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FARMERS’ UNION NEWS.
FARMERS GATHER AT UNION
CITY.
Big Barbecue and Educational Rally
of Farmers’ Union Takes Place.
Fairburn, Ga., August 22. (Spe
cial.) —In the neighborhood of 5,000
farmers and their families attended
the Farmers’ Union educational and
union rally at Union City today and
enjoyed to the fullest degree the
splendid speeches and the lavish bar
becue which had been provided.
The address of President R. F.
Duckworth was the special feature of
the occasion. It was an inspiring
speech and was greeted with great
applause. Other speakers who con
tributed to the interest of the occa -
sion were S. E. Leigh, of Coweta;
Professor Doggan, of Hancock; and
J. T. Graves.
The barbecue was a most elaborate
affair and every one in the vast
crowd was fed and there was a good
deal left over. D. A. Carmichael had
charge of this feature of the pro
gram.
In his speech President Duckworth
saild:
“The condition of the farmer was
one of abject poverty and abject
slavery before the union came to
preach better things. Today I call
you to witness unprecedented- pros
perity that blesses our country as
against the condition of the people
four years ago when the union was
first started.
“Five years ago the farmer
thought he was powerless to resist
the greed and oppression with which
he was cursed. Today he feels and
knows that power which is his.
“We are not opposed to the organ
ization of combines, but we are op
posed to the unlawful use and unlim
ited abuse of such power and will re
sist so long as there is a man of us
able to enter a protest.”
In the afternoon good speeches were
made by State Lecturer Lee, Mr.
Hunnicutt of the Southern Cultivator,
and by Dr. Stockbridge of the Rural
ist. All the speeches were good, but
Dr. Stockbridge’s was a clear, scien
tific presentment of the art of suc
cessful corn growing. He told the
farmers something that they will re
member and put in practice to their
profit.
Mrs. Parmelee, elocutionist, of Pro
fessor G. C. Looney’s Select school,
of Atlanta, delighted the large au
dience with her apt rendition of a
quaint little character sketch with a
genuine human interest.
“Union City” is situated in a grove
at the junction of the Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Atlanta and the Atlan
ta and West Point railroads, a mile
east of Fairburn, and the day was
most delightfully and profitably spent
in feasting, talking and listening to
speeches by distinguished citizens and
orators.
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
While it is the business of the
Farmers’ Union to build farms it is
its indirect business to build towns,
too. There must be markets for sur
plus, and there must be factories and
factory workers. Get these into your
towns, and keep busy supplying them
.food and raw material, while they
make the things you want. That farm
which is near a large town is the one
which offers the best life for the man
of inoderate means. The “small farm
well tilled” is the farm for real hap
piness.—Farmers’...Union Banner.
FARMERS’ UNION.
The Fanners’ Union is said to num
ber over a million members. When
that many people organize and dis
cuss their rights there is going to be
something doing in politics—some
thing that will change the character
of the work dope at Washington. But
if the Farmers’ Union is wise it will
keep strictly out of politics as an
organization. As an organization it
should neither run or endorse candi
dates for office. The moment it goes
into politics that moment it will be
gin to have trouble within its ranks.
And it would be bad faith for the
organization to take political action,
as its members have joined it with the
understanding that it is nonpartisan.
The Union should remember the fate
of the Alliance. But the members,
as individuals, should, as has been
well said, “go into politics knee deep,
waist deep, chin deep,” and most of
them will, as in their efforts to go
their rights they will run up against
the fact that the underlying cause of
their troubles is the monopoly of mon
ey and transportation.—Missouri
World.
THIS EXPLAINS WHY MR. WAT
SON DOES NOT ACCEPT
MORE INVITATIONS. <
“Hon. Thos. E. Watson to Speak
at Beall Springs, Aug. 22nd.
“It will be seen from Mr. Wat
son’s note of explanatioon below in
accepting the invitation to speak at
Beall Springs on the 22nd inst, that it
is quite likely that this will be the on
ly speech he will make during this
year. Having moved the business of
fices of his Magazine and the Week
ly Jeffersonian to his home at Thom-
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WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
son, he is, by all odds, the hardest
worked man in the South. Outside
his family and intimate friends, no
one can form an idea of the immen
sity of the working capacity and en
durance of Mr. Watson. Coupled
with the duties of managing the bus
iness, financial and circulation depart
ments, of his two popular publica
tions, is his editorial work, an ex
tensive correspondence with men in
nearly every state of the Union, the
supervision of his large farming in
terests, and the personal examina
tion of important cases handled by
the law firm of Green & Watson, of
which firm he is consultation attor
ney.
“Therefore when he is called by
his fellow citizens to address them
upon important issues, it is at great
sacrifice of his private, personal and
business interests for him to accept
and respond to their appreciated re
quests.
“The farmers of Warren and ad
joining counties are extremely fortu
nate in having this leading states-
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man of the South favorably respond
to the invitation to address the Farm
ers’ Unions at Beall Springs on the
22nd inst.” —Warrenton Clipper.
MEN ACT LIKE HOGS.
When one hog gets an ear of corn
every other hog will trot along be
hind and squeal and squeal and beg,
and is ready for a bite, but just let
that hog get his head fast in the
crack of the fence and every son of
a sow will jump on and help tear
him to pieces. Just so it is with
men. As long as a man is prosperous
and has money, he can’t keep his
friends off with a baseball bat. The
moment he is unfortunate and his
wealth is gone he is not only snub
bed by his former friends, but they
begin to do him all the harm possible.
When a man starts down grade the
world steps to one side and greases
the track. —Wellsville Record.
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One million Farmers’ Union mem
bers is not a menace to th** body pol
itic —it’s only an incentive for the
politician to do right.—Hays County
Times.
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