The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1908 Page: 3 of 16
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DECEMBER 17, 1908
NATIONAL CO-OPERATOR AND FARM JOURNAL
K have given my ideas in a way that
will bring this important matter be-
fore some one that will bring lasting
good out of it. This has been my idea
for years but I have been silent about
writing it. Another word to the Union.
Don't you think every local ought to
make a light assessment on every
member so We could pay our president
a higher salary than he is getting?
He is in the work for us and our
families, a 10-cent assessment would
fee a small amount and would hurt no
one. He is worthy of it.
Macadonia local is at the front ready
to move in battle rank.
Long live the Union. May it grow
stronger and stand by its principles.
IRA N. THORNTON.
Rising Star, Texas.
INTERESTING LETTERS OF BRO.
~ W. B. TAYLOR AND BRO. T. P.
4 STILWELL, AND ALSO BRO.
6 NEILL’S ADDRESS.
■ Editor Co-Operator: I am captivated
by the letters from the above men-
tioned brethren in last week's issue
and by Bro. Taylor’s thought that the
early cotton produced in south Texas
should be kept off the market. I think
the wise men of our Union should con-
centrate their forces upon this thought
and devise some plan to prevent the
market from becoming glutted on the
outset of the selling season. Bro. Tay-
lor suggests no plan and says he has
no plan to suggest. Now I am going
to suggest a plan for the brethren to
think about, and my plan is the cer-
tificate plan.
• I think the quicker this plan is put
into operation all over the cotton belt
the better. Now it an agreement
could be reached between the bankers
ci San Antonio and a number of other
towns in south Texas, and the farm-
ers, that each farmer should issue $35
on every other bale of cotton he has
ginned, they could in this way pay
their debts, and live. It is clear to my
mind that in this way we can make
the cotton crop finance itself. Now
let every Union lecturer begin to talk
the certificate plan, and let them con-
centrate their forces on south Texas.
Of course we must have a warehouse
in every county before this will be a
success. If necessary let the officials
of the Union call on the Union for
contributions to pay lecturers. Now
as to Bro. Stillwell’s plan it has many
good features in it. In his No. 4 he
says “the national board of marketing
should sell direct to the spinners.”
Now as to this the spinners will have
to get a divorce from the exchange
gamblers before we can sell direct to
them. They told me out of their own
mouth at New Orleans that they must
either buy from the gamblers or the
farmers. They said the same thing at
Atlanta, Ga. They say whenever the
farmers get in shape to sell their cot-
ton all through one agency, and they
can know that none of it will fall into
the hands of the gamblers that they
are ready to give us any price we ask
for our-cotton. I believe the spinners
are honest in this proposition. Mr.
Spinner told this writer at New Or-
leans that they had to work every
scheme they could to get the cotton as
cheap as possible, for they did not
know when the gamblers would put
them in a hole. But if they could get
the cotton at a uniform price they
would know how to set the price on
their fabric. Now I think the objec-
tive point with the Union is to estab-
lish trade relations with the spinners.
We will then need the certificate plan
to enable us to feed the market as
needed. Now if the spinners want to CONSUMER.
thrade with the farmers and the farmers
want to trade with the spinners, there
is nothing that I can see In the way of
effecting the trade, except to get more
of the farmers in the Union, and if the
trade was made and they could see
that they could not sell their cotton
only through the Union they would
tumble over one another to get in, and
they would stay when they got in.
Then when they have to stick you can
see how easy it would be to control
them in every respect. But we have
some farmers that when things don’t
go to suit them they drop out, but
there would be no dropping out if sell-
ing their cotton dep ended on their
staying. I know a few landlords that
I would be glad to have them just
where the boy had the monkey, his
tail in the vice and the the crank
turned. Now, brethren, stop abusing
the spinners. Some of them are dis-
honest. Look at the question from
their standpoint, and you are bound
to see that they are as tired of the
gamblers as we are. So let every
Union orator sound it out that we
must trade with the spinners.
F. S. ROUNTREE.
Potosi, Texas.
OUR GREATEST NEED
Editor Co-Operator Cottonwood
local struck the keynote when they
passed resolutions indorsing compul-
sory education. To that I say amen.
But they did not go far enough. In-
stead of four months in the year we
should have at least six and probably
eight months.
May we all wake up and see that
the one thing most important is the
education of our children. You can
talk, preach, work and plan, build
warehouses, fix prices and follow every
other conceivable scheme from now
until Gabriel blows his horn and you
never can and never will accomplish
what a compulsory school law will do
for us. Were we all agreed to a man
in every state in the south that we
would reduce acreage and hold cotton
till we got our price, just as ‘soon as
we felt and knew that we would get
the price there would not be enough
corn and wheat raised for bread. We
may talk about the crop diversifica-
tion, raising everything we need for
home consumption,' keeping our wives
and children out of the cotton patch,
sending the children to school and any
and everything else, but I say that if
we will demand six to eight months
compulsory school law we will have
the cotton problem settled, the acre-
age reduction will be successfully con-
trolled, besides the great incalculable
value in the training and uplift of our
boys and girls through education. I
am a strong Union man and am an
equally strong democrat, but I would
go further to vote for a compulsory
school law than for my choice of presi-
dents, for I firmly believe that it would
be more beneficial to the south than
Bryan’s election.
I hope every local throughout the
cotton states will take up this quis-
tion.
Yours for the right,
J. W. GRIFFIN.
YOU BURN MONEY WHEN YOU
BURN COAL
Unless you have “MONEY TO
BURN’’ better buy “Co-Operative
Coal” and save ONE-HALF.
Write the Farmers' Co-Operative
Coal Company, Pueblo, Colo., the com-
pany that sells DIRECT TO THE
____1866 Established in 1866
W. L. MOODY & CO.
(Unincorporated)
GAEVESTON, TEXAS.
Bankers and Cotton Factors.
We Solicit your Patronage.
We Store, Finance and Sell Spot Cotton.
We Never Buy Cotton for Our Account.
We have nothing to do with Cotton Futures.
We protect the interests of our Patrons Honestly and Intel-
ligently.
Our long and successful career is the best recommendation
we can offer you.
We have been endorsed by the State Unions of Texas and
Oklahoma.
We are under contract with these Unions to handle the
cotton of their members. Your actual cotton is held until or-
dered sold.
One bale receives the same intelligent attention that is
given to 1000 bales.
Your every interest is looked after also by J. C. Albritton,
the official representative of the Farmers Union, who is sta-
tioned in our Warehouse, and our Banking House.
Galveston is the best Spot Cotton Market in the World.
Write or wire for particulars. No trouble to answer ques-
tions or furnish information.
W. L. Moody & Co., (Unincor.) Galveston, Texas.
Cotton
Liberal cash advances on cotton
—Shipments to be held or
sold at shippers dis-
cretion.
W. S. Beadles & Co.
Cotton Factors and Commission
Merchants.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
WHERE IS YOUR ARGUMENT
Editor Co-Operator Some Union
and non-union men fell down because
they didn’t get 15 cents for their
cotton last year. They got 11 1-4
cents per pound on an average. This
year they were so frightened because
they did not succeed last year that
they dumped their cotton on the mar-
ket and got about 8 cents per pound.
Their loss per bale by dumping and
not holding is about $16.
I hope this mistake will be avoided
S. T. CLARK.
in 1909.
Lytle, Texas.
TITUS COUNTY MEETING
The Titus County Union will meet
at Oak Grove, four miles northeast
from Mount Pleasant, on the 30th and
81st of December. All locals are re-
quested to send full delegations and
all Union people are invited to attend.
Open meeting the night of the 30th,
and we expect some good speakers for
the occasion. Come, Union people, and
let’s enjoy a good time.
L. E. CULVER,
Vice-President.
J. H. Parks, secretary of Hocheim
local, writes that when their local was
ready to order groceries in quantities
they had their home merchants figure
on the order and he got it. He re-
marks that if all locals, instead of
sending away from home when they
pay cash, and asking their home mer-
chant when they want credit, would
give the home merchant a chance at for our libraries and gold watch. 1
the cash business, that it would result -----------------------------
in a better effort on the part of the See our gold watch and library of
merchants to co-operate with us. fer on last page. 1
F. CANNON
COMMISSION CO.,
Cotton
FACTORS,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
We solicit consignments of Cot-
ton, and are prepared to advance
you liberally against your Bills
of Lading. Write us for further
particulars.
EASTLAND COUNTY DISTRICT
UNION
Editor Co-Operator: We met with
the Eastland county Elm local district
Union Dec. 5, and our much esteemed
president, D. J. Neill, was with us
and delivered an address to an ap-
preciative audience. O, for more such
men to stand by the farmers and their
convictions. I
Our county lecturer, Mr. Russell,
was also with us and others who spoke
for the good of the order. The good
people of Elm spread a fine dinner
before us. They are a good, sociable,
hospitable people. <
After dinner the trees I paint for
the local Unions were exhibited and
those who had not already bought
them for their locals bought them.
Once President Neill told me to tell
the Unions through the Co-Operator
of my trees. They are painted on oil-
cloths in oil colors, 35x48 inches, with
eagle rising from the ground with a
ribbon in which is written the name
and number of the local. I send them
postpaid for $1.40. Orders promptly;
filled. 4
The Elm local is small but on the
th they received three new members
with more to follow soon. ’ President
Neill solicited subscriptions for the
Co-Operator and got several, and alto-
gether it was an enjoyable and profi-
table day. Respectfully, '
MRS, M. F. THORNTON.
Rising Star, Texas.
MA
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