Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-03
G. H. WILLIAMS, OF DUBLIN, announces
CANDIDACY FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR

port Of that great national oRgAnixA
zion In looking after the interest Os
the people OF Georgia, and promise
yea nov that h don't do more In
one year than Harris could do In six
years, with raaiEn my Job and put
my salary bach into the treasury.
Let Va see what Il costs under the
present conditipAs 50 make and mar
kst cotton:
l have one farm Of thirty-two plcws
run by twenty.HONr tenants or crop
pers. Eighteen u Mem white families
and six c0lored. SAs~e are 12S people
in the twenty-6Osr families. II Will
cost at the present prices $2Q.00 per
meath each to te@d, caCths ana In ev'
cry way support these people. OF a
total coat for twelve months OF $50,
lord furnished the land, the stock apc
their feed. the toelS and one-half the
fertilizer. He gets one-haf that Is
made. These thfrtytwo plOws. twent
ty-four families or 12S people made
this year as estimated. 29T bales OF
cotton. II takes the seed to pay for
the fertilizers, bat we ara clogged uE
now and can't sell them. This cotton
at 40 cents per pound would be 1890
90 per bale or total Of ?69. 4oS TIE
CHOPPERS, or tenants part would DC
them to live, t9e,T20, we must get
something out of the pigs. chickens
and vegetables 10 make good this diff
ference OF 81 ,e20 They, OF coarse,
can do this: but at these hfgh-priced
times, IL you pay them less than 40
cents, somebody will and muSt dc
without. while the great majority OF
the favored class wafiow In the lap
of plenty. Shall this great Democrat
L.. NAa
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 mls-
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 common la
borer who, worked on q farm in 1914
at one dollar per day Of twelve hours
is making $500 per day OF nine hours
on Government work? Do you know
that negro flre@en who worked for
one dollar and fifty cents on rail
roads In 1915 for twelve hours q day,
are now being paid by McAdoo's rail
roads $1s5.00 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 Eve million dollars
since 1914, and paid for this four
million with surplus and profitsY Do
you know that the Georgia farmers
who actually make their bread by the
sweat Of their brow and raises the
cotton to clotho the world 10 the 0nly
class that has not made money out
Of this war?
l know the farm from beginning to
END. | am farmer, with a hundred
pioWs, raising ali the supplies I can
to help win the war. paid more war
tax than any man in my COngresgIon-
al District and | did II willingly.
nave given more to the Red Cross and
7. M. c. A. than any man in my coun
~, and am glad OF it. | have bought
bonds Of every issue and viii buy
more. l allowed my nineteen
year-old son to go to France and
fight for his country before he was
called and he is still there doing his
bit. | simply mention these things to
show that | am no Stacker.
III President Wilson needs our cot
ton to run this war he is perfect
welcome to take it, We are with him
to victorious conclusion, but it has
not been shown and it can not be
shown that it is necessary to do this
IN winning the war Ali the world
needs this small cotton crop, and as
soon as the end OF the war is H.
sight, this crop Of cotton will bring Q
nigh price and we will for the first
tlme IN forty wears make some money
10 pay our debts and improve our
condition. Ii President Wilson allow
the. splnners and gamblers of America
and the European powers, who are
anxious tor cotton, to take it from us
al prevailing prices, or If he allows
Baruch and his speculative commit.
tee TO keep talking it down, the Presi.
Gent Is badly misled or does not an
preciate our interest and faithful ser
vice to him and his party. The dam
age has already been done, the fight
must be made and neither men nor
party names should be considered.
Men and parties may come and go.
but principles must stand forever.
Let the newspapers have their say.
and the old party leaders abuse me
all they may, The world is fighting
Tor freedom, Georgians must do so,
100, and they must do it from now un-
al the November election or leave
the yoke of oppression upon their
ch1ldren's necks for another half cen
fury.
Price fixing OF cotton and cotton
seed will help the North and will hurt
the South. The Administration should
not allow the flnanciers of the North
20 levy an indemnity upon the South
nifty years after We have surrendered
Any man in Georgia who refuses to
vote his protest against this outrage
ts 4 political coward, and should leave
Georgia or be DISTINGUISHED.
Respectfully,
G. H. WILLIAMS.
Dublin Ga ChctobeF 10 1919