The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-10-29
SENATOR BROWNS SPEECH.

Owing to bad weather the speech
Senator Brown was to have deliver,
ed in Macon was not delivered, but
was given to the press instead. The
sensational features expected we're
missing, the only reference made
about the,iarmers OF a political nature
was the following:
This association. known as the
Georgia State Agricultural Society,
is organized and conducted for the
purpose mainly of advancing aeri-
cultural and kindred pursuits within
the limits OF our own state.
All must admit that agriculture.
more than any other ore pursuit, is
OF the most vital importance to any
people. No people can reach high
state Of civilization, intelligence and
refinement without Il good agricul-.
tUral system. Man must seek his
support among the productions of
the earth, and as every other profess
sion, occupation or calling in society
Is dependent upon agriculture for its
livelihood and support, 10 one can
question the vital Importance OF this
support to refined and civilized socie..
ty.
Where in all the long history of the
past could he found a more refined,
scholarly, high bred and well cult,
waited race or association of people
than the old leading farmers and
planters Of the South under our late
system? The most intelligent, The
most refined, the most cultivated por,
ton Of society was found among the
agricuturalists, and it must ever be
so were agriculture is properly prac.
ticed and conducted and society is
properly organized.
The much more numerous class of
our society are the agricuturists: but
it cannot be questioned that they
have not exercised the power and
control over elections and govermen-
tai affairs which their number entis
ties them to. They have b, e. couf,l>
ing and true, and they have left it to
other persons of other pursuits main
Iy to conduct the affairs of the poll
tlcians and statesmen. The conse-
quence has been that their claims to n
fair and just recognition have not al>
ways been respected as they should
have always been. They have borne
this state Of things for long
time with great patience and mod
GRAFTON; but they have finally reached
the point where they propose to take
into their own hand the management
of their own interests, and to have a
word to say in the manner OF con-
Quoting the affairs of the gnvarn-
ment.
This, l think, is cOmmendable, and
| have no quarrel with any organiza-
ton of farmers who unite themselves
together for the purpose, not of as
saulting and crippIin4 the interest OF
other classes, but of protecting their
own.
But 1T should be borne in mind I'll;
there are vital interests in ,iety as
well as agriculture. and while it is the
duty of the agriclturists to stand
firmly by their rights and maintain
the power which their numbrr and
position entities them to, still they
should always be guarded and cafes
full in the exercise OF that power and
use it with due regard to the rights
and interests of all oth,r classes of So
ciety. There is, or should he, sys-
TEN of checks aud balances between
the respective interests 9f society, and
each should always be ready to do
Justice to the other. fycu have the
power to enact laws, he careful that
you enact just la Us, and while you
advance your own interest, do not
cripple the interest of others furt her
than is absolutely necessary.