Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-22
WATS0N'S PLAN
For the Farmers to Protect Their
Best interests.
SAYS HE WILL HELP

I'm the Fight and Urges National Pol
icy for Organization-Says Far
ners Should Work Along Lines O
the Old Farmers Alliance-Think,
the Movement VIII March SteadiI,
On.
AT White Oak camp grounds, neal
thomson, Ga, Hon. Thomas E. Wat
son was the guest of honor of tho
Farmers Union. He addressed ar
audience of some 1000 or 1900 In.
Guiding people of five counties. Nc
Duffie, Lincoln. Wilkes, Columbia and
warren. They had met under the
| auspices of the Farmers Education.
al and Cooperative Union.
The burden of Mr.. Watson's ad.
dress was that the Farmers Union
must have national scoDe, a nation.
al creed national principles and n ma.
tional purpose.
The Farmers Union is going 10
declare the same principles and make
the same fight attempted by the old
Farmers Aniance, and in that fight
| am going to help" he said.
He is convinced that the time has
come when this organization, embrac-
ing in its membership 100000 far
mers. cannot be held together by the
restricted plans and narrow purposes
which now prevail.
In beginning his address Mr.. Wat
son said:
In Memoirs of General Sam
Dale, who was one of the officers in
charge of the Indians that were be-
ing removed from Alabama and Geor-
Sia, we are told in most touching
way of the love those red men bore
this beautiful land.
General Dale relates that not ONLY
the women and children heartbroken
with grief at having to give up their
homes, but that the warriors them
selves were utterly unnamed. Stoi-
cal braves who would have died un-
der torture without a groan broke
down and cried like children
when the United States soldiers came
to march them off to the West. Gen
eral Dale says that after the Indians
had been collected and started on
their long journey, they would re-
turn, each right, to their homes, to
up until the camp was pitched forty
miles away.
In all the wide world the stars of
l 1S31 looked down upon no sight
more pitiful than that of these chill
dren of the forest, stealing out of
camp at night to walk back tweaty.
thirty and forty miles, to get one last
look at the humble cabins which had
been their homes
But who need wonder that the
Indians loved this Southern land L?
Where did the smile of God, on Gre
atoms morning, rest more radiantly
than upon this marvellous cline of
the green field and cloud-topped
mountains, of shadowy forest and
verdant valley, of dimpled lake and
rushing river?
THE red men loved it-loved it
with all their simple hearts.
They loved it well enough to
fight for it. They never gave it up
until every battlefield upon which
they could muster an army was red
with their blood.
But they lost their homes, never
theless-why? Because in the subtler
| combat of mind against mind they
were no match for the whites. The
-,
when the Indians were the strongest,
and when at length the whites were
| the stronger, the red men had to give
up their homes.
"Brethern of the South, Will you
| learn nothing from the past? Have
| you no eyes to see what is going on
Do you not realize that in the war of
wits you are losing ground? Will you
never understand that national poll
| cieS and laws can be so shaped as to
give all the advantage to one class. GT
one section? Is II impossible for you
TO learn that special privilege always
lives at the expense of the unprivi-
legged lis a deadly parasite that will
sap the live of the noblest tree?
Use your eyes. Look about you.
See things as they are. Where is the
bulk of the wealth of the nation?
In that portion of 1t which nature
did the least for-New England ?
| How did bleak, barren New England
come to be so rich? She made the
laws to suit herself, and these laws
took the prosperity of the South and
West and gave it to the capitalists OF
the East and North.
| who owns your railroads? The
North. Your mills? The North. Your
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North. There isn't a merchant, bank
er, miner, manufacturer, farmer OIL
railroader in the South that doesn't
have to depend on the North for mon
ey. Yet the most of that money was
made in the South and West. The
financial currents which flow West
and South from lew York. first flow
ed in New York from the South anC
West. Practically none of that wealth
was created in New York.
Consider the laws which the
manufacturers of the North have
made for themselves. These capi
talists are protected from outside
competition: they monopolize- thu
home market; they form trust t'
dictate output and price, and the!
sell their goods abroad cheaper thar
at home.
What is the result?
"They are making yearly a ne
profit of ,S0O.000,O which Il
two billions more than per cen
upon the money invested.
Think OF il! After allowing then
selves clear income of per cen
Iupon their investment, they compe
the consumer of manufactured good
to yield to them a yearly tribute o
two thousand millions of dollarsl