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hour was arranged fur the speaking,
and the time allowed each speaker
Air. AX atson opened the discussion
with an hour ami ten minutes. Mr
Lawson followed with one hour and
a half, and Air. Watson closed with
twenty minutes.
Air. Watson opened at one o clock,
showing up the history of the
two old parties lor the last twenty
live years, proving beyond doubt
that Lo’h old parties were to
blame tor the present depressed con
dition of the farmers and laborers of
this country. r l hat while the ortho
lox democrats confes*ed that o r
present industrial system had . pros
trated m arly every department of
business in our land, that he did not
agree with them in charging it all to
the republicans, and that in all mat
ters of bad legislation the democrats
themselves had voted with the repub
licans, as the record would show,
lie proved, by reading from the
record, that the bill now going the
rounds in the partisan newspapers,
which they characteiize as “Peek’s
Slavery Bill,” that one among the
irst names appearing upon the
record advocating said bill is that of
Hon. L. F. Livingston. He stated
that the present Congress had ex
ceeded in extravagance the billion
dollar Congress for the session just
ended by about thirty-four millions,
and that a larger amount of debt in
curred is yet to be paid, and that the
money to meet these obligations
would have to be raised in some way,
and how no one could tell, as the
United States treasury is now de
pleted ; that a goodly number of
honest democrats censured him for
trying to disrupt the democratic
party, while the principles of true
democracy were as sacred to him as
any one who loves his native coun
try ; that the principles of true de
mocracy had been repudiated for
party success. That the republican
party was responsible for evil legis
lation no one could deny, and that
the democrats were responsible for
helping them no one could deny;
that the leaders of both old parties
felt nothing in common with the in
terest of the great mass of the peo
ple. His speech throughout was
logical and conclusive to all who are
willing to let the light of truth into
their hearts.
Judge Lawson’s speech abounded
in entreaties to stand by the good
old party of our fathers. lie laid
stress on the importance of standing
firmly together until the democratic
party could have another chance,
lie said she had never had control of
of both houses of congress, and now,
while we were on the threshhold of
victory, wliy disband and abandon
everything we have been fighting
for? These constituted the principal
features of his speech. He spoke
for one hour and a half, and his la
bored effort was proof enough that
the facts were against him.
The crowd was estimated at 1,500,
and the democrats present were esti •
mated at not exceeding one hundred
and fifty. We notice the Constitu
tion claims the meeting as another
democratic victory.
Josiah Hayseed.
From Screven County.
Having been raised between the
plow handles and on corn bread, and
am now earring my hash by the
sweat of my brow, I feel that 1 have
a right to say a word.
Screven, the county in which I am
teaching school, is solid for the Peo
ple’s party. The Democrats tell us
to go slow and keep on our breeches,
but it is doubtful whether we would
do either if there was any chance
whatever of our losing the county.
I believe the negroes are going to
surprise the Democrats in the way
they will cast their votes. They are
very much dissatisfied with the way
they have been treated by some Dem
ocrats on the larger farms. They
only received 35 cents an acre for
hoeing cotton, when we had to pay
50 cents. A friend of mine, in my
presence, one day asked an old negro
why they hoed for 35 cents an acre.
The old fellow took his finger and
marked on the ground and said :
“Massa, when you hab hogs in de
pen, dey hab to eat what you gib ’em ;
when outside, dey don’t.” Catch
the idea?” •
Sam Jones says whenever the old
pai ties act the rascal we act the fool.
If we don’t act the fool this fall we
are going to carry a goodly number
of the Southern States aud a large
proportion of Western ones. Just
look at Kansas (my native State, God
bless her!) marching in a solid phal
anx, and all the forces of Dives, gath
ered with a fine toothed comb from
beyond hades’ blackest chaos could
not keep her from going for the
People’s party in November. Nearly
all of those Western States are the
same way.
Watson and the People’s party is
the bye-word down in Screven, and
oh, how anxiously we are waiting for
him to come down and see us. We
will tote him any day.
By the way, did you know that
there is a cradle extending from the
<andy coast of Rhode Island to the
golden gate of California, and from
■he great lakes in the North to the
Gulf coast in the sunny South, and
in this cradle is a child in whom God
has breathed the breath of life and
sent it forward as the savior of these
I nited States of America? This
child is known as the People’s Party,
and as surely as trees grow and
grains ripen and the earth swings
forward in her orbit, just so surely
this new party is coming.
A\ hen the swarming season comes
and the bees begin to bestir them
selves, we do not ask where is the
largest mass of bees, but where is the
queen, for where she is the bees are
sure to gather by and by. I believe
the queen is in the People’s party
hive, and that by and by the good,
the true and the brave will all be
gathered in this People’s party, and
then if you will put your ear clo<e
down to the People’s party hive, you
will hear the sweet music,
‘‘ Home, home, sweet, sweet home.’’
G. T. Kesner.
Millen, Ga., August 18, 1892.
Murray County.
The convention and mass meeting of
the People’s Party met in Spring Place
August 13, 1892, for the purpose of
nominating a Senator for the Forty
third Senatorial District, and a Repre
sentative for Murray county.
Chairman C. C. Howell called the
convention together, Mr. J. M. Smith
was chosen chairman and J. M. Chas
tain Secretary.
Col. Sam Gourdine made a short, but
logical speech in support of the Peo
ple’s I‘arty.
Resolutions were adopted as fol
lows :
That wo endorse both State and Na
tional platforms put forth at Atlanta,
Georgia, and Omaha, Nebraska.
2. That we condemn the ninety
four Democrats as well as the Repub
licans lor the recent defeat of free
silver.
3. That we think better for us to
join the great agricultural West in its
efforts for reform than to stay with
the manufacturing East.
Mr. C. C. Howell was unanimously
nominated for Senator.
Rev. M. M. Bates was unanimously
nominated for Represenative.
’The audience cheered heartily at
the announcement of each nomina
tion.
The convention was then resolved
into a mass meeting for the purpose
of ratifying the nominations. The
Court House was very near full, and
nearly every one in it voted to ratify
the nominations. Only a few of the
Democratic friends —the enemy—who
were in as sight-seers—refused to
vote. The nominees are both sound
men, and have served Murray county
in the capacity of Representative with
credit. They are thoroughly in sym
pathy with the People’s Party move
ment and perfectly in line with the
platform. Mr. Howell is offered on
our ticket as the Senator, and vie have
every reason to believe that he will be
elected. Os course the Democrats
cannot beat him or Rev. M. M. Bates
either —at least that is the outlook.
Put old Murray county down in the
People’s Party majority.
After Mr. Howell was nominated for
Senator he resigned the Chairmanship
of the Executive Committee, and one
of Murray’s staunchest citizens, Mr.
A. T. Weaver, was elected in his stead.
J. M. Chastain, J. M. Smith,
Secretary. Chairman.
Twenty-Ninth Senatorial District.
As per call of the People’s party
Senatorial Executive Committee of
the twenty-ninth district, the dele
gates from the counties comprising
this district met in convention at
Smith’s Mill, Wilke’s county, Ga.,
August 16. J. XV. Bellows, of
AVilkes, was elected chairman. AVe
endorsed the State and national
platforms and tickets. AVe nomi
nated C. R. Ramsey, of AVilkes, as
the People’s party candidate for
Senator of this district. The dele
gates’ reports from every county as
to the condition of our party was
very encouraging, By resolution I
was ordered to send a condensed re
port of the proceedings for publica
tion. Wm. C. Ward, Sec.
Wilkes County.
AVe are on a boom. Rev. Sam
AValker has put in some good work
in AVilkes near the Lincoln line.
Had large crowds that he interested,
especially of the colored people, who
are forming People’s party clubs,
and w T c are there new by quite a
majority. Boodle and corn-juice
may knock out some, but we are on
our metal and will be there to the
finish. AVm. C. Wa£d.
Hart County Alliance.
Hart County Alliance met July
31. The body was called to order
by the president, E. N. Mason, and
elected brothers E. N. Mason presi
dent, W. J. AV. Mass vice-president,
John S. Roe secretary, J. R. Leard
treasurer, A. Prewit chaplain, A. A.
Duncan lecturer, T. W. T. Tucker
assistant lecturer. The platform
adopted at Omaha on the 4th day
of July, 1892, was endorsed and
promised our support.
Also, that we feel proud to know
that we have one candidate for
president who has courage to stand
up for free coinage and reform, and
we are also proud of the members we
have in the House—those they call
People’s party fellows^-and we are
proud of our two Senators of the
People’s party stripe, and hope to
see a large majority turn up of just
such a stripe in October and Novem
ber.
Hart County Alliance meets again
at Hebron on the first day of Octo
iber, 1892.
E. N. Mason. President.
John S. Roe, Secretary.
From Arkansas.
Evansville, Ark., Aug. 22.
The People’s cause is ascending
' here. If there is anything to be
gained from the expression of these
hardy sons of toil, Arkansas will
elect her Governor and Legislatur.
On the 29 in st. there was a joint
discussion at this place between the
Democrats, Republicans and Peo
ple’s Party, in which the Peo
ple’s Party was victorious. In this,
AVashington county, there is a three
cornered fight; all three parties have
a full ticket in the field. The Re
publicaes never have been strong in
this county, but it has been the ban
ner Democratic county in the State.
But, assuredly, the People’s ticket
will win.
J. P. Carnahan, the People’s can
didate for Governor, is a citizen of
this county and a great favorite
among the people here. He is
plain in his manner, plain in speech,
forcible in argument, and will make
votes wherever he speaks among the
tillers of the soil. Three cheers for
Tom Watson, the defender of the
People’s cause. B. J. Brown.
From Michigan.
Verne, Alien., August 18.
Last night Col. Post, of Georgia,
spoke toa large audience in front of
the court house steps, in Saginaw, this
State. He scored the old parties for
their financial policy, and in vivid
languge told the Republicans that if
they possessed the love for the negros
which they claimed to fee], then the
best way of showing it would be to
join the People’s party and help to
put enough money in circulation so
the planters could afford to pay the
blacks fair wages for their labor.
Mr. Post is a clear and logical
speaker, and made scores of votes for
Weaver and Field. P. R. C.
McDuffie County.
Thomson, Ga., Aug. 22, ’92.
On Saturday last the Demobrats of
this (McDuffie) county had a barbe
cue and public speaking.
AV. 11. Fleming, of Augusta, ha
rangued the colored people for a
couple of hours, repeating all the
old charges against Col. Peek, Mr.
Watson and the People’s Party.
Fleming’s speech was flat, and in
spired or created no enthusiasm at
all.
Two or three colored men also
made short short speeches, but the
colored voters would shake their
heads and be heard to say: “That
negro has Democratic money in his
pocket; -we are not going to let him
sell us out; we are free men, we
are.”
Mr. A. E. Sturges, a disappointed
ex-office-seeker, also spoke, but as
the people had eaten their dinner
when he started, most of the crowd
left him mildly jesticulating to
empty space.
The entire crowd of colored peo
ple—men, women and children—did
not number over 250—not over 150
voters, and most all these People’s
Party voters.
About 4 o’clock Mr. AA r atson re
turned home from Warrenton, where
he had spoken to 3,000 people, white
and colored. The colored band
which had been furnishing music for
the Democrats was secured, the mu
sic sounded, notice given that Mr.
Watson would speak at the court
house, and a procession started.
The court-house soon filled to over
flowing with colored men, filled with
Democratic barbecue, shouting
“Hurrah for AVatson” and “Good
bye, Jimmie.” Mr. AVatson,though
tired by his speech at Warrenton and
a twelve-mile ride, spoke in one of
his happiest strains. He completely
captured the crowd and showed the
falsity of the charges that had been
made against him, and that the
Democrats had put Joe James and
Wm. F. Gary at the head of the
Cleveland electoral ticket and nomi
nated Lon Livingsion for Congress,
although they had voted for the
Slavery bill, about which the} 7 were
denouncing him. While Mr. Wat
son was speaking, another colored
brass band, -which had been out
in the country to a People’s Party
meeting, came in amidst the wildest
enthusiasm. Mr. AVatson would
speak, one band w’ould play, and
then the other, while the shouts and
cheers fairly shook the house. All
who expected to vote for Air. AVat
son were requested to hold up their
hands, and nearly every man in the
house house held up his hand.
After the speaking, both bands
bands marched down to the public
square, and would march, play and
yell for AVatson.
A large crowd of colored men met
on the public square and
“Resolved, AVe, the People’s Par
ty colored men of McDuffie county,
hereby tender the Democrats our
warmest thanks for their excellent
dinner and fine treatment, and cor
dially invite them to repeat the
matter. ’ ’
To say the Democrats are mad is
to put it lightly. They say we stole
their crowd and think we treated
them mean. One Democratic mer
chant said two black negroes ate his
dinner, and then after Watson spoke
they stood in his store door and
yelled for Watson.
The Augusta Chronicle failed to
say anything about the AVatson epi
sode. Guess there was trouble with
the wires. McDuffie <
Carnegie—Frick—Homestead.
The two names are exponents of
nsatiate greed, irresponsible power
nd crushing oppression. Home
teal means men who have done and
mean to do faithfully their part in
the world’s -work, and having learned
their rights and true position in the
United States, intend to maiutain
them. Union or non-union, laborers
and artisans share equally in a com
mon cause—right against might;
reason against brute force, every
where and at all times.
A few more such lock-outs as the
people of this country have just been
forced to behold in sorrow and sad
ness, will open the eyes of unpreju
diced and candid men in all sections
of the country.
That a single individual, proprie
tor of a great manufacturing estab
lishment employing millions of Capi
tal and nearly 400 workmen, could
so far defy public sentiment and the
government of the United States as
to audaciously take upon himself to
build around what he deemed his
own absolutely an impenetrable de
fence against the world, and such an
one as is tolerated only as a weapon
of war in times of war, of such tre
mendous proportions, verges on the
incomprehensible.
Think of the 400 acres containing
these immense iron works being sur
rounded by an impregnable war-bar
rier against the outside world, and
so ingeniously constructed as at any
time it could belch forth fire and
scalding water upon any and every
possible assailant; and then making
use of an army of degraded hessians,
the scum of great cities and towns,
hired would-be assassins, armed to
the teeth, and subject to the order to
shoot and kill, if need be, men, wo
men and children, with a crude, ill
formed and cowardly purpose to pro
tect, not only these iron works, but
to uphold a gigantic industrial wrong.
Think of all this vast power and dis
play of enormous wealth—a private
standing army! a private, insulting
war department in the heart of this
boasted Republic, and in one of the
foremost States of the union ! Could
anything half so audacious happen in
any portion of the civilized countries
of Europe ?
O how shameful that we are com
pelled to witness such a spectacle in
this great country cf 65,000,000 of
people with all their untold natural
resources and industries ! Think of
it, that after 250 years of struggle to
build a free nation on this continent,
we are compelled to witness a sight
which would have disgraced the
darkest age known to history.
But the brightest side of the pic
ture lies in the fact—so to be rejoiced
in—that the people, all the people in
all sections, are opening their eyes to
see the true inwardness of uncon
trolled money power. Not that the
men who wield the power are by na
ture worse than the rest of us ; but
unlimited accumulation by swift, and
too often by unscrupulous methods,
holds within it the seeds of injustice,
strife and bitterness. How impossi
ble, in such condition, to expect to
find genuine public spirit. Such men
become dwarfed by the intense de
votion to business required of them,
and they necessarily grow cold and
indifferent to everything outside their
own limited spheres. Great men of
character can never originate in such
a source. Supreme power alone can
content them, and whether they rule
after the fashion of their own wills
in private business or in the more
important business of law-making,
can by no possibility see any virtue
in law which does not redound di
rectly to themselves.
This being so, the people have now
made up their minds that such a sys
tem of industrial slavery as we have
been living under for thirty years can
no longer be endured. Its pathway
all along has been strewn with dis
order, hate, bitter antagonism and
discontent. It has diverted more
than half the wealth of the country
to the possession of an insignificant
few. It has built up crushing mo
nopolies. Will these powers get hold
of all the property of the country,
and are w r e destined to become then
conquered subjects ? Then what!
The people are at last awake, and
they, and those whom they choose to
represent them in congress, and io
all departments of the government,
will “ keep step to the music of the
Union,” and insist on that close inti
macy that should always exist be
tween the people and their repre
sentatives. With untiring vigilance,
coupled with all the intelligence, we
shall yet have a ballot-box that can
not be tampered with, and with fre
quent elections, nothing can hinder
this great country from becoming a
Republic indeed, where every man,
woman apd child shall have their op
portunity and just reward.
F. J. W.
One-Horse Farmers.
[Dialogue between Sam Jones, a coloreh
man, and his neighbor, Thcs. Smits,,
a white man ; both one-horse farmerh
with fifty acres of land each i botd
over forty-five years of age.]
Thos. Smith. Well, Sam, where
were you yesterday ?
Sam Jones. I went to town to
sell my 500-pound bale of good mid
dling lint cotton for 6-| —$31.25—
and to buy my family 1 barrel best
flour, $6.25; 50 yards Simpson cali
co, $3.25; 50 yards shirting checks,
$2,25; 50 yards A. A. S. Id. sheet
ing, $3.75; A pound tobacco, 25
cents; 1 gallon best whiskey, for
medical purposes, $3.00; 1 pair Star
Brogans, 1.25; 4 pounds coffee,
$1.00; 100 pounds meat, $10.00;
total, $31.25. And my bale of cot
ton was gone, and I had no money
to carry home to pay a boy a few
dollars I owe him for helping me to
make my crop.
Thos. Smith. Well, Sam, I have
quit my old Democrat party, and
you had better quit your old moss
back Republican party, and let’s go
into the People’s Labor Party, as
that party demands that tilings
should be put back by Congress as
they were twenty years ago. Why, 1
Sam, I was looking over the account
sales of 500-pound good middling
lint cotton, dated October 1, 1872,
at 20 cents per pound—sloo.oo—
the bill of goods I bought that
October day twenty years ago were
the same items I hear you say you
bought yesterday, and I paid for 1
barrel best flour, $ll.OO-, 50 yards
Simpson’ calico, $7.50; 50 yards
shirting checks, $9.00; 50 yards A.
A. S. Id. sheeting, $8.33; £ pound
tobacco, 40 cents; 1 gallon best
whisky, $4 00; 100 pounds meat,
$17.00; total, $60.05. And I had
left, to take home to Margaret,
my wife, that she might lay it up
for our children, $30.44. But,
Sam, for the last two years we have
not been able to pay our hired help
from our cotton from our little
farm, and we have been compelled
to spend about all of our earnings of
twenty years ago, and I know, Sain,
that I work myself more than I did
twenty years ago, and my wife never
has a spare day now to go to see the
neighbors,and we have got to where
we don’t have anything but the com
monest kind of clothing to wear out
to church Sundays. lam going to
vote for Weaver and Field for the
presidency, and for the People’s
Party candidate for Congress this
year. Why, Mr. Crisp, the biggest
man in the Democratic party, says
free silver is a fraud, when we
poor farmers know that free silver
is not a fraud, but simple justice to
the poor farmers and laborers.
Now, if the head of the Democratic
party will declare a falsehood, what
may we expect of the underlings of
the party? Farewell, old Democrat
party, forever ! I am for Weaver
and Field and the People’s Party
congressman in November, and
for Margaret and our babies all the
time!
Sam Jones. Well, Mr. Smith, I
don’t say much, for I don’t know
much, but I am done with the old
Republican party forever. I am
with you this year. lam going to
take the risk of voting for Weaver
and Field and the balance of the
People’s Party ticket this year. My
old woman is for the People’s Party
straight, and I must do what the old
woman thinks is best in politics.
She is for Weaver and Field. We
have got us a big People’s Party
club over at the church and all our
wives are members. Good morn
ing, Mr. Smith.
Good-bye, Sam. T.
From Florida.
On the regular meeting of Howard
County Alliance, held at Brooksville,
Florida, August 19th, 1892, the follow
ing preamble and resolutions, offered
Brother J R. Berry, were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, the Fifty-second Cengress,
whose first session has just closed, was
elected largely on the promise to re
form the abuses in the iniquitous Mc-
Kinley law; and whereas, the promise
to pass the free coinage of silver had
much to do in the composition of the
present Hsuse of Representatives;
therefore be it
1. Resolved, That we heartily com
mend the action of the House in p ass
ing the bill putting binding twine and
cotton ties on the free list, thereby giv
ing a measure of relief to the agricul
tural interest of the country.
2. That we deprecate the action of
the House in passing the Springer, or
free wool bill without any adequate re
duction on manufactured woolen
goods, thereby taking from the farmer
all the protection he had, to the
amount of twenty or thirty millions of
dollars, and giving the same as a free
gift to the protected woolen mills with
out any benefit to the laborer or con
sumer.
3. That we look upon the failure of
the House to pass the free coinage bill,
even after it was passed by a so-called
hostile Senate, as a cowardly surrender
to the Wall street money power, and a
flagrant breach of trust to the people.
4. That we condemn in the strongest
terms the keeping of two drinking sa
loons in the National capitol, where
memberscan till up and come stagger
ing into the halls of congress, or lie on
the sofas in the lobbies or cloak rooms,
and snooze off their drunkenness, when
they shouldbe attending to public busi
ness,orwhen making arguments on im
portant legislation, send pages time
after time for ‘‘some of that same,”
until they become so dazed that they
have to inquire, “Mr. Speaker, where
was I at ?” as a disgrace to American
manhood and a foul blot on the civil
zation of the nineteenth century.
R. N. Pigott, Secretary.
Grand Rally.
Shell Bluff, Ga., Aug. 12. „
There will be a grand rally and
barbecue by the People’s Party of
Burke county at Waynesboro on
Thursday, September 1. Watson,
Peek, Kemp and others will be in
vited to speak for us. Everybody
invited. The district committeemen
are requested to solicit contributions,
both money and carcasses, and re
port to the Waynesboro committee
at least ten days before hand.
By order of the executive com
mittee. De. W. 11. Chandler,
Chairman.
J. T. Wilcox, Secretary.
Two Days’ Rally of the People’s Party.
Hon. F. D. Wimberly will address
the people of Macon county at the
following named places:
Montezuma, September 6.
Garden Valley, September 7, at 10
o’clock a. m.
Come one, come all, and hear our
cause sustained by our noble Brother
Wimberley. W. D. L. Duncan,
Secretary Executive Committee.
Macon County Mass Meeting.
There will be a mass meeting of
the People’s Party in Macon county,
at the court-house, on September 17,
for the purpose of nominating a
member of the Legislature and all
county offices. All who expect to
vote with the People’s Party are re
quested to be present and take part
with us in nominating men for these
offices by ballot.
W. D. L. Duncan,
Chairman Executive Committee.
A Death Knell —But Which?
Washington, (D. C.) Post.
So far from discouraging the dis
affected white voters in the Southern
States, the result of the Alabama re
volt appears to have inspired them
with new energy and *toniidence. It
is now evident to the dullest or the
most unwilling mind that Capt. Kolb
was followed by a very large majority
of the white men of Alabama, and that
Gov. Jones’ victory, such as it is, was
achieved either by the fact or the
fraudulent pretense of negro votes.
Nothing could possibly be clearer than
that Kolb would have triumphed had
had the matter been left to “the
virtue and intelligence” of the com
munity.
Now, it were idle to attempt to con
vince reasoning men that such a con
dition of things is to be accepted as
evidence of the strength, cohesion, and
enthusiasm of the Democratic organ
ization in Alabama. We hear on every
side the exultant outcries of the organs.
We are told that the result in Alabama
puts an end to all doubt and assures
the permanency of the solid South.
But does any one, do even the organs
themselves, believe all this? And will
the dissatisfied elements of the party
in Tennessee and the Carolinas feel
that Mr. Kolb’s experience in Alabama
is in the nature of a discouragement to
them?
The truth is that the Kolb revolt
disclosed a much more serious and for
midable disaffection than was at first
imagined by the outside world. The
fact that the regular Democratic or
ganization has managed to proclaim
its canidate as a winner only empha
sizes this, because it has been necessary
to show, in order to substantiate Jones’
claim, that he received a very large
negro vote. It is no longer pretended
that the whites, who have hitherto
assumed a monopoly of the virtue and
intelligence of the South, have re-elect
ed Jones. On the contrary, the par
ty organization finds itself in the humi
liating attitude of having been repudi
ated by the white voters and of owing
their victory to the negroes.
We see nothing in this to obstruct
the independent movement in Tennes
see or elsewhere. The Southern States
seem ripe for a new departure and an
emphatic and conclusive rejection of
the men by whom and the methods by
which they have so long been domin
ated. If the developments in Alabama
have sounded a “death knell” of any
sort it has been that of Bourbonism
not that of this new ferment which
means free thought, free speech, and
free political action.
Let the word pass down the line
—organize ' Have a club in every
county district. Assist and encourage
the colored people to organize clubs.
When Democrats say poor white men
and negroes will have to vete their
tickets or leave the farm, it is a good
idea to tell them you will leave at
once and let them gather the crops.
That will bring them to their senses
