The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-04-01

at Moultre, Georgia, on March q, 1915.
The speech contains this statement:
ks /,
Administration's Deaf Ear"
He said that the farmers would remember how
the administration had rejected all efforts to re-
lieve them when the cotton market was over
thrown and demoralized as the result of 1.-The
first awful shock of the European war" Con-
tinued, he said:
'They recalled that the Secretary of the Treas
ury, Mr. McAdoo, had turned deaf ear to their
cries of distress and every remedy suggested,
denouncing the mall as too radical and cocial-
istic' without suggesting either Improvement
substitute
"They doubtless wonder why it is radical and
socialistic for the government to buy cotton, or
to lend money on it, to the men who have pro-
duced it, until there could be re-adjustment
from the war shock, and neither radical
ciaHstic but only necessary and progressive
for that same government to buy ships at
the risk OF great foreign war, in which to trans
port this cotton to foreign markets, after
the most of it had been sold at starvation prices
to the middle men, many of them located in New
York. They must simply cape in rustic bewilder-
ment at this amazing spectacle of individualistic
cotton transported in socialistic ships They
doubtless amuse themselves, during the dull and
dreary summer, puZzling over the question as to
when a measure is only progressive and when
it really becomes sOcialistic.
They can debate the question as to why it is
simply progressive for the government to build
railroads at the equator at the pole and to sail
ships on the distant seas, but rank socialism and
radicalism to deny all forms of relief to the cot
ton producer at home when his market is
suddenly destroyed by great shock
If the foregoing means anything at all, it
is an Indictment of the Wilson McAdoo Adj
ministration for not buying cotton last fall,
or for not lending money on it.
In contrast with that refusal to help the
farmer in the hour of his distress, the Senator
cites the action of the Administration In CIV
ing money for railroad in Alaska. and
wanting to buy ships for 'the transportation
OF cotton to foreign markets, after most of it
had been sold at starvation prices to the mid
dlemen, many of them located in New York"
"They (the farmers) must simply cape in
wonder, in rustic bewilderment, at this amaz-
ing spectacle of individualistic cotton trans
ported in socialistic ships"
= Yes, the farmers have the cape of wonder,
all right
They are truly full of rustic bewilderment
They saw Senators Hardwick and Smith
stand by the Administration, while it was
lending hundreds of millions to the New York
gamblers to buy the cotton "at starvation
prices"
They saw Senators Hardwick and Smith
bitterly oppose every measure of real relief to
the farmers.
They saw the two Senators from Georgia
endorse the Alaskan railway grab of $50
100000, and the financial policy which forced
the farmers to sell 'at starvation prices"
And they received, in the hours of their
extreme necessity, the following letter from
Congressman who signed himself, "Thos. w.
Hardwick:"
Oct. 2, 1914.
"Mr. L. j. Walker, spann, Ga:
I have yours of Sept. 29th
1 opposed to the Henry bill and cannot sup
port it.
1t is not proper function of the government