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Show HENRY GRADY'S ADVICE. Henry W. Grady, the great Southern South-ern editor and orator, died 43 years ago, but the advice he gave to the farmers of his native Georgia and the! south many years ago is as sound today to-day as it was when it was uttered One particular gem of his which has been often republished is of particular par-ticular significance just now. It applies ap-plies equally to north or south, provided pro-vided the principal money crop of any particular section be substituted for "cotton" where it occurs in the original. ori-ginal. Grady said: "When every farmer in the south shall eat bread from his own fields and meat, from his own pastures, and disturbed by no creditor and enslaved enslav-ed by no debt, shall sit among "his teeming gardens and orchards and vineyards and dairies and barnyards, pitching his crops in his own wisdom and growing them in independence, making cotton his clean surplus and selling it in his own time and in his chosen market and not at master's bidding getting his pay in cash and not in a receipted mortgage that discharges dis-charges his debt but does not restore his freedom then shall be breaking the fullness of our day." |