The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-08

voc in session in Chicago five
si'10 ,os+ week. and the different sec
uo' a Of the country We'd with each
w. ~. IN setting forth the advantages
+boir farming districts.
u GEORGIA was ably represented at
-, congress- by Colonel Samuel c.
nan,on commissioner of the Georgia
Dnroau of Industries and Immigra-
4ioo Colonel Dunlap made one of
tno feature speeches of the occasion,
.ooording to the Chicago Examiner,
which says
Georgia was painted as an agri-
,nItural paradise. yesterday by Col
orpI Samuel C. Dunlap in a pithy,
humorous speech in which he upheld
tbo reputation of the south for or
otorv and hospitality as we'll
"Tbe delegates were all invited to
mack up their goods and journey
down into the southland, the new
land of opportunity and happiness.
Colonel Dunlap had prepared for
NAL manuscript, but he forgot it en-
HreIv when he started talking
The following remarks of Colonel
Dunlap are taken from the Exam
iner. which paper gave large space to
tbe Georgian's address, accompany
ing them with life-like picture of
tbo sneaker:
The Ideal Country.
eve can manage to get along
without you down in Georgia, said
the colonel, but it passes my under
standing how you can manage to get
along without us. They do talk
about droughts in Texas, but you
never heard of a drought in Georgia.
Come to Virginia, the Carolinas, Ten
nessee, Alabama or Georgia, and
find there the ideal country for farm
ing Yes, we have negroes down
there, and they're doing well +
know one negro who on one acre
raised bale of cotton which he sold
for $50 Why, l could take that
$50 and buy 800 bushels Of your
South Dakota corn.
"Olive" Oil From Cotton Seed.
Cotton seed we used to throw
away or use for fertilizer. We don't
do that any more. We sell a bushel
of cotton seed now for fifty cents,
more than you get for a bushel of
your corn,
You don't know anything about
Georgia or Alabama, Ell? Well, we
are using every pound of cotton seed
for oil, except what we have to save
for planting. We export that oil to
Antwerp. and it comes back the finest
olive oil that ever grew in the
world.
Everybody who knows anything
at all knows a sweet potato is a
sweet potato.
We don't have Irish potatoes,
and don't lament the lack. Of sweet
potatoes We raise 100 to 400 bushels
to the acre, and sell them for 40
cents to 81 bushel, according to the
season. You ought to have seen
President Taft at the banquet in At
lanta last fall. We fed him on pos
sum and sweet potatoes, and how he
smiled.
Mr.. Dunlap praised in high terms
the purposes of the land congress.
Keep Your People ON Farms.
Our object is SO to work as to
Keep our young men and women
from leaving the farms and crowd
ing themselves into the already too
congested towns and cities, he said,
and If possible, to show those who
i've IN our great cities how and
Wnere they can better their condition
by hnding more comfortable and
happier home in the country, where
lelr children can be raised to a
higher and better citizenship.
The nation needs more good men
ana good women, and the country
the place to bring them up.
We have no state or government
lands in Georgia, nor have we any
Laifoad lands to offer to settlers.
our lands are all owned and held by
private parties, but the owners are
always willing to sell a part of their
holdings to any one who may desire
10 purchase for investment or the
Ae purpose of making his home with
- we have millions of acres which
'aA ne bought at reasonable prices.
Rich Resources of Georgia.
The record of progress and ad-