The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-08-13
BETTER SCHOOLS
AND ROADS PLEA.
0FFARMERS HERE
WOULD MAKE RURAL LIFE MORE
ATTRACTIVE AND HOLD PEO-
PIE ON THEIR FARMS.
WANT PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION
institute Adopts PROGRAM Upon
Which II viii Go to the Legislature
for Reiief-Against Government
Price Fixing plans.

The following Is the full text of the
resolutions unanimously adopted BY
the Middle Tennessee Farmers Con
vention here on Wednesday:
The Middle Tennessee Farmers In
stitute assembled Rt Columbia does
adopt the following declaration:
We renew our expression of loyal
ty to the institutions of America. We
believe that this ii the best govern
ment ever devised by the
mind of man under divine
guidance. Whatever, reforms may
be necessary or advisable in
government can be- made without do.
ing violence to the eternal principles
upon which this Nation was founded.
Whatever protests ARE made against
existing conditions are made against
the law, or it's administration, and not
against the institutions of America.
We distinctly deprecate any effort
to array one class against another, or
to appeal to any group of citizens.
Our system wisely recognizes no
groups of citizens, all enjoy the same
rights and privileges, Any departure
from this established doctrine threa-
tens the destruction of the vital prin-
ciple of American democracy, under
which opportunity is boundless and
open to all. A man or any organi,
cation that would injure or do vio-
1cnce to this government is unworthy
the protection of the flag.
Agriculture is the basis of all com
mence and industry The great
world need of today is production.
Production is dependent upon labor.
The solidarity of labor is such that
the wages and hours of labor pre-
vailing in other industries are re-
Elected upon the farm. 1t Is idle
therefore to continue to advance the
cost Of production without expecting
to pay an increased price for the pro
duct of labor, on the farm as well as
in the other industries of the Nation.
The farmers are continuing their
best efforts to produce under con-
ditions that would appall less reso-
lutte men, and they demand of both
labor and capital that they too shall
earnestly speed up their part of the
production so urgently needed. We
have reached the critical point in re-
gard to shorter hours of labor, and we
know that a forty-four hour week will
neither feed nor 'clothe the world.
We believe in the ownership of
private property. In individual mi
tative and incentive. In is only in
the safe guarding and protection of
every right of private property that
there can be perpetuated the full
measure of individual initiative and
emulation upon which democracy is
based, and by which its future is as.
sured.
To attempt to thwart natural eco
nomic laws by legislation is useless
The law Of supply and demand, un
hampered by monopolies, and unhin
dered by Attempts at 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
producer without giving the anticipat
| ed relief to the consumer, and this has
resulted in the decreased production
of farm products. The right to quit
work either individually or collective
ly. is not denied but the right to quit
work in unison does not extend tC
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