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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- imn TTrnrriwii-irTiiiMiiiiwßim himiibii im—i ■rrinririTrrwrrn — ' The Dixie Business College (ATLANTA, GA.), offers until September 1 50 Combined, Unlimited Scholarships at S6O 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT 10 per cent of perchase money may be remitted to reserve scholarships, if entrance later be desired This Course of Instruction is Guaranteed Superior to any other of the kind offered in Atlanta. J The teachers of the Dixie Business College are acknowledged leaders in the teaching of all Commercial and allied branches, and their skill and thoroughness is unquestioned throughout tne State. The Dixie’s Graduates are at Once Placed in Splendid Positions - Bernard C. Ansted, H. L. Bridges, Props. 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- BOOKS! BOOKS! BARGAIN SALE OF SECOND HAND BOOKS, good as new for we bought them from the Publishers at a big reduction. 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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. t 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. PAGE FIFTEEN