The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
COMER AT CLAYTON

his property. mention this. not for the purpose of putting smoothness on what l have said, but 1t is fact, you take a boy of the hills, take a man from your own county and those boys go down to the city and they save it. and take the men there who are mak- ing a success and back down in their , days as boys they drove the mule and the steer. We all know that's so. So don't you all feel offended when you are called hill billy" They used to say to me in other days that I was good farmer. I commenced with a siX-mule farm. owing for every dollar of 1t. When I quit I had 2,500 acres. l don't mention that boastfully, but l mention l 1t to show that am one of you. You | Alabama, and If you find one single. | solitary instance where law is passed for you, I will take it and pin 1t together and carry 1t around TOT flag over my shoulder.
 Now l want to say to you right here, | that no part of this speech is intended | for the purpose of creating friction or of creating prejudice, for it is not, I am trying to give you clear expose of l your affairs. 1 am q country merchant and l had a country store for thirty
 stores troubles are, and you know what i your troubles with the big systems in addition to that. I am the president of | one of the largest cotton mills in the | tOuHtIy. OuI iS Sutl hhob WC AS | tually have to keep man at the vill- age to keep other people out.
 I said in my Tuscaloosa speech, that | I was a farmer and a manufacturer, l that I raised 1.500 bales and that stood for 20 cent cotton. I simply men tion this to show you that when you get together you should make your
 man nature. As 1t IS with you. so it | is with all of us. man wants the highest price he can name for himself; and 1t is the same as 1t is with every body.
 Going back to the price of cotton, l said in my Tuscaloosa speech that as
 farmer. I would think 20 cents a fact I might think five cents was cheap. I want to say this. the manu- 1 facturer of the South has stood by the
 farmer, You go, and cake all of their l that Is the case. l want to say to you again that the manufactuerer in the East has been against you. l was a
 member of the Union Cotton Manufac- turer's Association. and heard the
 President of that Association in Massa- chusetts, where they get the greatest
 turers, encourage the manufacturing of cotton in Germany and France. so that we could get the best cotton over | here. Don't you see what 1t means. that we ought to encourage the manu- featuring of cotton to satisfy thetr
 wants over there. and leave all of this down here to us. What are, you farm CTS in Alabama going to do to take care of the South? You get your reso- lution passed by the farmers and tho business men, but whoever heard of the farmer making a proposition like that? say to you that 1 withdrew from that proposition at once. 1 don't be- Iieve in any such performance as that. l could go along with that history and show you how all the way back wonder l have been in formidable array to get yours as cheap as possible. What they
 propose to do is to get your cotton as cheap as possible, and to give you their stuff as high as possible. We know l that is true.
 ] have been requested to talk to you a minute about education. T want to ! say to you that l am in favor of edu- cation. l was told in one place where 1 I was making a speech. that it was not very popular. and that l might lose some votes If made d statement along l that line 1 am not talking for votes. l am giving you d true statement of things as I seen them. When l was go- | ing to school, there was no such thing as public school. for the purpose of educating anybody. Every tub stood on it's on bottom. If a man didn't have any money. he didn't get an education, | but in these times the thing is changed, and it is a disgrace and d reflection on manhood if we don't take up this great question and help 1t along.
 l I am told that Chiffon County has | no public school. l tell you, as can-