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J. M. McMICHAEL ADDRESS.
Delivered Before the Farmers’
Union at their Meeting in
Jackson.
Gentlemen of the Farmer’s
Union: —Upon this, the third anni
versay of our enterprise, I have
thought it well to present a few
thoughts upon the condition and
prospects of our Union, w well as to
give a short summary <£ what has
been accomplished.
AU those who were imbued with
the brotherhood spirit of the Alli
ance have much cause for congrata
tion upon the results, whilst those
who only went into the movement
from motives of personal gain have
no cause for disappointment.
The organ and progress of this
business dating back to the old Alli
ance Ware House, have demonstrat
ed through seven y' ars in which po
litical prejudice, personal quarrels
and business rivalry have each in
turn levelled their guns againsnt ns f
that the principle of co operation
has taken deep root in the hearts and
affections of our members and has
come to stay and will play an impor
tant part; in the future of this com
munity.
Seven years ago the Alliance Ware
House was organized without one
dollar of capital and nothing but a
band of brave hearts united by the
ties of a common interest and believ
ing in the brotherly principle of co
operation for their capital stock,
they shouldered a debt of SIBOO.OO
for the purchase of a Ware House,
it was a grand sight to see that band
of united farmers organize them
selves and easily take the front rank
in the Ware House business and in
the short spate of three years accu
milated a capital of $3,000 00, and
that by only operating the small
branch of business known as cotton
weighing. Just as we began to teei
our power, born of union and were
upon the threshold of greatest expan
sion of business, the voice of politi.
cal prejudice was listened to and
resulted in breaking up this grand
enterprise. Out of the ashes of this
one, however, rose Phoenix like, the
Farmers Union. Immediately, how
ever, after one year’s successful busi
ness the other competitive ware
house resolved upon our destruction
and entered upon a course never be
— far” heard of in Jaokscn, viz , weigh
ing cotton free and cutting down the
profits on guano to absolute cost.
No one has ever doubted the object
of this crusade against us, suffice i;
to say, however, that they have
signally failed and have acknowl
edged their failure by making the
first proposition to return to the old
Alliance ware house charges. It is,
however, an ill wind that blows no
one any good. During this warfare
upon us the farmers of the whole
county are well as our membershave
been recipients of the following
amounts either in dividends or sav
ings. On the item of weighing cot
ton in dividends $625.00, free weigh
ing for the whole town the next years
on all the cotton $1,200.00, also for
the past year on < otton, SBOO.OO
-by the Union but not de
clared as dividends, $1,400.00. An
average reduction on Guano below
other communities the past two years
of $5 00 per ton on 1,800 tons par
annum, making a total in dividends
and reductions of $22,400. This
primely sum of money has been
kept in the pockets of B itts county
farmers by the operations of the
Farmers Union. This is certainly
a great work to attract so little at
tention and to be done with so small
a capital.
The good work, however, has not
been confined t» saving money, but
we .ave been an object lessen to
others and the past year another
mutual company of farmers has been
formed in Butts county and is being
run on the same plan but confines it
self to the guano busings. Thus
have we been the humbu agents
in spreading the doctrine of co-oper
ation instead of competition.
Light seems to be breaking aoross
the political ssy and if the finances
of our country get in better shape
we could easily expand our business
by laying in a stock of goods.
Heretofore your direct irs have re
frained from calling in the $2.50 per
share as originally agreed upon,
principally for the reason the times
have been so threatening that they
have bean opposed to the policy of
expanding the business?.
The co operators of England have
given m the proof of what can be
done by sturdy and faiihful co-oper
aion. The first society of this sort
began in England about fifty years
go with a cap'tal of $l5O 00, to-day
there are in Great Britaia 1655 so
cieties with a capital of seventy mil
lions doing an annual business of
250 millions, with a profit of 20 mil
lions. The confederated societies
have their who'esale stores and own
their ships in which their goods are
imported. In fsc , the mutual oom
paaie», as th-y are called, bid fair to
absorb the retail merchandise trade
of England. We also see in this
country that the purely mutual in
surance companies are driving the
old line companies out of business
All these things are signs of the com
ing peaceful revolution in our indus
trial affairs and point the road along
which we should advance, and while
saving money f.r ourselves we shall
also have the sweet consciousness
that we are not working for self
alore, but are humble inslrumentsin
the hands of the Almighty in forg
ing another link in the chain that
binds together the great brotherhood
of man—National Headlight.
Don’t ba Deceived,
The people, to read the Constitu
tion and the Journal and some other
papers, would conclude at once that
they are actually prohibition papers
and in favor of local option. But
tho truth is this, they are not prohi
bitionists nor in favor of local option,
only as local option, they believe to
be the only plan by which Atlanta
and other cities can hold on to their
saloons. Every liquor-seller in At
lanta will cry lustily for local option,
because in that he sees his only hope
for continuing his business. Every
man in Georgia who favors local
option, now, whether he intends it
or not, is playing into the hands of
the sly liquor-sellers of the State.
Again, to read these esteemed
papers, these pretended local option
organs, one would conclude that the
Anti B irroom Bl’l is to be snowed
under almost unanimously by the
next legislature. This is not funny-
Never has the Anti-Barroom Bill
been so popular. The house of re
presentatives and the senate, at the
approaching session, will baa revela
tion to the liquor-dealers and those
who have so suddenly become prohi
bitionists of the local option sort.
Tho Anti-Barroo n Bill will pass by
a handsome majority in both houses
in spite of the pretended friends of
the local option Jaw.
Don’t be deceived. Work on for
the Anti Barroom Bill, and send it
through the legislature with such a
majority as shall forever settle the
question in Georgia as to the real
sentiment that exists on the sale of
whiskey. Don’t be deceived by any
exhortation that ccmes from the
saloon side. Vote for men who will
vote for the Anti-Barroo n Bill in
tho next legislature. It you can’t
find that man in one party, then hunt
him in some other party. Vote for
a man who will give his strength for
the passage of the bill that an over
whelming majority of Methodists,
Baptists, and other denominations
believe to be ths salvation cf the
State from the curse of whiskey.
Don’t be deceived when they tell
you that it is but an effort to put the
curse of the South Carolina Dispen
sary system on orr State. Deny it
wherever it is heard. While that
system would be avast improvement
iu the whiskey business iu Georgia
the Anti-Barroom Bill is a thousand
times better.
Don’t let them deceive you. They
will if they can, but the Wesleyan
teaches you, and represents the sen
timent of our strong and determined
church when she does, to vote for
men for the Senate and house of
representatives who will vote for the
Anti-Barroom Bill. If neither of the
candidates in your county will pledge
to do this, then put out one that will.
T iere is no time for trifling now
The Anti-Barroom Bill must pass
and become a law iu Georgia.—The
Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
The reformers of Texas propose to
have Hon. Tom Watson on the ticket
or not vote it. If Mr. Bryan thinks
he can turn the Peoples party of the
South over to the Democratic party,
he is off his base. No Watson no
Bryan, is the cry, and it will be car
ried out to ths letter. Hon.'Tom
Watson is the only hold the Peoples
party has left, a< d they propose to
hold on to him. In any event, South
ern reformers ocu’d not be induced
to vote for »uch a man- as Arthur
Sowall.—Southern Mercury.
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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 4, 1896.
The Appointments of H ns. Donald H.
Clark and Geo. 11. Miller.
Hon. Donald D. Clark, nominee
for attorney-general, and Hon. Geo.
H Miller, nominee for congress in
the First congressional district; will
address the citizens of the district at
the following times and places:
Statesboro, Bulloch county, Mon
day, Sept. 7ffi.
Waynesboro, Burke county, Tues
day, Sept. Bth.
Swainesboro, Ernanu"’ county,
Thursday, Sept. 10th.
Reidsville, Tattnall county, Friday,
Sept. 11th.
Clyde, Bryan county, Saturday,
Sept. 12: h.
Hainesville, Liberty county, Mon
day, Sept. 14th.
Speaking will commence in the
court house at each place at 10
o’clock, standard time.
The Silver Kuight, Senator Stcw
wart’s paper, has deserted the Peo
ples party even at this early date in
its existence. It is supporting the
Democratic ticket of Bryan and
Sewall. That illustrates the extent
of Senator Stewart’s Populism.—The
Southern Mercury.
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Telfair County.
As chairman of the executive com
mittee of the Peoples party of Telfair
county, I herein request all the mem
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county to meet at Cobbville on the
2d Saturday, Sept 12th, at 10 o’clock
a. m., to transact important business.
A, L. Hatton, Chm.
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Populist Paper Wants Location.
One of the stalwart Populist papers
of the North, with a strong Tom
Watson development, and one of the
best Populist printing plants in the
country, and quite a national circula
tion, wants to remove to the Sou:l>.
The paper is seven years old, and
has a reputation for “stalwartism’
and “ismatics.” Address, Populist
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Atlanta, Ga. (The editor is a pow
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Harris County.
Thera will be a grand rally at
Hamilton, Harris county, first Tues
day in September. J. L. Sibley is
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For 15c you can get a nice lunch
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Watson’s New Book.
Mr. Watson has in press the first
volume of a History of France, treat
ed from the point of view of a mod
ern reformer. Commencing with
ancient Gaul, the book ends with the
death of Joan of Arc.
The Past is the wisest teacher of
the Present, and no nation teaches
more impressively than Franco. In
this first volume, the original abuses
of the system by which the Church
and the State finally maddened the
people and dro /e them into the wild
excesses of the French Revolution,
are clearly traced.
The second volume will embrace
the French Revolution; and the third
will give the story of Napoleon, and
the subsequent history of France
down to the present time.
The Author believes that ths Les
sons of Reform aud the vital imp >r
tance of Good Government can be
better taught from the stern experi
ence of nations than from editorials
or from speeches.
The work now in press will be
ready for delivery in a few day >.
It will be bound in cloth, printed
on first class paper and in the best
style, and will be sent, postpaid, to
any address, on receipt of one dollar.
Orders can be sent either to this
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Georgia.
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