The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-14
HEFL|N TOURING
 FIFTH DISTRICT Addresses Large Gathering of
 Farmers At Dadeville DRAWS CHEERFUL PICTURE Makes No Illusion to Attacks of Con- gressman Hobson in Speech,~Ex-
 blaming That Ills Tour Is
 Not a Political One.
DRAWS CHEERFUL PICTURE

Dadeville, September 13.-(Special) J. Congressman Hefiin, accompanied by Hon. J. A. Wade of the government bureau of plant ir'iu7try, is touring his district ! in the interest of the farmers, and it is believed much good will accompany his efforts MT. Hefin was greeted at Dade- vile by a large crowd today, and his auditors were very attentive and enthu- siastic.
 Hon. w. M. Lackey of Dadeville pre- sided over the meeting and introduced the speakers, MT. Wade speaking first. MT. Wade told the farmers many things which should prove valuable if they will but follow them out. He assured them that they could never build up their lands with commercial fertilizers, but that 1t would take vegetable matter and rnanures and encouraged them to raise more cat tie at home and more stock He gave some interesting figures on the value of the cotton crop produced in Alabama, which was of immense value, but showed how 1t soon became far too small when so much of 1t had to be sent out of the state to pay for things which might have been produced in Alabama.
 He said that the farmers in Alabama ought to begin to get ready to fight the boil weevil, saying that 1t would come, and even if it never came, the methods of farming used in boll-infected countries. if profitable there in spite of the insect, should prove much more so here, where we would not have the weevil to contend with.
 Mir. Heflin's Address.
 MT. Heflin's friends state that he made the best speech this morning that they ever heard him make. while not possibly so fowery or eloquent as some or so full of wit, still 1t was more practical He stated that he had given up all interests except that of serving his district and had no occupation except the service of his people.
 He told of measures he had pushed in Congress, seeking in some measure to con- trol the cotton exchanges which he says represent the spinning interests and are the greatest enemies the southern farmer has to contend with. He told the farm CTS that every other class of people in the United States was organized and he was glad to see the farmers at last attempt ing to organize and he trusted that they would meet with hearty cooperation on the part of the southern bankers and merchantS and IT they VIII Work together he prophesied that in five years the farm CTS of the south would be commanding their price for their cotton crop.
 The Mortgage System.
 He urged that the mortgage system be abolished, and said that since 1t could not be done away with unless the farmer had something to live on at home, he should begin to raise his corn and meat at home. He drew a very happy pie ture of what the southland would be when it produced all 1t needed to live on at home and then had its cotton to bring in clear profits
 MT. Hefin made no allusion in his speech to the attacks which have been made on him by Congressman Hobson, explaining afterward that this tour was not polt- ical one But when questioned he does not hesitate to bear up his end of the con troversy, saying that Hobson's position In Congress with regard to the negro ques- ton is not In accord with that of the other southern democrats. He expressed a desire that Hobson be not returned.