The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 03, 1908, Image 4
THE WAY OUT
And the Ouly Way Out For the
Faimsr.
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS
Corn, Wheat aiul lock Fanners of
the West Herniate Prices by Living
at Home, and Southern Farmers
Can l>o the Same 'thing if
They Will Try to l>o It.
Hon. John M. Parker, of New
Orleans, discussed the methods of
cotton farmers in plain, hard words
that evoked much applause during
the forenoon of the last day of the
Farmers' Union Convention at New
Orleans. Ho spoke as follows:
"It is much more pleasant and
safe to hand bouquets than it is '.o
throw hrick, and, for that reason,
most speakers at farmers' gatherings
adopt the former course, and give
'the hardy sons of toll' such a surfeit
of llatterly as to make a blunt
statement of existing (conditions
most unwelcome.
"A number of personal experiences
have satisfied me the majority are
like children, and prefer a sugarcoated
pill to quinine. Sometimes It
is necessary to give your medicine
straight. Due to low prices and the
boll weevil, already over a large section
and certain to spread further,
the time has come for the farmer to
take his dose like a man.
"My excuse for this preface is having
addressed a number of farmers
gatherings and having been hooted
and hissed at, too,' I now ask as a
personal favor that you hold up any
demonstrations until my short talk
Is finished, as it is decidedly unpleasant
for a speaker to be interrupted
with the shout "Throw him out,' and
then again, it is apt to interfere with
this argument.
"There is no more improvident
man-.on earth than tlie average cotton
planter. In those good old days.
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ihmoix i ix* war, oi w 111 o 11 tin* orator
tolls us, history says ovory farmer
had hi- smoke-house packed with
lmcon, his crib filled with corn, the
grist mill hummed regularly, and
the farmers waxed fat and prosperous.
"Today not one cotton farmer In
ton raises meat. Not one in five
raises corn enough to last him, and,
shameful to say, thousands actually
buy the* hay necessary to sustain
their stock.
"Annually now for some years the
cotton farmers meet in convention,
listen to some good political speeches,
and occasionally a new joke, then
vigorously applaud tlx* fervid oratory
denouncing all trusts, and finally organize
the biggest kind of a trust t
r gulate price.-, agree to decrease
acreage and diversify their crops, to
raise what they need at home, an i
he independent of bank, cotton factors
or merchants.
"Their final resolutions are enthusiastically
carried at the convention
hall, and all conveniently forgotten.
for by the time they return
home, they decide to plant a little
bit more cotton, and they keep ot.
in the same old way.
"Do you cvor hear the wheat
grow r. or the corn grower, or the
oat grower, or the mule raiser ca I
conventions to 'regulate prices?' Not
on your life. lie goes ahead.
num- uiiin no geiS out Ol
debt, then aslts the value of his product
and holds it until he gets it.
lie don't sit on the fence and cry
for either moral or financial sympat
hy.
"The curse of our cotton planter
Is debt, and until he gets out of deb*
he will never realize his dreams of
independence.
"Have you ever thought that in
the great chain of the credit system
the cotton planter forms one of the
important links? How the tenant
borrows from the planter, who borrows
from the merchant or factor,
who, in turn, borrows from the local
bank, which borrows in one of the
great financial centers, which, in
turn, borrows from the financial centers
of Europe, and how in return
both from the picking of the cotton
to the final sending of the bill of
exchange to reimburse the European
center completes the chain?
"Credit Is the whole system, with
tlio high prices and excessive charges
which must l>e made to cover'the
risk involved.
"Have you ev(?r boon through
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, or Iowa, and
seen the farmers of those sections?
Great, splendid barns filled with hay
and corn and oats and silage. The
pasture with sleek cattle and sheep
and hogs, the tool-house filled with
well-kept implements, everything
neat and orderly, and some profit on
every article raised. They rotate
crops in those sections, and keep
their property up, and have money
in hank.
"Why do our planters still adhere
to the razor-back hog and scrub cattle
when at a less expense they
could raise fi*jo stock, which will
improve the farm and go a long ways
towards lifting the mortage. The
loss and abuse of farm implements
annually represent a fortune. Hoes,
plows, harrows, mowing machines
*
and wagons often lie, for months > xposcd
to the elements and when t
crops of corn and cotton are gathered
they are shamefully cared for.
The leaky barns with damaged corn
and colicky mules are a disgrace.
"No other agricultural product is
as abused as cotton, it is improperly
covered, improperly cared for, and
there is not a train out of New.Orleans
from whose car window's you
cannot see picked cotton lying out
over-night ex|>osed to weather, bales
of cotton lying on the ground or
under a tree, or in a puddle of water,
with chen> hugging rotting and
cotton daily being damaged. Such
planters don't deserve the name of
cotton farmer. They are merely cotton
producers.
"Most business men or professional
men will average at least 2 7."
working days a year. On the properties
under niv control last season
the greatest time any tenant actually
worked in the fields was 1 41> days,
tho least time 112 days, and the
average 128 days, or less than onehalf
the time put in by the merchant
or professional man. It was either
too hot or too cold, too wet or too
dry, or any old excuse to keep out
of the field.
"The Northern farmer works twice
as hard as we do and under great,
disadvantages, and to the full appreciates
the old motto: The T,ord
helps those who help themselves.'
"Quit resolving and resoluting.
flet to work. Diversify your crop.
Raise good stock. Get your Congressman
to send you the latest Government
bulletins. Get the host seed.
Raise what you can at home. Above
all, got out of debt. Stay out of
debt, and then hold your products
until you get value for them, an 1
the whole world, instead of condemning,
will applaud your wisdom."
JAH STICKS ON IMS IIKA1).
Itoy Plays Soldier and (lets Into
Trouble.
New York, Nov. 2 8.?Playing
soldier a Brooklyn youngster placed
a brown earthenware jar, such as i.i
used for baking beans, on his head
for a helmet, then found to his mortification
and horror that he could
not remove it. Even more mortified
and more terrified was his mothej,
who in desperation hurried the sobbing
little soldier out of th? house
and boarded a car bent on taking
him to a physician.
The child could not even wipe his
tear-filled eyes, for the rim of the
jar rested on the bridge of his nose I
Blushing furiously, the mother tried
to appear unconcerned in the face
of the staring passengers, but finally
one woman grew so serious that she
asked: j
"Why does your little boy wear |
a bean pot?"
"Hocause ha can not got it off,"
replied the mother, stiffly.
"Why don't you break it with a
hammer?" some one suggested.
This proved to he a happy thought,
and as there was no hamnn r available,
the motornian was railed to the
rescue. Ho broke the jar with his
controller. The li.ttlo boy gulped
with relief, and his mother took him
home. *
\yi:\t o\ tiii: war patii
Ihsause Her Son Was Whipped at
Public School.
Cuthbert, Ha., Nov. 2S.?Cuth
bert's ])uhlic school children wen
thrown into a panic Tuesday afternoon
when Mrs. \V. M. Shirley, wife
of Rev. \V. M. Shirley, a Rapt 1st
minister, went, it is alleged, to the
school house holding a brick in her
hand, and in a very exciting manner
ask-d for one of the young lad>
teachers.
One of the larger boys called Su
perintendent Hambv, while a man
living near telephoned for the police.
Chief of Police Cox answered
the call and restored order.
The case of disorderly conduct has
been entered against .Mrs. Shirley and
will he tried in the police court next
Monday afternoon.
The trouble, it is alleged, grew
out of one of the teachers whipping
Mrs. Shirley's son for an alleged
infraction of the rv.les.
Some of the school hoys claim
that Mrs. Shilrey visited the school
again on Wednesday afternoon, this
time armed with a nistni but Pain...,
to find tho teacher she was looking
for, left without making any demonstration.
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KILLKI) A PLANTER.
Three Negroes Arrested Charged
With the Crime.
Greensboro, Ala., Nov. 2S.?Sheriff
Gewin has captured three negroes,
charged with tho murder of Former
Sheriff It. W. Drake, near Laneville,
Ala., Thursday night. One of the
negroes confessed and implicated the
other two. lie says that ho held
the light while the other two negroes
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u.wvrw .in. ny kiiof'King nun
in the head with an a\o; that they
then saturated his clothing and the
bed clothing with oil and sot fire
to thorn. Steps have boon takon to
call a special term of court to try
tho negroes because of the feeling,
which is running high. *
An alderman in Chicago has introduced
an ordinance to prohibit football
in the Windy City. They come
to the front ever day in that town.
WHAT WE NtlU
ANI) IIOW Till'! GO Villi NMKVk
CAN IIKLI*.
Ilcllor Foreign Markets, Ileal liegu
lotion of Trusts aiul More C'ottoi
Manufacturing at Home.
Tom Watson. of Georgia, at tlu
meeting of the Farmers' Union in
New Orleans recently made a speech
from which we make the extract below
:
"In civilized government then
are three great departments upon
which prosperity depends. Agriculture
is one, manufacturing is anothci
and commerce is another. If tlu
;overnmont keeps hands off and
merely protects each man in the possession
of his property, it is an open
field and a free light, 'root hog, or
die.' The government can do this,
or it can protect each and every 0110
of these departments, in which case
;he result would lie about the saun
as in the first. Hut when the govern
mont tak'?s up one at the expense oi
the others, the other two are injured.
When it takes up two at tlie
expense of the third, the third languishes
and suffers. Analyze this
situation and you will begin to realize
what is the matiter with the
backbone of the country."
Mr. Watson reviewed tho history
or protection in this country, and declared
the manufacturers hare not
only made S per cent, but also cleared
$2,000,000,000 besides. Ho said
that the farmer has never asked anything
but a free Held and a fair flgh*.
and had been denied these; that he
had never asked to have other commodities
taken to put money iu his
own pocket; that no more unsellflsh
man was ever made in Clod's image
on this earth; that when there is ,t
pestilential swamp to drain, tlu;
farmer drains it; that when thero are
taxes to pay. the farmer pays them;
that in the early history of the
country when there were savages to
drive hack, it was the farmer who
shouldered his musket and did the
work. The capture of Andre was
referred to and it was stated thai
tin1 farmers who captured him could
not lie bribed.
We cotton farmers of the South
are the only people in the world who
have a "monopoly and don't know
what to do with it. continued the
speaker. The Steel Trust has a m ?nopolv
and knows what, to do. It
sells yon plows, and hoes and rakes,
and you have to pay the price. The
Harvester Trust makes you pay the
price. And all the time they are
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in num ii America and Russia
at cheaper prices than at homo. The
Coal Trust fixes the price of the coal.
It is their business to fix the price
and yours to pay the price.
Congress could have said: "No,
I won't burden the agriculturist with
such loads as these." Congress could
have broadened your markets, obtained
greater mercantile trade by
reciprocity and other treaties. One
commodity could be exchanged for
another on terms fair to both. Hut
its policies have caused the other
nations to adopt- retalitory tactics
and narrowed the foreign markets
to the produtcts of the American agrieult
nrlst.
President MoKinloy sent a Commission
to Franco to negotiate a
treaty that would have meant the
entry into that country of cottonseed
products from the South, valued at
$20,000,000 a year. Hut the Senate
killed it, and killed it because it
contained a clause favoring the importation
of French hosiery. Some
little old New England mill would
have been affected, and so $20,000,noo
a year to the South had to b?
sacrificed.
In 1 907, the sale of cotton abroad
amounted to 9,708,000 hales. This
cotton was manufactured and shipped
hack again and sold at higher
prices, so that the net profit to our
country was only $9,000,000. Hon t
that show that we are selling cottoi
two low? Why not manufacture every
hale right here?
The high tariff and trust system
has restricted and, narrowed the
market, cut off the demand and left
a surplus. The remedy lies in a lower
tariff. Let the foreigner in, reduce
the price of American goods
that are now protected, and thereby
InoKAnno tb/v J *
niviuiiBu iut; wiMiuiiiu ior raw cotton
for tho greater the demand Is the
greater will be the price. That's
tho permanent remedy.
Now for immediate and temporary
relief. I like that warehouse plan.
That takes it off. The coffee growers
were confronted with a situation al
most similar to that which now confronts
the cotton farmer. Did they
swamp the market with their overproduction?
No, they put all their
surplus in warehouses, raised the
price and compelled the consumer
to pay for not only what was market
o<i, but alsu for what was never sohi
at all.
Killed by Train.
Covington, T,a., Nov. 2 0.?While
pnsing the station at Florenville, T.a.,
one car of a r.rent Northern railroad
gravel train jumped the track and
crashed into the depot.
Mrs. J. W. Condor, wife of the
treasurer of the Covington Naval
Stores Company, v. ho was waiting
for a train, was killed outright. Sevearl
negroes were badly injured.
| HOG KILLING TIME
SOMK <;ooi> ou> SOUTH I:KX
Kcri|M*S of
llow to Make All Sorts of (?oo<l
Tilings When You Kill Your Hogs
'litis Winter.
We print below some Rood oldtinie
Soutl%rn recipes that were
used before creosote, borax and oth1
er so-called preservatives were
known. In the days before the war.
says Commissioner of Agriculture
. (iraham, of North Carolina, in the
i Progressive Farmer, any one who
used these things would have but little
company for Christmas. Hut
. here is what we started out to say:
1 "In Cutting Up."
In "cutting up" the hog, cut
1 through the skin on each side of
the backbone; this gives the "fat
back" piece, which with all surplus
fat from the hams and shoulders
goes into the lard. First-class lard
is generally the highest priced hog
product. 1 cut to savo ail that can
he gotten.
Pork Chops.
In taking out the spare ribs begin
at the bottom instead of at the
backbone, as is usually done. Tnk"
, out th? loin, some times called
griskin or sausage piece, with the
rlt). Cut the rib In two lengthwise,
the bottom piece is still spare lit);
cut each rib of upper piece with attuehed
meat for chops.
ih a ?uoai or nog weigmng sixty
pounds or Jess the backbone can
be 'split, leaving half to each side.
Cut the lower half for "barbecue"
and then separate each rib through
thu ukln for chops.
How to Treat llams.
Whea cut out sprinkle half teaspoonful
of powdered salt peter on
each bam; use one part granulated
sugar, three parts good salt; put
hams in tub or box, let remain three
days, break bulk and re-pack, using
some salt. This is done to bo sure
that all parts of the ham get their
salt. Let it lie in bulk one day
for each pound the ham weighs
hang and smoke for ten days, take
down and apply to flesh of ham a
paste of molasses and ground' black
pepper, wrap in newspaper and pack
in barrel with cut, nice hay between
hams to keep from touching.
This process is for hams from
hogs weighing 2."i0 pounds or less
Those who have few hams can treat
the shoulders as hams. For hams '
from hogs weighing more than 2;">n
pounds, put in brine described below
for corn beef and pickled pork, let
lie for four we >ks and then siftoke
until dry and treat as for lighter
hams.
I'ickUMi I'ork.
Cut tlio pork in pieces of suitable
size, pack in barrel. For each 1U?)
pounds of pork prepare:
G quarts good salt,
G gallons water,
1-4 pound saltpeter,
1 pound sugar,
1 pint molasses.
Mix cold without boiling and pour
over the beef. In a week's time it
will be ready for use, and will keen
for a year. Corn beef can be made
by using the above brine and packing ,
it in a barrel.
llog Feet. I
Boil until thoroughly done, split
the foot, beginning between the
hoof, fry in batter as you would fry
chicken. Nothing better about a
hog. The ears and the skull below ^
the eyes will do for souse, but do s
not spoil feet to make it. ^
Fiver Mush. (
Boil together a skull and a haslet 1
(liver and lights, but not heart) "I
until thoroughly done, take out tli" c
bones, mash together, season with sage
and onions, pdt meal sufficient
to make a stiff dough, boil half an (
hour, pour in a mold, and when cold \
out in slices and fry as needed for
breakfast.
Tongues.
Have a kit of brine and put the
tongues in as you kill your hogs. *
Ca.ii mix hog and beef tongues. *
QUEER ACTION OF LAKE.
Goes Dry Atmut Every Five Yea?s
m
or So.
Tifton, Ga., Nov. 28.?Ross laka,
one of the most notable bodies of
water in this section of the State,
situated about ten miles east of
Ashburn, in Turner county, went dry
this week, the waters being emptied
Th ursday.
This body of water which is about
500 yards in length by about 3 00
yards In width, emptied itself periodically,
formerly about every seven
years, but recently once about every
five years.
The water begins running out
after a protracted spell of dry weath- '
er and runs off several days before
the lake is emptied. When the lake
begins to empty itself the citizens
gather for miles around to see the
curious sight and to catch the fish,
of which many barrels are gathered.
The lake is entirely empty now.
the water flowing through a large
hole between rocks near the center.
It. will flill up again as soon as the
rains come and about five years from
now empty itself again. *
STiLLS CAPTURED
Tlll'ItSDAV OVEK IX THE COI NTV
OF AIKEN.
Officers Find Some "illiiul Timers"
lliisily Turning Out the "Tiisshc"
Variety in Edisto Swamp.
Aiken, S. C., Nov. 2S.?Vigilant
efforts are being made by the constabulary
officers of this county in
an effort to break up the blind tigers
that are said to infest the Edisto
river swamps. The officers, Messrs ,
Cato, Samuels and I>. II. Wallace,
returned to the city Wednesday from
Merritts bridge, where they made a
successful haul, bringing with them
a large copper still, that appeared
to have recevMy b. en bought.
Sunday night the officers paid a
visit to the vicinity, und found a
I
quantity of "mash," but the still |
was conspicuously absent. Th v J
calculated that if things were left
undisturbed, the "mash" would be
made into "blind tiger" about Tuesday
afternoon, that, being the time>
it would require, Ik fore the mash
would be sufficiently soured to be
used.
Tuesday afternoon they were m
the scene. They found that their
calculations as to time were correct, i
but they were just a few hours too;
early to catch the bunch at work. !
They found tne still, a new copper
apparatus all in readiness, and thei
"mash" in ' first class rnnrlltlrni "I
rid all other appurtenances road/
for still 1 up hot tho op? raation li*d
not actually commenced.
They thought of leaving it in
place and returning, hut fearing t' at
they may have already been discovered,
and that the still would he
taken away it' left unmolested, they
decided to "break up" things. So
taking the still in the vehicle with
them they destroyed about 100 ga.Ions
of mash, broke all the harries,
iugs, etc. The still was brought to
the city by the ofllcers. j
Messrs. Ca*o and Samuels are the;
county dispensary constables, and
Mr. Wallace is a I'nited States revenue
ofllcer. This is the third sl'M
captured on Edlsto river within the
past few months, and tho ofllcers,
are being co? gratuiated upon their
excellent work.
Yesterday morning the same officers
made another raid in the s*me
vicinity This raid was made at a
saw mill about four miles from i
Morritts bridge. Thev did not lind
a still at this point, but found an
empty furnace where -a still had recently
been taken from, apparently
very hurriedly. Five barrels of
in ash was destroyed here, about 1 ?C
gallons.
It was supposed that tho onerarors
if this still, hearing of the fate
>f t he* one near Morritts bridge, had
lastil.v removed it to a place of saf-?
My. Resides the mash, which was,
made of corn, five barrels; one
'flock" stand, a portion of a still
>ots, jugs and tubs were chopped to .
)ieces with axes. *
Fiend Killed. ,
Jackson, Miss., Nov. 26.?Wi'l <
\nderson, suspected of being Wili i
daok, the negro who criminally as 1
aulted Miss Meyers, a 16-year-old
vhite girl, at Pelahatcliie last Fri- *
lay, was shot to death Monday night (
>v a sheriff's posse near Brandon.
The negro refused to halt when the
loinmand was given to surrender.
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C\\r<JllT A SKA HAT.
Stnin^c Fish Taken in n Seine Oil
North Carolina Coast.
One of the rarest specimens of the
fish kingdom known to watery contiguous
to the North Carolina Voast
was captured in a seine at Masonhoro
Sound Monday by William
Hewlett, a fisherman. The fish,
which was brought to the city, is
what is called "tho sea bat," and
it is a perfect reproduction of a
leather wing bat oil a large scale.
'1 lie fish is about fifteen iuches long
and about thirty inches across the
back.
Strange to state, it had a thin
threadlike tail about fifteen inches
in length and on each side of the
rear appendage were two perfectly
termed gloved feet, with a smgler
diversion having the exact ap f
ance of a thumb, with the oth(^^V.un
of the hand mittenod. The mouth
of tho strange specimen was about
five inches across and on each side
of the mouth or tho under side of
tho body there were five "strainers"
or holes through which tha fish is
said to rid itself of refuse products
resulting from tho forage it picks up
at tho bottom of tho sea. The top
of tho fish was a dark slate color
and the under part of tho body was
white.
One old negro fisherman more
than 7 0 years of ago stated that this
wis only the second B|f*cimr' \> "* \
tho sea bat he had ever seen i.y ^
long experience as a fisherman.
Thomas H. Williams, president of
the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, has
started a campaign to secure from
the Nevada legislature a twenty-fiveyear
charter for horse racing to he
held near lteno.
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