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SOUTHERN MERCURY AND FARMERS UNION PASSWORD.
United with the
FARMERS UNION PASSWORD.
Weakly.
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
Published every Thursday by tho
FARMERS' UNION PUBLISHING CO
Entered at the Dallas. Texas, postof-
flce aa mall matter of the second class.
Main Office: 218-215 Commerce St.
(corner Lamar. Oaaton Building). Dal-
laa. Texas
Chang* of Addreaa—Subscribers re-
questing a change of address must Klve
the OLD as well as the NEW address.
Advertising rates furnished upon ap-
plication. Address all communications,
and make all drafts, money orders, etc..
payable to __
„ MILTON PARK, MANAGER.
„ DALLAS TEXAS.
We take pleasure in correcting any
and all errors—don't fail to give full
particulars, dates, amounts, etc., when
making a complaint. Write names
plainly. This will reduce mietakea to
the minimum. Our agents are re-
quested to ask their Postmaster to in-
form us of any copy not taken out.
Secretaries will please write us for
special terms to agents.
It won't cost you much to look over
the advertising columns of tho Mer-
cury-Password this week and ask these
advertisers what they have to ofTer,
but it will benefit the paper materially.
The Union Farmer of Winnfield, La.,
has been merged Into the Bernlco Un-
ion Herald. The Herald promises to
be of good service In that state. The
Mlercury-Fassword extends greetings.
Don't run to the bank and lend them
your money free, to loan out to your
neighbor at cut-throat rates, when you
can lend to your neighbor direct at
comparatively reasonable Interest on
the same security he gives the bank.
After awhile the organized farmers will
largely do their own banking.
If most of the farmers will raise
plenty of vegetables, feed, poultry, but-
ter, «ggs, swine, etc., and make cot-
ton their surplus crop, how easy it
would be for them to control tho prlco
of their cotton. Such a policy would
assure comparative prosperity to the
South.
Don't allow yourself to be led Into a
big crop of cotton on account of tho
present price. Oodles of other smart
fellows may be planning to do the
same and thereby bring on depression
of prices and common ruin to cotton
producers and their dependents. Tho
"dependents" Include also tho mer-
chants.
The Fort Worth Record and the
ready-print side of some county week-
lies reported that Dallas County Union
endorsed tho Texarkana action. We
need scarcely say that this Is an orror.
Dallas County Union approved the
Btand taken by our national, or so-
called "state," .executive committee.
SIGNIFICANT ENDORSEMENT.
The National Farmers' Exchange, at
a special meeting of the stockholders
held at Chicago Dec. 20, endorsed the
F. E. & C. U. of A., bidding It welcome
to the Northern States. Good! The
N. F. E. owna many co-operative ele-
vators, and is composed of many of
the most successful, enterprising and
Influential farmers In tho Northern
and Northwestern states. The Farm-
ers' Union Is destined to organize the
farmers of every state and territory,
and thus become national In fact, as It
has always been In name.
"In the case of that delayed Fort
Worth constitution we have tho same
to say that we have said In the case of
the delayed Waco minutes. If we had
been charged with the performance of
such a duty, and could not have per-
formed It for any reason, by all that'a
honest and upright we would have ex-
plained that reason to the rank and file
of the membership and maintained our
individual integrity with them, and our
fidelity to their trust, at whatever
cost."—Farm Journal.
Walter Wellmun writes In the Chi-
cago Record-Herald of December 21
that nine men control the senate of
the United States, and through It con-
trol all legislation. He names "Sena-
tora Allison, Aldrlch, Cullom, Elklns,
Foraker, Fry, Hale, Spooner and one
or two more," as the men who run
the entire gevernment. And the people
expect these kind of men to do some-
thing for the common people! Why
not a king, and then we would know
to whom to look for relief and whom to
hold responsible? A liberal king wero
better than a set of speculators and
manipulators and mammon worship-
ers.—Ex.
"We believe In free speech and a
free press. We believe the official acts
of the officers of the union should be
open to criticism, "adverse" or other-
wise, as the case may demand," says
|u« County Union. Would be cen-
take notice. No doubt suah bold,
■rate harshly on
the super-sensitive ears of those who
have cause to fear criticism. No doubt,
too, that It shocks well-meaning un-
ionists of Tory learnings, and some
others who fall to realize that In an or-
ganization of this kind If tire press
were muzzled an official ring could
scarcely be overthrown, once firmly
entrenched and having the machinery
In smooth working order.
Several interesting communlcatlms
are laid over until next issue.
Now is the time to plan for diversify-
ing your crops. Discuss the matter In
your local. Get first class sec d and get
It In timo, buying together.
The government has given to rail-
roads more lund than was comprised in
the original thirteen states; more than
the era of tho entire South, Texas
excepted.
Senator Bailey wants to purge the
American house of lords by ejecting
three or four bungling senators who
wer© clumsy enough to be caught In
their trickery.
Limestone County Union adopted
resolutions favoring a parcels post.
The Mercury-Password rccommenda
that every Union pass resolutions fa-
voring same. Send copies to your con-
gressman. Next week tho subjoct will
be fully discussed in these columns.
Unite for agricultural progress.
Unite for business success. Unite for
relief from predatory speculation. Unite
for intellectual Improvement. Unite for
business purposes. Unite for social
communion. Unite for ethical culture.
Unite for the promotion of the common
good. Farmers of America, unite!
No authentic report of tho South
McAlester meeting has been received
up to the time we go to press, but It Is
to be hoped that harmony will bo re-
stored and all work in unison for the
common good.
"We owe It to our monopolist fellow-
citizens," says Ernest Crosby, * * "to
lead them out of temptation. So long as
we let them have our streets and fran-
chises to do with what they will, their
moral characters are subjected to a
strain which no mortal man should bo
called upon to undergo. For their own
good, let us take charge of our own
property, and make a new declaration
of Independence."
When the Farmers' Union of Ameri-
ca gets under headway in every stato
and territory, then will it become a
truly national union. In another sense,
however, it is national now, Inasmuch
as It has Jurisdiction over all tho
states, and is directing the union work
In all the partly organized states and
is extending the organization Into
state after state.
Straight thinking Is essential to right
living, says Herbert Blgelow. There Is
not a leper spot on the body politic
which is not due to bad thinking.
Isaiah declared that social distress was
due primarily to man's Ignorance, and
Ills words are full of significance to-
day: "Therefore nre my people gone
into captivity because they have no
knowledge."
Tho coal barons who are refusing to
sell c<ial to the Farmers' Union for spot
cash are unwittingly inviting an agi-
tation for taking such natural re-
sources as coal and oil out of tho hands
of private corporations altogether, as
a matter purely of public protection.
And now tho press is telling what a
"philanthropist" Terkcs, the Chicago
street car magnate, was. He could
have spared some very nice sums out of
the $30,000,000 he made out of that city
in Boven years through seducing the
councllinen to give him valuable fran-
chises. Ho could have spared enough
to have supported host of benefactions
without depriving himself of a single
luxury. Not such a wonderful sacri-
fice after all, eh?, Particularly as he
could not take his riches with him.
After all, the perpetuation and ulti-
mate success of the Farmers' Union,
says the Independent Farmer, depends
solely on "the boys from tho forks of
the creek." Th6 nlace-seekers and no-
toriety-hunters may howl and hurrah,
and argue nmong themselves who will
be the greatest In the kingdom of
heaven or of earth, but tho sturdy sons
of toll whose desperato earnestness
overshadows all desire for place or po-
sition, will take tho reins In their own
hands and lead this battle on to a glo-
rious and triumphant victory.
Eugene V. Debs, whatever mny be
said of him, never utters a remark
that has not been thought out with
Intense labor. In a speech lust No-
vember he made a remark that ought to
start a long train of thought In tho
mind of every working man. He said:
"When the teamsters struck in Chi-
cago the bankers subscribed $50,000
to defeat them. Now, the teamsters
wero not striking against the bank-
ers." Mr. Dobs' meaning Is that, as
capital comes to tho help of capital,
so labor must come to the help of
labor.—-Farmers Journal.
IS IN ERROR.
Referring to tho demand for f.irmers
for officers, the Ft. Worth Union Ilun-
ner says: "Tarrant county started tho
ball rolling for this sentiment," eet., etc.
As a matter of fact Bro. Woodman Is
In error In claiming that Tarrant coun-
ty originated tho agitation for actual
farmers for officers. Tarrant county
and almost every other county fell
In line quickly, but Hunt county was
the first County Union which "set the
ball rolling." Long prior to tills, how-
ever—at tho Mineola meeting the man-
ager of this paper advocated the doc-
trine of none but actual farmers for
office.
PLOW THE BRAINS.
Diversification of crops Is important,
but diversification of thought is even
more important:
In this progressive age the devotees
of old customs and old fossilized
methods of thought and action are be-
ing superceded and outdistanced In
instances by ethers nowise abler
or more efficient, except in that the
latter, untrammelled by a misplaced
reverence f"r established custom, or
by instinctive antipathy to innovation,
depart from the beaten paths and
adopt plans more In keeping with the
times.
The farmer Is In some degree keep-
ing pace with modern progress, and It
Is the mission of the Farmers' Union
and the Mercury-Pass word to help to-
ward bringing the blessings of our twen-
tieth century civilization within the
reach of every Industrious toiler of the
soil. Those who create should enjoy.
Apropos of this Idea, the Saturday
Evening Post says:
"The farmer with his auto and his
telephone, his rural free delivery and
his books, magazines and newspapers,
makes a pleasing figure, in startling
contrast to the "hey Uube," of the
comic papers of a few, a very few
years ago. Hut in the long days of
oncoming slack season he would do
well to think of what he has, chiefly as
It opens up vistas of what he has not
but ought to have arid can have.
"He gives entirely too much to the
middlemen between him and the con-
sumer. He deals too exclusively In
raw products; ho does not think
enough about his market—the market
that should be Ills—about the wants
of Its throngs of consumers, about
ways of tempting them to part with
larger sums in exchange for wares he
has taken pains to make more attrac-
tive as well as more useful.
"Plow the brain as well as the soil,
and tho good years become great and
the bad years good."
A. M. C.
ALMOST UNANIMOUS.
We are receiving a mass of resolu-
tions this week—more than we can
find space for—all somewhat similar,
all favoring the referendum, and most
of them demanding actual farmers for
office, and approving in a general way
the position of the executive committee
In declining to surrender the national
franchise until so authorized by the
people. Tho sentiment prevailing along
these lines is overwhelming—in fact,
almost unanimous. We note, however,
that one county, in tills State, Wood
county, adopted resolutions endorsing
the Texarkana meeting and Its candi-
date for president; bu; Inasmuch as
the Wood county resolutions aro very
lengthy, and aro not furnished us, a
statement of their general purport
must suffice in this ease, precisely as
we omit a number which disapproves
of certain Texarkana proceedings. It
is a rare coincidence for so many
county and local resolutions to come In
In groups Just before going to press.
If you fail to find your resolutions In
this paper, brother, you will under-
stand why. You will find many others
expressive of similar sentiments.
Now that the Texarkana muddle is In
a way settled, Its proceedings being
Invalid, let us now look forward and
discuss the best plans for promoting
the general interests and growth of the
organization and maintaining its In-
tegrity.
THE CHARTER QUE8TION.
The Dallas al+nrttey from whom a le-
gal opinion was secured relative to the
National charter question cited several
different reasons why the wholo Tex-
arkana proceedure was illegstl. The
Waco meeting was also held to be Ille-
gal, for the reason that It was colled as
a state meeling Instead of as a national
meeting. The Fort Worth meeting, on
the other hand, was participated in by
delegates from various states. The al-
legation that tho executive committee
elected at Fort Worth could enjoin the
present officers, step Into the offices
and take charge, Is manifestly Incor-
rect, since that committee resigned at
Waco, nnd was not their resignations
accepted, with genuine pleasure?
Tho Mercury-Password will not at-
tempt here to review nor discuss some
of tho untrue allegations and muddled
"explanations" which have been given
out calculated to place our National
(or so-called "state") officials in a
false light. Presumably they will be
obliged to correct some of these mis-
statements.
over a piece of very important work to
the foreman of his printing office, with
instructions to complete it as soon aa
possible. He walta a reasonable length
of time, and then waits awhile longer,
and in order to "keep peace in the of-
fice" continues to watt, and wait, and
wait, until finally he ventures to make
some Inquiry about the Job, when the
foreman says, "My plan ia to naver ex-
plain."
There baa been much aald in certain
quarters about "keeping these things
out of the papers," and "settling our
differences within the union," etc., but
we thank heaven for printing presses
without brakes on them and editors
without muzzles. This policy of dark-
ness and silence and secrecy Is In line
with the Texarkana constitution to the
effect that no union publisher be al-
lowed to criticise an official. The
Farmers' Journal believes in light,
floods of light, that will Illuminate
every nook and corner of officialdom,
and whenever It sees wrong going on
within the order, and repeated appeals
to the officials bring no response, and
there is no secret means of exposing
the wrong, it is going to speak out. If
If such course should land its publisher
without the pales of the order.
In all organizations, fraternal, polit-
ical or what not, The Journal Is with
tile rank and file and It Is with the
officials no longtr than they are with
the rank and file, and it believes that
the Individual members of no fraaer-
nal order were ever treated with con-
tempt that was greater than the con-
tempt involved In the unexplained de-
lay in furnishing the Fort Worth con-
stitution to tho membership for con-
sideration and action, followed by the
delay In furnishing the Waco minutes
to the membership for Information and
enlightenment.
And now, If there Is a member who
is opposed to speaking out thus
through tho press, let him ask himself
this question: "What might not have
befallen our beloved order ere this If
there had been no means of scattering
information, or uttering a warning, or
sending out a protest, except through
private mail?''
Let us have light. Let us have ex-
planations. Let us have the perform-
ance of duty, or let us know the reason
why.
A CO-OPERATIVE TANNERY.
The members of the Union are invit-
ed to unite with us in building and
operating plans. We have been oper-
ating an old style tannery and leather
manufactory successfully for 10 years
on tho co-operative plan. We have
on the ground the material for erecting
a tannery and leather manufacturing
plant, to be operated with machinery
on the Improved plan] with sufficient
capacity to supply all of the stock-
holders with all the leather products
they will need, we will have exper-
ienced men to operate it. When we
learn to unite In the same industries
collectively, then we will be organized
practically, and not before.
TOM PASCHAL,
TOM PASCHAL.
Murchlson, Texas.
UP-TO-DATE PARAGRAPHS.
Tho best winter crop is price—ralso
it, If not to tho minimum.
Whose fault Is It If the speculators
garner tho crops during the winter?
They can't got tho products if the
fanners refuse to sell them.
When farmers try they can organize
and stand together. Is it not strange
they do not try?
We never bet. but we would not be
afraid to risk a nickle that the ma-
nure Isn't all out of the barnyard yet.
Cannot you afford to offer better
wages .next year for farm help in
view of botter prices you are receiving
for your crops? This ia the way the
farm labor problem will bo solved.
What did you talk about at tho local
union last meeting? Didn't sny any-
thing? That was a mistake. You
had some Ideas that would have been
valuable to your neighbors if you had
expressed them. Do your part.
WITH REFERENCE TO THOPE
MINUTES.
From The Farmers' Journal.
We want to say that the failure to
produce those minutes is simply crim-
inal, and some person or persons are
responsible to the brotherhood of Tex-
as, and the brotherhood of Texas
should never stop until the person or
persons guilty of the criminal omission
of duty Rre hunted down and brought
to account. If the editor of this paper
had been charged by the State Union,
an official of the State Union, with the
duty of producing those minutes, and a
delay of five months, or four months,
or three months, had occurred, no mat-
ter where the fault might have been lo-
cated. he would have cleared his Indi-
vidual skirts by a full and complete
explanation to the membership at large,
though the heavens might have fallen.
"My plan Is to never explain, but to
go ahead and do my work, and I am
w tiling at all times to be Judged by my
work," says Bro. Pyle. But In case of
failure to go ahead and do the work,
thru what? Have the rank and file no
explanation coming?
Let ua suppose a case that is In all
essential points para 1 el with this mat-
ter In regard to th;> delyed minutes.
Suppeae that Bro. Pyle should turn
"If you would kill a secret organiza-
tion, publish to the world all the sc-
crets. Then you have no secret or-
ganization. If a thing is secret. It
should be kept secret," says the Co-
Operator. There is a still better way
to kill It. Let all the members keep
silent while the officials make a con-
stitution which the said members can
have no voice In changing. Let all the
members keep silent while the officials
withhold the records of proceedings.
Let all the members accept a constitu-
tion which forbids that they shall ever
criticise the officials, and then proceed
to keep very silent. Excuse us, but we
would rather die from too much public-
ity than too much secrecy.—Farmers
Journal.
PARKER COUNTY LAND.
FOR SALE—On easy terms, a body of
good farming and grazing land in Park-
er county, Texas. Will divide into amall
farms. For particulars, address M. T.
Bruce, 398 Elm St, Dallas, Tex., and
mention this paper.
LEE COUNTY UNION OPPOSES
THE TEXARKANA ACTION.
The following resolutions were
adopted by the Lee County Union, No.
98, on Jan. 4, 1906:
Whereas, The Farmers' Educational
and Co-operative Union of America
was intended to be strictly a farmers'
organization, and
Whereas, Tho State Farmers' Union
of Texas, which Is, In fact, the mother
and head of the Farmers' Union of
America, did, in State meeting last
August, adopt resolutions prohibiting
any one not an actual farmer from
holding office In the Farmers' Union,
and
Whereas, In the organization of the
so-called National Farmers' Union,
which was recently effected at Texar-
kana, Tex., the mother of the order
was entirely ignored by putting a man
at the head of the organization, who Is
not a farmer, and whom the Texas del-
egation refused to support, and
Whereas, Wo believe that it ts not
only to the Interest of the Farmers'
Union of Texas, but to the entire mem-
bership In all the States for Texas to
retain the National franchise for the
present at least. Therefore, be It
Resolved, That we request our pres-
ident and executive committee to with-
hold the National Farmers' Union fran-
chise until the regular meeting of the
T. E. & C. N. of A., next August.
Resolved. That our State president
Is hereby requested to call a meeting of
the State Union for some tlmo In Feb-
ruary, 1906.
Resolved. That our secretary is here-
by requested to furnish a copy at these
resolutions to The Mercury-Password
for publication.
J. M. MeCord. Secretary,
Lee County Union, No. 98.
Parker County Union likewise dis-
approved of the Texarkana fiasco. The
A.uiaul ilenent Society of Parker coun-
ty. the other day elected as Pres.. J. F.
Wells; V.-P., J. S. Llndsey: Sec.-
Treas., Aaron Smith: Directors, H. N.
Pope, T. T. Hlnes, M. G. Bell, W. C.
Doaa, S. A. Sp-.irgeon. It Is only a
question of time when aome simple
p'an of mutual insuranee will be gen-
erally adopted by the Farmers' Union
everywJnc*
DEFENSE BY BRO. MILLER.
The great committees of the F. E. C.
U. of A. met In Dallas Jan. 5, 1906, in
Joint session, worked for four days
hard to agree on terms of transfer of
Charter and Franchise from the so-
called Texas Executive Court to the
so-called National Executive Court.
We failed to agree on terms. My ob-
ject In writing this article is to give
the facts as I see them. I will first say
for the Texas Comm. after working four
days, I must say they are good, honest
Union men; tliey took the law and was
governed by it as they understaoi it.
They were in a close place for men to
be, who want to do the thing that Is
right. They had my sympathy, and I
believe I can say that they had all of
the National sympathy. White we
differ on the construction of the law,
we all wanted to do tho right thing.
We love them, because they ar« Union
men, and good men, and we worked to-
gether as brothers, tut each side con-
tending for what they thought was
right. Now, I will speak of my com-
mittee, or National. They were all
strangers to me until we met at Texar-
kana. After the organization was over,
the next day we held a session. We
did not transact much business, for
the lack of time, but I was made to
believe that the men who I had to
work were good, loyal Union men, and
I thought I would love them as all Tex-
ans should do; love all good men. I
think I saw them tried in Dallas. The
manly stand they made, the honest
course they pursued will make me al-
ways love them. They love the Union
better than I thought they could. They
decided they had rather suffer sacrifice
of office than to cause disruption in the
Union; that proved to me that they
were true to the order. Now I think
that it is Just and right that I should
make personal mention of O. P. Pyle;
the manly stand he took in this matter,
I feel like it is due him, that I should
do this, and also to myself, for If I
know myself I want to give every man
Justice. I went to Texarkana as a del-
egate from Texas, I voted against Bro.
O. P. Pyle, but when the election was
over, he was my president, I never
knew him until we met in Mineola at
our first State meeting. I have met
liim In all the meetings except the
second one at Ft. Worth. He was sick
at the time he was with the committee,
the most of the time In Dallas. I heard
all he said and saw what he done, and
if he said or done anything but what I
would endorse, I never caught on to It.
I know he has been accused of doing
things that was wrong; that has been
proven to me to be false. I guess he
has dpne things that was wrong, but
he Is Just a, man like me, I have always
found him working for the Union, and
I guess he was working for O. P. Pyle,
that Is human; If he didn't look after
his own affairs he was not doing Jus-
tice to his family. I must say for him
that I believe the Union would be safe
in his hands, and that he would have
led us on to victory. Let us forget
and forgive and go on with this grand
work. I will say for myself that I never
felt the responsibility of any duty as I
did when I was In the committee room
when I naw danger aheac* that was the
trying time with me. But all the men
In Texas could not have turned me
from what I believed to be right. The
last meeting we had Jointly, we had a
good time, all enjoyed ourselves to-
gether as brothers and parted the best
of friends. I never saw anything that
equaled It. I write this article from a
sense of duty, and to show the brother-
hood and the world where we stand—
as brothers. I will ask all papers to
please publish. W. S. MILLER,
Nat. Committeeman, from Tex.
Lake Creek, Tex.
SOMERV1LLE CO. WANTS ACTl'AL
FARMERS.
Whereas, The F. 10. and C. U. of A.
Is, and should be strictly a farmers'
organization: and
Whereas, The F. 15. and C. U. of A.
adopted resolutions at Waco prohibit-
ing anyone from hulling office In the
Farmers' Union not an actual farmer;
and
Whereas, The Union organized at
Texarkana ignored sama and put a
Texas man at the head of the organi-
zation, who is not a farmer, and whom
the Texas delegates refused to support,
and
Whereas, We believe It to be to the
Interest of the entire membership of
the Farmers' Union of Texas, and all
the States for Texas to retain the Na-
tional franchise. Therefore,
Resolved, By Somerville County TJn-
lon, this the 13th day of Jan., 190fi,
that we request our State president
and State executive committer ti
with-hold the National franchise unril
the regular meeting in August.
Resolved, That the county secretary
furnish a copy of these resolutions to
the Mercury-Pas3Worl for publication.
Resolved, That at the County Union
In April there be public speaking on
the night before, on the Union prin-
ciples, and Its objects, and everybody
be invited to attend.
Further, that a copy of the presi-
dent's message to Somervell County
Union be sent to the Mercury-Pass-
word for publication.
Further, that Pres. C. A. Calvin he
invited to address the Somervell
County Union In April.
WM. GLASS.
L. W. HOUSE,
R. NUCHELL.
Com. on Resolutions.
GREER COUNTY UNION.
Greer County Union, Okla., met at
Mangum on Jan. 5; owing to bad
weather and roads, only 26 unions were
represented. C. C. Lee served as presi-
dent pro tem until arrival of the pres-
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tMMrvllto Bursary,
SoacnvdLt. . Mass.
ident, C. W. Edwards. At night a pub-
lic discussion was held. "Should agri-
culture be taught In our publle
schools?" A majority appeared to be
favorable, but spirited talks were made
pro and con. C. W. Edwards was sleet-
ed delegate to State Union, J. G. Wil-
lis alternate. Several resolutions were
adopted. W. L. Castlei and W. T. Elsey
were selected to draft plans for Mutual
Insurance Company. Adjourned until
April 6-7, at Mangum.
WANT THE MINUTES.
Resolved, That we disapprove of the
withholding of the minutes of the Waco
meeting from locals, and we recom-
mend that the president and secretary
get In possession of the minutes, and
have them published and distributed
to locals as early as practicable.
Resolved, Second, That we rec.-m-
mend all locals of T. M. and C. U. of A.
to insist on being kept posted, (by our
officials), on all macteri pertaining tc
the interest and business of our organ-
ization entrusted to their hands. It !■>
the sense of ihls local that they rhould
be faithful and prompt In the discharge
of their duties.
Signed on behalf of Rough Creek
Union. No. 3340, by
J. M. SUMMERS. Pres.
C. H. BROOKS, Sec.
LET US ACQUIESCE.
We are getting along nicely in old
Milam county, but we are truly sorry
that this wrangle over the National
Union is up. We say lay it aside and
go to work. It seems to me when we
sent our delegates to Texarkana to do
business and they done the best they
could, we should stand up behind them
and not howl "wolf." This looks like
we are getting selfish. I am in favor of
a farmer being In all the offices, but if
this body sees best to elect Bro. O. P.
Pyle as president, let's help hold him
up and be Union men and not con-
demn anyone until he shows he Is a
traitor. We do not want to condemn
anyone, neither have we anyone to
boost. Why did not you howl when this
meeting was first called and not wait
until the devil comes, to pray. Lets be
very careful how we move. We are
doing more harm than good trying to
create strife in the order.
D. S. HOLLOWAY,
Secretary, Rocky.
FRUIT TREES.
Buy direct from the grower and save
50 per cent. We have the Wheeler
peach, Maynard plum, Rogers dewber-
ry, Baby Rambler rose and other nov-
elties, besides the leading standard
fruits and flowers adapted to this cli-
mate. Also garden seeds, field seeds,
alfalfa, flowor seeds, plants, Cornell
Incubators, Peep-O-Day brooders,
poultry supplies, etc. Catalogue free.
BAKER BROS., Fort Worth, Texas..
Bro. H. A. Collins, the. efficient coun-
ty secretary and business agent for
Eastland County Union, extends his
thanks to his constituents for their
confidence and support. Last year was
merely preparatory, educational. This
year the brethren- are urged to put the
teachings of co-operation Into practice.
State Lecturer Nelll is "whooping
'em up" in Smith county this week.
It Is unfortunate that anyone, and
particularly members of the Union,
should hold out the idea that politics
and gubernatorial candidates had
aught to do with the National Charter
Issue. While gubernatorial candidates
had about as much to do with it as
"the man in the moon," such allega-
tions are nevertheless calculated to In-
jure the order.
ALFALFA SEED.
We buy in car lots and can give the
closest prices on good seed. Write us.
Free catalogue .of .garden, field .and
flower seeds, fruit trees, shade trees,
roses, plants, Cornell incubators and
brooders, poultry supplies, Steinmesch
chick feed, et.
BAKER BROS., Fort Worth, Texas.
COUNTY UNION MEETINGS.
Angelina—March 30-31, Tram Grove,
9 miles north of Lufkin.
Menard—Jan. 19. Nine Mile.
Coleman—Jan. 20, Coleman City.
Henderson—Jan. 18-19, New York.
St. Francis County, Arkansas.—Jan.
20, Forrest City.
I
THE WACO MINUTES.
Did you ever attend a Methodist
campmeeting in the early days in Tex-
as when along about 11 p. m. on Sun-
day night before the meeting was to
close? Then if you have, you ought
to know just what was the matter with
the Waco minutes, for X have never
seen any one that could tell or would
pretend to tell only what he saw. .As
to Ju3t what he heard and all that was
done, no man or woman could tell, nor
would they pretend to tell, while they
would continue to tell each other till
the next meeting comes around. Just
so with the Waco meeting. I don't be-
lieve that there was a man In that
convention that could have kept Its
proceedings, for it was so much like
one of those shouting campmeetings of
the past, that I began to think of my
boyhood. So I don't think that any
one should be censured for not having
all of the proceedings; and you re-
member that there was some one hung
on the river's bank while we were there
and you know the poor secretary would
not know Just how to make a record
of that proceeding as well as a host
of others that can not be mentioned.
I was talking to a good union brother
the other day and he said very sor-
rowfully that he could not get his mem-
bers to attend their meetings. I said
to him: "My brother, do you remember
how we used to tame wild shoats In
the early days? Why we would Just go
to a certain place out In the brush with
a sack of corn and call loud for the old
sow, and when she would come, as she
always would. If she was in hearing.
Just get behind a tree and throw the
corn to the eld sow and when she would
go ot eating the shoats would soon go
to eating. Just so with a host of our
farmers. They must see you getting
the good things before they will stand
and help you life the load. But let me
tell you they will come back when they
see us sending all cotton to Galveston
flat this fall and it netting ua 11 cents
a pound. So now lets' all Join hands
and swing the corners fer UN."
C. 3. JACKSON.
Mi
CO-OPERATION THAT CO- 1
OPERATE8.
Is what we want. And what we want
Is what we get. When we have some-
thing that wo do not like, we are
getting what the other fellow has
wanted, so the statement remains true
Just the same—that we may have our
desires satisfied. m
Co-operation Is to first educate our-
selves into knowing that our desire*
can be attained quicker and more fully
by working each other than by fight-
ing each other.
After deciding upon the program, it's
then time to do; the time for talking
only ia past, and you are ready for the
kind that fills the individual's personal
desires. You desire pure, new sanitary
woolen and cotton goods, clothing,
boots, shoes and harness, and should
be able to secure these things by a
fair labor exchange, but have found
that while you have been producing
these raw materials pure and good, you
have been offered the shoddy, poisoned,
adulterated stuff in exchange.
You have produced by -your sweat all
the raw materials that have been pro-
duced, and the wage worker, too, la
manufacturing that product has only
Just been able to stay on earth, while
the machine-owner and the gambler
In your products comes near owning
the earth and is now considering the
advisability of kicking you off the
earth, and will, just as soon as you are
unable longer to buy and pay for his
goods.
So, you have organized the Farmers
Educational and Co-Operative Union,
the wage-workers their union, making
up your minds that they would have to
kick you all in a bunch and all off at
the same time, but it has been discov-
ered that their success was attained
by owning the machines that make
your necessities.
Now, your executive committee has
decided to adopt the plans that have
been mapped out by "Uncle Johnney"
and that are successfully working in
wool manufacturing at Albuquerque,
New Mexico, and will be extended to
your other desires just as fast as you
want them. So the members will send
in their applications and subscriptions
to your headquarters at Dallas, Texas,
just that soon you will have CO-OP-
ERATION THAT CO-OPERATES.
The mills and factories are already
waiting for us. Five dollars apiece by
the members will own them—all we
want; and the plan makes It possible
for everyone to own an interest and
to get the benefits. TIME IS PASS-
ING QUICKLY. Your committee has
investigated carefully. They have given
their decision. Get your local to act
promptly and you will hear some-
thing "drap." It will be 85 per cent of
labor's products dropping. Into your
own pockets that has been dropping
into the millionaire's pockets.
RIO GRANDE WOOLEN MILLS CO,
(Co-Operatlv.e),
ALBUQUERQUE, Ii. M.,
Johnney H. Bearrup, Pres.
We, the members of the Executive
Committee of the Farmers' Educational
and Co-Operative Union of America, in
executive session, have decided, aft
a careful investigation, to accept
industrial plans of co-operation as Is"
now In operation at Albuquerque, New
Mexico, by the Rio Grande Woolen
Mills Co., Co-operative, and have ac-
cepted the trusteeship for said com-
pany, believing that this will be of
material, personal benefit to our mem-
bership, and that by this action we
are safeguarding every members' in-
terest, and we hereby authorize sail
company to present their plans to our
membership.
(Signed) F. W. DAVIS,
Chairman.
J. A. JAMISON,
Secretary, j
M. A. CLIFTON, I
J. R. LUCE,
G. M. GARNER,
and C. W. WOODMAN,
Texas Organizer of the American Fed-
eration of Labor.
POULTRY SUPPLIES.
State Agents for Cornell Incubators
and Brooders, Steinmesch chick feed in
car lots, remedies, disinfectants, foods,
etc. Catalogue free.
BAKER BROS., Fort Worth, Texas.
Seats on the New York Exchange
are stil' on the rise; ninety-seven
thousand is the price paid this week.
Who says the finances of the country
are not in a healthy condition?
Keep $
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It is nerve energy that runs
the organs of your body. The
storage battery is the nerve
cclls in the brain and spinal
cord, and from this battery;
nerve force is sent out through
the system of nerves. To keep
the body healthy you must
have plenty of nerve force; if
you have not, the organs work
imperfectly, the circulation is
sluggish, digestion bad, appe-
tite poor, kidneys inactive, and
aches, pains and misery are
the penalty.
You can keep the system
strong with Dr. Miles' Nervine.
It assists in generating nerve
energy; it strengthens the
nerves and makes the whole
system strong and vigorous.
"I take pleasure in recommending
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