The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28

dent to a graet war. a certain amount
of readiustment is inevitable and I'M
/ escapable. During the war period a
spirit OF hysteria, a spirit OF over-reg-
ulation is equally inevitable, and grow
/ ing out of this spirit, created by both
state and federal legislation, boards,
bureaus, and commissions mtest the
land; they constitute another Egyp-
tan plague; they seek to regulate al
most every activity OF lie. They I'M
dertake to remedy the shortcomings
OF human nature with the soph1stry
! of cranks. They constitute a menace
ito our continued freedom and to our
continued solvency. For both OF these
reasons most of these boards must
| go, although it is not our purpose
to impair useful service in any proper
| line OF the states duties or RESPONSE
bilities | would not impair useful ser
vice; | would not weaken the per
| Torrance of any necessary or useful
! function OF the government, but with
| this single qualification | unhesitat1ng-
| ly declare that the insdlous paternal-
| ism and the unbearable expense OF
these boards and commissions unite
| in condemning them, and it is my
purpose, if | may have the co-Opera-
| ton OF the general assembly, to sweep
this state clean OF them.
Regulated to Deatah."
I'm this country, particularly during
the excitement OF the war, period, we
have been literally regulated to death,
| regulated until we have been almost
strangulated, regulated until liberty is
! impaired; it is time to stop it. Thomas
| L. IL
ment than when he said The less gov
erned people are the best governed
people and | wish to call halt on
over-regulation and legislation. |
summon the people of Georgia back
to first principles, and at the bar OF
public opinion | challenge and indict
! this spirit of so-called progressiveness
that under the misused name Of prog
ress impairs the rights and Liberties OF
the people. | urge a return to princl-
pies of the fathers, to real democracy
to the ancient faith. Let us abolish ev-
cry useless office, every ornamental
board and every slnecure.
The fiscal affairs OF the state are
such as to demand the sweep OF new,
clean broom; the people of the state
have commissioned both the members
of the general assembly and the gov
ernor to use that broom, and it is my
purpose, with the help Of the general
assembly, to do so.
Importance of Agriculture.
Il trust | may be pardoned just
word with reference to the agricultu-
raj interests of the state; it seems to
me to be especially necessary in this
most trying period of readjustment.
! Without the farmer we cannot feed the
state without him we cannot ClOthe
| it; upon him in both war and peace,
! depends both the prosperity and we'll
being of the state. When he prospers
all other business and all other indus
tries prosper and thrive; when he suf-
fers all other business and industry
suffers; if the weeds grow in the coun
try lanes it is not long before the grass
begins to grow in the city streets, and
that the farmer in this trying period OF
reconstruction has had to carry the
brunt of the load no we'll informed
person can deny.
| 'If | may say just word to him
today | would say Feed yourself first,
before you undertake to clothe the
world. Nature has given to the south
ern statse of the republic a great
monopoly on the production OF cot
ton, but the financial reward that
should follow such a situation can
never be fully realized until the south
ern cotton farmer makes his cotton
his surplus crop. When he does that
he will be the financial king of the
world. Until he does it he is its slave.
make your hog and hominy' at home
al Hyc+ ( do hat nd
when you do it. you can clothe the
world on your own terms.
An "Unspeakable SANDER"
lust a word in conclusion; When
| | speak OF the farmer | think of the
state Georgia has recently been in
dicted, most unfortunately, and |
think unjustly, in the forum of pub
lie opinion for mistreating the negro,
for peonage, and for other kindred
crimes 1t is a source of deep and
real regret to me that this indictment
comes from quarters that are both re-
| sponsible and respectable, and it is
for that reason alone that | teel I'M
PEELED to say a few words in regard
to it. There has been no year since
the negro was freed in which the
| farmers of this state have done more
| Tor the negro imam they nave zone
this year No farmer in Georgia knows
whether world conditions, when the
cotton crop is marketed, will give him
back fifty cents OF each dollar he has
put into the ground this year. Last
year he did not do even that we'll and
yet the Georgia farmer bravely and
manfully has gone energetically about
his business and is now cultivating a
crop to help clothe the world, crop
that may cost him twice as much as
it brings on the market. He has taken
care OF the negro, fed him, clothed
him, sheltered him, doctored him. and
now in a year like this, when he has
made every imaginable sacrifice to help
the negro, to be charged on high au-
thority with holding the negro in
peonage is almost more than he can
bear.
Such a burden at this particular
time, above all others, should not have
been imposed upon him: it is an out
rageous, unjuStihed and unjusti6able
proceeding. There is no real basis, in
truth and in fact, upon which the &C
ICusation can rest. | assert, measuring
and weighing my words, that there is