The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-02
Eetter$ to tbe Gdftcr
Nfontxomery County Club.
or The Advertiser:

Editor The Advertiser:
 desire to congratulate the Mont Eomery County Club for at least two reports made at its last meeting. satur- day. May 14, viz: the report of MT. A. Sellers on the labor question and freight rates by Chairman M. B.
 MT. Sellers said We must unite sys- tenn with cooperation, If we succeed: without t. we must falter, if we do not entirely fail"
 thing with teeth in it.
 With system and cooperation. l fall to see why farm labor may not De as we'll organized as any other labor, but without it I see no hope for the upbuilding of our dilapidated farms in
 The average farm Iaborer seldom thinks his corn and cotton needs much work until the grass and weeds are as high or little higher than the corn or cotton.
 He knows nothing of. the importance of working corn and cotton just before 1t needs it. He has never learned that grass and weeds take food from the crop and until he learns this fact IL is time thrown away to try in any way to induce him to keep the crop as clean as a garden should be.
 System and cooperation furnish the farmer from being master of the situa- tion but the lack of organization railroads, and they would not be like other people if they did not want the seryise of the roads s,oh ns oheaPy Pdyy,ssnh as Farmers % pay all bills from from A to Iz- gard" baby cap starts from Paris for thei head of a Montgomery County per centum on first cost in Paris and every time 1t changes ownership addt- tional cost is added to 1t. until il reaches the head of the boy intended P<.. zYI 1,ttf fa~ tu paid by the boys father and he is ob. 1iged to submit to being humbugged all the way from the gay city to Mont gomery County. Alabama:
 sensible view of railroads, and railroad freights and there should be no strife or contention between these great cor porations and the tillers of the soil True greatness consists in being just before one Is generous. As Chairman Houghton remarks in his report, Tt is gratifying that all classes of our peo' pie recognize the importance and t, valut and prosperity" but when the farmer sees now and then a man travelling al most every day on pass. while his an nuai trip, must be paid for both ways | to the city and back home, he fails tC see why one man should be favored SC | much more than another. He is sure | to feel that he is discriminated against
 Make all pay alike or else let all rid, | favors to none is right every day fl the 365 days of the year.
 Mir. Houghton recites facts and case. | in regard to exorbitant freight charges | favoring some at the expense ct oth CTS and the others is almost always th' | farmer.
 One class of people is. to say tn,
 least, as good as another, and wh! | make one pay more freight on the sam' l class of goods.
 | Why should South Alabama hay, | some necessary articles of hardware | shipped from Pittsburg through Mont
 gomery to a point 1S0 miles further fo | 13 cents cheaper than the roads charg'
 a Montgomery merchant Is what cause l so much friction and will continue [,
 cause it until Justice balances tn | scales, when the rights between maI
 and man are being meted.
 l J. R. McLendon.