Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-02-08

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I am willing to spend more now
in learning how to keep from
losing some more.
| know the successful farmer ls
not only possibility, but fact.
There are farmers making money,
and the proof that one makes
money is evidence that others can
make money. But they mast
know the click it is done with"
We do not want the politician in
farmers meetings. We, farmers,
are like the negroes-the sooner
we get out OF politics, the better
! it is for US. One little jackleg
Atlanta or Augusta lawyer can
lave a bell tied on his neck and
every farmer in the Legislature
will follow the bell anywhere.
He just don't know any better. l
mean by this the average farmer.
4 fellow that don't know how t.
farm, can't hold bis hand with
| these courthouse rings and whisky
soaked politicians. Let him vote,
though, and vote only for decent,
] intelligent, upright members. Let
him vote for men who will vote
eff these appropriations that
; burden the people today With taxes
| that are almost the couliscation of
property. The Advocate can help
in this good work. 1t hiss Leen
good help to many good things,
and it cannot now do a better th ng
fer toiling farmers thar: by spread
ing its agricultural department
on this question of intelligent
farming. Iknow of no one who
can help its present arrangement.
| I would love to have aljoint
discussion publicly in the
tabernacle in Gainesville, Ga,
with a wide-swake farmer, him
telling what he does know about
farming, and me telling what [
don't know about farming. The
contrast would make it interesting.
But [ do not want my friends to
go to. the Legislature anymore. I
do not like the company they get
in. Especially they must not go
on the temperance committee.
One of the Stale senators wrote. me
that a saloonkeeper was Oh the
temperance COMMITTEES of the
house.
I tell you, Mr.. Editor, we are
going to remember something in
Georgia. I honestly believe that
we have had the last temperance
committee appointed by any
speaker of the house or senate of
Georgia with u majority of that
committee wearing red no ses.
Little" as you think of it, we have
got 1913 counties safe now, boys,
and John Browns body is still
marching on. Of course, the
temperance committee reported
unfavorably the bill on the jug
business. They did not have
time to consider the State anti
saloon bill, but they did have
time to pass an act giving West
Point the privilege of going wet
again. We are keeping books,
gentlemen. and We will get to you
later along. We are going to
put some men in the next Georgia
legislature, who can lead this
cause, and l believe if we had
had them there this time to have
lead, we would have cotton what
we wanted. The present Legislature
did so little that l. don't think
them for what they did do. rhe
Alabama legislature is kicking
and hcwling about being mistreat-
ed up there but we had the same
Gang that mistreated them. hired
by the day to work for US. We
aro the mistreated people. 1t
makes me mad to think about
paying $355 for Slate and county
taxes, and a part of it going to
that gang. If they would do the
clean thing, they would work for
nothing and Eoard themselves and
then the State of Georgia would
| still be worsted.
Ifrumor can be relied on, I dc
not see why more of the red-nosed
rascals dc not die in Atlanta
during the session. [ heard thai
one member W Is drunk for 10 days
on stretch there,and somebody
told me he was on the reception
committee of that Alabama
lauislat11re. Any member whose