The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-06-12

80 operate with a private COM
mission to go abroad and study
rural credit facilities for campaign
purposes. The commission was
created by an item Of $4,000 in the
last Agri. App. Bill.
Fletcher is President of the South
ern Commercial Congress, sO-called,
which has been denounced by the
Manufacturers Record and others, as
3 Wall Street and foreign steamship
financial and commercialistic pTopo-
sition, as follows:
The Manufacturers Record, of
Baltimore, editoriaiiy, on March 4,
1909, commented at length upon
these so-called Southern Commercial
Congresses, parliaments, conventions,
etc, and said:
We have in our archives complete
records of every one of these at
tempts made during the past 10
years. It appears from these records
that there is almost something more
than mere coincidence in the means
adopted. and even the language en-
ployed in trying to persuade repre-
sentative Southern men to give them
couRtenanCe.
In speaking of one OF these In par
ticuiar, the editor says:
A later gathering. into which an
alien element deminantly, but in
cloak, catered, was in reality the
outcome OF Plan originating in Italy
to ffoed tia South with Sicilians. The
Manufacturers Record knows that
representative 6oWth eCners would be
astoAfshcd to Learn how close they
have ceme ia Southern gatherings Of
various ki2As with the whiting or un-
whiting agents OF these Administered
immigration soA9meS directed
against the South and its best inter-
eStS.
Why should "commerciaiistic
and transportation" affair Of this
kind have charge OF the investiga-
ton of q parody agricultural Propo-
sition? why should net ths farmers
have something to say? Why should
the s. C. G. Rakee tao seven through
Secretary Houston as it did? The
Agricultural Appropriation Act says
the seven appointed or to be ap-
pointed by the President are ''to CO.
operate with the commission assem-
bled by the s. G. c." The seven APP
pointed are, and they have gone
ADrB&1s EG9S% % LHSm-LNOSS THAT
have not gone are to go later: Sena-
tor Fletcher, President OF S. G. c.;
Clarence J. Owens. Managing Direc-
tor OF &. G. c.; Col. Harvie Jordan,
Of Atlanta, Of fertilizer and cotton
gambling fame, eAa of the founders
according to the pr4ated proceedings
OF the S. c. G. of the s. C. c.. at the
New willard Hotel, Dec 1908; DR..
Kenyon L, Butterfeld of Amherst
Agricultural College, Mass; DR..
John Lee Coulter, one Of the patron
saints Of the 8. G. c., retired CAPT.
talist and Bull MooSer, (See Who's
WhO); Hon. Ralph Moss, Of Indiana;
Congressman: Senator Gore, Of Ok
lahoma. Why not representative
of the organized farmers? Why
should the entire commission
OF seven have been farmers instead
Of S. G. G. officials? The seven were
to cooperate with. not to be the S.
c. G. people. The expenses of the
are all paid by Uncle Sam Tho Ear
mers URion and other organizations
asked to have representation. Why
should the S. G. G. be allowed to die
tate the commission of seven to CO.
operate with their own commission
assembled?
Rural credit facilities seem to in
terest the big banking interests so
they have taken charge Of this in
vestigation. The Aldrich Monetary
Commission investigated all these of
every, country and made extensive
which q II int This