The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
Letters to the Editor.
Our Soils and Our PoIItics.

Editor The Adveruser:.
 our alert representative of the Sec Ona ,s District put in telling stroke for us ana we have a late notice of prac- tieal favor from Uncle sam. The Blu reau of Soils has been among us and We have beautifully printed docu- ment with delicateiy coiored maps, call ca Soil Survey of Montgomery Coun- ty," l have been honored by copy. Al snould get one. 1t Is a good whis- tie in dark place.
 solomon says the excellency of knowledga is 1t gives wisdom to those who have 1t. Who knows how much corn was made in old Montgomery in the days of Thomas Barnett, Charles ~ Gunter, Henry Lucas, Cowle, Marks. MathewsY Enough to burn, certainly. HOW much more the old corn growers would have made, had they only known that the best corn lands are the Hous- ton clay. fazoo clay, Congaree loam and the more loamy parts of the Sus-
 But we may not expect all good things at one time. Then we had corn aud .the best people" then lived in the country, out of town. Now We have we see the paternal government hell bent upon stocking it's archives with the solemn fact of our temporary mls- fortune in that majority of the farmers of Montgomery county do not raise nearly enough corn for nome consumption.
 The report discovers, as If none would have suspected it, that they have to buy at high prices or else part icy always" Selah.
 Uncle Sam should come closer to us. He would see the flag floating to ou, softest breezes, the National Guard up our substance; the tariff taxes we Day supporting the trusts and our plantations. Indispensable to all the viliainy by which we are retained Tn that most interesting lmpocuniosity which so amuscs him in this "Soil Sur vey of Montgomery County" he sets before us so patronizingly. IT.
 The Government gave US some Ht- erature, that Alabama promoters should study and use to expurEate the later teaching. The iittlo fellows that come down here, seeking to placate poilticai authority at Washington by oHiciaI reports of pre-crouined compleXioon. are dangerous. I propose to exhlpit somewhat or Alabama under norr'ai conditions. There is not a hundred acre field in Montgomery County that would not be made to respond unaer standing to the State of the square deal' is allowed to 1t from Washington.
 U. Census Of 1880:
 Popuiation--Alabama, s64.2ol; ono, 2,ss9.511.
 Ohio, S4,039,614.
 Increase. per cent, in all values in the deeade--Alabama, 1T: Ohio, lsS.
 Production per Capita Of Pouiatlon of Corn, Wheat, Peas, Beans, Yams, Potatoes, by bushels. Aggregate-Ala- bama, 40; Ohio, 30.
 Value of Animals Siaughtered--Als- bama, s1a32a.o!3; Ohio, sl4'zS3;s72.
 aome,mads ds,o Man1fasiures--AiA ssan asi
 We need not prolong the comparison. The figures prove that the per centagc of rise in farm paiues, in Alabama, m the deaade. was nearly 900 per cent. than goo per cent. My matter here IS good for immigration ageuts.
 The forty bushels of corn and other products for food produced per cafita of population in in Ainbama ,S ,t was Saa ah con on the otkur hand. Ohio Inaintained large foreign commerce m all those products yst she only produced hfty
 The people of Alabama consumed far more of the staple products of food, common to both States, than the people of Ohio. There was not as well fed agricultural people in Europe as ours.
 under the tariff Tor revenue, in force in the decade. 1S50-60,i enjoyed larger per cent. of gain in prosperity oyer the preceding decade. than the people of the North. The figures are present.
 The debt commission, Messrs. Hous- ton. Lawler and Bethea. ill their report of 1878, put the values of Alabama. in 1880, at SIPS, 100000. This is about one-haif slave property. Why not! If the New England slave merchant took back the proceeds of sales of his to South Carolina rice plant CTS and invested 1t in assessable cot ton mills and shoe shops on Fall Riv- CT. why should the purchasing rice planter be denied the privilege of as- sessinc his purchase, pro bono publi. co? Ohio inherited the proceeds Of slave merchants sales; Alabama re- ceived from South Carolina the prop erty bought. If the debt commission estimated correctly, the per capita wealth of the white people of Ala bama. in 1880, was the enormous sum
 It is vain to try to cuff Alabama into better ways. Leave the pension tax and the tariff tax with us for awhile and try us with our own.
 Salamander.