Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-04-19

tod millions or Democracy and free
dom will have been nothing if 1t does
not secure justice at home. These
men are not rich, take out your pencil,
nc don't do it, go home and ask your
wife. There IS powerful little reduc-
ton in living in my neck OF the woods.
know one thing, house rent is as
h Oh as cats back yet. We pro-
duced a tremendous crop OF cotton in
spite of the boil weevil last year
From the very begianing of this gov
crment down to the present century /
Europe has been the reserve cotton !
exchange, has been drawing on us.
Her credits are shot all to pieces. She /
is in poverty and the expectation of
cotton has been discontinued to the |
extent that the warehouses and farm
crs are full of it. Great stocks of
manufactured goods on hand and to
maintain the high prices Of the goods
they stopped the looms in the mills.
The manipulators Of the crowd of
organized bunco men that live on
| Wall Street. That is the reason cot
ton is low and if we plant as big
crop this year and with EurCpe's in
ability to take it, we will have the
same conditions | say these things
are injected into a situation OF this
kind for the purpose Of burdening the
minds with the real issue.
Judge Sibley is as good legal man
as any man in Georgia, a man who
wants to do right. / DON'T believe
that he intends to do an injustice to
any one. He says in the issue on
the 18th day of March 81 did an
lmprovident thing" He did not say,
1T may have been respons bilty
of mine but the men who quit can
return on the account of the illegal
act of mine" l have the most pro-
found respect for Judge Sib1ey
If the Sheriff had an execution to
hang Bill Jones and he rushed into the
jail and got Jim Brown instead of
Jones, then told Browns folks he was
sorry, etc, would be about the same
fix Judge Sibley is in. We stated that
II we were treated as employees and
, ii the Receiver would abide bv the
) law, that we love this railroad and we
would do for it everything that had
been done for it. We had built up
: tremendous property and we were
willing to go back and treat with them
under the law that said to them no
} what it was, the old employees of the
A. b. & A. would come back like men,
don their overalls and again place
their hands on the throttle and their
eyes upon the rail
Men Want Only Justice
That is the attitude of these men
and l come here not to stir up ami
mostly, not for the purpose of saving
harsh things. not for the purpose of
being severe in criticism of anyone,
but to talk to the poop who, are
much more interested in the efficient
operation of this artery of commerce.
that is necessary for your prosperity,
because in this day and generation
any place not penetrated by rail-
road is practically in darkness.
tried to say to you and l could
read decision after decision, they were
read with such force, that it convinced
Judge Sibley that he had issued an
Illegal order that brought about con-
d'tionS As exist today. The attitude
fot Col Rueg. the Board OF Mediators
said, Il have been down to the men
and they say they are wiling to med
ate. they say they are willing to leave
| Ehe controversy with lis Col. Bugg
says. No ! wont mediate it, wont
do anything but what I want 10 do
and what the court told Tuc could
do. and what the court afterwards
said was Illegally done.
But under our judicial practice no
| legal controversy is ever settled I'M
Il il i. taken 10 the highest court
! We hope speedily TO early it to the
Second Court Of Appears Of New Or
leans for a decision ard if we don't
wan there we are goirg higher, TO the
Supreme Court of the Land. We are
! W'thin the law as Interpreted. and our
/ rights t,a4 were ;,,ct;f;od ,,.,,,.,. III.