The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 24, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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THE NATIONAL CO-OVERATOR AND FARM JOURNAL".
FARM JOURNAL
O. P PYLE
Huaflnt Editor.
GEO. B. LATHAM
General Manager.
Published weekly, every Wednesday,
by The Farmers' Educational ■
Co-Operative Union Publish
in* Company.
|SI and 367 Commerce 8t.. Dallas, Texas,
^ ———
Terms of subscription, one dollar
year, in advance.
knows no ration. It is lor the pro- And we are to have another con- of America is all that in necessary to March 27 organized a State Union table victories, with only a partial The farmers have learned to Lecf
ducers of all sections. .4 fcrence with the English and Amer- take us on to victory. Let us rally for Illinois, taking the Illinois understanding, and with rj.o ware- more of the supply on the farms lm-
. ican .spinners. It will not be long around our leader, Pres. Chas. S. brethren, 35,000 strong, into the houses to protect them in the mar- til the demand wa ready for it, anj
Large cluba keep rolling in from if we do our part, till there will be Barrett, and make his burdens light- Great Farmers' Union in a body. It ket.s. Now, with thousands of ware- it was the result of the adviee-givca
all the states where the Union canse a direct deal. They are ready for er. There are only two kinds of poo- was certainly a great day's work. houses all over the country, we are by the Union, through its officers and
is planted. As the organization grows it now. We must get ready. Build pie—those; who labor and those who „ at the very threshold of our oppor- the newspapers of the Union.
"" the Co-Operator will grow. Put the warehouses. ^ lean. It is criminal to ask a man THE WASHINGTON CONFER- tunity to win our freedom and inde- well-informed manwill deny thes
paper into the hands of all your ' to lead and then not support him. ERENCE. **-, pendente. statements. All know that market*
~~ members. . Secretary Chapman is all smiles . Take the crop of cotton in 1898, ing has been controlled more sines
—. every day. Much better financial re- r| he thousands of nice letters Co- Texas State headquart<iM'has re- which amounted to 11,189,"205 bales, the Union has been organized than
- Co-operator Sain .I. Hampton will pert* have come in to date,this cjnar- Operator receives commending it are reived a type-written report of the which was sold without any system ever before. Farmers
lecture in East Texas several weeks. t<r than ever before in the history very much appreciated and make us Washington Conference of tie Eng- or organization—simply dumped on gradually breaking away from th«
The work is badly needed there and of the organization. The reports o£ Ktjive ever the harder to make the lish and American Spinners and rep- the market, at the speculators' price, modernized vicious system of dump-
\ Co-operator Hampton deserves much all kinds which coinc to the secre- paper all it should be. We want our resentatives of tho Fanners' Union, brought the farmer only $305,467,- ing their crops and they have thus
"Entered as second-class matter No-
vember 13, 1906, at the postofllce at
Dallas, Texas, under the Act or
Congress of March f. 1878."
Advertising rater win be furnlsneci on
p^pllcation.
praise for his efforts in behalf of the tary's ollke are most encouraging.
good people of East Texas. —
. The picnic season
Let us never think that this sys- fast now, and when it gets here
£
readers to ieel that Co-Operator is which was held last May. It is a 041, or a little over $'27 per hale. escaped the evils and hardships that /
tlwir paper, for is it is devoted to book of ,500 large pages. It will he Now, compare tho crops of 1905, invariably attend the marketing of
is coming on your interest entirely. Get up a big printed and sold to anyone wanting when we had organization and par- large crops. For this reason good
14 club. 1 he most effectual work it, ' r'J,M the I ex as headquarters, at tiallv controlled marketing, we pro- prices have prevailed, which is tha
tem under which we are forced to Local Union outing in the woods which can be done is placing Co- the cost of printing. duced 10,575,017, which brought to direct benefits of organization.
market our products will be changed with a good basket dinner, just such Operator into the hands of our fieo- The cost of printing wit"
by law. We must build a new sys- as the dear women know how to j,]e<
tem. We are building it. prepare, would make an interesting
—' occasion and a proper one to take Making this great organization no man who is interested in a better ganization. The farmers
We know you will like this Co- the non-union neighbors along and National from the beginning was a P,-i(e f,>r cotton, can afford to Ik- $•>51,366,777 more for the 1905 crop effective.
Operator. Get your neighbor to take expound the beauties of Unionism to '
it. It will do him and the cause them.
good. Send in a big club. Wlier- •
ever Co-Operator is read the Locals
are alive and at work. to follow us are going to wonder how than f(>j|v
11)eo- 1,10 co>t or printing will he so the farmers >1!55G,8:i.'>,ftl8J or a lit- We have said before, and we re-
great as to prohibit its free cireula-, tie more than $5£.00 per bale. This peat again, that sound and correct
tion. No Lnisn man, and, in fact, showing is decidedly in favor of or- principles must he backed up by stib-
reeeived stantial organization, to make them
wise provision. Suppose each State without it. lit was the most lin- when marketing was controlled, than Our experience has taught us that
were to try to maintain prices, each, Portant conference ever yet held tor they did for the 1898 crop when they the farmers are the ruling power,
perhaps, a different price? What *'ie producers o! cotton. I he spin- played the dump act. Besides, in and any attempt to fuse or blend
In the \eui-to come those who are wouu the result be? Follv, worse m:rs W(MC wedded to the idea of in- we produced one-half million their intere-t with any other clas?
It can only be done by tense farming and low price for cot- bales less than in 1898. The spceu- will always result in failure. Th®
the producers of this age could liave an agroement of al, the .-dates. There ton- B,'fore they
The dumper not only hurts him- been so slow in learning the lessons
ferencowith our
•y had been in con- hitor may argue that the reason the distinctive success already achieved
boys two flays they 19Q5 crop brought so much was be- bv the Farmers' Union is due sole!*
•elf, his family and his country.
must be it perfect understanding. ,l" «« Ij,v ^ l"" ,lu.,s l ! (>,) crop nrotignt so mueti was be- uy me rarrners in ion is clue so'.e'y
pell, but also all other producers, by of co-operntion. Indeed, we are not \ye are goon to have tliat perfect un- were 'n f}lvor high-priced cotton, cause we made one-half million bales to a close school house organization
thus becoming a hear on the market, working for ourselves alone, even if rfe.'standing. It has been a question with them k,ss than in 1898. But such an ar- of the working farmers who are con-
Let it he a perfect understanding, we selfishly would. We are working for yearsNvhether or not they ar* gument only strengthens the Union's scions of the. wrongs from which they
one of our sub- P"'11" to lie able to get the raw cot- position, for"tf smaller crops bring suffer, and demand their removal,
ave been a dump- ton loi their spindles. 1 hey wanted a]irxost twice as much as large ones. What the working farmers of our
The Home Is the hope of the Nation.
When every family owns a home free
from mortgage, tben indeed will we
have a prosperous country. To own | f,e producers must not be 111 com- for the generations vet to come.
• home is a duty every man owee him- ' J
A letter from om
scribers says : "1 h
FAHM PRODUCTS PRICES.
Established for 1BOA and 1007 by the
National Farmers' UbIob.
>on,*atC^heUlNa?fonMCconventhm^'of Bl,l'irets can (llS('"^ wllldl wllt "iove forward, one grand body of the Union, and now, like other awak- Parts of,the worl(1 to «row colt,)"' a large one, and not have to wait
"and be life for your Local and your com- «„ited co-operating farmers, know- oaed pH)p|,., fer| ]{kc proclaiming but wanted to proridenco to jntorferc and make
!e 7eQrCti906^\mThnetakneythtrBuccenss rmmi,J- Make each meeting the jng no State lines, but keeping step the news to others. The more I know jf. H° coul(l ra,se enough cot- ^.ops Slnirll bcfore we can get pro
upon
the 1
September
are
the year ....... —, -- --ir .
in this organization is Controlled Mar- [>(
kctlng. Don't dump your crop on the
Siarket the month you ljarvest it. Hold
ack, you who are able, and let thoxe
In debt sell first. Help to make these
{trices standard by refusing to sell for
ess. Organize and stay organised:
Cotton, middling, i>er Tt>
Wheat, no. N. red, per bu....
Corn, No. I, per bu
Oats, No. 2, per bu
Potatoes, sweet or Irish
Hay, No. 1, per ton
Hay, No. 1, alfalfa, per ton....
Broom corn, per ton, t86 to....
Cotton seed, per ton
Hogs, per cwt alive. fS.tO to.
Cattle, per cwt., alive, |6 te...
Dea't sell tow lese.
.B0
.85
.76
"Truth crushed to earth, will rise
" It is rising now. It is
again,
eternal.
petition with each other.
_ ~ 's ou'r ouvvari' 8iid upward. (T a|I my life, hut I have repented 'ncref,se the number ol spindles jjicn organization is more essential, fair southland are accomplishing for
>.ou, really, is >,,,ir l-'x-'l all sou 1 here is no place to stop. Stagna- 0f that sin and been thoroughly con- an'^knoflr whether or not to for by Union we can always be able themselves our brothers of the north
would have it to be? I Ik ic an in.iny tion and inaction is death. Let vis verted—imbued with the spirit of t'° J'- t''H'd in various to sell small crops, even if we make carf" apply the same remedy. Tha
for price of cotton has steadily increased,
the anil even the last crop, which will al-
■ops snuril be lore we can get profit- most reach the thirteen million mark,
*u with Justice. Equity and the Golden ]carn of the plan of the Union to ton J® '"Sttre^emplovment to their ablo priecs- has brought to the Southern farmer
" Rule on our banners, move forward benefit farmers, the«more I am con- sP'n(|'Cs on time. Finding that Therefore the way to win is to sell an average more than $50 per bale.
To show that the spinners believe p0ss(.ss the field forever. It can vinced that its principles carried out the Sout'1 is full3' «bIe (1° so< tbeir together. Let every farmer pledge But on the other hand, we take tha
and will he done. will redound to the benefit of all was t° encouiage intense farm- bis cotton to the Union machine, at grain growers, and while they pioi
•—* mankind." thereby insuiing a vield sutfi- a given price, then sell all the world "duced 120,000,000 bushels more in
Have you a warehouse yet? Re- — cient for their needs. Our boys read- wi]1 take at your pr;ce; aIKi what 1906 than in 1905, yet they sold it
member you have no time to lose. The cost of marketing, which in- "•>" convinced them that the high- t|icy don t nCetl fj10V won't take at for $40,000,000 less than the 1905
Now is the time to build. You are eludes insurance, warehousing, class- Pr'('('d cotton alone would increase anvbody's price. This is sensible grain crop.
t' ii CCnls Is not enough 1 or cotton, nofc a))]e (<J not bujkl warp]10uap> wcighing and interest, will be production, and that a low price for nn"a ri^bt. President Calvin lias been The farmers of the grain growing
dive the boys a chance. Encourage T*4 cwnP1,,tol.^;l,a,,K° the sys- adder/ to the price of cotton, so as to able through the central warehouso States have not the right plan of oi"
them to speak in the Local. Bring
them up right and they will not de-
part from it. The statesmen of the
future must come from the farm as
that the day of cheap cotton is pa
l.oo we
lave only to refer to the fael
that thev are now anxious to buy.
10.00 cotton at ten cuts a iiound and basu
15.00
loo.oo their future sales on th;it price. But
16.00 1
H.0Q
6.00
• * ' rpi • 1 Pf 4 V P 11ci *u inn u t- jnetII i
tem of marketing. The cotton must make tho buyer pay the expense, and Mlu spiuners ictt the conference to af}van'ce to $40 per bale, whie'. Tanization Their princinles
" ■■ ■ , # thoroughly convinced that the South - - i 1
are
Ilave you read of our freight de- they have always done
partnient? It is yours for defense.
Let us hear from you.
Illinois now has a St.lie Union.
The steel trust, the manufacturers'
trust, the bank trust, and all others,
get what they want by organization
Truly, this is a national and in no without any reference to politics. We
wise a sectional organization. can do the same thing. We are
* doing the same thing. We will eon-
Thc boys will stay at home on the tinue to do so.
farm only when farm life is made
less lonely and the farm mope profit- Quit planting mortgages. They
able. are a relic of barbarous commer-
cialism. Let us plant no more of from Erath County, where he visit-
"Hard times" will run up against them forever. No man can be a ed thirty-five Local Unions, wind-
a mountain sure enou
is a warehouse at ever
in all this land. gage means financial death.
be sold from the warehouses and not not the farmer. Heretofore these ex- cui.vmcuu mat me noutn ig a sum „roatcr than many farm- sound but their nlan of Organization
from the streets. penses have been paid by the farm- could and would raise all the cot- prs have bocn getting for their cot- j8 rotten, When they, admit to theit^T
ers. All other claw*!* add these ex- ton for their needs, if the planter ton
The country home front yards are penses to the cost of the article. The injured a ju>t and equitable
already beginning to be lovely iu merchant makes you pay the clerk P'iee for it.
their lavish splendor of color in the hire, rent, insurance, etc. The farm- ' hev are coming again. There is
Southland, and soon will be further er has just as good a right to become- to he a great conference in Atlanta,
north under the genial warmth of a tax collector as any other class, tla., in October. At this great con-
the sun. Of course, the dear girls So, every day of delay, and every fcrence, no doubt, the spinners will
are beautifying the homes in every cost of marketing, can he charged flg'ce that the price which will he
way they can, and there is no way MP 'II Prl'ec, when the farmers learn fixed on this crop by the Xational
easier or more charming than the to do business for profit, as other Union, which will be in session in
cultivation of flowers. classes do. The farmers must learn Little Rock, Ark., in September, is
to be profit takers as well as profit a correct price, and that they will
''Uncle Sam" Hampton, the great makers. Study the plan of the Un- help to maintain it. Their agree-
western orator, returned this week ion, and your salvation is at hand, nient will do much to help us to
maintain the price. The Co-Operator
. . • ... ' ' , It von want, tli
igh when there free man and plant a mortgage on ,nff 11P at I lgeon, where the County , ' , ,
* * ■;iWLTs —;.srt
the movement was present.
If you want the Union to revive confidently expects to see them pass
and set fire to the a resolution endorsing the price
the conflagration agreed on by the co-operating farm-
Activ- that will destroy the despotic power ers of this nation. When this is
in some years. Well, where you unions-as members, bankers, iner
need the advance, can't you take $10 chants, speculators, buyers, and all
per bale, and wait until the cotton is classes of whatnots, the working
sold to get the balance that is com- farmers lose their identity, and tho
ing to you, for you are sure to get machinery of organization is used as
the minimum in a very short time. a convenience for the exploiters to
Do like the little boy, take a more handily skin them.
tater and wait, lor you are cer- There is an old saying, £*He that
tain to get the whole cheese by act- wou](j be free, let him first strike the
ing with all your brother farmers. bhw Thc farmpr mnst strikc tha
I he best investment any farmer blow. The Farmers' Educational
can make is to take a few of the dol- Union extends its friendly offices to
lars he received in profitable prices farmers of the graiu growing States,
last, year and help to educate and or- aD(| wj|j c]agp the hand of their
ganize thc balance ol the farmers brothers in a crusade to wipe from
who have ne\er heard of the new tbe face of the earth the cowardly
revelation. Let us spread the gospel pr>wor that rol)S the farmers 0f a fair
of Unity among the farmers until reward fop h(>nest toib
The planting of-trees at all the
school houses where Local Unions
National Secretary
ity is great in Erath. Two ware- 0f the gambler, and that will unite done, the question will be settled and , „ ^ ...
c- houses already up and going- and the farmers front sea to sea. There our success will be made permanent. 7 'W arnuls Wl
three to erect. "Uncle Sams' let- . ,. . . ,,, i i i • . low prices.
there will not be a place in the earth
be satisfied with
It. 11. Mc
^ nllocli, in a litter to ( oOperator 1""^ . 1 1,1 '< t j nothing like a slirritig campaign. All we have to do is to prepare
are lipid will be a Bm,t mprovem™ Il00niillg «- weA wll tell yo, H,e rest. ^ wju araund oaraelve, for the (treat ehange wteh
tl, lount';. .m everywhere. Illinnk haa jnat organ- Homer L. HiRjts. the editor of that the world. Sam Jones onee said, is eominu. The world is eonTertcd UCrS1'CHAN(iK IHE SYSIEM
r°°'S' aD<^ we are looking for great splenriid ] aper, the I'rogressive "Stagnation is the next station to to the theory of high-priced cotton.
When Barrett and Calvin
across Texas, there will be something
doing. Co-Operatoa hopes to he able
to publish the apopintinenta right
away.
start thin«s
Our principles are sound. Our
plan of organization is correct,, and
let all hasten the day when a judi-
cious system of marketing wilb-pre-
vail, and large crop years and short
crop years will be equitably distrib-
States."
from some of the other J.'^ntier, of (Jreenfield, Tenn., writes damnation." A "wild and woolv" If we will prepare ourselves for the r"10 farmer's doom is in the mod- uted so the price will be profitable
its that the work in Teunessie is go- campa:rrn, as outlined iu the Co-op- new system and market our cotton as ernized selling system.
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to tho farmers, and not to the bcnc-
ing
orward in a most satisfactory era tor this week, will put every Local it should be marketed, Hie day of An enormous number of farmers fit of a few exploiters.
I he changing of the present sys- mnnnor Co-operator 11iggs is' an Union up in arms, and millions of doubt and uncertainty will be gone afe money poor, notwithstanding ^s long as farmers will believe
tem of c lop marketing to the coiiect endless worker and much of thc new recruits will swing into line al- forever. Let us not lose a day. thev have made large yields, and thc ^bc> |jp of the speculators about over
s.Vstcni of co-operative marketing, Sp|,,n,|j(| work now being done in most as by magic. The State of world has consumed them all none production they will be industrially
No brave man is content to remain will be the greatest forward move- is (]lIC ,0 hig V(?ry groat stagnation will bo tran?formed into THE WAY TO W1X. have been wasted or destroyed. Some t1amne<i? nntj as long aa voll patronize
under a system which steals from merit this world has ever maiK That
him and those dependent upon him. proud day is soon to he here if every
He will do all in his power for tho ono will do his full duty,
new system of equity and justice.
energy.
a spirit of agitation and education,
and the shout, of the farmers will
of the largest yields have sold^for tbe modernized system of dumping'
your crops over to street buyers,
We must not have anv dividing less money than short ones. This
T.et lis move forward and possess
The greatest meeting of farmers "u> A^gallant knight, thorough-
Organizer I). J. Will was at head- ever held in this world will he held 'v capable, ( has. S. Barrett, is lead-
quarters a few days last week, but in Fort Worth, Texas, August (ith '"W '"r the nation, and a gallant
is gone again. He reports perfect to 10th. It will he the Texas State thoroughly capable, is lead-
harmony and tqueh progress every- annual meeting and encampment. ' g lor Texas. \\ ill we hold up their
where he goes.
A letter from State Secretary ,T.
W. Boyctt of Louisiana, states that
the work is moving along better than
ever before. Warehouses are being
built all over thc State. This is cer-
tainly most encouraging news.
All Texas is interested in making hands? Yes, to a man. Their un-
tliis meeting a great success. selfish devotion and loyalty have
won the hearts of the Union men of
the State and nation. I<et us fol
be heard on every hill and in ever}' line between the farmers. The plan condition obtains becausc of the mod- there is no hope for emancipation,
valley of the land. (Jet out of thc of the Farmers Union must be given ernized custom of farmers selliug all Up| anfl behold the dawning of
graveyard and quit reading messages a perfect test—one in which every their crops in two or three months. a better day.
from tombstones. member of the organization and all By the use of the wonderful modern rj>jlc jn,|ustrjal bears, lurking in
other farmers are on one side. Here- farm machinery, the farmer of the fhc jungIw of t}ie exchange, °who
TEXAS AN1> ILLINOIS. tofore, only a small part of the farm- present day can produce about five J)avc inflicted unto](1 wrong upon th?
working farmers, are seeking an
ers were acting together, the other times as much as the farmer of a
Texas and Illinois have joined farmers were working with and feed- generation ago. But has his cam- cgcflpe fr(>m thp mightv powpr of th<
hands. About thctime The Farm- ing the speculators. mg capacity increased? Has it not ontragod farmors< aD(i' win rctire t„
, . • . \rrt mnU o imwl rutlior flpoTpRSPfl ? Tlicafi wonderful
ers
Educational and Co-operative ^0 must make a determined ef- lathtr decreased. t'"-' e wonderful some sec]ll(]0(j spot and there hiber-
If Co-Operator lists were doubled j"' m,r l««ariors aii.l four 'no danffor Union of America was founded over fort to induce every farmer-to pool inventions have modified the work on nato anJ guck ir ljke th<
'r _ am1 f<Ur ,,anROr* in East Texas, an organization his interest with the union, and sell the farm, and removed much of the ^ ^ na'turc ^
known as the Farmers Union was practically every bale of the 1907 hard labor, but the profits ait not bflve inherited. The unclean birds
Co-Operator editor is in receipt of fllso launohod in lllinoi8. The two crop through our local and central increased nor are thc hours of labor Qf ^ ^ haye becn roost.ng. ^
this, an encouraging letter from Co-oper- organizationg were almost identical warehouses. When all the farmers shortened. the-throne of commercial power, hati
e appointments for 0nr fl^r|,t for ••llst Pricos vvollK1 soon ntor A. Morris of Sullligent Ala. 0uf ininois brethren hearing of the are pledged to thc Union plan, the Since the last two years the farm- pprcad thpjr pillion8 an(1 arc flviDg
Barrett and Calvin This is to be bc won if 1,11 onr P00l)le were Co- Hro. Morris is Stale organizer for gmit(,r Farmers Union, mainly of price being the first consideration, ers are as prosperous as at any pc- Jn disorderjy confusion at the* ap-
the greatest campaign of thc kind Operator readers. AIabama aud c]uulmm of th®.N>!" the South, sent three delegates to we can bring to beat ' *
ever made. Thousands will hear
we could do more than twice the good
we can now do. If each reader will
get only one more, the work would
be done. You can easily do
Look out for thc
tional Board of Directors, lie is om. Xational meeting at Tcxarkana power to compel thc profitable price, the reason
bear the greatest riod before, but let us inquire into profK,h of the rising SuQ of Co.opcr.
these eminent imm at each appoint- Do not take the bovs and girls °ne of 11"' ,>ost aml ,rucst men vvo last September. As a result of their This will give us a system of or- Two causes operated to bring about
, from school if there is'anv possible 1,0vo cvor known- ^ ,th sueh mvn as meeting with us, committees from ganized marketing, and controlled the present moderate degree of pros-
« ' \I * % \l . „ .1 il... . « i • A 11. _ 1 1 ! 41WA rvnaf f i'oa ra w<
ation.
ment
Commercial despotism is done.
Industrial Co-operation has begins
Thc night of greed and graft k
both organizations ope. As a result was gathered. large crops. Then, the farmers hwc past.
perfect understanding among all to wrestle with book learning all vou The leadership of the Farmers' of their work President Chas. S. The co-operating farmers of been organized, and have instituted The dawn of a better da^ appeui
producers. The Farmers Union can. * Educational and Co-Operative Union Barrett visited Illinois, and on America have already won many no- a new plan of marketing their crops, at last.
way under thc sun to help it. to W* A* Morris on «,,ar(1' the or8a - both organizations were appointed supply, as against the old vicious sys- perity. For the past few years w-
No sectional organization of pro- work in the field. Strain a point or iztttion is'1,1 ul wiH rc,nain' safc- to arrange for a meeting to make ten. of dumping as soon as the crop have had good seasons that produced
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ducers can exist. There must be a two and give the youngsters a chance
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