THE SOUTHERN TIMES

Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930)

-Unemployment Update-

In the voice of a news reporter

 

Earlier this week, Rebecca Felton delivered a crushing argument against Governor Alfred Colquitt, a member of the Bourbon Triumvirate. Her case was about how Alfred’s company was ordering state prisoners to labor on their companies. The company, like many other large scale corporations, is one of the top thirty employers in the state, but Felton clearly linked today’s low employment to the newly allowed convict lease system. In the latest issue of the Cartersville Courant, she wrote, “We have thousands of unemployed people willing to work for almost nothing, but instead, companies are paying the state for cheap labor from law breaking prisoners.” Later in the article she reviewed how the Bourbon Triumvirate is still ignoring many legislator’s requests to focus on public, primary and secondary education.