Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-12
PRES. CABANISS OF FARMERS UNION
RAPS POLITICIANS FOR ABSURD CLAIMS
New President of State Division Assumes Duties of Office.
Talks of His Plans and Work of the Farmers Unon-The
Election of no Man as Governor Resulted in IS Cent
Cotton

succeeded-to raise more cottSn on few
er acres of land. While VIC have urged
against over-production OF cotton, we
have paid more attention to the inten-
sive feature Of cotton cultivation, on the
theory that the farmer who can raise
his usual crop on fewer acres Of land,
will be enabled to cultivate something
besides cotton.
And the farmers OF Georgia through
this educational work are today plant
ing fewer acres of cotton than in the
past, yet they are getting as much cot
ton. This has enabled them to raise
other things without buying or renting
more land. or employing more help.
THE farmer who can get as much cot
ton off 75 acres today as formerly re-
qufred 100 acres. is in position 20 plant
rs acres in corn, oats, wheat, or what
ever his needs may demand.
THE RESULT SATISFACTORY.
What has been the result or this
campaign for intensive farming? Just
this: There Is no more distress cotton
in the south, or very little OF it. BY
distress cotton. I mean cotton that
farmers were unable to hold; cotton
that they just had to sell. regardless OF
the price. to get the necessaries of life.
with the farmers following the teach
ings OF the union and raising such crops
as they need, In addition to their money
crop Of cotton, they have been better
enabled to hold their cotton OF the
market, until the price, in their Judgment.
justified its sale. Therefore, the distress
cotton is disappearing and the farmers
are coming into their own.
WORK IS DISCOUNTED.
I'm assuming the leadership of the
Georgia division of the Farmers union.
hat - BE
start, as the result of political agitation.
believe that THE CLAIMS OF POLL
TICIANS THAT ANY ADMNIsTRA-
TON HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR.
OR EVEN CONTRIBUTED LARGELY
TO THE PRESENT CONDITION
AMONG THE FARMERS IS CALCU-
LATED TO DO IRREPARABLE DAM
AGE TO THE USEFULNESS OF THE
FARMERS UNION
The union has sought to teach the
farmers that only through their own eff
forts can they hope to succeed. yet the
politicians come along and declare they
and not the farmers themselves-are re-
sponsible for conditions. Such talk. espe-
cially when it is published in our weekly
newspapers, Is calculated to make some
farmers believe that their efforts have
had nothing to do with conditions, and
that by voting right, as the politicians
say, they can cease efforts In all other
directions. .t[
Fortunately. the rank and file OF the
farmers Is today too sensible to believe
any such absurd claims, but regret that
they are being made. for IL necessitates
the union becoming more careful 1t
means more work
The idea is too absurd for any man
to entertain that the election Of any
man for governor. even in AS GREAT A
STATE AS GEORGIA. has anything to
do with the price OF cotton. THE At
TEMPTS SIMPLY MINIMIZE THE
WORK OF THE FARMERS UNION,
and place thorns in the paths Of the farm
ers who are trying to help themselves by
cooperation and education.
AS Representative Elder, Of Oconee
county, said in a recent Interview, AS
WELL CREDIT GOVERNOR BULLOCK
WITH THE 2-CENT COTTON OF RE-
CONSTRUCTION DAYS AS ATTEMPT
TO CREDIT ANY GOVERNOR ANY
WHERE IN THE SOUTH WITH THE
16-CENT COTTON OF TODAY
1T regret to see the politicians trying
to make campaign thunder out of the
farmers own efforts. / would prefer to
see them direct their efforts into another
channel and let the Farmers union man
age It's own affairs"