Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
BELITTLLNG THE FARMERS.

The claim advanced bv Governor Brown and campaign
administration is due credit for sixeencent
just natural resentment of the farmers
of Georgia of their organization the Farmers Educa
tional and Cooperative union
every whether of the country the city who knows
anything conditions the south today this claim
absurd But the farmers themselves the whose toll and skill
and stand back of the cotton them is more than
absurd- is preposterous and insulting
President Emmett Cab the newly elected head of the
Farmers union in Georgia. declares:
entertain the belief that the
has anything to DO with the price OF ae the WORK. of the
e.s Snom and sc. tsorns on the path
help themselves by cooperation and
this boast of the present administration
not only because airy from them their rghu credit
ou the principles of the work their or
ganzaton is striving to accomplish How sol
The Farmers cooperative and educational IN It's pur
pose political 1t has sought to teach its members the
practical wisdom diversified and OF intensive
Earnings cotton fewer acres and to raise othe
encouraged the centlnc STUDY Oh az
rcuure the Importance of producing more corn
wheat and fOOdstus in general so that the Georgia l
may be an independent sesusning institution, guarantee
of larger and of richer prosperity to the state
Pursuing such methods and aiming at such results the
persisteny avoided the enangemen OF petty poht
realized organization must look not to the po
icians any administration but to the loyalty the ln
gence and the industry of its own members
Yet the face of all these facts and OF these earnest en
ON the part union the and his campaign
committee forward to tell the farmers that he not their LABOR
educational and cooperative methods is due ceo LOT e
price of today Thus ride into Office on the &C.
compshmens of the whose deepest purpose ne ignores
Thus he tells farmers in effect that their own efforts
bring them prosperity but it is the mysterious workings Oh
political machine which his campaign committee in flight
of imagination described business administration
Are these reaeonsy politicians deuded or SO desperate
as to fancy they country folks of Georgia with
such cheap cha this Why the the farm knows
politics than perhaps other
vocation about it, he thinks of it broadly
and seriously knows that group of politicians could
price in Georgia than they
advanced in Texas elsewhere in the south.
this claim that the present governor is
asking reelection great Shbboeh of his Wanted bus
administration Take the boast that he advanced the
price and there nothing left to which he
vent a claim
For do not imagine that the will cite his record
issuing commissions county officers proof of his bus
inss administration his tac support of the libel that the
state bankrupt when far ahead of its liabilities
proposition yoke six hundred thousand dollar bonded debt
his claim that he voted for reduction OF
when the minutes of the railroad commission show
plainly he voted against the reduction his failure buy
the legislatures command those valuable terminal lands at
Chattanooga indeed of the things he has done the
hundreds of things he has failed to do.
And so the business administration ends it began in
nothingness