The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-11
hoe AND HOM|NY DOCTRINE
GOOD FOR ALL THE SOUTH.
Boston Paper Mistakes the Facts,
but Reads Very Good
Lesson.
LESS COTTON AND MORE HOGS
Lecture to the Cotton Grower May
Be Good Also for the Tobacco and
Peanut Maker in the Old Dominion.
Georgia to Be Looked To.

So far as we know the South rs not
calling upon the North for help. The
South is engaged in the business OF
helping itself. but all the same. the
following from a Boston paper is sug-
gestive In way. In that 1t brings out
some fine thoughts on the hog and
hominy" doctrine, which doctrine this
paper has, been preaching for many
years.
A STORY THAT rs
SUGGESTIVE. BUT NOT TRUE
With the qualifications above out
lined. the article from the Boston paper
is given space. merely because it is
huggestive. Here 1t is:
The South Is calling to the North
Tor help. and. OF course. will not call
IN vain. Certainly II should not call
IN vain, IL conditions are as serious as
the south says they arc, and as there
10 GOOD reason to believe they are.
but while accepting our help the
south should be willing to accept along
with 1t little free advice.
The trouble with the South is that
1t has persistently flown In the face
OF that wise old adage against putting
all your eggs In one basket. 1t has
steadfastly refused to leave the beaten
path. until at last the beaten path has
become rut. and bids fair to become
hole.
Hundreds of millions of dollars.
worth of cotton is raised each wear
In the South. but It has to be all ex-
changed for foodstuffs. so that in the
end all the farmers of the South have
to show for their crop Is full stomach
and some half-starved mules.
And now that the price of cotton
mas been cut below the profit line by
the war, the farmers have the cotton
and empty stomachs. Tho trouble is
that neither man nor beast can eat the
cotton. Unless they can exchange II
with somebody for the price of food
the outlook is starvation, government
assistance or charity.
All their GEES are In the cotton
basket. and Mars has given the basket
an unexpected kick. That's all there
Is TO the troubles OF the South.
GEORGIA AS AN EXAMPLE
TO HE LOOKED TO
Georgia, which lis second In the list
OF cotton-growing States, is better OF
In the present emergency than the
other cotton States. because IL didn't
turn an altogether deaf ear to the ad-
vice OF the Macon Telegraph. which fo,
fifteen years has been trying to make
the farmers of the South sec the error
OF their ways.
And yet Georgia. in 1911, sold her
cotton crop for sl40,00OoOO and pur-
chased foodstuffs amounting to STA
600. 900.
The Telegraph has issued man,
warnings OF what would happen to the
South In case of a great war, and sure
ly II would not seem TO require much
foresight TO see that conditions might
arise which would bring famine to the
south amid the greatest cotton crop In
Its history. The Telegraph puts the
case I'm "A nutshell:
"Suppose GcorRia's corn bins were
full and her smokehouses strung with
old-fashioned Georgia cured hams and
shoulders. What Would Georgia care
how long they fought in Europe?
The farmer who now finds himself
all loaded up with cotton and nothing
to eat Is hoping praycrfully that some
thing Will be done by somebody to pull
him out of the hole.
The farmer who has for several
years made IL a practice to produce
surplus OF feed has sl1.o5 corn and o5-
cent bacon to sell and can hold HIS cot
ton without help from the government
or any one else"
it is probable that something will
have to be done to save the South from
the consequences OF It's folly, but let
us hope that. whatever is done, il Will
not be something that will luIl the
Southern farmer into a further false
sense of security and thus prevent him
from learning the lesson that his pres
ent predicament should teach
Instead OF Buy n Bale of Cotton"
the slogan OF the South should be:
Raise a Hog" or Grow a Bushel OF
Wheat"