The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-08-26

but we are compelled to recognize that
the continuation of present freight
rates is inequitable and destructive to
business. The railroad people insist
that they cannot get along on lower
freight rate but the farmer cannot get
along ON 10-cent cotton, which costs
him 30 cents to produce.
Another phase of the situation is,
farm labor is getting rs cents to 81 a
day, producing stuff to buy other
goods, made by industrial workers,
getting from Is cents to 81 an hour.
The farmer works from IA to Is hours
a day for IS cents to 81, and he must
buy the product of industrial workers
who are getting anywhere from 70
cents to 81 an hour This is an eco
nomic condition which cannot possibly
last.
Equal rights to all and special priv
ileges to none. viii bring peace and
happiness to the homes of American
agriculture. 1t will be "giving unto
Caesar, the things that are Caesars. !"
Just few days ago l stood in the
midst of the greatest city of the dead
on the American continent-Arling-
ton cemetery-and as / beheld the
great marble shafts at the grave of
Washington and others, there came
over me a stronger determination
than ever before to stand by the prin-
ciples of right as my ancestors did,
tho / should fail in the conflict. Have
you ever thought of the crimson flood
Jour forefathers spilled for US to pre-
serve US a nation? Our freedom was
snatched from the very clutches of a
Imonarchism and given to the citizenry
of these United States to have, to
hold and enjoy. Will we preserve it,
will we keep in inviolate? 1t was a
lprinciple that Jesus stood for. yielding
to none but right. / remember pas
sage recorded in holy writ, where
Jesus and his disciples went upon the
mount to watch and pray, Jesus, wish
ing to be alone to pray, left his dis
lciples for awhile, and when he return
ed found them asleep. He asked them
if they could not keep watch with him
for an hour. Not posing as divine
but some seem to have fallen asleep
Will you further decline to help keeI
the watch?
Since have been at the head Of
the Farmers Union, / have Travelled
miles enough to encircle the globe fv,
, times. have gone thru many hard
ships and privations. / am still OF
the firing line, not asking you to go
but asking you to come and help win
the victory that means much to agri
cultural freedom. The powers tina
be have Slapped the very life blooC
from this nation, and it can only b,
saved by the infusion of new, health.
corpuscles drawn from the stalwar
bodies of the sons of toll, who are will
ing TO give the best that is in them t,
a noble cause. Our land needs to be
come a war zone. From the tapping
restless Atlantic to where the de
scending sun sinks behind the whit
caps of the Pacific, from the snoy
I fields of the north to the balmy. sun
. kissed beaches of the south, not wit
sword and cannon. not for the petit
y differences that blot the honor of
! nation and mar the peaceful quiet o
family firesides, not the kind that rob
: the country of her most priced asset
her young men, but the kind tina
q makes special privileges a thing o
= the past tense. The kind that dispel
: ignorance and sends the light of learn
8 ing to the uttermost parts. These ar
I the kind of armored warriors that W
I want. We need you and you ne
5 US. If you have never done anythin
a that is of sterling value to this caus,
! do it now, and the happiness of you
8 life will be emphasized and intens
fed. Hear our call in every wron
q that needs righting.