The Mississippi Union Advocate and Southern Farm and Home from Jackson, Mississippi • 16

PAGE 1C THE MISSISSIPPI UNION ADVOCATE NOVEMBER 3, 1901 A GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY. and when you repair It, do it well with the best material. Paint has a twofold mission; It pre serves the things painted and it give an air of neatness which is a great part of beauty to whatever it touches The expenditue is not extravagance; it is real economy. Get good iinp ments. Get good tools.

Get the bes seed. Keep the roof whole. If it i worn out, put a new roof on befor the rains beat into the house and ir jure goods worth more than th roof. Do not be content to farm as you father farmed. He did not have you opportunities, your markets, your sources.

You do not like to see your bes boys drifting away from the farm but they will dirft unless you mak the farm attractive. You son has seei in a neighboring county or in anothe state some picture that has fixei itself on his mind, and has influenced him. He is tired the shabby things -of life; of machine, that will not do their work; of buggies he is ashamed; of th barn always leaking; of the hous painted ten years ago; of the fence-out of repair. He wants to get awa; from it all. Keep him at home by consulting hit frlsh potatoes, more peas, peanuts, ribbon cane, rape for hogs, great big jardens, enough truck for home consumption and some to sell.

Step out the streets of Indianola and see he beautiful green Bermuda grass hat both cattle and hogs luxuriate on nd grow fat. As you will see it here, so it is all over the Delta and nough will be killed by frost to make eal fat thousands of hogs and cattle. DIVERSIFICATION. There Is more good sound sense incorporated in the above than in all ther theories one could advance. The pirit that should be inculcated into very planter In the Delta is that of naking the country self-supporting in very respect.

Nature has given us he richest soil on earth, but until recently she had only endowed us with ne agricultural idea cotton. In dace of the country growing richer, it should do, we have been growing loorer and what money we made by aising cotton we sent north in the pring and summer for corn, oats and lay. All this can he raised at home, and ur money kept here, if we go honestly nd enthusiastically into the practical stablishment of diversification. lave to do it. We have reached the crisis now when it is a question of Washington, D.

C. There, our nearsighted senator from Mississippi, ai he passes the knowing ones; this declaration follow: "There goes the walking encyclopedia of the United States, Senator Money, of Mississippi." But as your agent, let me say, I have never felt like I was entitled to such distinction, and I dare say if Senator Money was up against such an official trust as I am endeavoring to fulfill he would begin to realiez that this constituency were a little off in their prognostication. Say. boys, if I could run Uncle Sam's postal service for a while, and could have been placed in Harriman's position after his mortal coil ceased to vibrate, and then twisted off the necks of a few of these subordinate official cox-combs, in the railroad service, I think I could be more effective in meeting your expectations, and carry into effect your ideas of my efficiency. But what in the thunder are we to do to right up things, let me see! I'll tell you one thing we have got to do, and that is, to see our legislators and tell them to have a law passed that when ever a clod-hopping farmer goes to a depot for anything that this agency ships him, and he can satisfy the agent that he is the identical "John Thomas" unto whom said freight belongeth, and the said agent does not deliver said freight without a whole lot of printed stuff for inspection, that the said railroad shall be made to pay damages thribble the worth of the goods, as well as mileage and per diem of said claimant.

The fact of the business boys, we have just got to emerge this far, at least, into politics. So, see ycur legislator and put him to work a little on law-making against these pernicious red-tape tactics. These corporations are utilizing for nothing else but a display at superiority over 1 If, if j- life i i i- Less than 1,000 meat packers an association representing hundreds of milions, meet in Chicago, the metropolis of the west, and, at the opening of a long winter, practically announce to the eighty mililons of consumers in the country an advance of prices of meats. The packers say, "Prices are now higher than they have been for years." Then the prospective raise laid to the high prices of live-stock food stuffs. No doubt the cost of such food stuffs, which the raisers of cattle have to buy, has been high.

The intimation is that the packers will have to pay more for live stock. But the truth is that the powerful association of packers dictate prices both to the producers of live stock and to consumers through retail dealers. Tbr president of the packers' association tells the public that there is no con spiracy in the combination. In that statement he utters an obvious untruth. Not one packing company is alone a conspiracy.

But the several hundreds of packing companies, which form a confederation that dictates prices to those from whom the packers buy stock and to whom they sell meat, do conspire in forcing the seller to accept the prices which they name and the buyer to pay the prices which they name to him. This whole coun try is at the mercy of the meat packers' association. And why does not the national administration attack the courts this combination for conspiracy? Let the question be repeat ed, why? The Sherman law, which Mr. Roosevelt wanted to repeal, but failed in persuading congress to abrogate, is in full force. Now then, at the fourth annual meeting of the pack ers' association the meat trust.

it is announced that prices of meat to consumers are soon to be raised. It does not matter at what signal prices arn to be advanced. The order for, the raise will come from the packers' as sociation. That order, the work of actual conspiracy, will be law to al1 the people of the United States. The national government, by its silence, sanctions that law and sanctions the conspiracy which enacts the law.

Are the American people to. be buncoed forever? Ah. the consumers are now told by the conspirators that prices will never be lower than at present. The country is now ruled by a combination of less than 100 men In conspiracy. Magnolia News.

FARM IMPROVEMENTS. The farmer should give more consideration to his barns and fences, to his stable or dairy, to all the surroundings of farm life. A stitch in time saves nine; repairs save labor and expense; a gate hinges out of order indicts the farmer before every visitor. Keep everything in working order, it pays. Do not put off until tomor row repairs to the roof or paint on the porch, or the swinging shutters You labor for a home, and it is foolish to let go to ruin the things youi labor in the field has paid for.

There is a vast difference in the way farms are kept. You notice it as you drive along the road. After the war the south was poverty-stricken and it had to do the best it could spending only for the actual necessities of life. Now, with the cotton crop worth 800 million, it is wild extravagance to neglect the gin, or the stock, or farm buildings, or farm tools. Every year should see every farm in better condition.

Watch your roof, AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING Poplarville, Pearl River county. This splendid building cost approximately $14,000 and Is one of the best in the state. Another building to cost $20,000 is being arranged for. The school has thirty-six acres of well improved land, a large barn, three Jersey cows, a pair of pure bred Berkshire hogs and a pair of fine mules. The opening enrollment was seventy pupils.

Prcf T. M. Kelly is principal, J. B. Anthony professor cf science and farm director, Miss Clara Stokes professor of English and Latin, Miss Callie Newton music and Miss Genevive Jacobs expression.

1 'i versifying the crops or move. The lea of permitting our rich soil to lay ille in the fall, in place of raisine ough feed for our stock, is sTieer ex-ravagance. So follow the advice confined in the above article and grow ill your feed at home and enjoy, in art at least, the prosperity that the rmer cf the north is enjoying. Sun-iower Tocsin. BUSINESS AGENTS' OFFICE.

November 1, 1909. brethren: After an experience of over one year 'n this office, I find the great trouble meeting all requirements to the satisfaction of the patrons through fhis office arises from the apprehen ion of the membership that the business agent is what is known as "a walking encyclopedia." Now, I hear "Hill Billy," after reading the above written say: "What is our agent talking about?" What is a "A walking encyclopedia, anyway?" Now, breth ren, let me answer by saying this Is-rather a complimentary phrase, and it is what the people say about out venerable United State senators in those who are simply asking and wanting nothing but equity, justice and a fair chance at displaying the sequal to the dual system Implied in the ethical terms just named. The fact of the business the world is running estray on certain tendencies, and the few only are beneficiaries cf such theory. Let us get back on the lines of the "common sense" way of doing. Our government was founded upon the principles of our creed.

Did you ever think of it? Me thinks it is about time that history was repeating itself. Our forty-years march through the wilderness of retribution should be over. I say, put on your manhood of individual effort and get into an old hickory shirt of the Andrew Jackson type, and demonstrate in that emphatic style of "by the eternal" it shall be. Then victory will conquer our efforts. Can you see? Do yon want to see is the momentous question? Frraternally yours, J.

L. COLLINS, RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. Brother Jacob Sessums, one of our faithful members after a long illness, departed this life October 2nd. 1909. He was in his 77th year and a faithful member of the Missionary Baptist church, of which he had been a member from a young man until his death.

He leaves one son nine grand children and ten great grand children besides quite a number of other relatives and friends to mourn his death. 4 Resolved, That Beulah Local, of which he was a member acknowledge with sorrow that we have lost a faithful and loyal member. Resolved, That a copy of this resolution b.e placed upon our minutes and a copy sent to the Miss. Union Advocate for publication. Hillsboro.

Miss. tastes, his wishes; let him know what influences you in planting your crop and why you postpone until next yea a new roof for the stable, but let hi. know you are as ambitious as he; you want a model farm; a farm the. attracts attention by its orderly ai rangement and its neat" appearand and its crops a little better than it neighbor's. It pays.

The men. women and chil dren who live on that farm are bette and happier because of this ambitioi The farm is better with its varie with order as its first law: with new implements and new idea: in the head of the man who holds the plow. Put your home and yont farm in order and see how "it Home and Farm. OUR SENTIMENTS EXACTLY. Tocsin Newspapers generally, yon among the number, are saying much about the raising of rice to combat the boll weevil Invasion only a year or so off.

That is all right and ric culture should be encouraged but win not urge the people to raise a1s corn, hay, oats, rye, barley, sweet and.