The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-06-19


will be padded again this fall if
something can't be published which
will show clearly how the thing is
being worked; and since l see it
clearly and can furnish the proof; if
you will help me make it public;
which [ believe you will, and your
friends here believe you will. With
this understanding, | will proceed to
give some facts which may be sur
prising to some, Of your readers; but
I am willing for the yardstick and
square to be applied.
1st. l wish to call attention to
the law regulating this census gin
reporting business. The thing is
Public No. 237, H. r. 19403 and can
be had for sc per copy, and is just
one sheet printed on both sides, and
was approved July %, 1912. l will
just be plain with the readers Of the
Jeffersonian and tell them before
they forward that nickle (they won't
take stamps ct Washington / would
not give one jeff for basket full of
them, so I would not advise any one
to send for it, unless they wish to
verify what / say, for | say it is
fake~if there ever was fake law.
Sec. 2 of this Act sets out the
duties OF the directors of the census,
but in this section nor any other,
does it make it a crime for him or
his subordinates to pad or falsify
these reports. O, no, he's away off
from the cotton producers, but in
Section it makes it q crime for the
ginner. (He's close to the farmer;
may be one himself) to refuse to re-
port or falsify his report in any way;
to the tune of a $1,000 fine and 1
year in the pen.
Now listen with both ears and I'll
tell you little about Section 3 This
Section makes it a crime for any of
the underlings to give out any infor-
nation without written permission
from the director, or boss of any of
his findings to any one not entitled
to receive them. That looks pretty
safe, doesn't it? Well, it is safe from
an inside standpoint; and 1 reckon
from an outside standpoint too; for
under this section; if you happen to
be Co. reporter and go around and
get reports from the ginners, and
know he is also to mail in his report
direct to the director. Then when
the final report is made public for
your County, and you see it does not
correspond with your findings, your
mouth is sealed, to the tune of a
$1,000 fine and 1 year in the pen.
Some Of these County reporters will
tell you there are great irregularities
in these census reports but that is as
much as | can get out of them. Now
since we find it is no crime for any
but the ginner to falsify these re-
ports, let us proceed to show how it
is done and yet deceive the very elect
if possible.
I hope to make this so clear that
they will never be able to catch an
other sucker, and will wake the
suckers already caught to such an
extent that they will cover up that
great law making body at Washing
ton with such a storm of letters that
they will be ashamed of such laws.
l have been believing for many
years that when it was thought best
for us to make a bumper crop in
order to hammer prices; all the
arketing thieves have to do is to
commence early in he spring to agi-
tating for a bumper crop and we
usually wind up with just little
larger crop than was counted on. For
illustration let us take the year 1911.
If r. F. Duckworth has not mis-
placed it he has a letter which
wrote him just about the time he was
running all over this country on that
agricultural train with those agita-
TORS for a hummer cotton crOD