The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-07
]. QLPEPPER VEL COMES HIS
 BROTHER FARMER, w. H. TAFT
But He Is Nightly Afraid the Baptists Will Be < Shut Out from Winning the Two Hun
 dred Dollar Corn Prize.

tax is ridiculously small and should be increased. and, Of course, this tax should be revised by its friends. The farmer pays taxes 70 cheerfuily that 1t has become a pleasure to tax him. Farmers should be permitted to share
 In this pleasure. in the Legislature. We need more school money. 90 Chat We tthe Lord knows how many) can't go to school now. The "incidcntal" Is . bar to free education. If our Constitution wereNso changed that the State Superintendent could uake the "equitable' distribution, and put every white child in the State on an equal footing the ''incidentar fee would not be such e fearful thing against the poor mans child. E T don't know if tho poor white farm : CT cares anything about these things
 but he may come to think of them.
 soon or late, and desire some farmers in the Legislature. When our Governor was . farmer he
 wanted 20 cents . pound for cotton and
 that was right. I understand he had
 sold his farm. He has a cotton mill,
 and heard he was guilty of the re- mark that. as a cotton mill man, he wanted cotton at cents.
 This goes to show that "circumA
 stances alter cases" and that the Gov- -ernor has severed the "tie that binds. ' and we have no friend at court. We'll.
 may be. the Commissioner of Agricul- ture is He is trying to prize us up in
 commanding on the "Williamson Plan . hope he'll succeed. but Tin afraid his zeal Is going to lead us into other
 endeavors. of its tenets-Truth. Lots of men
 were taught to speak the truth in the
 Alliance. The truth, somehow. is not
 popular and, I think.- the Farmers Union Is not 50 strenuous about it,. Speaking the Truth. However, 1t is hard for me to break
 away from that teaching of tho Farm | ers' Alliance.
 want that prize for making corn. and I'm afraid that Alliance teaching Is going to initiate againsr my suc- cess. Lying in one country, was a great national virtue, once.
 am Baptist. and Baptists won't tolerate lying, the least bit. That's another barrier to prize-Eetttng corn contests. Baptists are. therefore, at | q terrible disadvantage in making | corn for a prize.
 The Commissioner should make A | ruling for his acre prize that every | | to start on. If he thinks this Is too | small. he can enlarge our starting number of bushels. believe Captain Kolb will do that l much for us Baptists when he gets to be Commissioner.
 I have often remarked that it's a | serious thing to, be Baptist-one has
 to be upright and truthful to be a | Baptist.
 While there Is general constitu- fonal guaranty of equality in the
 .pursuit of happiness everybody will recognize that we Baptists. bound land chained to truth, will have a poor
 show in a corn contest.
 | That's the reason I had to strain my mind to study out a plan by which we may conscientiously try for the prize. l I am going "snooks" with another Baptist to get that prize. suggested
 to him in. the beginning. how we are handicapped with con science. Con lscience,r not only makes towards of us all." but Is a thing not to be trust ed In a $200 acre contest.
 My partner is of that opinion. so studied and studied and studied and got this: Wen plant the corn and fertiIize 1t, but get brethren of some other communion to certify to the im-
 possible yield!
 l Wili there be>> anything wrong in
 that? (My trial acre will be in the
 Black Belt).A
 But. if the Commissioner. knowing
 Baptists great weakness to speak the
 truth. will give Us Gas above) fifty or
 sixty bushels to start on," we may | risk ourselves to measure and cer-
 tify. Otherwise. Baptists had as well
 keep~out of the race.
 | Baptist Winner. l It would pain me for a Baptist to get
 the prize at the expense of conscience. l just at the time when the hope of the peoplSis turning to us to make the | winter of discomfort summer" | want the farmers to try the "Wil-
 Hanson plan" of making corn. MT.
 williamson had the honor to be born
 in Darlington County, South Carolina.
 I was born thereI have thought that
 the man who wasn't born there. some-