The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
ADVERTISEMENT
G. H. WILLIAMS, OF DUBLIN, ANNOUNCES.
CANDIDACY FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR

port VI lQaL great QaIlOndl OTEAB1Ha-
ton in looking after the interest OF
the people of Georgia, and | promise
you now that II l don't do more in
one year than Harris could do in six
years, / 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:
have one farm of thirty-two pIows,
run by twenty-four tenants or crop
perS. Eighteen of them white families
and six oolored: there are 1928 people
in the twenty-four families It viii
cost at the present prices $4,000 per
month each to feed, clothe and in ev-
cry way support these people, or a
total cost for twelve months of $780,
720. On the cropper system the land
lord furnished 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, tWent
this year as estimated, 297 bales of
cotton. It 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 $780,
90 per bale or total of 500, 400; the
choppers or tenants part would be
one half or $29,700. If it has cost
them to live. $50, 720, we must get
something out Of the pigs, chickens
ference of $1,000 They, Of course,
can do this: but at these high-priced
times, II you pay them less than 40
cents, somebody will and must do
without, while the great majority Of
the favored class wanoW in the lap
Of plenty Shall this great Democrat
&c, Government protect the spiunars
whose profits are fabulous and at the
same time depress the producer,
whose burdens are already more than
he can bear?
Our great President has been mis-
led and we are being sacrificed to the
advantage 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 q common Ia
borer who. worked on a farm in 1914
Is making $500 per day of nine hours
on Government work? Do you know
that negro firemen who worked for
one dollar and fifty cents on rail
roads in 1915 for twelve hours a day,
are now being paid by McAdoo's rail
roads S186.O0 per month for eight
hours per day? Do, you know that all
Government contractors are growing
rich and donating fabulous sums to
the campaign of their choice candi-
dates? Do you know that the cotton
mills have. made 100 per cent since
1914, and the Bib Manufacturing Co.
a cotton mill corporation in Georgia.
has increased its capital stock from
one million to five million dollars
since 1914, and paid for this four
million mil with surplus and profits? Do
you know that the Georgia farmers
VINO actually 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 farmer, with a hundred
ploWs, raising all the supplies | can
TO help win the war. paid more war
tax than any man in my Cougresgion-
al District and l did It willingly. I
nave gwen more to the Red Cross and
", ana am glad Of it. l have bought
bonds of every issue and win buy
more l allowed my nineteen
year-oId son to go to Franco and
fight for his country before he was
called and he is still there doing his
2t' SIMPLY mention these things to
snow that am no Stacker.
II PRESIDENT Wilson reeds our cot
Ion 10 run this war he is perfectlJ
to victorious conclusion. but if has
hoL peer shown and il can not be
SHOWN that It Is necessary to do this
IN winning the war. Ali the world
needs TINS small cotton crop, and as
soon as the end of the war is in
SSlSht, THIS crop Of cotton will bring
t niIga price and we will for the first
tlme IN forty years make some MONEY
10 pay our debts and improve our
the. spinners and gamblers Of AroaTica
ana the European powers. who ara
anxious for cotton, to take if from ms
az prevailing prices, or if he allows
Baruch and his speculative comnif.
tee to keep talking it down. the Presi-
dent Is badly miSled or does not an
preclate. our interest and faithful ser
wee 10 him and his party. The dam
age has already been done the fight
IuusI De made and neither men nor
party names should be considered
Men and parties may come and 90
put principles must stand forever
Let the newspapers have their saw
ana The old party leaders abuse me
all they may The world is flThtinS
Tor freedom, Georgians must N 40
TOO, ana they must do 1t from now nn.
VI the November election or leave
me yoke OF oppression upon their
cnildren's necks for another half cen.
Price fixing of cotton and cotton
SEED viii help the North and will hurt
the South. The Administration should
not allow the financiers OF the North
70 levy an indemnity upon the South
nIty years after we have surrendered
Any man In Georgia who refuses to-
vote his protest against this Outrage
IS political coward. and should ieaYe
Georgia or be DISTINGUISHED.
Respectfully,
G. H. WILLIAMS.
Dublin, Ga, Octohar 70 I0I9