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PAQS MIGHT THE GA8TOXIA GAZ8TTB TUESDAY, JULY M, 1910. WeVe still giving sale pr The Dellinger stock is still being sold at half price. , Our store is brim full of better bargains than elsewhere. Don't you think that a regular stock of goods bought at 40 cents on the dollar is iray col beyond the reach of competition? We think so and can prove it. Hundreds of other people KNOW IT and are profiting by it. Why not you? 7 MORRIS BROTHERS Dept. .Store - - - hl y Depend On Us For Your Medicines Your doctor will never have the slightest cause for complaint about the wcy we fill his prescrip tions. Ke will crzise the fidelity and exactness with which we follow his directions, and the pure, fresh quality of the drugs we use. But our medicines are not more satisfactory than our prices. It is this combination cf high quality and low prices that has built up our business. We sell many very good, ready-prepared remedies for different ailments. Are you troubled with corns? We can give you positive remedy for their painless removal and cure REXALL CORN CURE. It relieves and cures the most stubborn and painful corns and bunions. It is absolutely painless and sure in results. Sold with the Rcxall guarantee. Abernethy - Shields Drug Co. Phone 130 The Rexall Store 217 Realty Building The Gastonia Gazette. TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1910. COTTON GROWERS and NATIONAL rOOD SUPPLY. Dr. V. J. Cain in Manufacturer Record. Shouldn't every farmer profit by the high prices of food products, as nearly all the food products can and should be made on the farm? Whether he will or not depends up on whether or not he em' ploys correct methods of farming. The writer regretfully states that the average farmer of the cotton States is sadly lacking in employ ment of correct methods. He must state that in hid opinion that the high prices of food products in the United States is largely due to the fact that the farmers of the cotton States raise such a small per cent, of the food products consumed on these cotton farms. They could raise the food products, but they don't do it, and there is where the trouble Is coming from. Why, the cotton farmers are depending almost as much upon the Middle and West ern States for food products as do the cities and towns throughout the country, and the high cost of living is weighing heavily upon these far mer, who should be in position to profit by selling at good prices a. the foods that should be made on the farm. By a one-crop system they are not only injuring and Impover ishing themselves, but they are mak ing the burdens heavier upon their city cousins by causing the prices of rood products to climb higher and higher from year to year. Unless this error In our economic condition is Boon righted it will result disas- nuuBijr i0 me greater part of this nation to all, except the food pro ducer, and he will soon grow so rich he will quit and go abroad to live ana we will be left in Ine, or nearly so. Some may think this an over drawn picture. Possibly it is but not much overdrawn. On as count of the rapidily-increaslng city population, especially, Is the situa tion fast approaching a very serious crisis, and it deserves the thought ful consideration of our wisest lead-'rBY- The ,nion on diversification of crops In toe 'Southern States has a state of fam- been preached these many years and has most often fallen on deaf ears, and without wishing to condone dlothfulness, it must be stated that there was not a while back the in centive to diversify crops in the South that we now have, li the first place, we did no.. ii.'.e the large city popula tion in the South a few years ago that we now have, and the demand was quite limited, except on long haul, and many complications arise from shipping to far away markets. Secondly, we did not then have the enormous city population through out couuliy and the Middle West and West were lad to meet the needs of the country with food pro ducts at a moderate cost. But "the times are changed, and we should change with them." To point out the quickest and most de sirable way of bringing about this change in the cotton States should call forth the profoundest consider ation throughout the nation. The writer has lived In the cotton coun try all his life, and has been a close student of the farming methods, and Its lack of methods, and he begs pardon to give it as his opinion that the perpetuity of our national pros perity largely depends upon getting the Southern farmer to produce at least all or nearly all the food pro ducts consumed on his farm, and surplus ror sale to the town and city population in as large volumes as is possible for him to do so. Habits, and especially bad habits are hard to overcome, and the aver age cotton farmer has fallen into ex tremely bad habits within the last 40 years. Whether this is largeiy due to some one great cause, or to a combination of causes, may be subject for debate. The writer be lieves it is due to a combination of causes, and that the time is near at hand when these causes may be for ever set aside. Some of the causes may be here mentioned: We were prostrated by the devastation of war and paralysed by the evil days of re construction and carpet-bag- misrule. our minds and hearts up to a recent date were centered on the preserva tion of the white civilisation of the South, which Is Immeasurably par amount to the comparatively base consideration of the physical needs of the body. And the fact that the South has maintained its civilisa tion and racial supremacy nnder uch an ordeal will go down in his tory for thousands of years to come as evidence that the "OM Rrtth" was composed of the most Tirile race of men that the wdrld has ever known. Further, our system of labor was completely subverted, and a tenant system was largely forced upon us in many sections, as labor could not be had then on any other plan. The tenant secured his annual supplies of food products, implements, farm teams, etc., of the merchant on credit, at high prices, and the sys tem grew until the farming was largely taken out of the hands of the intelligent and able management of the "ante-bellum" farmer. And the writer wishes to state right here, with due deference to other farmer of these United States, that the an te-bellum farmer of the South never had a superior in this or any other country. In those days the South ern farm not only produced its food crops, but It made the clothes, shoes, implements, wagons, etc., needed on the farm. But we are digressing. Let us pass on to the consideration of pres ent needs of the South. We feel that the black cloud that threatened us so long is passing, has, indeed, passed. The white man rules this country, will always rule it, and the sooner this is frankly and openly recognized and acknowledged by both the great parties of our nation the better for all section and all col ors of our land. And the colored man will come nearer getting what is justly and rightfully due him un der the law by keeping severely out of politics, and especially Is this true in the Southern States; for, by med dling in politics he stirs up hatred of the white man, and thereby Jeop ardizes his best Interests. Cut out this negro question In these United States, and we would soon have no North, no South, no East or West, but one united coun try, sealed in the bonds of friend ship and love, so strong that no power could ever again break them asunder. May this question be speedily settled by some wise plan and settled forever, so far as it ap plies to our beloved country The Department of Agriculture is doing a great work throughout the South in pushing tick eradication to clean the Infested farms of the South of this cattle pest, which car ries the infection of cattle, or splen etlc fever, and has so 16ng retaine ana interrerea witn nrontab'e cr tie-raising in the South. This work is now especially pushed In Tennes see, Mississippi and Alabama, and also with more or less vigor In sev eral other Southern States. If the magazines and newspapers through out the country would come to real ize the importance of tick eradlca tion and bring its importance fore! bly to the attention of the farmers throughout the South, they could do more than any other agency toward bringing about an Improvement of animal husbandry in the South. We must employ more largely animal husbandry in the South before we can get our farms in proper condl tion to grow successfully and prof itably a variety of crops. The na tion needs the beef and the dairy products that should be made on the farms of the South, instead of the farmers of the South competing in the buying market with the citizens of the cities for these food products, and thereby causing the prices to as cend beyond the reach of the wage- earner. In some way this great ef fort at tick eradication should be rapidly spread, and the work over the entire South speedily finished up. The work is easily accomplish' ed after the people are aroused. Jo ita importance and taught the meth ods of stamping out the pest. In view of the spread of the boll-wee vil in the cotton States, tick eradica tion becomes the more Important, as our farmers must look to some oth er SOUrce Of Intnmor n n,4t.ii compensate for the loss of a large per cent, of their cotton after the boll-weevil reaches this field. And nothing can more quickly or easily be made to make up this deficit thaa successful animal husbandry, and must stamp out the cattle fever-tick in the South. The leading editors of the papers of the South cannot do a nobler work for their section of country than getting the data from the bu reau of animal Industry at Wash ington and educating the people of the South in the advantages of tick eradication, and on the importance of animal husbandry as a means of maintaining the fertility of the soils of our farms. By no other means can the fertility of the soil be main tained for any great number of years. The fertility of the soil must be maintained, or in course of time it will fail to support the people of the farms and give that degree of sustenance and comfort that are nec essary to produce strong, brave and intelligent men ana beaithy, pure and noble women. Again, we must call attention to a fact that should always be uppermost in the minds of thoughtful men. With poverty of the soil there come poverty of the home, degradation and decadence of the citizen, and with the decadence of the citizen, ruin and decay of the republic. God guide us, that through slothfulness this calamity may not overtake our country! WHAT DO YOU 7I?T A . 1 Dr. A. C. Mcintosh, professor tf law in Trinity College, has been elect ed to a similar position in the State University to succeed Dr. Ruffln, re signed. More than two thousand farmers In Surry county have joined the Far mers Union in order to control the prices of leaf tobacco and farm sup pliej at greatly reduced figures. 1 Charles L. Register, a young far mer of Warsaw, Duplin county, died Tuesday in a hospital at Wilmington as a result of Injuries sustained Sunday in a difficulty with Walter Way. The two men quareled over a 25 cent bottle of whiskey. NOBODY SPARED. Kidney Troubles Attack Gastonia Men and Women, Old and Young. Kidney ills seize young and old. Come quickly with little warning. Children suffer in their early years Can t control the kidney secre tions. Oirls are languid, nervous, suffer pain. ff Women worry, can't do daily work. ' Men have lame and aching backs . ' me cure ror man, woman or child. "f Is to cure the cause the kid neys. $ Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kid neys Cures all forms of kidney suffer ing. Gastonia testimony proves it. m m i i vo mm m , u m. . v m v r WANT AD. Mrs. Catherine Gardner,. 32 Tren ton Mill House, Gastonta, N. C. says: "My little daughter had kid ney trouble from infancy and caus ed us a great deal of trouble by her inability to control the kUfney secre tions, especially at nighC She also eomplalned at times of Bains In her I t. M . ubuk. uu was very weaa ana nerv ous. . I consulted physicians and gave her numerous remedies, but she gradually grew worsev t finally learned of Doan's Kidney Pills and deciding to try them.Sr procured a supply at the Aberaethf-Shilds Drug Co. The contents of one box strengthened her kidneys;--- disposed of the pains in her lack and cor rected the kidney difficsltr. I can not fully express my high opinion of, DoanV Kidney. Plii.rv For sale bj all dealers. Price 60 cents, Foeter-Milbarsi Co Buffalo, New York sole agent for the United States. Remember the Whatever it is There is One Sure Way to Get It, What is the Way? LISTEN! A in The Gazette's Penny Column will turn the trick. Never tried one? Do it today. They cost little. They' re worth much. ONE CENT A WORD. Cash with order un- ar a c c o u n t us. 6rie5& less you carry re firul with Use the ph (KIM C7 a ror the latter to be nroflrhtA 236 W. MaufAve,, - Gastonia, N.C w and take bo other.
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