The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-13
Letters to The Editor
THE FARMERS UNION.
seIf-Protecting, Educational and !
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seIf-PrOtecting, Educational and Not Partisan.
 Editor Advertiser:
 have read with some care, Mir. sheehan's report of the meeting of the Farmers Union at Clanton, and his deep solicitude for the merchants running through the report
 The poor merchants are Kinder put on guard against an enemy slipping up in their unprotected rear.
 It seems that the merchants have some grievance against the railroads and have been telling the farmers about 1t. And now, It appears, the farmers have a grievance against the merchants and are kinder" talking the matter to themselves-in a sort of
 I am inclined to believe that if one man IS aggrieYed or injurde by am other. he should have the privilege to complain.
 The dentist was pulling a tooth for one of our niggers, Aleck. Aleck was great, big, strong nigger, but could make as much noise about an aching ed the pulling" When the dentist put the forceps on the tooth, Aleck caught his hand and suspended the delicate doctor told him. "Aleck. if you do that again I'll knock you down!' Again the forceps were hooked on and Aleck soothingly sought a truce in the ques- kAOls .tAA' ONNAAs ~AAs T SAAs NolA I
 He was kindly and generously &C., corded that vent to his sufferings And he roared like the Bull of Bashan, I reckon. I was a child at the time. but 1t seemed to me that the privilege of ho1lering did Aleek great deal of good.
 The privilege to complain ought to be amopg the mathematics" in all our bills tof right. Even the farmer should be sallowed the privilege to "holler. . Doc l -la -l. 1aa manners not to holler till after the knocking down tooth pulling business is over.
 It develops that the farmer is. some- how, getting it into his head, that he Is, in some measure, entitled to the profts of his labor.
 am a farmer and a member of the Union and, perhaps. cannot look at this matter from a disinterested stand point, but, divestinE myself as much as possible of self-interest, looking at than temporal. I can't help but believe that one ought to have some little of the profits of his laber.
 l don't claim infallibility and I may be wrong to think that way. Indeed, that may be only an indistinct impress sion from some contact with old fash toned ''hoss sense" l can only apol-
 It has been my misfortune for many years, when turning loose various im- pressions of "boss sense," to hear au- QlDle NGGulclS lEOHl luLtAllSSul BCn- tlemen rendered. in .terse. qnmistaka- ble English-"He's a d-n fool" After wards. those same intelligent gentle men seemed to be. afflicted with the out sense enough to know how 1t came about.
 I have but one explanation of the matter and that is, they have been educated in the only school adapted to their state of mind.
 But it's a serious matter for the selves-real serlous--and the Dicks. Toms and Harries of every other per- suasIon feel like they ought to take 1t to the Lord in prayer
 It appears to be an awfully wicked thing to even suggest that poor wo- man with a baby ought not to support some idler. That's awful!
 And, then for the poor farmer to want to sell his products to the best advantage and buy goods to the best advantage" is akin to treason! It's by which the angels felP' or something
 The poor farmer Is getting in a bad way when .he gets together and nurses and nOurishes such awful sins as self interest.
 This self-love is a miserable crime in a farmer I'm afraid he'll have to tirely cleansed from such stain. Running between the lines of MT. SheehanS report Is the suggestion or railroad coalition with the merchants against the hydra-headed farmer Well, we expect that, and may be so. it will soon appear As farmers. we do not deny to others the right to organize.
 . We may have broader ideas of right than other people but that comes of our lack of intelligence.
 I have sometimes thought 1t is a pity that Intelligence is not a known quantity and inseparable Into discor- dant elements.
 Now. if we didn't have one of the fool divisions of intelligence we might not want the merchants and railroads or anybody else to have the right to organize for profit in business. can assure you that the Farmers Union is non- partisan You may rec ollect that the Farmers Alliance was non partisan in politics; it destroyed the Democratic party in places, in other places it destroyed the NRepub- lican party. It was pretty much non- partisan-wasn't 1t? This Farmers Union is educational.
 If seems to me if I suffer wrong through unfaVorable determinations of the law that my only remedy of relief
 If inc politicians and candidates for Governor tell us that there is no stat ute in our law in favor of the farmer, 1 if looks to me like the poor, neglected fellow ought to bestir himself to get him one statute, at least, as sort of emolient to the anguish of the afore- said politicians, and candidates for
 Perbaps. the politicians and candi- dates ought not to tell us of how