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PAGE SIX Os Interest to the Wealth Creators MISUNDERSTOOD. The Sentinel last week said that the farmers ought to go into business politics and it appeals that some have misunderstood our meaning and have supposed that we meant that they should elect members of the Farmers’ Union to office. We had no such idea. Belonging to the Un ion, of course, should not disqualify a man from holding office, but a man belonging to the Union does not at all guarantee that he is the farm ers’ friend. He mav be in the Un ion for the purpose of getting in side information so that he can make that information valuable to himself and to the capital class to whom he sells it. We know men in the Unien whom we know to be hand in glove with the crowd who plunder the farmer. We know men who belong to the Farmers’ Union who are traitors to the fanner’s best inter est; just as we know men who arc in good striding in the church, yet are contemptible hypocrites and scoundrels and only use their church membership as a cloak to cover the’r rascality. We know men who boast that all they have to do to keep in good standing in the church is to pay the assessments liberally. In other words they buy their membership and the influence of the church people (a they regard it) to assist them in fleecing the unthinking public. These rascals say: “The Farmers’ Union is easy, the church is easy,” ad they have no respect for either. What we meant to say and what we did say was that the farmers should go into business politics long enough to elect men who stand for the interests of the farmer. Many men who do not belong to the Union are friends to the farmer, are true men and stand for the farmer be cause as a class the farmer is mo e important than any other class they feed all other classes. If a man is mean enough to join the Farmers’ Union to get the farmer's vote, or to join the church to got the votes and influence of the church, or to join a lodge to get the lodge vote, he is a traitor to all and is not worthy to be trusted by any. It does not take a powerful magnifying glass for a m>n with eyes to sec th»t men who belong to the union and to the church, etc., have used these memberships for all they were worth to secure the votes of the farmers and of the church, have gone back on the people and pandered to the political machine manipulators as soon as elected, and have said by their actions, “The people have no rights—no privileges—which we are bound to respect.” Wo desire to be understood and we solemnly declare that what the farmers need is to look around them and secure men who will stand b them under all circumstances. There are such men, but they do not cater for votes. Farmers’ Union men have been elected as Democrats and as Republicans and have lain down on the fanner. It, therefore, WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. does not matter what a man labels himself, whether Democrat, Republi can, Populist, Socialist, or Union, if he lias no individuality, he is un worthy to hold office among a free people. If he does not himself rep resent a principle he becomes a pliant tool in the hands of designing men for the purpose of enabling them to exploit the people. Wake up and look around you. We care not what a man says he is, his actions tell us what he really is. and it is our du ty to use our brain and our eyes ai d ears to see, hear and understand.— Weekly Sentinel. WHEAT, CORN AND COTTON. High temperature and brisk, quick passing showers have no doubt wrought to well-cultivated fields de voted to cotton growing remarkable changes. The fields are free from grass, and in district after district the cultivators are moving betwe n rows of vigorous plants. The growth is beginning to be normal. As a whole, the cotton belt is no longer four weeks late. It is now said to be two weeks late, and a July as favorable as June would bring the crop we’l up in point of growth. Each field, however, has a spotted appearance, and this may be said to be a feature of the entire cotton belt this year. The crop is “spotted,” and it will probably remain spotted to the end of it. Favorable weather may, however, remove some of the inequalities. The government report will be is sued today. It will aim to show the condition of the crop on June 25, and the acreage. Some anticipate a re port of improvement in the growing crop to the extent of ten points. The crop is now well cultivated, and its growth will be rapid if the weather continues to be favorable. But on the other hand the acreage has been reduced in one way or another at least 10 per cent, and this of itself points to a fair crop only. A big crop is well-nigh impossible. The boll weevil in Texas, and a reduced acreage everywhere forbid a full crop. The wheat crop is also “spotted,” and threshing returns are awaited with interest. The harvesting of win ter wheat has been begun. The out look is increasingly hopeful, and that is about all that can be pru dently said about the crop. Spring wheat is coming on fairly, and the corn crop is making excellent prog ress. The entire crop prospect is better than it was thirty days ago, but the output of neither wheat nor cot tun will be a record breaker. —The Age- Herald. COUNTY UNION MEETINGS AND PICNICS. Twenty-fifth district, at Slerreit, I. T., July 11. Fourteenth district, at Cartersville, I. T., July 12. Wagoner county, at Wagoner, I. T., July 17. Oklahoma county, at Oklahoma City, Okla., July 27. THE FARMER NEGLECTED. The absence of farmers in our law making has been frequently comment ed upon during late years, and it is being insisted that they should he liberally represented, as they furnish such a large proportion of the ei'i zens to be governed by the law; made. It looks reasonable that the farmer should know what is best for* him, and what is best for him is un doubtedly best for the whole coun try, everything being dependent up.m the agricultural classes. A gentle man writing from Washington to one of our Mississippi papers has the following to say anent the absence of. farmers in our National law-mak ing body: “During my thirteen years’ resi dence at the national Capitol, I have observed that every interest in the country is organized and represented here, except the farmer. The farmers alone have stood aloof from consoli dation and combination. I am glad, however, that they are at last real izing that if they are to secure their rights in the nation and in the states they must band themselves togeth er in a compact union, in order to have their demands more speedily recognized. Senators and represen tatives in Congress pay tribute to or ganized labor, to organized capital and to organized business interests of all kinds, but, strange to say, the farmer has few genuine defenders in the legislative halls, national and state.” The statements made by the gen tleman are correct and furnish food for much thought and consideration. The agricultural classes should be represented according to their strength and careful watch kept with an eye for legislation that is fair and right to all parties concerned. Noth ing of a discriminating nature should be contended for, but for “equal justice to all and special privileges to none.” —Mississippi Union Advo cate. IMMIGRATION. The Farmers’ Union has made an unprecedented and unexcelled fight on foreign immigration. A few have been astonished, others have been scared, still others are asking, Why does the Farmers’ Union oppose for eign immigration so vehemently? This latter class are inclined to think that it is because we do not know any better and they are right. It has been suggested that we should not so bitterly oppose foreign immigration, as our forefathers some where in the distant or more recent past were foreigners. The members of the Farmers’ Un ion realize this fact fully, and if it had not been for the fact that we knew the old demagogues, who are time servers of the few, and the time foolers of the masses, we would have been a little more explicit on this point, but we fully realized if we did so before the penpip were thor oughly aroused, that these plunderers of American freedom would misquote us and perhaps mislead others as to our position on the question. The Farmers’ Union is not op posed to limited unsolicited foreign immigration; in other words, if you will limit the immigration to the bet ter classes, of which you hear so much of late, and absolutely and un conditionally sit down on the State s using any part of the public funds for influencing immigration, and pass a law forbidding any company, concern or corporation entering into wholesale solicitation of foreign im migration, you will then have met the express wishes of the members of the Farmers’ Union, and we might add 90 per cent of the citizens of Georgia. The advocates of foreign immigration are trying to put up an argument in its favor by saying we need him on the farm. This is not true. At least the man on the farm does not so understand it, and for one time in his life he is going to de pend upon his own judgment in this matter, and he will not as in the past follow blindly the selfish, greed serv ing politicians. The very class who are trying so hard to keep us in poverty and de pendence, that they may rob us of what is our own, are the very class who are leading the fight in favor of foreign immigration. They are the very class that have fought Mr. Watson and others, who for ten years have been trying to get tariff reduction, they are the very peopl* who, while they rob us, put out the hypocritical cry that they are only looking to the good of the great mass of our people. The truth is that these fellows be lieve that the tariff will be reduced and they realize that, with the farm ers organized, with high priced labor, and the tariff wall torn down the masses of the South would be come independent, prosperous and happy; and of course these vipers are bitterly opposed to anything that will interfere with their special priv ilege. This heartless gang of southern plunderers realize that they can on ly hope to thwart the will of the peo ple by bringing in a flood of foreign immigrants, who can be bought and sold when it comes to controlling leg islation at the same low price as the negro; and with these immigrants and the few negroes who under our law are permitted to vote, and the sorry white citizenship which we now have, they will have the law making powers of our State by the throat, and as fast as we take one privilege from them they will simply have their political henchmen to leg islate them another. My God! My God! Will the American people nev er wake up?—Union News. COTTON AT SIX CENTS PER SPOOL. The fact that the thread trust has raised the price of that useful and necessary article has attracted little attention save among dealers and persons who use a great deal of i*. The addition of one cent to the price