The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington City,
May oath, 1915.


Atlanta, Ga, have been on a pro-
tracted visit to Senator and Mrs.
Smith for the past several days. 1t,
was delightful house party to the
Senator and Mrs. Smith, composed
entirely of their children, grand
children and Mr. Ransom, their SON
in-law.
Marion Smith is a chip off the old
block and if it we're possible also
an Improvement. He is a typical
young Southerner standing in the
forefront at the Georgia Bar with
the leading lawyers of the State. He
is Regarded by the supreme court of
Georgia aS 8ell as that of the U. 8. rs
eminently a leader of the young
practitioners of law He recently ar
8lled a case before the U. S. Su-
preme Court and 30 well did he de-
port himself and such an excellent
Impression did he make that be was
pr4naily complimentsd by mem
bsrs of that high tribunal. Besides
Marion Smith enjoys the high con-
fidSnce and cheerful esteem of his
fellow lawyers throughout the
country. he enjoys q lucrative
practice and is pre-eminently max
ms good.
The following very pertinent OBJ
@Rvation is from the BROWNSVILLE
Free Press:
ThomRsville, Ca,
al Senator Hoke Smith is per-
sistent in his efforts to make
better market for cotton. IL
the Senator can get something
through that will cause the pro-
Queer instead of the speculatoP
to set full value for his crop
he will be benefactoP to the
south and win the everlasting
gratitude of his people"
Yes, the Country would owe Sena-
tor Hoke Smith large debt of graft
tuae if he could rid it of the specu-
lator. The observation of the Press
Is timely and l hope will have the
effect of starting q few at least to
thinking.
1t is a great thing to be able to
diagnose 3 case, but it Is equally if
not greater important to be able
to progno@e the case. The specula-
Tor has been here loAg time, great
men have come and gone and the
Spectator is here yet. Senator
Smith would indeed be the greatest
Roman of them all if he could dis
pose of this class referred to by
the Press. And when you come to
think about it, it's a pretty broad
question, the idea of selling to some
one is the incentive that induces
the farmer to plant.
Senator Smith has, and l suppose
viii continue to do so, made many
timely business-like and practical
suggestions to the farmer. There is
one thing that no one on earth
knows better than the farmer does,
and that is that the farmer comes
very near having his own way.
The buyer is the farmers inspira-
ton, without him the furrow would
not be so golden, and agriculture
would be driven by absolute neces-
sity. The consumer is the farmer
cloud by day and pillow of fire by
night.
II there was as much system
among the producers as there is
among the buyers, there would be
more prosperous times on the farm
How are you going to fix it. when
the farmer without any common un-
derstanding offers a bale of cotton
Tor sale to some one is offered a
certain price and takes it, and then
the purchaser of this bale of cotton
turns around and sells to to some
one else at a snug profit
The men who buy cotton under
stand each other, they operate upon
a systematic and homogeneous basis.
Today they fix the price of cotton
tomorrow and the custom of
the farmer has been most inyari-
ably to sell at that price. What you
. going to do when the market only
wishes 100000 bales of cotton one
day and the farmrs put on the mar