The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-05-14
With The Farmers Union at High Tide,
Says Barrett, The "Qutter' lndicts
Himself As Less Than A Man,
AndsWorks Injustice To Himself and His Children Peter
Was Once "Quitter" But His Repentance is One OF
The Finest Chapters in Biblical History.
To the Officers and Members Of the Farmers Union

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Peter who denied Christ thrice the greatest Out
ter all history But repened And his sublime atonemen
of the finest chapters story of Christianity standing for
ever as a sublime great tribe of CUTTERS"
There are plenty Farmers Union who belong that tribe
want to say brothey admonon them For with
the organization stronger than time its founding
evs shorghted farmers put themselves of from
its advantages
It NAV be quit because the order didn't evouonze the
earth month you joined You forget that tremendous results
accomplished slowly that ages for the little peyps
build up Florida and big islands by png their bodies
the other You forget that evils and gnoronce that
been accommodating can't be wiped out day night
Il may be quit when you entered the organza
on YOU we're and ginger and in the first few
local meetings setting the brethrn fire. Steam ginger
are good ngbut they ought be nursed
carefully and gradually you along Ii gush
all YOUR enthusiasm grand won't have left
meet the big and ordea that inseparab from oraniz
on of this scope and unprecend 1t be that
YOU Quit had little streak Of crookedness you and
saw YOU could go the organizations of its
terpse and get ng of pottage for treachery
Benedict Arnold figured out the lie got bis pottage all
right died the most excated man IN America the
most held in contempt England which bad bought him. and there
were no loving respectful hands smoohe bis po" he passed
away in that lonely London attic
may be that you quit you found devry the
MANY pecs roottennes graft here and there
political advantage All these things have hap
nned in the Union Nobody with candor de-
MES that They happened in all the churches in all the
secret orders BUSINESS every feature of life You
don't lay die when find of these weaknesses in
ono or more of these places because
ers made of fable human beingsyou
want to kick right tell right that joining the Farm
er Union doesn't make automatically, angel We have
us as many devils anybody of similar sz You needn't
rd when you find them immediate vicinity If you desert
hem instead of jumping into the ranks and help
ING either them eject th you ought to be ashamed to
look YOUR wife in the face t
look at the hundreds of faithful. I'VE plodded
orc with the long. hard patient enduring fighting seeing
inst the evils you and then regard with feeling blended
ontemn and pity longing of your folly
t the farmers Union yoa damage when quit
To- nrsef YOUR children For YOU who
~ down his musket TAIL becomes knocker are
who enlist who boost and who develop the that
the organ perfect there for their
leaving it.
Tho deserer is everywhere held in oathng. He about the
creature under Gods The coward who inche the
~ DANCER or Inconvenience better You all how the
world feels toward who showed the white feather
tho ho eTitanic" downs? Well, the fellow who the
~ % the Farmers ancied real grievance and
estimation than buzzars who proved an-
TIC"
Arnold of all great cutters In Peters the gutter
his manhood did valiant
those who had dreamed of deserving You same
no nober the Almghty footoo sacrifice
m labor for fellows work and sacrifice when that
is to much when ngraude looks like
and tempted instead of the
a Rnt bear mind engaged in the hottest work in
history the effort to bring into his full
stature the farmer that member of the who suffered
e+ from NEGLECT misunderstanding, frequently from the
of fellows not to mention outsiders Are going
on sinking and help movement that promises one
Of the greatest achievements America will world?
Charles S. Barrett
Union CITY, Ca, May 8th. 1912