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Os INTEREST TO WEALTH CREATORS
WESIfiRN KfiifTUdKY LETTER.
The toil call of states is a very in
structive department of the Inland
Farmer, and it brings the tillers of
the soil in closer touch with their
brother farmers.
, The crops here, like other parts of
the country, are very late, but the
weather has been favorable, and they
are now making good growth. The
low lands in some parts have been
too wet to be worked out, and will
be a loss, and the heavy rains have
washed the hill lands badly.
The tobacco crop is the poorest 1
have ever seen hete. . Therb are but
few fair or medium crops, and with
the present prospects, I don’t think
that much over a half of a normal
crop can be made; and that will de
pend on a late frost. The hay crop
was better than usual, and was saved
in fair weather. Some are selling at
50 cents per hundred in bale. Hogs
ate selling at 5 to 5 1-4 bents, and
good beef cattle about 3 cents.
The Tobacco Association has
brought good prices to all who join
ed, and the outsiders (commonly call
ed hill billies) put good money in the
pockets of the local buyers, but there
will be very few farmers who will re
fuse to put their tobacco in this year.
The Farmers’ Union is not growing
in our county as it should, but in
Kickman county it is getting very
strong.
There will be a big rally near Clin
ton (16 miles west of here) Abgust
6. The Hon. Thos. E. Watson, of
Georgia, and Mr. Barrett, the Na
tional president, also J. T. Brooks,
secretary-treasurer of Tennessee Un
ion, are advertised to speak in behalf
of the Farmers’ Union.
The prices of cotton and tobacco
the last few years clearly proves the
financial benefit to the farmers by or
ganization and co-operation, and
can’t understand why any farmer will
refuse to join the union. The bene
fits come directly in better prices be
sides the social and other advantages
they receive.
I have given my best efforts for
eighteen years to the cause of organ
ization, and in this time I have
seen the rise and fall of the 1 arm
ers’ Alliance, and now the Union is
growing strong all over the South
and West, but the leaders should
strictly avoid any errors that wrecked
the Alliance, such as indorsing any
man for office, or any political party,
or any party platform.
It is all right and proper to discuss
economic questions, and such laws as
will be for the betterment of the far
mers or any that operate against their
interest
It is a good way to adopt certain
resolutions that will better the farm
ers’ condition, and condemn any bad
laws, and when candidates offer
themselves, to present these resolu
tions, and if they pledge themselves
in honor to such resolution (in writ
ing) then as voters the members can
support such candidates if they are
honorable and trustworthy.
I remember a resolution that was
adopted by the National Alliance at
Ocala, Fla., “That we would vote for
no man who would not pledge himself
not to go into a party caucus when
certain resolutions which the Nation-
al Alliance had adopted would be con
sidered by the caucus? 4
it resulted that at the next con
gressional election there ihirty
phe members elected who were honor
bound to...the resolutions Adopted
by the Alliance. Among those elect
ed were L. F. Livingston, Moses
and Tom E. Watson, of Georgia, and
every one betrayed the people ard
disregarded their sacred pledge ex
cept Tom E, Watson.
It is a sad and lamentable condi
tion of our country when only one
good and true man can be found in
thirty-brie pledged their .honor to
be true io thb'se whb for, them,
and one of these was a preacher of
the gospel.
But love of party, fear of ridicule,
or hope of future reward from the
party caused all but one man to prove
false.
In this day of organized greed, dQ
fyifig the laws of God and inan, when
Vast fortunes are held by a few men
who use their wealth and power to
debauch legislators, to bribe juries
and courts, when seventy-six men
controlling the railroads and banking
institutions can absolutely con
trol the condition under which 80
million of boastful Americans miM
live, t think it is high time that the
people should wake up and demand
justice. And only by organization
and co-operation can they possibly
succeed.
This is more important to the fu
ture of our country and welfare of
our children than whether Bryan or
Roosevelt shall be elected president.
Shall a few heartless Rockefellers
Morgans and Ryans o-wn us, and we
be their slaves or shall the people
possess this country for their .own
welfare and live all freemen?
—Dr. I. A. Wesson, in Inland Farmer.
Graves County, Ky.
Note: Mr. Watson has not promised
to speak at Clinton. He has not
even been invited. If he were asked,
real nice, and on a reciprocity basis,
he might go. The prospect of 500 sub
scribers —used as a bundle of fodder
is used, to encourage the horse along
—would get a move on the poor, neg
lected editor, when just a common
“Won’t you come?” wouldn’t make
him budge an inch. The chaps who
manage these things and who need
“speakers,” should study the princi
ple of Reciprocity Treaties.
The gist of a Reciprocity Treaty is
the finding what A should do for B,
as an equivalent of what B will do
for A.
Now, friends, neither of the two
Jeffersonians can live on air and
branch water and good wishes. Ever
since April, Yours Truly has been
doing the work of three men on these
two Jeffs.
If you want the old man to drop
his job, and do you a favor, by trav
eling a long distance and delivering
an address which would sell for three
or four hundred dollars to any Lec
ture Bureau or Ohautauqua Associa
tion, don’t you think there ought to
be a Reciprocity Treaty?
King Edward has the veto power,
but he does not dare use it. The royal
“big stick” needs a foreign tour.-’
The Commoner,
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
LATIMER TALKS OF IMMIGRA
TION.
South Carolina Senator Says South
Needs Fofeigh Labor.
, i’aris, 6.—llnited States
Latimer,, Carolina,
and Representative Howell,; of New
Jersey and Burnett, of Alabama, of
the United States immigration
mittee, arrived here today,
Speaking of the general results of
the investigation, Mr. Latimer said
the committee had been impressed
by the sanitary regulations and the
steamship companies evidence of good
faith in obeying the United States
iinthigation restribtiohS. He added
fliat ,the United States, especially the
South, needed good immigration, and
the recommendations of the commit
tee would have the South in view.
South Carolina, Wake Up!
We take the above clipping from
the Atlanta Constitution, and if Sen
dtor Latimer, of South Carolina, is
correctly quoted, the Union men of
that state should wake up. The sit
uation, and if Senator Latimer, or
Mr. Latimer and your Congressman
with petitions and resolutions con
demning Foreign immigration.
Make Trim understand that if he
proposes to override the will of his
constituency that you will remember
and not forget. Ask him to use his
influence to thwart the purpose of
the schemers, who had planned to
continue their robbing of the South
by the introduction of Foreign Immi
grants.
Mr. Latimer is quoted with having
stated that the “steamship lines were
willing to obey the U. S. Immigra
tion law.” Is it uossible that the
Senator of South Carolina is so neg
ligently ignorant of the actual situa
tion as to believe that his statement
is correct, or is he wilfully trving to
deceive the masses of the peonle on
this question? There has not been a
time in twenty years but what the Im
migration Laws have been violated
by those seeking to thwart the pur
poses of the masses of the people of
this country by importing such for
eign elements as could be bought or
controlled by the manufacturing in
terests of our nation.
South Carolina, wake up, and make
it as hot for your public officials in
South Carolina as the Farmers’ Un
ion has made it for»the officials in
Georgia, who dared to believe in the
policy of foreign immigration.
If there is a congressman, or a
United States Senator that would
lend his hand in assisting the schem
ers to bring foreign immigrants to
Georgia, we would be glad to have
him pointed out, and while we are not
in politics we would make it conven
ient to arrange so that this gentle
man would have the pleasure of re
maining at home with his “dear”
people at the next counting of the bal
lots.
South Carolina, wake upi Don’t
sleep on your oars, while these schem
ers try to use your public officials to
instigate a plan by which you and
your children, and «your children’s
children will be robbed of the neces
saries of life. *
Do not believe the assertion that
anybody is wanting only desirable im
migrante. This desirable immigrant
argument is only a sugar coating
capsuling of the rottenness of the
scheme. Have not Thomas E. Watson,
Ben Tillman, and other men who have
fought sot the people’s rights, been
teilfrig ycrii that if yon permitted the
schemers to give yofi evOft <t Sttgftr
'cbakd Capsule that they wotdd put
sufficient amottiri of strychnine therein
to send you to youri p’olit?6aj grave?
The advocates of foreign immigra
tion .do not , care for the desirable
immigrant, b’ut witji this nicely pre
pared phrase they hope Us get you to
swallow the immigration questiofi,
their purpose being to deceive you
into believing that they will preserve
the fiffhts of the “dear” people.
South Carolina, wake up! Do not
allow these men to go to the next ses
sion of Congress believing that Sori th
Carolina will slumber quietly on,
while its honored Senator is recom
mending to that Legislative body a
scheme for robbing his constituents.
—The Union News.
TliE RIGHT SPIRIT.-
As an organization, the Farmers’
Union is not in polites, but the indi
vidual member, outside of the Unioti
and independent of Sriy office that he
may hold, should be up to his neck
in the political meshes. He should
investigate and know the character
and fitness of every candidate for of
fice, and should analyze every ques
tion of government and then vote as
his judgment directs, independent of
party and as a patriot. With an in
telligent, independent and patriotic
exercise of the ballot the farmers and
laboring men of Oklahoma can be ab
solute masters of the politics of Okla
homa.
AGE OF FARMER CO-OPERA
TION.
The Friday Harbor Journal pub
lishes a news story which illustrates
the beneficial results of farmer co-op
eration. It states that the Lopez Is
land Telephone Company has sixty
eight subscribers, located in different
parts of the island. The company is
simply a home organization of farm
ers. The system cost each man sls
and gave the individual ownership of
the instruments. An annual mainte
nance fee of $6 pays all operating ex
penses and leaves a good balance in
the treasury. Even the most distant
and out-of-the-way points on the
island are connected by the telephone,
and a central station is supplied with
a salaried operator, and there are no
complaints of bad service.
We are living in an age of farmer
co-operation. Tillers of the soil have
long since learned the lesson of how
to look after their own interests-
They have linked the city and country
with telephones and rural mails. They
are building more and better roads
and establishing an era of financial
independence. They are adopting
business methods and making of the
firm a cash dividend payer in all its
branches. The fam of today is mere
ly a big department store, in which
are offered for sale the numerous
products of fam, orchard and gar
den. And the farmers are assisting
each other in away that insures sue-,
cess to the entire community. They
are helping to bear one. another’s
burdens. .
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