The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-04-22
BY j. ID. WATSON

AOAA NOAOu01 eek IN the current issue
of The Southern Cultivator, taking the Dem
ocratic Administration to task in general, and
our Congressman in particular for not keep
ing the promise made the farmers in the Bal
tlmore platform as to Rural Credits
The Colonel calls it the "molasses plank
tt g rural credit plaster that caught us farm
ers by the heel and toe-that financial saliva
ton promised us at Baltimore;' the plank
that President Wilson denied was molasses
plaster to catch flies, "yet it surely caught
farmers, and put the Democratic party in
power
After citing the fact that two years have
elapsed without any help being given us, and
the uselessness of the appointment of the
present commission to look into the matter,
the jaunt around Europe at our expense by
the other rural credits commission is reviewed,
and the writer tells his readers in plain terms
that our Congressman have been slothfM
instead of anxious and energetic about rural
credits; that they did not know that post
ponement is the thief of time with those of
us who had scent cotton, and that while our
homes were sliding away from u.s. these sloth-
full Congressman were extending help to those
who did not need help, and were lnsuring the
SPECTATORS cotton, after it had been forced
out of the hands of the farmers, for $40 per
bale.
that, 1SThe American farmers are the most
patient people known since the days of Job,
and if this administration fails to give them
a cheap and easy money system, Hank from
the Tomb will be sung from the Atlantic to
the Pacific In 1916" all of which hits the nail
on the head but Colonel Peek overlooked one
important fact in his letter, that should be
emphasized and called to the farmers atten-
ton at every opportunity, and that fact is
that not only did the Democrats refuse to
enact any legislation to establish rural Credits
but the Democratic House of Representatives
killed a rural credits measure that the Repub-
ican Senator, McCumber, slipped through the
Senate while the Democrats we're asleep.
The party that promised us Rural Credits
not only failed to give us what it had prom
ised, but killed it when it looked like West
ern Republican was about to give it to us.
The Democratic party itself refused to live
up to its contract with the people, and it
would not allow the Republican party to vol
UNFAIRLY fulfill the contract, when the fulfill
ment would have meant so much to the great
mass of American farmers.
It was plain case of the Democrats being
the dog In the manager.
Several weeks ago the writer heard con-
ductor telling about young farmer living on
Uno line OIL Tile UcOESI3 4Sdl1IOdu WHO Ihduo
100 bales Of cotton last year, and who had an
Indebtedness of about $4,000 to pay off last
fall
To pay this indebtedness with the cottsn
meant that practically the entire crop must
be sacrificed to meet the obligations the
banks could not carry the young man over
for this amount and furnish him another
year. or their rates of interest would have
been 80 high that he could not stand it am
not quite sure which-but anyway, this man
was on the brink of financial RUN, as so many