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President Barrett Tells Of
Progress Of Farmer’s Union
Union City, Ga. May.—The following statement has been issued
’to members of the Farmers union by President Charles C. Barrett:
lo the Officers and Member of Farmers Union:
A new epoch was written in American history when the Farmer’s
Union became a truly national organization. Other associations of
farmers had preceded it. But they had fallen by the sword of partisan
politics or bad failed to hitch enthusiasm to the harvest— so they fell.
I speak advisedly when I say that the Farmers’ Union is the first
organization in history to successfully join theory with practice, to
begin 4he movement of weeding the politicians from the innermost
councils of the farmer, and to impress upon the latter that the im¬
provement of his Jot rests not in the hands of some far off “up-lifter”
or fly-by-night reformer, but with himself.
WORLD WANTS RESULTS.
Today, the world asks less for rhetoric and more for results. This
is a very slight summary of what we have accomplished, together
with a statement of what we yet hope, with the aid of the Almighty
and our own courage to accomplish:
Wo have 1628 warehouses, mainly for storing cotton. Mississip¬
pi leads the warehouse movement with a million dollar corporation.
We own and operate a large number of elevators and terminal
agencies for the handling of grain.
We own and operate 245 packing bouses.
We own and operate dozens of news papers.
We own and operate coal mines.
W e own and operate several banks, flower mills, creameries,
pickle factories, several hundred stores, an implement factory, a phos¬
phate plant a phosphate mine.
We own and operate tobacco factories and warehouses, produce
exchanges, fertilizer factories, peanut warehouses, a peanut recleaner,
many cotton grading schools, co-operative life and fire insurance com¬
panies.
Any number of other general business agencies are owned or
controlled by members of the Farmers Union.
NOT A CLOSE CORPORATION.
In this connection, it must not be forgotton that the union does
not oflicially own these concerns. We are not a close corporation.
In every instance ownership or control rests in individual members,
consorting togethei for their own benefit. That is the true spirit of
co-operation.
Before this order was organized statistics showed that 70 per cent
of the farmers in the south were blighted with the curse of the mort¬
gage. We have cut down thepercentage by onehalf, and our work
in that direction has
The influence of the Farmer’s Union is written upon many of
the best laws put in recent years upon state and national statute books.
In many states we have secured radical increases in public school
appropirations. In many of the states the Farmers’ Union has been
instrumental in the establishment of agricultural colleges.
Other important legislation, state and national, now pending is an
indication of the resistless influence of the organization among Ameri¬
can farmers. We have made systematic canvasses of the various
leg Matures and of several successive sessions of congress. There is a
new viewpoint in Washington toward the American farmer—and the
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THE FITZGERALD LEADER, MAY 1911
might of the Farmers’ Union, demonstrated in elections, is responsi¬
ble for it.
TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF FARMER
These achievements are the outward sign of a great new move¬
ment in American agriculture. But they are not camparably impor-
Q f fraternity which we have wrought among the
f araiers of this nation. It is fraternity, appealing to intelligence,
that has wrought this progress. And the same force will develop in a
thousand unexpected directions to solve the problems of the American
f armer
Notable among the triumphs of the organization is that one which'
has brought a social awakening among the farmers. In many states
it has brought thousands of white women and children out of the cot¬
ton fields into the schools and the homes—where they belong. Had
it done nothing else, the existence thus far of the Farmers’ Union
would have been justified by tfiis transformation that is merely in its
beginning.
We are working toward the ideal of making the Farmers’ Union
the transforming influence in American farm life. To that end we
a>k the co-operation of the wealthiest and the most poverty-stricken
farmer.
Charles S. Barrett.
Union City, Ga., May 15, 1911.
St. Mathew's Episcopal
• Church
5th Sunday after Easter.
11 a. m. Morning prayer and
sermon.
4 p. m. Sunday School.
8 p. m. Evening prayer and
sermon,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes¬
day being Rogation Days, sermon
at 4 p. m.
Thursday next being Holy
Thursday—Ascension Day.
Celebration of Holy Communion
at 10:30 a. m.
Sermon at 4 p. m.
Confirmation classes of instruc¬
tion named early after the after¬
noon services.
F. North-Tummon, Vicar.
Bookeeper
Competent stenographer and
bookeeper wishes work at night.
Satisfaction guaranteed, Address Box “D”
Fitzgerald Ga.
H. B. DEYO
Painter and Paper
All gmdes of Wall Paper always
on hand. Contracting a speciality.
Shop. 802 West Oconee Street.
First Baptist Chxirch
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Services will be held at the First
Baptist church Sunday morning
conducted by Col. L. Kennedy,
in the absence of the pastor who
is attending the Southern Baptist
Convention at Jacksonville.
There will be no services at
night. _ .
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easy natural movements, cures
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Ask your druggist for them. 25c.
a box. 31-8t.
Ladies Attention
Wanted, ladies who wish to do
good, to help to collect good books
for library in county jail, We
thank those who have kindly do¬
nated, but more are needed. See
Mrs. J. Burkhart, W. Central
Ave., 515.
WANTED
Men between the ages of 18 and
45 to enlist in the National Guards
of Georgia. Must be of good mor¬
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bilities.
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1st Lieut. Co. C, 1st Inft’, N.G.
Ga. 114 E. Pine St.
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