The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-13
/ SOUTH WILL NOW DEVELOPE LIKE MAGIC
BLESSING IN DISGUISE, DECLARE
LINCOLN COUNTY FARMER.
Mississipbians Are About to March into
Land FlOzring With MIX and Honey
Farmer, Merchant and Banker Working
in Unity.
in Unity.

The following remarks by N. T. Tull
in the Brookhaven Semi-Weekly Leader
are worthy of very careful reading
by readers of the News. 1t is a shrewd,
far-sighted estimate of present conditions:
"When the boil weevil first gained
passage across the Mississippi river
and began his solemn march through
our beautiful. state, / began to hear
people say that the boil weevil would
prove blessing in disguise. At first
could not see where the blessing would
come in. / had seen the over-flows at
different times, and nobody called that a
blessing in disguise. I had seen storm
and pestilence sweep over the country !;
/ had seen too much drouth and l had
seen too much rain; but nobody called
these blessings in disguise, or blessings
at all. But since l have studied the sit
uation, it is easy to see difference be-
tween these misfortunes that visit different
sections at different times, and this large
calamity which comes as common en-
envy to all. These other troubles affect
individuals and communities, while the
boil weevil plague reaches us as whole
The one is indeed an. affliction for the
time, but soon gone and forgotten; the
other seems to be here to stay. In the mag
nitude of the calamity lies the blessing
even since the empire took its way
westward, King Cotton had held an
undisputed reign. While he has seemed
to reward his subjects with bountiful
hand, the truth is, he has kept them in
slavery. The history of his reign has
been the history of mortgages and misery.
The small farmer has ever paid homage
to a tyrant and knew it not. 1t is we'll that
an enemy has come who is powerful
enough to shake the throne of this SOW
ereign to its foundations, and threaten his
overthrow.
"The cotton raising habit has grown
on our farms throughout the long years,
until they are 'sot in their way 1t has
been impossible to shout anything loud
enough into their ears or to flash anything
vivid enough into their eyes to turn them
from this one pursuit. But the time
has come when the farmer can no longer
make cotton the basis of his crop and
make living. A new condition has
arisen which must be met, and in meet
ing it, the farmer will come into his own.
at has ever been true that no class
of people is SO willing to let well enough
alone as the farmer. In sense his life
is peaceful and happy. He is free from
the rivalry and strife that obtain in all
other vocations. This is why he is loath
to make any change from the old order.
As a ruler he keeps his own counsel
in matters pertaining to business on the
farm. Heretofore, any advice offered
from the outside has been looked upon as
an unwarranted intrusion.
different organizations have sprung
up from time to time. having for their
aim the promotion of the interest Of the
farmer, but in every case they have passed
away without accomplishing much for the
iudividuaI farmer. These organizations
have died from the same cause. First,
for the Jack Of personal support on the