Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-18
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
G. H. Williams, of Dublin,
Announces for U.S.. Senator
ADVERTISEMENT

4 the Oil mill COuAQ use lnem pay the
debt, and the same principle viii apply
/ 10 cotton if the price and control Is
/ fixed. These conditions would democrat
ize all business. wreck and ruin the
I South
/ Do YOU know we live in a free coun-
/ try and have a right to serve God ac-
I cOrding TO the dictates of our own con-
/ science and TO vote for what and Tor
/ 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 rights compared 10
I 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-
/ pOTterS for foreign countries secure
| cotton at the expense of the Southern
/ planters / 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 VIII have no recogni-
I ton in national affairs and will be
\ baTtered as weaklinss for political
| preference North. East and West, re-
/ CARELESS of our rights or faithful serv-
/ ice to one party. If il is so now and we
1 bare our backs to the lash that is be-
/ ing 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 position 10 demand what is right.
I II we have a weakling in the United
/ States Senate trailing only in the ban
ner OF solid Democracy, whipped into
/ line by prejuGicial sentiment and igno-
{ rance, We Will reap the harvest of that
( same contempt OF barter and sale for
political preference in more manly sec
4 riOnC If I elected the limited
4 states Senate as an independent Repub-
/ lican, l will have the help and support
/ of that great national organization in
/ looking after the interest of the people
/ OF Georgia, and 1 promise you now that
I II L don't do more in one year than
I Harris could do in six years L viii re-
/ sign my job and put my salary back
/ Let US see what il costs under the
/ present conditions to make and market
4 cotton:
/ | have one farm of thirty-two plows.
4 run by twenty-four tenants or choppers.
I Eighteen OF them white families and
/ six cOlOred; there are 12S people in the
/ Jwenty-fOur families. 1t will cost at the
/ present prices $1,000 per month each to
/ feed, clOthe and in every way support
| these people, or total cost Tor twelve
/ months OIL SSO,I2O. on the cropper Sys-
/ tenn the landlord furnished the land,
4 the stock and their feed, the tools anu
/ One-half the fertilizer. He gets one
/ half that is made. These thlrty-two
/ pie made this year as estimated 30
/ bales OF cotton. 1t takes the seed to
pay for the fertilizers, but we are
| GlogSed up now ana can't sell them.
] This cotton at so cents per pound would
| be 100000 per bale or a total of $4,000;
the choppers. or tenants part would be
| one half. or Se9,7O0 If it has cost them
. TO live, $3O.i2O, we must get something
out OF the pigs, chickens and vegetables
( 10 make good this difference of Si,O2U.
{ Iney- OF course, can do this, but at these
I high priced times, If you pay them less
( than 80 cents. somebody will and must
/ do without while the great majority Dt
/ the favored class wallOw in the lap OF
/ plenty. Shall this great democratic gov
/ eminent protect the spinnerS whose
I profits are fabulous and at the same
/ time depreSs the producer whose bur
dens arc already more than he can bear
our great president has been misled
ana We are BENG sacrificed to the ad-
vantage OF the New England mills and
/ wall street gamblers. riftI cents Tor
I cotton today would not be equal even 10
the pay OF other labor I'm the south
10 you know that Il common iaboTer
( VINO worked on farm in 1914 at 81 per
day OF twelve hours is making $500 per
day OF nine hours on government work?
DO you know that negro uremen who
I worked for Sl.5O on railroads in 1919
1or twelve hours d DAY. are now being
paid by McAdOos railroads $4,000 per
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
{ choice candidates. DO you know ma
the cotton mills have made 100 per cent
I since 1919, and the Bibb Manufacturers
company, cotton mill corporation IN
Georgia, has increased its capital stock
! from one million to five million dollars
. since 1914 and paid for this four mill
lion with surplus and profits DO you
/ Know that the Georgia farmers who act
/ ually make their bread by the sweat OF
f 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 10
help win the war. I paid more war
tax than any man in my Congressional
/ District and l did il willingly. / have
given more TO the Red Cross and Y. NJ
Z. \. than any man IN my county, ana
| / am glad of il. J have bought bonds
OF every issue and will buy more I al
lowed my nineteen-year-old son 10
90 to France ana fight for his country
before ne was called and he is still there
doing his bit. 1 simply mention these
things 10 snow you L am no Stacker
II President Wilson needs our cotton
10 run this war, he is perfectly well
come TO take it. We are with him to
/ 4 victorious conclusion, but il has not
been shown and il can not be shown
that IL is necessary to do this in WIN
ming the war. All the world needs tn )
| small cotton crop, and as soon as the
/ Of cotton viii bring a high price and
we will for the first time in forty
| years make some money to paw our
| debts and improve our conditions. If
| President Wilson allows the spinners
| and gamblers Of America and the Euro
| pean powers, who are anxious for cot
| ton TO take il from us at prevailing
prices. or If he allows Baruch and
i his speculative committee 10 keep talk
ing il down, the President is badly mis-
led or does not appreciate our interest
/ and faithful service TO him and 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 90 but principles must stand for
ever.
Let the newspapers have their say.
| and the old marty leaders abuse me all
| they may. The world is fighting for
freedom. GeorgianS must do So too
and they must do IL from now until the
November election or leave the yoke Of
| oppression upon their childrens necls
for another half century.
Respectfully.
G. H. WILLIAMS
Dublin. Ca, October IL. 1918.