Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
G. H. Williams, of Dublin,
Announces for U.S. Senator

I the oil mill could use them to pay the
debt, and the same principle VIII Apply
I to cotton if the price and control is
I fixed. These conditions would democrat
L ize all business, wreck and ruin the
! South.
/ Do YOU know we live in a free coun-
\ try and have a right to serve God ac-
! cOrdins to the dictates OF our own con-
/ science 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 a mild cncroach-
ment of the peoples rights compared 10
/ the present Interference with cotton.
] Just why the Spinners and gamblers
/ should be protected from the erect OF
/ the fourth disastrous crop and the eX-
porters for foreign countries secure
! cotton at the expense of the Southern
planters 1 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 a prescriptive title, ana until
/ the bonds OF this peaceable possession
| is broken and we show Some sectional
/ independence. we will have no recogni-
/ ton in national affairs and will be
| bartered as wealSlings for political
preference North, East and West re-
CARELESS of our rights or faithful serv-
| ice 10 one party. If il is so now and we
bare our backs to the lash that is be
| ing laid on in this outrageous cotton
L
when this world war is over and each
section must fight for its 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. position to demand what is right
II we have weakling. in the United
States Senate trailing only in the ban
ner of solid Democracy, whipped into
line by prejudicial sentiment and igno-
rance, we will reap the harvest OF that
same contempt OF barter ana sale for
political preference in more manly sec
tions. If L am elected to the United
States Senate as an independent Repub-
lican, / will have the help and support
of that great national organization IN
looking after the interest of the people
, OF Georgia, and, L promise you now that
| II I don't do more in one year than
! harris could do in six years L will re-
| sign my job and put my salary back
Let US see what it costs under the
present conditions to make and market
cotton:
have one farm of thirty-two plows,
run by twenty-fOur tenants or troopers.
Eighteen of tnem white families and
six cOlored; there are 12S people in the
twenty-tour families. 1t will cost at the
present prices $1,000 per month each to
| these people, or total cost Tor twelve
months or S3O,12O. ON the cropper sys-
tenn the landlord furnished the land,
/ the stock, and their feed, the tools ami
One-half the fertilizer. He gets one
half that is made. These thirry-two
| Dlows, twenty-four families or Us peo-
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 80 cents per pound would
be 100000 per bale or a total of S59.4 400:
| the troopers or tenants part would be
one half. or S29,9 If it has cost them
to live, SS0,t2O. We. must get something
/ out of the pigs, chickens and vegetables
/ to make good this difference of SI,02O.
They, OF course, can do this. but at these
I high-priced times, if you pay them less
than 40 cents, somebody will and must
I do without while the great majority OF
| the favored class wallow in the lap of
plenty. Shall this great democratic gov
eminent protect the Spinners whose
] time depreSs the producer, whose bur-
4 dens are already more than he can bear?
Our great president has been misled
and we are being sacrificed to the ad-
vantage of the New England mills and
/ Wall street gamblers. Fifty cents for
| cotton today would not be equal even to
| the pay of other labor in the south.
DO you know that a common laborer
! who worked on a farm in 1914 atsS1 per
| day OF twelve hours is making $500 per
/ Gay of nine hours on government work?
4 DO you know that negro firemen who
/ worked for $3.50 on railroads in 1915
1 Tor twelve hours day, are now being
/ paid by McAdOo's railroads $500 per
4 month for eight hours per day? Do
/ you know that all government contrac-
| tors are growing rich and donating
| fabulous sums to the campaign of their
| the cotton mills have made 100 per cent
/ since 1914, and the Bibb Manufacturing
| company, cotton mill corporation in
| Georgia, has increased its capital stock
/ from one million 20 five million dollars
| since 1914 and paid for this four mil
| lion with surplus and profits? Do you
i know that the Georgia farmers who act
| uatly make their bread by the sweat of
| their brow and raises the cotton to
| clothe the world is the only class that
! has not made money out of this war?
know the farm from beginning TO
| END. am a farmer, with a hundred
plows, raising all the supplies ! can TO
| help win the war. j paid more war
tax than any man in my Congressional
/ given more to the Red Cross and Y. NJ.
/ 9. A than any man in my county. and
| i am glad Of Il. l have bought bonds
S OF every issue and win buy more. I al
I 90 20 France and fight for his country
\ before he was called and he is still there
I doing his bit. J simply mention these
Y things 10 show you L am no Stacker.
Z II President Wilson needs our cotton
Z 10 run this war. he is perfectly wei
-, come TO take IT, We are with him to
! 4 victorious conclusion. but it has not
| oeen shown and II can not be shown
! that IL IS necessary 10 do this in win
/ ming the war. All the world needs this
| small cotton crop. and as soon as the
/
| Cf cotton viii bring a high price and
| We will for the first time in forty
| years make some money TO pay our
1 debts and improve our conditions. II
/ President Wilson allows the spinners
| and gamblers Of America and the Euro
pean powers, who are anxious for cot
ton 70 take it from Us at prevailing
/ prices, OF II he allows Baruch and
| his speculative committee to keep talk
/ ing il down, the President is badly mis-
| led or does not appreciate our interest
and faithful service to him ana his
party. The damage has already been
/ done. the fight must be made and
| neither men or party names should be
considered. Men and parties may come
and go but principles must stand for
/ ever.
Let the newspapers have their say.
| and the old party leaders abuse me all
| they may. The world is fighting for
| freedom. Georgians must do so. too.
and they must do II from now until the
| November election OF leave the yoke of
| oppression upon their children's neckS
| for another half century.
Respectfully.
G. II. WILLIAMS
Dublin. Ga, October u, 1918.