Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-13

these districts. and Sunday schools Ian
guish The pastor may be a man who
is not good mixer" He may not feel
like he is welcome in some Of the
houses. OF that he might go at an in
opDortune time, and so he stays away
The fact that he does not go is charged
against him and the renters stay away
from church. know that there are
cases in which actual poverty has kept
families from church. but as a rule a
little management will give the children
clean clothes and patches are no dis
grace.
There may have been time when the
farmer was hampered and had to take
what was offered him, but that time is
past. fIe has no business to sit still
and rail about laws that are unjust or
Discriminating The leading candidates
were very ready to hunt him up and
make all manner of promises; now it
is up 10 him to see that those pledges
are kept But for the votes of the
laboring man, farmer or whatever he
may be- there wouldn't be man in
Office.
I suppose you thought that you were
getting the right man. If you knew you
were not and still voted for him, shame
on YOU Now that the man is in office
see that he meyer forgets he Is your
representative. Know how he votes and
take no excuse for any devious methods.
Let him know your eye is on him and
ST will help him to steer clear Of pri-
vate interests. A man was once ZAP
proached" by a corporation. 1t is not
for me TO say whether his palm Etched
for the consideration or not, but he
frankly said that he had to go back
home and If his people caught on to any
such legislation as his work his name
would be mud" as far as anything else
was concerned Arguments were used
and many things brought to bear on
him. but to the last he laughed and
said his constituents would never stand
for il.
Agriculture has at last reached the
place where appropriations by congress
are considered investments and not
merely "sops TO Cerberus" But it re-
ouires the intelligent support Of the
farmers to make some congressman rec
ognize their needs and see that every
section gets an equal share.
wonder how many of you know
the good your own senator. Hoke Smith,
has done since he mas been in Officer
How many of you read what he had to
say about the parcels post fiat rate.
Listen: IF we adopt the measure, we
have twelve cents for the whole United
States. Eleven pounds would cost a
dollar and thirty-two cents The dis
lance the farmer is interested in, the
distances that most people are inter-
ested in are from fifty to hundred and
fifty miles. 1t is the opportunity for
the farmer to reach the nearby small
city as well as the county seat town
with the smaller products raised on his
farm. This will furnish the oppOrtu-
nifty for the sale of the diversified
products of the farm" Continuing, he
said that IL seemed to him that any
plan for a parcels post that allowed
eleven pounds hauled would have to be
one that fixed the rates according to
distances.
How many OF you have sent him your
name and address (plainly written) and
asked for the seeds he has toll you
are there waiting for your
How many nave sent for the agri-
cultural bulletins? They are the works
OF trained men. and are so simple that
any one can learn the best methods
this country has yet found.
started to talk to you about rent
ers and have made the subject almost
entirely the farmer who rents. Well
they are the ones who help feed the
world. and in many instances get tired
of their jobs and move TO town and be-
come hand-to-mouth month by month,
renters. There are about five million
men VINO are classed as agricultural
laborers. Some day these men are go
ing to be either tenants or owners Just
as they are starting now, just as the
younger ones are being trained, they
are going to be gain or a loss to
the world I often hear young men
say that if they knew where to go they
would leave town. Some of them might
find their vacations and others would
be just as dissatisfied. New York has
gone a step farther than most states.
the bureau of farm labor is a regular
and important division OF the New York
department of agriculture and An the
last seven years IT has found and
filled places for over thirty thousand
laborers and nearly a thousand fami-
lies. Why can't Georgia have such a
place? The commissioner could run an
employment agency that would help a
class OF people whose wealth can pass
on the earth in a very few days Take
peaches. melons and strawberries, the
men who have been packing tomatoes
and fruit in Florida could find out just
where to go and many Of them might
find their nicne on some farm now short