The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-11-09


ticians in the world. | mean tina
they talk more politics and ge
less good out of it than any othe
class of men. They are what W,
may call idealists IN politics. They
put their politics on high pedes
tai and then fall down and worship
1t whether il brings them any prac
teal benefit or not
When did you ever know of {
farmer unless it was recently
write 10 his member of the Legis,
lature or his Congressman and
demand the enactment of certain
law as the condition of his vote in
the next election. That would be
irregular nd lacking in party
fealty. The other fellow does il
and wins. This is why laws to
protect the farmers interests are
so difficult of enactment. His rep
resentative among the law makers
knows he is an easy going indi-
vidual and will not care very much
provided the party gets there
solid. So he favors the other fell
low in legislation and lets the poor
farmer take care of himself.
/ grant that in the last few years
the farmer has begun to take
notice" and to make himself felt
better both in the State Legisla-
ture and in Congress. We have
had some good laws enacted re-
garding temperance and gambling
and pure food and railway freights
and other things. And we are 60
ing to have more of them when
ever we put our foot down and
demand them. The millions of
farmers in this country can have
anything that is right for them to
have, if only they demand it. 1t
costs only two cents to send a let
ter, or one cent to mail postal
card, to your member of the Leg
islature or Representative in Con-
gress and tell him that you expect
him to vote for certain bill that
may be pending. This is what
of farmers did during
the last session of Congress and
you know the result.
When the farmer does get a
move on him, he often asks for
TOO much or for things that he
should not have. We don't want
Government to guaranty us fifty
bushels of corn to the acre or even
o lend us money at four per cent.
Those are private affairs which lie
wholly outside the function Of
Yet we do not want
,ur laws so enacted and executed
hat the big sugar trust shall! not
ret from our railroads more favor
bile rates than we and other peo-
lie get under like circumstance
t is pleasure to know that our
nsistence has already given US
UGH a law and that court in New
FORK the other day executed it
Nth heavy penalties.
Now while we make the rail
Dads and the big trusts do the
light III & towards us and all
zen, we should be equally jealous
o seeing that justice is accorded
D them in turn. We want no laws
0 cripple their efficiency in serv-
1g us. The good that railways
ave done this country is beyond
We could never
gain be content to make the jour.
ey to California in a four-h horse
-agon! We don't want to injure
ie railroads. We want to favor
lem in what is right and enable
lem to do yet a thousand fold
orc good for us.
Even the big sugar trust may
rye us most grandly, if we prop
.ly regulate it and make it do the
ght thing towards everybody. 1t
certainly giving Us sugar at :
onderfully low price. Some OF
can remember when we paid
n cents pound for common
own sugar which you now 4
ouldn't pick up in the road in
with the fine white sug-
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