Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-01
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Cotton farmers hear great deal about the thing
about it. When the buyers tell you "the market is
Of ten or twenty points you don't know anything as
to why or wherefore but you do know that you must
take the price that is Offered you and always lower
than when the market twenty points up
In this day of SPECIALIZED American civilization the
poor farmer or renter cropper knows just little
about what the market" stands the black
Niger the African gold when his boss
tells him to step up lively, and ne steps lively.
"The market always trips up the rent
er or cropper who raises the cotton and they have
to sell just like they must put up with rain or
drouth
average cotton grower being of little education
and mostly in debt to the merchants and mule traders
doesn't know blessed thing about quotations" ex-
cept that he must hurry to sell or the mortgage may
be foreclosed etc. and then there will the d.
to payi Isn't this the truth?
Every time a farmer strottng up his mules
to get in early and hear him ask somebody to bs
quick in looking at his cotton he is in a hurry
and the various buyers (who all have price for the
day settled by agreement and they all begin to talk
about Quotations. and the state the market"
say to myself: WHATS the user" That cotton il
going to sell and the who planted the seed, hoed
and picked it is the last get profit out
of it. The poor fellow is pressed he must SELL the
local banks, they press, the man, he puts On
pressure. the mule man must have his money the
york banks they iban the mpney ana they must get
theirs and it goes until the English mills get it
and make IS to 50 per cent profit every pound
they buy. while the who grow it get barely
cheap living That's the story of the profit and
the market
WHO rs GOING TO DO TT7
We all understand why the Pacific coast states
refused to allow Chinameh and Japanese to become
American citizens. 1t brisk battle and short
One. These peoples not allowed the ballot and
the ballot was refused them account of color They
had the wrong kind Of epiderfns The skin was off
color.
The same legislators who refused the ballot to
the Chinese and Japanese the ballot to the Afr
race in America just after the Civil There
something outside of color in that giving d.
vision of citizenship with the black man which did
of the
and the Jap.
The red Indian never had any show at all. and yer
the red Indian the proprietor when the Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth Rock He had the right Of pos
session.
That the Anglo-saxon is approaching crisis
regard to the citizenship Of the black African
race is evident Race troubles out all the
various states the union. Where the black voter
pushes in he Is universally unpopular. no matter
where he pushes
In Georgia he is legislated away from the ballot
box. He not count at all, unless he votes the
Democratic ticket. There lynchings in various
northern well in southern states. say
again, the crisis is approaching.
There is a resistance whenever there numbers
The day is coming when the influences which
denied the ball OF to the yellow win claoF
for white supremacy against the black voter. 1t i
one of the great problems of the future And 1T is
surely coming 1t expected by southern Demo-
Gratis Clevelands administration would lead
out on the line OF white supremacy and distinctions
wilson's managers will do if he should be elected
Somebody will So time enough being given, az tt
will he urged by those who the line at color.
ELECTIONS ARE RUN Bx MONEY.
A congressional campaign investigating COMMITTEES
has been sitting two months in Washington City
supposedly to find what candidates are getting
the bulk of money contributed to elect president
in the good year 1912 generally understood that
IL was trap and bated to catch certain candidate,
but by a turn in luck has trapped the whole lot
and except candidte in the state OF
indiana (who, by the way, beaten in his race
for the senate years ago), there wasn't one who
hadn't got stupendous "wad Of dough-"
a~s& A. In
No in Georgia run for any high office I'M
less he shells down the coin" poor man can't
run for office any more anywhere. If he is poor and
somebody expects to him and is willing TO put up
the cash he may but he belongs to his owner
and is mis- private servant instead or being
the country's public servant
How, long this republic last under this rule
of money 1 do not pretend say but feel sure
that the thing will down with it's own weight
before we are aware the rotten foundations OF our
civil government. When any big business wants
1egfslatorSi is thing in the world to con-
tribute the money put him in. Then he IS their
man and will do their bidding.
The Pacific RAILROADS boss hands in this foul
business until they absolutely ruled the states on the
Pacific slope The Standard oil people elected more
than one president with money thirty years ago.
It is a fearful outlook to a patriot NOW, Wnos
sets ALI this money? That's the question:
Somebody is getting pocket full, and politics has
got to be long gambling abusive and filthy game
played with money.