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WHY THE FARMERS SHOULD
ORGANIZE.
Speech Delivered by Leonidas F. Scott, Editor of the
Conyers Free Press, to the Oak Grove Local
Farmers Union and their Visitors
Saturday Evening, July 3rd.
Whence, And Whitherto, Has Flown This
“Wonderful River of Gold ?”
The speaker was introduced by Hon.
W. F. McDaniel in a most pleasant man
ner, and before beginning his remarks,
Editor Scott read his certificate of mem¬
bership in the Atlanta Typographical
Union No. 48, that is framed and kept in
his office, and is one of his most valued
and highly prized possessions.
Having labored and toiled since I was
twelve years old, most naturally under¬
stand nnd feel every heart-throb and pulse
!>eat of thosewho toil for existence not only
in the field, under heavens broad canopy
of blue and vaulted skies, in full light,
and under the scorching rays of noon-day
suns, but in whatever realm and walk of
life men, women, and children labor, the
speaker understands their every thought
and every step they take, and has ever
tieen a most ardent supporter of every
movement looking to better the condi¬
tion of those who toil and create the
wealth ot the world, but get in return so
ittle of the fruits of their labor. It is
-olely on account and lack of intelligent
organization, first; secondly, lack of or¬
ganizing whatever money is earned, be it
much or a small amount, into an account
iu a bank that will earn interest, or make
with your earnings, some safe investment.
If the actinic rays of the sun were not
concentrated and focused, no heat or light
from that great power house and lumina¬
ry would reach this earth, and existence
on this planet would be impossible, and
There would be no animal or vegetable
life, and darkness and chaos would reign
supreme.
Go to the great cotton mill right at our
doors and what do you see and with what
tire you most impressed; “Organization”
first, and system next, and their persist¬
ent application and obedience with intel¬
ligent and well directed effort, each
trained worker from the humblest place
in the great organization to the office,
where is enthroned one man on whose
shoulders the whole organization rests,
and whose eyes and brains have to watch
and know every detail from the bale of
cotton to the finished product, that when
sold, brings back a flow of gold dollars to
be given to those who have toiled so dili¬
gently at the command of machinery,
making hundreds and thousands of revo
lutionsa minute.
Go to any great electric plant, and you
see at a glance that the great results ac
complished are alone possible except
through “organization, ” and the units
of energy created by the hand of Al¬
mighty God, could not, and did not serve
us, until intelligent skill “organized”
rhose units of sublime energy into a
working force, and then by simply pres¬
sing a button—light! power! Press a but¬
ton by the hand of the president in Wash¬
ington, and the great machinery in the
Alaska-Yukon Exposition become things
of life—and the whole world applauds and
knows the show Is open—Organization!
Power!
By organization you have a telephone
in your home—and if you desired to test
it—in twenty minutes, you could send a
message to the remotest part of the earth
and receive a reply! Possible only
t hrough and by organization.
Were it not for organization, we would
still be paying 30 cents per pound for steel
made in Sweeden and hammering out
sweeps on anvils at every cross roads in
This country; but by organizing great
companies with ample capital, the earth
has been forced to surrender her raw ma¬
terial , skill and energy have combined,
and instead of paying 30 cents for steel
l>er pound, you get a five pound scrape for
•*5 cents. Organization!
By and through organization, notice
-what has been accomplished with a
product of our southern farms once
thrown away! We blush at the
statement. In the last ten years the
cotton seed of the south were worth
8300,000.000 at 10 cents per bushel, and we
have received, and I am afraid thrown
away, that immense 6um—$300,000,000!
from this one source. Intelligent organ¬
ization gave us the money for the seed
t hat in our ignorance we once threw a
way!
At 10 cents per pound, the south has re¬
ceived $8,000,000,000 in the last 10 years
tor our cotton crop. A sum so vast the
human mind cannot grasp nor compre¬
hend ! and the statement causes us to ask
ihe question, what has become of these
vast stints of money—a river of gold that
has run from the very throne of our Kind
Heavenly Father through the southern
-rates, year by year.” The southern
farmers have created by their toil, in the
last ten years, and have received gold
therefor, enough money to almost buy the
earth! The question arises to the inquir¬
ing mind what has become of our "river
of gold. ’ ’ The answer is easy, ‘ ’through
ignorance and lack of intelligent organ¬
ized effort, we have actually given it
(Way!” For, if you take away from the
rax returns the amount of land values—
and the earth was here when we com¬
menced to make this great wealth—we
ltftTe very little left to show for the bil
1 ions of dollars that have passed through
nur hands—$6,300,000,000 received in the
(iast ten years in th* southern states from
the production and sale of cotton and
cotton seed alone! And the other millions
received from the sale of peaches, melons
vegetables and other products of southern
farms!
What has gone with all the gold received!
lhrotigh lack of intelligent organization.
most of these vast sums have been thrown
away! And why! We might as well
confess—an honest confession is not alone
good for the soul—but also for the mind,
body and pocket book. No error or mis¬
take has ever been corrected until those
who have made it can be awakened and
made to see the errors they have made!
And ignorance is the father, not only of
all our troubles, but crime!
When the farmers become thoroughly
organized and awakened, and better learn
to cultivate, compress, wrap, when, how
and where to sell this most wonderful of
all the world’s farm products, “that gets
its snow whiteness while we sleep from
the bright and twinkling stars,’’ then,
and not till then, will we get away from
the lowest scale of wages paid for labor
in America—50 to 76 cents a day—and
work in cotton fields will not give over
fire months’ employment in a year, and
with improved methods and improved
implements and machinery, less and less
manual labor is required to make the
crop each year—and in adjusting the
scale of wages to suit negro labor—we
have forced our sons and white labor to
abandon farm life in the south, and the
mule and negro live on the product of
western farms at ruinously high prices
for what they consume—and away flows
our river of gold, year by year!
Hay can be produced here at six dollars
a ton, and corn at forty cents a bushel.
Think what we have paid this year for
these two items! River of gold gone!
Fellow-citizens, with bowed heads let
us confess our errors befere AlmightyGod,
who has delt so graciously and merciful¬
ly with us, and forsake the paths we have
so carelessly walked in the past.
The southern fanner is, and has been, the
most careless man in all the world from
a financial standpoint—and has received
such fabulous sums of gold from his ef¬
forts, that he has just failed to think,
and all the southern farmers together
have failed to organize themselvs into one
great unit of force as the banks, factories,
railroads and great corporations are or¬
ganized—from lack of organization their
great power of every kind is wasted so far
as they—the southern farmers are con¬
cerned—and the product of their toil is
gathered togther by master minds that
are organized, and as a consequence, a
people who should be the richest in all
the world, are yet year by year buying
goods on credit, and borrowing the very
gold that they have created and carelessly
thrown away ,at a high rate of interest.
But to come right home and get at
something practical: We can save $300,
000,000 to $400,000,000 in the next ten
years by just simply learning to properly
pack, compress and wrap a bale of cotton.
We pay $3.00 a bale or $510,000,000 a year
just because we do not properly pack
each bale of cotton and compress it at the
gin. We have in our ignorance ideally
thought we were being paid for the wrap¬
ping on a bale of cotton! 30 pounds tare
has always been and will always be taken
off the price of each bale just as long as
we are led und controlled by ignorance,
and so very careless with, and forgetful
of the great value of one of the most im¬
portant packages in all the world
Now, let Rockdale, and especially Oak
Grove Local, be among the first to cor¬
rect this great waste and loss by install¬
ing a compress here at your splendid gin,
and more carefully than ever clean the
cotton and properly prepare it for the gin
that then can more perfectly do its work;
then compress the beautiful mass of snow
white lint into a bale of proper and uni¬
form size, and wrap the compressed bale
with cotton cloth that will be worth
more in any European country than it
costs here to produce, and then the $3.00
per bale that we have through ignorance
been throwing away will disappear for
ever, and thejsouth in every succeeding ten
years will be the richer by $5300,000 000,
and we will feel proud of the fact, and
justly rewarded, by being one of the first
sections in Georgia to properly pack a
bale of cotton! No use to try any other
method. The great organizations who
own the compresses will take off any
other wrapping you may place on a bale of
cotton as they did aforetime, and laugh in
your face at your ignorance. The cont
presses, railroads and jute bagging trusts
all understand each other, and you must
fight organized intelligence with the
same weapon.
Now, understanding your plain duty .will
you bravely and manfully go forward
and discharge it?
The compress can be installed at once and
be ready to serve you for this crop, and
any good engine at any good gin in the
county can operate the compress, and the
speaker wants to see Oak Grove Local
and John Hamilton’s gin, the first, to
awaken, and it will soon be seen that the
effect of your intelligent effort through
organization in this most important di¬
rection, will have borne good fruit, and
at every gin in all the southland will be
a compress and other machinery for the
proper and intelligent handling of a
I bale of cotton, and as these l»Ies are
I transported across the ocean to foreign
6hore6 and wharves, to be run through
mills, to be converted into cloth for the
millions on the other side of the world
they will see that we have at last awaken!
ed! And it can only be accomplished by
intelligent organization and well direct¬
ed effort.
“Organize"—there is every reason for,
and not one against the farmers organ
izing, for without organization you will
ever in future, as in times past, be the
target of the world to be laughed at as
“hay seeds, ” but with organization and
wise leaders to guide, the Farmers’ Uu
ion will go on from one battle and victory
to another and gaining strength as they
go, being ready for every good and per¬
fect work in making the world brighter
and better for having lived, but especial¬
ly to aid and help each other in becoming
intelligently awakened to duty of getting
out and away from the slavery imposed
by debt, carelessness, extravagance and
all the attendant evils resulting from ig¬
norance and carelessness.
By and through organization you learn
how much of certain crops to produce,
and when and where to get better prices
for your crops; and better than all, plant
fewer mortages each year, and then you
will sooner be free, and once out of the
bondage of debt—keep out!
Educational and Co-operative! What
magical and wonderful words.
When the farmers and their families
besome educated to their own relation to
the world and realize the part they are to
play in life, and each co-operates with the
other for mutual good and uplift through
intelligent organization, they will surely
come into their own.
Organization gave the stone cutters
here and elsewhere freedom and liberty
and from $1.00 to $1.76 per day wages to
$3.00 per day, and they can give as much
work in eight hours as they once did in
12 hours. Organization alone brought
this wonderful result to them.
The Farmers’ Union is now closely re¬
lated to all labor organizations, and as its
members become more and more educated
ou these lines, will more quickly accom¬
plish greater good, and see and realize
that your membership is a mighty paid
in capital stock, and your energy and
lands well tilled, coupled with the early
and later mins, and the promise of the
Eternal God that seed time will ever con¬
tinue and that abundant harvests
shall reward well directed effort, is a
bright enough star of hope to encourage
and guide you ever onward as you labor
to enrich and bless yourselves and the
entire world.
A Thrilling Rescue.
How Bert R. Lean, of Cheny.Wash
was saved from frightful death is a
story to thrill the world. “A hard
cold,” he writes, “brought on a des¬
perate lung trouble that baffled an
expert doctor here.Then II paid $10
to $15 a visit to a lung specialist
in Spoakane, who did not help me.
Then I went to California, butwith
out benefit. At last I was induced to
use Dr. King’s New Discovery, which
completely cured me and now I am a
well as ever.” For Lung Trouble,
Croup and Whooping Cough its su¬
preme. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle
and C. C. Brooks.
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Arrival of Passenger Trains at
Covington.
No. 2, 8:54 a m No. 1, 11:27 am
“ 4, 1:89 am “ 8, 8:16 am
“ 28,4:28 p m “ 27, 7:02 pm
“ 10,8:05 pm “ 9, 5:40 pm
Bismarck’s Lament.
Said Bismarck toward the close of
his long and eventful career:
“Nobody loves me for what I have
done.I have never made anybody hap¬
py, not myself nor my family nor any
bodv else. But how many have I
made unhappy! But for me three
great wars would not have been
fought, 80,000 men would not have
perished. Parents, brothers, sisters
and widows would not have been be¬
reaved and plunged into mourning.
* * * I have had little or no joy
from all my achievments; nothing bu
vexation, care, trouble.”
This was a sad yet necessary la
ment.Bismarck was hard,for his task
was hard. Devotion to the idea of
German unity meant the going down
of all things and all persons who
stood in the way. Possibly he ex¬
alted the stae too high above the in¬
dividual. Deubtless his own con
victlon was that what he did for
the state he did for every dweller in
the borders, and inded for mankind.
FOR SALE—My house on Floyd St.
Will sell for cash or will make
terms.Mrs. W. W. Childs.
Th* Coughing Bsan.
To the ordinary housemaid the fall¬
ing of a house plant into a Tiolent
paroxysm of coughing i* naturally
disconcerting. Yet there are plants
which will do this when the broom
or the duster begins to make dust fly.
This singular plant is the “coughing
bean.” known to the botanist as the
Eutada tussiens. It is a native of
warm and moist tropical countries and
cannot and will not stand dust When
dust settles upon the breathing pores
in the leaves of this plant and chokes
them a gas accumulates inaide the
leaves and when It gains sufficient
strength forcibly “blows off,” clearing
the pores of dust and making a sound
exactly like coughing. At the same
time the leaves tremble and the plant
actually “gets red in the face” through
the sinking of the green chlorophyll
grains and the appearance of red par¬
ticles on the leaves. This plant is
sometimes used as a house plant, and
sweeping the room sets it coughing, to
the intense astonishment of persons
not familiar with its peculiarities.—
Louden Chronicle.
START A FIGHT ON
COTTON EXCHANGE
GAMBLING
Whether the cotton exchanges of
the country have any excuse for ex¬
istence as at present conducted w:s a
question which engaged the attention
of the House of Representatives for
an hour last Thursday when the res¬
olution of Mr. Vinson of Baldwin was
under consideration. It was adopted
by a vote of 75 to 31.
This resolution came in with a fa¬
vorable report from the Committee
on Agriculture. It calls on the sen¬
ators and iepresentatives from Geor¬
gia in Congress to support a measure
that will force cotton exchanges to
eliminate the purely ficticious trad¬
ing now permitted or to cease doing
business at all.
Mr. Redding of Pike thought the
Legislature ought to go slow in ad¬
vocating the abolition of cotton ex¬
changes, He said the exchanges
needed and formed a necessary part
of the cotton trade.
“If the American exchanges were
closed,” he said, “European
would fix the price of cotton for the
world.”
The same view was taken by Mr.
Hill of Monroe, who admitted having
had intimate relations with the ex¬
changes. That the exchanges were
conducted in the interest of the mills
was the contention of Mr. Johnson,of
Bartow, chairman of the General Ag¬
ricultural Committee. He said there
would always be irrepressible con¬
flict between th'’ producers and the
buyers of cotton and tha-; the ex¬
changes stood in the place of cot¬
ton merchants and were interested in
keeping the price of cotton down.
Mr. Vinson made a strong sts
in support of his resolution. The
House also approved by unanimous
vote, the resolution of Mr.Vinson call¬
ing for statistics of the cotton held
by the mills as well as statistics of
cotton in hands of the producer. He
said if the farmer knew how much
cotton was in storerooms of the mills
it would be anuid to him in market¬
ing his crop.
FOR RELIEF OF
THE TEACHERS
In the senate last Thursday the com¬
mittee on Education made a favorable
report on the bill to permit county
Boards bf Education to borrow money
for the purpose of making prompt
ments to school teachers.
The same committee favorably re¬
ported the bill by President Slaton to
set apart Feb. 12 as “Georgia Day”
to be observed appropriately in the
public schools of the state as the
anniversary of the landing of Ogle¬
thorpe and his party on Georgia soil.
FORTY-SECOND
GA. VOLUNTEERS
Editob Georgia Enterprise
Coviogtoo, Ga.
Dear Sir:
The 42od Regiment Ga. Volun¬
teers will hold their annual reun¬
ion in Atlanta July 22nd. Robt.
J. Henderson, of your county was
Colonel of the Regiment, was
promoted to Brigadier General tor
his galautry. Col. L. P. Thomas,
ot this city succeeded as command¬
er of the regiment.
Robt. F. Maddox was Lieuten¬
ant Colonel of the regiment, his
son, Robt F. Maddox, of this city
is now mayor, and will deliver the
address of welcome to the surviv¬
ors of the 42ud Ga. Regiment.
We extend a cordial welcome to
all the 42nd Ga., their wives,sons,
daughters, and grandchildren to
be with us.
We cannot have* many more re¬
unions but we want all to come
that can. We have two compan¬
ions from Newton, commanded by
Summers and Mercer.
Any notice that you may give
in your paper will be highly ap¬
preciated by the survivors of this
regiment.
Come up yourself and enjoy the
feast.
W. M. DURHAM,
Adjutant 42 Ga. Regiment.
Atlanta, Ga. July 2d, 1909.
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I know what to get,” declares Mrs A L
Alley of Beal- - , Me, 'for, after using ten
bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery, and
seeing its excellent results in my own
lamily and others, I am convinced it is
the best medicine made for coughs, colds
and lung trouble" Every one who tries
it leels just that way Belief is felt at once
and its quick cure surprises you For
Bronchitis, Asthma, Hemorrhage, croup,
lagrippe, sore throat, | ain in chest or
lungs its supreme 50c and $1 Trial bot¬
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