The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-23
COUNTY RALLY
HELD AT SHILOH.
Several Speakers Of Note
Address. Convention
FARMERS HEAR
ABLE ADDRESS
Hon. H. W. Bradshaw Delivers Splendid
Address Friday Morning. Whitfield
On Sanitation Afford Talks
About Boil Weevil

The Rankin County Farmers I'm
ion held a rally at Shiloh Friday
and Saturday with a good atten-
dance. several speakers of note adj
dressed the convention Friday and
the business session of the union
was held Saturday.
The convention was opened Fri
day morning by an address OF well
come by Prof. j. S. Williams, which
was most appropriate.
The welcome address was re-
sponded to by Mr.. Geo. S. Ware,
of Pelahatchie, who congratulated
the union on the progress the far
mers were making in social stand
ing as we'll as material prosperity.
He spoke of the many young man
from the farm who afterwards
became great, citing as example the
late Senator A. J. McLaurin, Hon.
Earl Brewer and others, closing with
plea to the young men to honor
the farming profession.
County president Martin tila4yia
troduced the principal speaker OF
the morning, Hon. H. w. Bradshaw,
OF pefahatchie, who spoke for over
an hour on the work that had been
accomplished by the organization.
The speaker said that he had
been on the farm all OF his life and
intended 10 remain farmer. lie
spoke of the progress that was be-
ing made in up-tO-date farming,
declaring that farming was becom-
ing more attractive every year TO
the Young men. He spoke OF his
work as Farmers Union lecturer and
was glad that he had had chance
to belp the class that carry on their
hack the burden Of the world. he
told of the persecution that re-
former always has to meet and scof-
ed roundly the critics of the orga-
niZation.
Mr.. Bradshaw stated that he had
been connected with the Farmers
Union since its inception in MIS-
sissippi and spoke Of the difficulty
experienced in organizing the far
mer. This he attributed to their
lack Of education and declared that
the hone of the union lies in the
young generation WhoW i'll be bet
ter educated.
He spoke Of the work the union
had done in raising the price OF
cotton, saying that few years ago
cotton was selling at from seven
to ten cents and that in the fact
that more cotton was beng raised
than ever before. Had knocked out
the bucket shop in this state and
built rs warehouses. declaring that
these warehouses had more than
paid for themselves by saving cot
ton from weather damage.
He said that the boil weevil, which
is causing the people so much un-
easiness at present, was not going
to knock out the growing of cotton,
but would prove blessing by fore
ing the farmers to grow more stuff
for home consumption.
He touched on the parcels post,
declaring that he favored it. as it
would be a good thing for the far
mer and would not hurt the mer-
chant. That the opposition to it
was from the express companies
who had grown enormously rich
through extortant charges. He said
the farmers union was not in poll
tics but each farmer would vote
his honest convictions. That we
should repeal the present high tar
iff. That the south had bright
future and would become one of the
richest countries in the entire world.
The speaker said that the far
mers had right to fix the price OF
the products and that the time was
coming when the wealthiest class
would be the farmers. The cities
were overcrowded and the demand
for food stuffs was greater than
the supply.
He told of the national committee
of the union which was at Washing
ton and declared the farmers pro-
posed TO see that laws just and fair
to them were enacted by the natl
Ona law makers. declaring that they