Year: 1879

cent, Ill price 1of all Tue gOOd
they could turn out? Who
would have believed that in
every department. of trade
North, South, East and West
you would hear one uniyer-
sal cry, 1--WE are worked to
death?" And yet, my friends
these are facts! But to what
do they tend? What do they
illustrate? What is the lesson
we are to learn from them?
One and only one-that if
we would even hold our own
In this great race of fprogress,
we must be np and doingq
Do away then with old ideas
dispondency, and the impos-
sibles, and let ns gird our
selves and OUT people with
the Interchangeable and imper
ishablcs principles | have
here set forth, and If we are
but true to ourselves there IS
no such word as fail.


When | said we could
work ont our own salvation
alone and lnnaided inside Of
Ave years; / meant it and
proved it literally without
fear of contradiction, but I
do not wish to be understood
as meaning that we shall not
in the meantime use every EN-
deavor to have our State to
make such appropriations
and adopt such practical me-
thods as will induce imlnigra
ton on a large and profitable
scale.


Why! since the first of last
January over 100000 immi-
grants have arrived in Amer
lea and with tho exception of
Texas the South has received
almost none of fthem.


These immigrants are esti-
to own in money $40
each and personal effects of a
like amount which would
an actual gain to Am~
erica Of over $22, 100000, as
soon as they landed on our
soil.


This can and should be
changed and it will be the
part of this association and
Planters journal to work
earnestly with the endeayor
to secure our proportion of
this great immigrant wealth.


1t will also be their part
to fight repudiation and bad
faith in every form to tho
bitter end, and OH tho contra
rv to demonstrate the impor-
tance and absolute necessity
of elevating and protecting
the commercial credit,ot our
towns, counties and State.


And further : 1t will be
their constant policy and
work to Jointly procure such
reliable Information from ev-
cry section in regard to the
condition and extent of the
cotton crop and iii return
furnish to the planters such
statistical information in re-
gard to the condition of trade
and the visible supply of the
worlds cotton that we can
use better Judgment than
heretofore in regard to holds
ing or selling his crops.


| must not omit to mention
.wC other auXiilaries that are
looming,up in thor near future
to help us fight this great bat
lie and which are destined to
reyolutionize our whole sys-
tenn of farming, settle perma
nently the labor question by
doing away with the demand
by one-half and pour untold
wealth into our Golfers. One
is Il cotton picking machine,
which is now being perfected
and which, with one or two
mules and a man, will pick
ten acres a day-not very
clean but it can be passed
through a cleaner and do as
we'll. This [ think will Gers
talnly be doue by the next
cotton season. And the 9th
er is the "Olement attacks
ment," which proposes to do
away with gin stands aud gin
houses entirely and spin the
yarns diroct from tho seed
cotton.


This no longer admits of q
doubt, but is a practical sue
cess, and by the time another
season rolls around many a
gin in our country will be do