OO,000,00O of balance of
race IN our favor about which our
f'dSVclans are now boastlng. The
S2'OOO.OOO which came to the south
presented a cleaning of the field,
4uV people who raised 1T did so upon
OOffOwed provisions, an unpaid por
ION Of which they have added to the
borrowed provisions upon which they
Ill nave to work during the coming
rear,
NOW here was the developing of an
Farming situation, and one which de-
slahd6 Immediate attention, If our
eOpIe should continue upon this sui
'uaI course nothing short of bank
upVcy awaits them. At every station
~" every railway In tie south you
~ see poorly dressed men standing
'Ouu Trying to strike a trade with
ppF merchants to carry them
"Ousn the coming year, so tba5 while
V are going through the form of
r'@'llS TO be cotton planters, rails
pFOuuce to sell, they are in reality
'"'us more than cotton serfs with
""'pS at their backs. working for
Ien who hold the mortgages
a,:u stand between them and the
pnnscrop.
t.a aus terrible condition of things in
''u little more inquiry, and going
Vue OF the railroad offices | made
n le' as to the Importation of food
o., - INTO this state. These figures
u such character as to chal-
c or d further investigation. Taking
bnn spie OF railroads at random,
% V"aV during one month, and that
To-, 'V"s'oered an off month in freight,
Ma ""u shipped into the state SOY
b,d, OarIoadS of grain, 100 solid car.
nm, VI meat, ST. solid carloads Of
a1 81, z ZoS solid carloads of hay.
i i VeCrgla an agricultural country