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Prop.
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J. Lehman, Prop'r.
Lonlsburg, North Carolina
Don't
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That I am still doing
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At
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Louisburg, N. C.
?ADDRESS OF SENATOR PERSON.
On the Floor of the Senate oTxortb
Carolina In Behalf of HI? BN1 to
Remedy the Crop Lien Evil In North
( arollna February ]9, 1917.
The Senator from Franklin:
Mr. President, and Fellow Senators
As the proponent of this measure
and I will say to the Senator from
Robeson that I will not be long, but
that If I should be a little too long for
him I hope that he will exercise a lit-'
tie patience. I desire to make a few
remarks.
Mr. President, and fellow citizens,
this Is not only the most important
bill that has come, but It Is also 1 fie
most Important bill that could come
|*efore thls General Assembly. And
I Hav? heard no opposition tu tlila gh
truistic measure, except that wfiich
comes from the merchants, banker?
and chambers of commerce, as repre
sented here by the Senator from Rub
eson, the Senator from Vance and my
colleague, the Senator from Nash.
The people of Franklin County and
Nash County KaviTalwiy^ been" one
people with no difference, except that
the people of Nash Ceranty have al
ways had better breaths on account of
that elixir of the gods, Nash County
brandy that they drink.
Sirs, I am not only speaking for
the Farmers' Union, but X am also
speaking in behalf of the poor, oppress
ed tenants of North Carolina.
I own property in the county of
Nash and pay taxes there, so that T
have a right to speak tor her also.
- The full opposition comes from tire
Senator from Robeson, the Senator
from Vance, and the Senator from
Nash.
Why, gentlemen, you have studied
history and know that the Rabbis col.
lected one-tenth to support the Jewish
theocracy; and that In the days of the
Confederacy the Government took one
tenth of the portions of her citizens,
and, now, this bill provides that the
time-merchant may have a one-tent,i
portion for supplying a needy man
with provisions for a few months, and
yet the Senator from Robeson, and
the Senator from Vance and the Sena
tor from Nash are not satisfied with
that. What do they want? What
would satisfy them? What is de
manded by the men that they repre
sent in the halls of the Legislature?
My God! Do they want the earth with
a fence around It!
My Fellow Senators: I. myself,
know something about time-merchanth
I come from a county that Is literally
ridden with them. Tney are great
pests in our county. They have fall
en into disrepute in my county, so
that they cannot come into court and
get justice at the hands of a Franklin
County jury; and Justly so. for ther
have pulled down that retribution and
that vengeance on their own heads
They take a little fellow and put a
heavy lien on everything that he pro
duces. and I have known of as heavy
a lien as a four thousand dollar lleii
($4.000) being placed on a crop, when
everything planted was a market crop
not even an acre of corn, but every
crop a market crop, such as tobacco
and cotton; and the time-merchant
swept it all up. And this, my follow
citizens, has been going on m the east
year afte^ear.
Why. Mr. President and fellow Sen
ators. this is a relic of Reconstruc
tion! We freed the negroes, and then
the Legislature enslaveo the poor
white man, the old free man. by tills
iniquitous crop Hen law. And for
one-half of a century we have labored
and suffered under It.
Why, fellow Senators. I have had
f.rce experience In regard to this
? " " Georgia. I konw what they
> ? . there. They do not know
v Li i. crop lien law is, and It Is prop
c called the Empire State of the
South, for they have made more than
ten dollars to every one that we have
made. Why, down there the tenant
gets his money from the bank, witn a
proper endorsement, and they pay him
cash; and only charge him ten per
centum.
In the State of Virginia there Is no
such law. And one Virginian, who
lives near the line, since this Legisla
ture began, told me how he always
charges his North Carolina customers
twenty-five per cent more than he
does his Virginia customers, because
twenty-five per cent of the debts of
the North Carolinians were never paid
Is that fair? Can the Senator from
Robeson give his consent and his en
dorsement to that?
I am not afraid to trust the people,
by exempting them from this law!
When the spring of the year comos
those time-merchants spring up like
wet-weather springs do. Just as soon
as the first of November comes alon,?,
or before the debts are due. they sweep
down upon the poor tenantry "like the
wolf on the fold." They Issue forth
from their lair, and say In the words
of the old giant:
"Fa! Fee! Fie! Foe! Pum?
r smell the blood ot a crop
Hep-man;
Be-tro ?Hve, or be he deao,
I'll grind Mb bones to make
me bread."
Mr. President and fellow Senators,
I beard the other day of a time-mer
chant who had four hundred and fifty
customers upon bis bookB. He wen;
Into the back room one day, -and dis
covered that someone had stolen one
of bis hams. He said to his clerk
that be wanted hi mto charge the ham
to all of his customers, and perhaps
the man that got the ham would pay
ADDRESS OF. SEX PERSON?GAL
LdY TWO
for It. Over two hundred of bis cus
tomers paid for that ham not knowing
that It was charged falsely against
them. And yet the Senator from Rob
eson wants this to continue.
Mr. President, imagine, for a mo
ment the condition of these peons,
these serfs, these chattels, for that Is
what they are. Have you not read the
Ode of the Crop Lien Man?
"His horse went dead, and his
mule went lame;
And he lost his cows lit a po
ker game;
And a hurricane came on a
summer's day,
And blew the house that he
lived In, away;
An earthquake came, when
that was gone.
And swallowed the ground
that his house stood on;
And the tax-collector Men be
came around,
All he could find was a hole
? In the ground.."
The Senator from Robeson: Mr.
President.
The President of the Senate: Docs
the Senator from Franklin yield to the
?""enator from Robeson?
The Senator from Franklin: I do,
with pleasure.
The Senator from Robeson: I just
wanted to say that our farmers do not
play poker.
The Senator from Franklin: I do
s?ot think that the gentleman can
speak for all of his constituents, for
1 have it, that some of them play.
Mr. President, shall we not enact
tills measure into law? I promised
my people of Franklin County, not on
ly in the primary, but also precel nr.
the election, that I would do my best I
to repeal the crop lien law; and I ro- |
cognize their wishes in tne matter and
j am doing my level best to carry out
my campaign promises.
The farmers of Franklin passed a
unanimous resolution ^asking me to i
repeal this great evil, and lp obedi- j
ence to that voice, I began to work on
the bill as soon as I got here. I, at
first, wanted to repeal It absolutely,
and then I thought that woi.ld be ask
ing too much.
Dr. Ross, Dr. Gough, apd Dr. Mr
Coin remind me of that old story about
tl.e doctor who had a patient he coa.d
do nothing for, and he became wp-3e
and worse, until, finally, when he wis
almost In extremis, the doctor told
him that there was no hope for him.
that he was going to di->, but that if he
had any last wish or request to make,
he would swear to lalthfuily carry it
out. The patient said that he had a
wish, but that it could not be carried
out now. The doctor asked what it
was. whereupon the patient told htm
that the only thing he wished was
that he had got another doctor before
It was too late. The people of No'tli
Carolina ought to say to Dr. Rf:t.s
Dr. Gough and Dr. McCoin, before it
is too late, that they are afraid that
If they take the dose that the above
doctors want them. to. they will wish
they had got another doctor.
Mr. President, this bill will affect
forty-five per cent of the farmer* of
North Carolina. The men affected ky
this bill represent the rank and file of
the Democratic party. If we grant
tills great boon to them I believe that
It will be a measure that will not only
do a great deal of good tor tnem, but
I believe also that it will be a meas
ure that they will never cease thank
ing us for, and a measure that w?I!
make memorable the great Session of
1917. I believe that we ought to do
all that we can to strengthen and help
and upbuild the Anglo-Saxon race, for
I believe unspeakably in the rule of
the Angry-Saxon.
The people have asked for this men -
sure, for relief from the crop lien law;
and who says, nay? No one but those
speaking for the time-merchants and
bankers and chambers of commerce,
and my colleague. Dr. noss. Our
good and great Governor has recom
mended the passage of this bill. Shalt
we holp up his hands, and help hint
in hlsefforts to emancipate the people
of this grand old State, or shall we
proclaim by our voices and votes, that
the principles advocated by the Sena
tor from Robeson and the Senator
from Vance and the Senator from Nash
shall prevail, contrary to the welfare
of North Carolina and the Democratic
party? I beg that you will heed tho
voice that has said better than I can
say:
"111 fares the land too hasten
ing ills a prey
Where wealth accumulates,
and men decay,
Lordllngs and princes may
flourish, or may fade;
A breath may make them, as
a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their
country's pride,
When once destroyed, can nev
er be supplied."
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Seaboard Air Line Hallway Company
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of the principal points in North1 Car
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Shelby 8.S5
Lincolnton 8.00
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Wadesboro 8.50
Aberdeen 8.25
Southern Pines 8.20
Sanford 7.65
Wilmington 8.90
Lumberton 8.90
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Hamlet 8.50
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Durham 6. SO
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Dillon, S. C 9.i5
McColl, S. C 8.30
Marion. S. C 9.50
Wake Forest 6.50
Franklinton 6.30
Henderson 5.S>5
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