The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 22, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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THE IfATIOUAL CO-OPFRATOR AND FARM JOURNAL.
news that lightened up all the hor- It ia a fatal mistake to feel that
We know you are going to like izon of the future. * because your Local Union is a weak-
this isbue of The Co-Operator. Tell ly, measly, poky, easy sort of con-
THE TRUE SPIRIT.
of the producing classes, the toilers
in the fields, whence comes the gen-
Danville Local Union ia Mont- uine well-being and enhancement of
PRESIDENT BARRETT8
ADDRESS.
How wonderfully our Farmers' cern, that you can do nothing. That gomery County, Texas, has adopted every country on the globe. This na- Con^ratukfa^The^armeri^ Union
FARM JOURNAL
O. P PYLE
Managing Editor.
GEO. B. LATHAM
General Manager.
Published weekly, every Wednesday,
by The Farmer#' Educational and
Co-Operatlv* Union Publish-
ing: Company.
'165 and 367 Commerce St.. Dallas, Texas.
Ywrm*
of subscription, one dollar a
year. In advance.
'Entered
vember 13. 1906. at the postofflco at
Dallas Texas, under the Act of
Congress of March 3. 1879."
!A.dv«rtUing rate? win bo lurnisnea on
9 ^plication.
—■ It will not be lull# until we
of the Tex- thcrii till (it this rate.
£
your brother who does not get the pa-
per ahout it. You can double our Union has grown in the past little is the very kind of Local you want to a resolution that has the right ring, tion boasts that it is the wealthiest,
list easilj' by a very little effort. more than four years! Starting with pull your coat and go to work for. It reads that the Local "will help or one of the wealthiest, nations of
—i ten members, it now numbers more Work hard, in season and out, and ajiy brother of its membership, in earth, yet the sound of a ticker, or
Have you thought about planting than 1,200,000, an increase of J,200,- make them ashamed of themselves, ease his cotton crop is mortgaged the chalk scratches on ajblackboard
trees on the yards where your local 000 per cent! These are stupen- Make a good speech at every meet- and the mortgage is "about to be fore- will destroy millions, even billions,
is held. Talk this matter up, and dous figures that almost bewilder one ing. (Jo round and drag out the closed, to borrow money and pay said of that vaunted riches in the twink-
be ready to plant them at the prop- to contemplate. 'I hat i.- not nil ! We drones to attend the meeting; make mortgage off, put the cotton in the ling of an eve.
cr time. You will be glad you did are increasing at the r;ilc of 0,000 a a canvass of the non-union farmers Farmers' Union wartehouse il- Can real wealth, substantial riches,
this in the years to come. day or over 2,000,000 jicr milium, and bring in some new material and lis, Texas, and hold it /or the mini- be affected at the whim, the sweet
have the first thing you know you will mum price, set by the next National will of an unscrupulous speculator,
have u real good, energetic, hustling Union meeting." or a little coterie of financial con-
l/jcal. It is astonishing how much 'I his resolution breathes the true spirators for their own aggrandise-
work a lazy man can do when you spirit of brotherly lovc^ Its princi- ment? How superlatively nonsensical
once get him started. „ pie is the very essence of co-opera-xis such a proposition. Is the $10,-
tion. It is the soul and animus of 000,000,000 railroad over-acitaliza.-
WII.L NOTIFY Vol'. the Golden Ifule; the broad and iin- tion wealth? It represents nothing
movable foundation upon which The on the face of the earth but fraud
We have permitted a few of our Farmers' Union i?>. builded. What and corruption. Every dollar of it
subscribers to become delinquent, and better, what more effective co-oper- was conceived in sin and brought
have derided to notify you about the ation can there hi* than in helping forth in iniquity. We have read in
matter. We do not belie o that any- one another, as we individually need the Associated Press dispatches in
one wishes to have the Co-Operator help? Furthermore, iii helping oth- the daily papers within the week
to cease going to his address. It is ers we help ourselves, especially when pa.-t reports of railroad earnings
Message of Grain Growers.
Organizer I). .T. Xei
,a,s ""noTomce at°" as State Union is kept on the run
all the time of late. It is impossible WHAT AIM'' WE ORGANIZED
for him fo he at all places where he FOli?
is called on to go. lie is doing a .
great work. This question is the biggest one
connected with our movement. It
Have you yet arranged to have will take some real thinking to solve
that supper for your Local? It will it.
do you much good. There are yet One may say I joined to buy
a lew men and women in your com- for less while another would say, I
niunity who should become members joined to get a heller price for my
of your Local. products; while another says he
join
o down cverv other class and certainly worth manv times the price we render the help set forth and con- showing that they are making money,
imself upon the ruins of a to any Union farmer. Surely the templated in this resolution. that the balance of profit over cx-
National^President Barrett issues
the following addreai^ that all .will
surely read with interest:
To The Farmers' Union:
Brethren: It is with feelings of
pride and gratitude that I issue to
you at this particular time an ad-
dress expressive of my appreciation
of your marvelous growth and de-
velopment.
Within the last month it has been
my great pleasure to traverse many
of the great States of the West,
where but a few months ago not even
the name of The Farmers' Union was
kn&wn, and certainly nothing of it
high and noble principles. Tn'every
community I met nfen who were anx-
iously inquiring about it, from one
end of the country to the other. Tha
growth and development of the Un-
ion was so marvelous that even I was
i
rpi , mm .. . ft • r, • , , • , , „ n°t prepared to believe the full re-
1 lie aim of I he farmers Union is penditures is largelv in favor of the , , •,
. i,i . -i ^ i x. i Ports as they had come *o me, but4
control the marketing of our crops, said railroads, and that they are i T 1 ,
... ' . J when 1 went and saw for n
is nearly
aider or
Ths Home la the hope of the Nation.
When every family owns a home rree . .
from mortgage, then Indeed will we Locals 111 11U111buift.
have a prosperous country. To own
a home U a duty every man owes him-
■elf. his family and hla country.
iere, nothing can be pleas-
help more to enlarge the
rent and saw for myself, I
FARM PRODUCTS PRICKS.
Batabllxhed fur 1MM and 1IMIT by tb*
National Farmers' I'nlou.
This schedule of prices was agrted
upon at the National Convention of
the Farmers' Union held at Texarkana,
September G, 1906, and all members
are expected to maintain them during
the year 1906-7. The koy to success
In this organization Is Controlled Mar-
keting. Don't dump your crop on th«
market the month you harvest It. Hold
back, you who are able, and let tho «
In debt sell (lrst. Help to mak these
Itrices standard by refusing to seal for
ess. Organize and stay organised:
Farmers' Union picnics will soon huild
ii be as frci|uent almost a- destroyed commercialism. All of this la>L issue alone was worth the price
sunrises and in sweet June time that brings about a confounding of of a year's subscription to any one. to i
tongues, that makes success impos- We have already received hundreds that thereby we may control the prosperous. In these same Press dis- had to~say that the half had not been
sible. A correct understanding of of letters telling us that last issue prices for which to sell those crops, patches we read that the railroads told to me
the real purposes of the organization was worth many times the suhsc-rip- Warehouses constitute the one are encountering some difficulty in The West is getting into line Ind
on the part of each member of the tion price for a year. "Tilany things mighty bulwark between us and the floating securities for obtaining mon- g(aje after State i- b ' '' d
Union is necessary in order for wise of importance and encouragement speculator. They are the means by ey for the bcttjjpicnt, that is, to keep Thousands of farmere^are^jdning
consideration along lines that will re happening every day. The fact which we propose and intend to con- up road-beds and provide needed t]|p Farmers' Union dail* a faJ
assure success. k 11, is is the most important year trol the marketing of our crops, that new equipments. What do they do whichcan not help but be gr'atifyin*
Tlio C'o-Operalor would feel that of our organization. we may be enabled to prevent rushes with this money they have earned to every true Union man in the couu"
That was a great speech made be-
fore the Spinners Association in
Philadelphia by our National Presi-
dent, ('has. S. I'arretl, on the even*
iiiof the 1 nth of this month, lie
knows exactly how to say the proper throii'di its cditq
it had accomplished a great good if, We are try ing now to make perm- on the markets, the overloading of and are boasting of? There is but tn.
.ia I
columns 1
thing on all occasions.
Cotton, middling.
_, per lb.
Wheat! no. N. red, per bu...
Corn. No. 2, per bu
Oats. No. i, per bu
Potatoes, swoet or Irish
Hay. No. 1, per ton
Hay, No. 1, alfalfa, per ton...
Broom corn, per ton, J86 to...
Catton seed, per ton ••••••••
Hogs, per cwt. alive, $6.60 to
Cattle, p^r cwt., alive, IE ta..
l> a't sell for less.
The Co-Operator
cash basis entirely.
' ' all
is going to a
In doing mi, we
our subscribers.
•JJ want to keep
I' I icy are all li
There are not many who arc in ar-
s, but we will not let this happen
.50 They are all like dear friends to us.
.85
.75
10.00
16.00 rears
100.00
1«'oo a,13' 111010
«!oo
could get a correct, understanding oil
this one question, "What are we or-
ganized for?" For when all our
members fully understand this we
will move on harmonious lines to
victory.
The first effort of the Union
should he to take out of our lives the
spirit of enmity and fill it with char-
ity. Then remove from us the
principle of greed and averice and
fill us with the principle of justice
and equity. This would give us &
t uncut the temporary success we.have them by which the speculator is en- one answer:It goes down into the "m ,i c ,, ,,
,, ,'. ,ii, , . . " ■ , , , i 1.1 , , lo t,ie Southern cotton growers,
l. . . ~. i 1^, r : i ..,.11 iirkli'M tn incr r pw na r\r\n !.-nf a I url.il/-i 1.a,<im/mi ° '
won. Kvervlhing of importance will abled to hammer just prices down pockets of the owners while heavier ti ur„0i
i i • x c ii- i i n , , t,lc " estern gram grower sends a
be published in The Co-Operator to his pirate figures, robbing us and bonded debts are piled up for the niPssa<T0 of cl,0Pr «your is
and in no other way can you re- later robbing the manufacturer with public to pay interest on, and pro-
righteous, since it is founded upon
Austria, will be printed in full in ways and means for keeping-dis- of wealth and prosperity the country
The Co-Operator. .No Union farm- tressed, that is mortgaged, cotton, boasts—wind and water, fraud and
er can afford to miss this. It is <'o- or other money crops, out of the infamy.
crive this information. The result exorbitant prices. To do this we vide a sinking fund for their ulti- ^ principles"of equity"and Tus-
of the great conference in Vienna, must as far as possible, provide the mate payment. And this is the kind
"We brethren of the great grain-
growing West are liwling to strike
, , t hands with you and keep step and
ing to be the most important work hands of the cormorants, ofT the mar- AVben we contemplate the methods march shoulder to shoulder until wo
of the seaon for our cause. Do not kets for forced sale. We defend our- that obtain in this country, of graft, have won a glorious victory" The
winx a .finr/Je i.mr. selves against the speculator and sc- schCming and every iniquitous sjie- West stands ready to co-operate with
We will try to not make any mis- cure a sure protection from his cjes 0f speculation, in its financial the cotton growing States in any un-
takes in the statements we send out, machinations and onslaughts there- afyajrS) an(] ]00]f a| the way they do dertaking that looks to the advance*
From,the headquarters of all the
This is the age of industrial dc- States comes the cheering news that
jVelopment. Let us fall into line and new charters arc being issued every ^
atay there. I^et us level up and never day and that dormant Locals are desire to do unto others as we would 'n ('a8° onc' s uiu(k w'" be )• • i i things in Japan, a pagan nation, a ment of the cotton interests, and the
level down. being revived. The co-operating jI1)VC thivii do to us instead of doing onlv a ""stake, and. if you will write Seemingly, the most feasible plan heathen people, we marvel, we stand cotton States are equally a* willing
to us about the matter, we will get it yet presented for the relief of the ast0unded that the^great mass of the to lend their aid to the grain-grow-. '
fixed right. "distressed" cotton and other prod- American people who arc Christian- ing section, that it, too, may share
: wts> 1S that embraced in the fore- ;zed) civii;zec[ and lioncst, do not in the success of the Union.
Great preparations are being made more fuJ,v understand what we are INTELLIGENT DISCONTENT, going resolution—help extended by rise up jn the majesty of their might There is and can be no unbusiness-
Local Lnions. There are always an(i smite somebody. Japan lias just like rivalry between the two sections,
The Farmers' Union does not member^ enough in a Local Union put a stop to specuiativ0 mcth0ds for both sections are cqually in{er.
farmers of America are marching on jj1(l 0[her fellow before he does lis
Taking-out time will come to all to victory. 11 is well for us to consider what
of us before we have done all we - ■ we are not organized for tliut we may
should do if we are not diligent and _
vigilant. Let us do all for ourselves for the I't. Worth State meeting and (]n \\-0 ;iro n„f organized to de-
and for humanity we possibly can. encampment in August. It is to bo. stVOy any part of our commercial,
the greatest gathering of co-operat- sodt(1) rcligious or political system
Do not miss an issue of The Co- i g farmers this world has ever seen. w,u,re t]j(>v
Vou can not affoial it. Prominent farmers from different
States will be with us.
teach the doctrine of hate. We would to cither advance the needed money, an(j ^jic glomes of "the promoter.5
a re
pn igressmg
r a|0I1„ not level down. We would level up. or to make paper good enough to \yjt]tjn the past ten davs the Jap-
««• i i i t ii 1 /*m4- if nn.l rlin nAffnn flintr rli no UTA- . . .
csted in eliminating speculative fea-
Opevatar. i ou e
There will be many issues during the
yoip, either of which will be worth
the price to any Union farmer.
paths that lead to the road to a high- W0l,Id not tMr down tlic Sreat gct !t' and the cot;°n thcy thus I)r°- ancse government has spoken and tl,ros lhat arc detrimental to the in-
er and better civilization It will buildings of the cities, but we would tcct and put in warehouses for the popped the wind and water mach- terests of the farmer.
for the
ny, over
United all the
What an army of workers ior u.e ^(.thrr ,0 a 1>oU(,r condition
right is our grand Union today, over W(1 caJ)UHt hope to bujI(] ,)p ,h
great organization upon the down
fall of any of the necessary agencies
iclps in this effort.
take all the agencies co-operatiii" to- build magnificent homes in the coun- honest price, along with their own, jnatjons 0f the grafters and only In the South the cotton grower,
' n i i • i i 11 j 11 j will l.rt nnmurli f r\v fnnm <■ .
m
■ M
rHie clubs keep rolling in all the 1,200,000 stron
time from Florida to Oregon. Keep money of Wall street and all the
them coming. The Co-Operator will chicanery and infamy of the New 0J,
r,_ try. It is a fact that the country, as will be security enough for them, honest, legitimate business can be through organized effort, has, during
ig a desirable place to live, has always Help one aether ! Let that be the conducted in the island kingdom of the past scas0Q) been enab]ed to
Ihuti uc^locli'tJ. rJ1]je isolation o( tlic inotlo, the dailjf life and piactico of little brown people. Pitiful is it .
maintain the price for cotton at the
continue to build the organization ^ ork ( otton Exchange, and the ()l||.
great and strong.
Chicago Grain Exchange can avail ^|1(|(1
nothing against us. tenia
lut v
' l mieil nil lln> . ... been neglected. The isolation of tlic motto, tuc aauy nie ana practice oi ^jie ] j^tlc brown people.
country has made country life not as every Local Union. indeed, shameful, humiliating, that
inviting as it should be." This con- Everybody sign the individual this grcat nation must g0 to pagans minimum price as set at Texarkana
is clear as to our atti- 'iaiJ eaused discontent which pledge proposed and outlined by Co- ]earn ^|1C lessons of honesty and i^t.September, and soon the Wert
o all churches, schools fra- 's right and proper. Operator a few issues back, to ware- honor. * will get better prices for her grain
orders and legitimate com- ^'IU
t we want is intelligent dis- hou.-e and h°l'l his cotton for the commodities markets" and the advance in price of the two
Alabama sends Bro. G. T. McEl- ' mercial enterprises. It is not to pull content. The man, or a people, who ixed price, o t ie cw mem ers o a prcson(. superior attractions to those great crops will not prove injurious
dery to the Vienna Conference. The The lamented founder of thi« down but eliminate the illicit and 's perfectly satisfied, makes no prog- i0(-•' M 10 nia.v 0 s0 iar^ Q[ ^jic seciiritiea gambling rooms. cjt}ier section
Alabama brethren are never content great organization told the editor of confirm and build the legitimate. 1TSS a"- '^ there had never been tie \ cannot sign un os u pu to rpjie government's Agricultural De- rr, - .
to be in the rear. They prefer being Co-Operator, even before the firrrf \\"c art. organized to t.uki> care of a".V discontent we would still be liv- 'a ( P t'10 T ges, gi\e the it p t icy parj,nonj ]ias i^een giving out esti- c s a i e o e . ou i
in the front. Local was formed, that it would he the business of the farmer, both in 'IJ "IC same primitive way as require. Woik-foi joursthes, ma^os 0f crrtp conditions, of wheat an<^ ^'ie ^^ ^ern s^rugo''ng
onlv a few years till we would be production and distribution. In oth- ,3i(] 0,,r "neestors. Had it not been for your wivos,^ for ^y°ur cliiMren, yjclds ;md the gamblers
avail them- ^or years to free themselves from op-
No, no.
can not be pc
ncss organization
pie of the .... , . . . . w...w. . —
Wo will stay on the main track. live to see it. The educational feature of an or- have not leit us entirely, but unto others as you would ha\c tin in Chicago special telegram in oue of
— ' gani/atioti should call every farmer tll0.v aro nn,i thc intelligent ujlto .vo«- Samaritans and the morning papprs of Sunday, May
The old system of marketing it; Sonic of the trust people call t(, thought fulness and study, for it discontent of our people will ban- n°t 1 barisees or Levites.
fast falling of its own weight. We Farmers' Union members "boll wee- h onlv th rough intelligence that we them forever.
have had two systems of un'-kcting vils." They are getting to be pretty will be able to take possession of our when the producers of this „
cotton. We are now build ng the nearly as numerous and they are do- own. We are organized to plant at great country come to fullv under-
third, the correct, tlic just system. ing to the trust fellows, speculators the very foundation head of our ii'an,i each other, they will receive to the morning papers of Sunday, margins on blocks of 100,000 to 500,-
and other thieving grafters, what the commercial life the principles of jus- w''at is justly their own, and then May 19, contained the intelligence 000 bushels at a time. And yet they
jelong boll weevils have done to some cot- lice, euuitv and the irolden rule that the country as well as thc city will tlita interest in security dealings on cajj ^,js business! That a — er
been measurably successful.
An increase in the price of corn
39th, says that grain speculators in to the grain grower will not mate-
that city who ten days before could rially affect the cost of it to the
«—7 ' n°t pay the margin on over 5,000 catton grower, and yet at the same
I he commercial special telegrams wheat were then takin,T i' A 11 • -n •
UUJ,US ,L lIlLU UKIllo time thc grain growers will receive
more for his grain than he has un-
previously existing circum-
THE HEATHEN TEACH US.
man can
Wealth belongs, or should belong boll weevils have done to some cot- (j,-,.. equity and the golden ru
to him who creates it. The wealth ton crops—destroying them without it mav take root and give a health have magnificent buildings and all the exchanges lost ground and there jn legitimate trade increase his stances, and the cotton grower, with-
producers will get what is rigbtly mercy. tonic to our entire civilization. improvements necessary for the hap- was a steady ebbing away during the wealth in ten days time, honestly and out materially increasing the price
their own when they properly un- Th0 Far iners' Union has a respon- ?i«ess of our people. Then will the week past, and a sagging in prices fairly, twenty to one hundred times, of manufactured products to the
decstand each other. The South Carolina State Union sibility that no other organization in bo)'s bp eontent. to stay at home on was vefy noticeable. Also that the Somebody has been robbed, that is Western grain grower has received
the farm. commodities market presented very aIi thoro ;s to jt, and the man who , . . '
This intelligent discontent is com- superior attractions thereby divert- }ias gmwn the wheat is the largest " PnC°S 8 coUon than "
pell ing the building of a new system ing speculative capital from Wall ]0ser. has been h,s custom to receive.
ciding to quit giving mortgages. Ibis ing and the Union officials attending keeping with our principles, will be °f marketing to take the place of tho Street, and that increasing uncer What is the moral of nil tViis? The ^ bu thi-en, for this happy condi-
at the good effect of our effort on our o1^ s.vs<om which has caused the loss taintv in the outlook for thc season s suffprcrs from thie spct.ies of gam. tion of affairs you have the Union
of so many millions of dollars to the ha vest prevented apprehension of bUng and npfarioi,s financial trans- to thank. Almighty God, in Hit
producers and has caused so much exportation tol\.ns,jfnot^o nc,tion,( ahovo outlined, are the pro- providence, has seen fit to bless and
prosper us, and to place within oux
will hold its annual meeting at this country has and in proportion
Co-Operator receives many letters Greenwood on July 24th and 25th, to a correct understanding of this
telling us that our people are de- proximo. This will be a great meet- responsibility and our action in
ortgages. This
terrible, awful system of slavery the Vienna Conference will be
should be abolished forever. home before then and this State Un- fellow-man
ion meeting will be, perhaps, the first , , , — - ,
Let us never think that the other one to take any action on what may n°t think because you belong doubt, disappointment, sorrow, and ot icr European speculative centers. (]ucjng classes of the country, the
fellow will change the system and have been done at that Conference, a strong, active Union that is a poverty. Ibis old system is crumb- How ridiculous this all i.« to a classes whose toil make our nation
power ill
rer of substan-
reach tremendous possibilities. Let
our organization, that you ling to the dust aud the new oue is sensible, educated, civilized and hon- fln(j gjvc whatcvc.
Was not the last issue of Co-Opcr- can move along slowly, making no with us. est people! That a lot of chalk marks jjaj an(j wealth and prosper- Us as bcoorae3 ^n'ou men seize these
ator as pretty a one as you ever special exertion in behalf of the 1x4 us all rejoice because of the on a blackboard, or a string of dots ^ jj. jias These classes are the opportunities, improve them and
build a new one for us. We must do
it for ourselves. Wc are doing it.
Keep up the good work.
■ - saw? It appealed not only to one's cause. You must keep up your row, great work which has been done with and marks on the paper tape of an ru]jug clashes, the farmers of these place thc Union this year on such
Our people are signing The Co- appreciation of a handsome makeup that your liocal miyy be able to main- the positive assurance that the good electric ticker, should influence, di- glatos ^ tI((, verv mon g soii<j foundation that all the op-
Operator pledge to hold cotton. Many and display in a newspaper, but to tain its standing, influence and pre*- work will go on and on till the rect and control the finances of the
hare asked us to print the pledge one's intelligence as well. It was full lige. The more one has. the more is producers will come to fully under- world, swav the very destinies of a w 9 r,in aI" * 10 0 n" ' ou° ' PosmS Powera can no even^ s a •
article again and we may decide to to overflowing with good reading expected of him: tlie stronger a pow- stand themselves, and shall be itidus- people and alwavs mar, for they shape its policies and sway its des- it. C. S. BARRETT,
do m. natter, with good, cheery news— er may be, the more it must bear up. trial ly free. never help, the material prosperity tinies. ~ Atwater, Ga., May 13, 1907. ,
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