The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-08
FARMERS UNION OF ALABAMA
 HOLDS CONVENTION IN CLAYTON

Cook. Secretary. Gewin, w. A. NUT ris, State, Organizer. SulliEent, J r: Vinegar state Lecturer. The sessions are being held Tn the big brick court house of Chiffon County and the at dendance Is quite satisfafsceSS taeceS to daml pen the ardor and enthusiasm oI tns delegates, who, as they come in arg taken to the homes of the peupie .. Clanton, even as the members or church, or a Sunday School ConNehtion would be entertained
 At 10 o'clock with the court room filled President Wortley rapped the as Scrnbly to order and the session was began with prayer, offered by Rev. M
 For the city of Clanton. Mayor Tip ton Mullins extended an eloquent vel come 1t was meet and proper thar the farmers should have chosen Clan ton and Chiffon County as the piace ln which to hold their meetings, for or all things, Chiffon was an agriculturai county 1t had been developed here as no other industry had been deyeioped;
 The hopes. the fears you feel said Mir, Mullins Fare felt by the, men who make up this community. They are of you and like you For all you stand, science, which Is the master of all sciences. the science of agriculture"
 In closing MT. Mullins permitted hini- self to hope that their deliberations would be guided by the fundamental rules which had made for man justice and happiness In the past and that they would avoid being led off ny any of aroused. prejudices and failed Tn the ae- complishment of laudable purposes,
 The response was made by young man who showed himself d first rate talker. He was k. F. Duckworth, Sec retary and Treasurer of the Georgia organization. Mir. Duckworth after re- turning thanks for the welcome made an impassioned plea for the closer organization of the farmers: Of all classes he said none stood so far apart None knew so little of the science of organization as the farmers for the art of arganizing was a science.
 'Ycu people have been abusing the lawyers, the doctors and the merchants. and everybody else for the wrongs you have undergone" and MT. Duckwerth. 'Go back home and put the blame where 1t belongs Put it upon your selves Go back home~a and say to your neighbor. For Gods sake quit abus- ing. the other fellow and abuse your
 Probate Judge J. L. Reynolds well comed the delegates to Chiffon County He took pride in the fact that for twenty years, through all the vicissi- tudes of those years. where other or gnnizations of the same order were falling to pieces, the men of Chiffon County kept It's Farmers Alliance to- gether. They stood shoulder to shoul- der and under most adverse cireum- | stances they kept 1t alive. One of the | greatest obstacles to the success of the | organization, he said would be the | memory of the failure of the other organizations of farmers, the Alliance, the Grange and Farmers Clubs He declal ed, though. that these or ganizations had not failed of their pur- pose, even though their epitaphs had been. written. He declared that the principles they advocated, the govern being carried into effect In all the big cities and they were now being adYo- cated for the nation.
 And yet they were denounced. he I ramuses when they were first advo- cated. He asserted that never was started a question of reform that was not started by farmers, and yet farm they should be at he top.
 should Avoid Prejudice. He urged his. hearers to do their work with thought and care, and not to arouse prejudices. for in that was great danger to their organization.
 State Lecturer P. D. Pinegar. in his response, was at times emphatic and again at times sarcastic. Like MT. time to arguing for the closer organi- zation of the farmers. He congratu, lated Chiffon County on the sentiment that prevailed here for the farmer and he congratulated the men who. for twenty years. had kept alive t'.s Farm CTS Alliance He described them as StdllulnS sHOulQeF to SnOutOeS 10 peat back the oppressors of mankind.
 An lmpassioned. and al times elo- quent speech. was made by J. H. Thoni- as in extending the welcome of the Chiffon county union. Men, he said were expressing astonishment at the sudden rapid growth of the Farmers Union. In Georgia, in Alabama. in Arkansas, In every State where it had been started He acknowledged the existence of some prejudice between the boy round on the farm and the boy round in the city, and he looked for the day in the near future when tha country raised boy would stand at least as high in the public estimation as the city reared youths. He hoped to see that day past. he said. when baby In one arm and hoe on the oth- CT shoulder. to work a day in the sun for a man who sat In the shade in the city.
 Tn making the response Henry T. Nations of Cordova declared that the farmers were more determined than ever that they and not others should have the benefit of their toll.
 We fare determined" exclaimed MT. Nations. that no man and no set or men shall rob our wives and our chill dren of the fruits of our labor. We are going forward with a confidence in God and a confidence in humanity"
 The afternoon session of the Divis- behind closed doors and only those with a proper password, and the right credentials got through the door.
 The Division will finish its work to- morrow.