The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-02-05
NO ONE 10 BLAME BUT OUR.
SELVES.


safe and logical and in manner
sounds the real keynote to the situa-
ton from which the whole c,untry is
suffering and against which it is cry
ing out:
1T will be waste of time to rely
on the national government, under ex-
listing conditions. to correct even tenn
porariy the present abnormal prices
relating to food products.
THE only sensible movement look
ing to relief in this matter mas been
the one of concerted action, but that
is being taken in a direction that
will not only effect no permanent re-
lief, but likely react and result in a
condition less tolerable than that now
existing.
1--WE have repeatedly and persist
emily called attention to the fact that
| The fault lies with as as individuals,
and not as nation, and the cure,
: therefore, must be effected along lines
entirely foreign to that outlired by
he national government
The only interests not affected by
boycotts Investigations and publicity
are the trusts themselves, who have,
in the main, taken good care not to
violate the actual letter of our most
accommodating and flexible laws gov
erning interstate commerce and bear
ing on restraint Of trade.
True justice is buried under noun
tains of legal technioalities, and, aside
from mystiiying the general public,
the majority CT so-called investiga-
tons are little more than one act
farces, and rather poor ones at thct.
IF some of our states rights ora
tors would consider the interests of
taeir constituents more and their own
less, the average citizen might feel
encouraged in the belief that he
really had some rights and privileges
that should be respected and that it
should not be necessary to fight for
his very existence before a legal tri-
bunal created by him.
THE whole situation is ridiculous,
when we stop TO consider that those
most effected, those who suffer most
and have NEST at stake are the last
to realize that they alone are to
blame.
IF they wanted better and more
equitable government they would Sc
lect better men to represent them. If
every qualified voter in every county
in every state thought more of merit
and less of partisan politics when he
cast his ballot; if he attended the
primaries and helped select the men to
represent him, he would have a right
to expect that his interests would
be considered
AS it is, we are governed, or rather
misgoverned by political factions
whose first interest lies in the .preser
walton of their own organization and
whose smallest care is those whom
they are supposed to represent.
I'VE can boycott, and fuss and fume
as much as we will, but we remain
helpless and powerless so long as
we continue passive and are willing
to take what is handed out. Organ
ize, yes; but instead of a boycott on
meat or anything else, get together
in every village and city in every
state, determine what laws should
be best for you in your particular Sec
ton, what now exists en- your statute
books that is hurtful, and then select
men that can be relied on for your
next representatives and carry out
your Instructions. The government
can perhaps handle national and in
ternational questions all right, thJ
it is folly to look to it for relief in
matters that differ in nearly every
state in the Union
I'VE often hear the boast that this
state or that could build a Chinese
wall around its borders and subsist
indefinitely on what was grown and
produced within it's confines.
what, then, is to be inferred? That
The present high price of focd prod
ucts, the cost of living and the gen.
eral feeling of uneasiness and unrest
are not only false but unnecessary,
and being this, should submit TO
treatment, carried ont along lines that
would at least indicate that the inter