Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-09-09
TENNESSEE FARMERS ADOPT RESOLUTIONS
DISPLAYING ROBUST AMERICAN SPIRIT

The recent session Of the Middle
Tennessee Farmers Institute at Co
lumbia was one of the most success
full and generally profitable meetings
of that excellent body of progressive
Tennesseans ever assembled
The convention adopted resolutions
regarding present issues and condl-
tions that are most pleasing in tone
and full IF the robust American Spirit
which will be Of interest to every cit'-
zen of the state. The resolutions as
adopted follow in full:
.'\Ve renew our expression of loyalty
TO the institutions of America. We be-
lieye that this is the best government
ever devised by the mind of man un
der divine guidance. Whatever re-
forms may be necessary or available
in government can be made without
doing violence to the eternal principles
upon which this nation was founded
Whatever protests are made against
existing conditions are made against
the law or its administration and not
against the institutions of America.
ave distinctly deprecate any eHors
TO array one class against another or
to appeal to any group of citizens our
system wisely recognizes no groups OF
citizens. but all enjoy the same rights
and privileges. Any departure from
this established doctrine threatens the
destruction of the vital principles OF
American democracy, under WnlCh
opportunity is boundless and open TO
all. A man or any organization tlat
would iniure or do violence TO THIS
government IS unworthy the protec-
tion of thee flag.
"AgricuItilre is the basis of all COM
merce and industry. The great world
need Of today is production. Produc-
ton is dependent upon labor, Inc
solidarity of labor Is such that the
wages and hours of labor prevailing IL
other industries are reflected upon The
farm. It's idle, therefore, to continue
to advance the cost Of production WIFI
out expecting to pay an lncreased
price for the product of labor, on me
farm as well as in the other indus
tries of the nation.
"The farmers are continuing thelr
best efforts to produce under coldl-
lions that would appall less resolute
men, and they demand of both laDof
and capital that they, too, shall earn
estly speed up their part of the pro-
duction so urgently needed. We have
reached the critical point in regard
to shorter hours of labor, and we know
that forty-four-hOur week viii neither
feed nor clothe the world.
"We believe in the ownership OF pri-
yate property. In individual initiative
and incentive. 1t is only in the safe
guarding and protection of every right
of private property that there can De
perpetuated the full measure OF indi-
vidual initiative and emulation upon
which democracy is based and by
whic., its future is assured.
"To attempt to thwart natural eco
nomic laws by legislation is useless.
The law of supply and demand, un-
hampered by monopolies and unhln-
dered by attempts ut governmental
price fixing. should have full sway.
We affirm that the application of price
fixing in an effort to reduce the cost
of living has initiated against the pro-
Queer without giving the anticipated
relief to the consumer, and this has
resulted in the decreased production
Of farm products. The right to quit
work. either individually or collective
Is. is not denied, hut the right to quit
work in unions does not extend to
those who work for the state, and in
all cases Of strikes the public inter-
ests must be paramount to those of
any group.
isThe farmers believe in collective
Aargalnlng, and such legislation shSuld