The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-25

not stand such an unjust dfscrimtua~ ton against them; but. unfortunately
 the farmers of Alabama have not the
 power; they have not the might to rise up and say to the people of Alabama,
 You shall not discriminate against uA | We come to you as iaw-abidinB citi-
 zens. as. tax-paying citizens. and ask you, in the name of the common peo- pie of Alabama, in the name of sne
 fai mers, who are the backbone and
 sinew of the world. to relieve them of this unjust taxation. If you win but
 stop and think a moment, I believe ! you will do 1t.
 say again. we do not need an in-
 spector. I say again that 1t is farce.
 and 1t is impossible to get fertilizer
 analysed without first writing the brand on the fertilizer, and also the l analysis on the sack.
 In conclusion, want to say that we
 feel very grateful to the lawyers. and | other members of this Convention, who are going around, and taking upon themselves the task of button -holing
 the members of this Convention now,
 In an endeavor to secure their pledges | against this amendment. The farmers | of Alabama may feel grateful to those | members; we note with pleasure how ] jealous they are. and yet want to | say to them, If they carry the propo-
 sition. we will go back, we will bear
 the burden, we will continue to bleed | for awhile, but after awhile the time
 may come when the lawyers and others
 in conventions and the General Assem-
 plies may be in as hopeless a minority l as the farmers are today. and then, as | proclaimed by the gentleman from Jef- | ferson, we may demand and secure our l rights.
 Mir white-wm the gentleman ai- low a question?
 Mir. Greer (Calhoun)-Yes. sir. MT. White-I want to know if the ins specticn has improved the article any7 Mir. Greer (Calhoun)-I am glad that my attention has been called to that. That is the point was about to over look. want to say, as farmer, that farmers give a note that reads some thing like this: that the man who sells the guano. the merchant. is not respon- | sible for the crop. He does not guar antee 1t. The guano Is sold solely on
 the guaranteed analysis, without any guarantee as to the result of the ferti- 1izer If 1t pays, you are all right, you are that much in; if it does not pay | you. and proves worthless, you pay for | 1t and take your medicine. That is all there is in 1t. You have no help for 1t whatever. Those are the provisions | in the notes we give for the fertilizer.
 
 And in answer to the gentlemen, | want to say that the guano today ts nothing compared to what 1t was twenty years ago. Where hundred pounds, twenty years ago, would pro- | duee 6 given result, it takes frem three l to four hundred pounds today to pro- duce a like result: and want 10 say | that do not believe there is farmer upon this floor who has experimented, 1lxy farmer who depends upon his farm for a support-but what will endorse all that I say, when I assert that guano today, under the fifty-cent ton in- spection tax Is a much inferior article to that we used to have without the hfty-cent inspection tax added. Now, gentlemen, in conclusion, 1es me beg of you, In the name of a hard working class of pee pie in the State or Alabama, as a whole; a people who have been discriminated against in the
 past, let me beg of you in their name,
 to relieve us of this unjust taxation. and this burden, and in future years "our chiI6ren's children will rise un and call you blessed"
 Mir Palmer-Mr. President and gen tlemen of this Convention: This is the first time that I have been on my fact during the sitting of this Convention. I have not introduced an ordinance.
 nor a single resolution, nor have opened my mouth in this Convention. Gentle men, when you began this Con Vention, and started to call the roll, my name being well down on the list.
 before you got to my name, was sat- isfled you had enough resolutions and ordinances to make Constitution, and that there was no use to offer more. It was two days before you got to. my name again, and when you got there, I then thought that you had enough for ten Constitutions. and SO I have held my tongue. and have done nothing but vote. and al- ways, under almost all circumstances, voting to sustain the committee.E re- ports.
 It seems to be the custom of this body, and 1t seems almost as bad in that respect as the lower House of Congress, that when a man gets on the floor you talk him down. have said nothing to delay the work of this Con. ventlon. and If you are not interested in what I say, why just begin to talk and will quit and get out of the way.
 Now gentlemen. I am a farmer, al- though I go on crutches. I do noth- ing but farm, and thanks be to God. I make a good living out of 1t. have raised up and educated my children as well as any man in this State, although go upon crutches. There has been a great deal said here by gentlemen about this fertilizer business. am satisfied that there is not Q man in this House but what is willing to do what is right, provided he knows what Is right. Now in this state. since the war; all Southeastern and Southern Alabama has been brought into a state of cultivation. Before the war we used to throw out tens of thousands of bushels of seed around our seed houses, and the cattle would work them into the ground during the winter and they were not utilized. There were no oil mills in the country before tue war, and all this was lost. We have now commenced to use commercial fertll- izers and use them largely. 1t is hu- man nature, just as soon as there is a great demand for any pro 1uct, for people to begin to put spurious article on the market for money. It is so with fertilizers.
 There has been a great deal said here about our Agricultural Colleges, and the analysis of fertilizers by the State Chemist. tell you, gentlemen, these fertilizers are analysed. and the gen. tleWep who have preceded me are to a great degree mis- taken in the charges that they have brought against the Asti i:ul- tural College. If you will take a sam pie of fertilizer, or a sample Of your soil, and send 1t to the State Che.nlst. U.hile he has hia class in the class