Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-16
G. III. Williams, of Dublin.
Announces for u. 6.
Senator

| GOTTiuOIE DIT w dSuIuSLOH, IN Lu6 COJ-
ton Exchange of New York and New
Orleans and with purchasing agents
! Of foreign countries that if cotton
| goes above 35 cents the Government
will take control of it and fix price
Don't you know that the committee
appointed by the Administration to
control. and that is controlling cotton
! is made up of cotton mill men, cot
ton seed oil men and cotton exchange
and commission gamblers.
If you don't know this, get the Of
icial u. S. Bulletin issued September
| oath. You will see this is true, Wash
ington is fill OF foreign agents. New
England spinEers and Wall Street
| gamblers doing all in their power to
make the Administration take charge
/ of this and the next crop of cotton,
and, incredible as it now seems, there
are some newspaper and paid agen-
cies right here I'M Georgia advocating
the same dirty deal; and, l want to
tell you in no uncertain terms, that
unless the Southern people assert
| themselves in the most vigorous
| terms it will be done
And when this is done we will be
| at the mercy of the spinners and for
| eign agents, just as we are now at
| the mercy of the cotton seed mills
| Cotton seed is congested and depress-
ed now; cotton will be depressed and
| congested then. You can raise no
money on seed now; you could raise
no money on cotton then. You have
to wait on seed mills now; you would
have to wait On cotton mills then.
Southern banks can not advance
money on seed now; they could not
advance money on cotton then.
If you had one hundred tons of
! seed today and had to pay one thous-
and dollars debt you would have to
wait until the oil mill could use them
to pay the debt, and the same princi-
pie will apply to cotton if the price
and control il fixed. These condi-
lions would demoralize all business,
wreck and ruin the South.
Do you know We live in free coun-
try and have a right to serve God ac-
cordIng to the dictates Of our own
conscience and to vote for what and
for whom we please
The interference with the rights of
the people by taxing tea and the Bos-
ton disturbance was mild encroach-
ment of the peoples right compared
to the present interference with cot
ton.
Just why the spinners and gamblers
should be protected from the effect of
| the fourth disastrous crop and the ex-
pOrters for foreign countries secure
cotton at the expense of the Southern
planters l can not see. Brazil looks
after the planters of coffee, and not
| the consumers of coffee in America
and Europe.
But the Democratic party owns the
South by prescriptiVe title, and un-
til the bonds of this peaeeable pos
session is broken and we show some
sectional independence, we will have
no recognition in national affairs and
will he bartered as weaklings for pO-
Etical preference North, East and
| West, regardless of our rights or
! faithful services to one party. Ii it
! is so now and We bare our backs to
| the lash that is being laid on in this
outrageous cotton situation, how
much worse will it be when this world
war is over and each section must
fight for it's respective rights. We
will need business men with CUTS and
gall, grit and grain to stand for the
| interest of the South and be in posi-
ton to demand what is right. If we
have a weakling in the United States
Senate trailing only in the banner of
solid Democracy whipped into line by
prejudicial sentiment and ignorance,
we will reap the harvest of that same
contempt of barter and sale for poll
| teal preference in more manly sec
lions. If l am elected to the United
States Senate as an independent Re
publican. l will have the help and
support of that great national organf-
zation in looking after the interest
of the people of Georgia, and prom
Use you now that if l don't do more
| in one year than Harris could do in
six years l will resign my job and put
my salary back into the treasury.
Let us see what it costs under the
present conditions to make and mar
| ket cotton:
know one farm of thirty-two
| plows, run by twenty-four tenants
or choppers. Eighteen of them white
families and six colored; there are
12S people in the twenty-four fami-
lies. 1t will cost at the present
prices $4,000 per month each to feed,
clothe and in every way support
these people, or a total cost for
twelve months of $30,720. On the
cropper system the landlord furnishes
the land, the stock, and their feed,
the tools and One-half the fertilizer.
He gets one-half that is made. These
thirty-two plows, twenty-four families
or 128 people made this year as es-
timated &97 bales of cotton. 1t takes
the seed to pay for the fertilizers, but
we are clogged up now and can't sell
them. This cotton at 40 cents per
pound would be $4,000 per bale Or a
total Of $50 400; the troopers or ten
ants part would be one-half or $29,-
| 700 If it has cost them to live $780,
| 100, we must get something out OF
the pigs, chickens and vegetables to
make good this difference of $1,000.
They. of course, can do this, but at