Southern Mercury United with the Farmers Union Password. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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should write us for spscial terms to agents.
BUSINESS SENSE IN MARKETING COTTON.
In a recent issue of the Atlanta Constitution ap-
pears a clear-cut, wcll-l>alance<i survey of the cotton
situation, which is worthy of reproduction here. The
Constitution supplements a timely interrogatory with
some pertinent remarks. The supreme question at
this time is, "Do the cotton growers of the South in-
tend this year to play into the hands of their ene-
mies, the bears?
Right now is the time for them to decide. The
marketing season is on. Will they exercise business
judgment in the handling of the precious product,
which means so much, not only to them, hut to the
entire South; or will they do as they have so often
done in the past—dump their cotton indiscriminate-
ly upon the market and, by this dumping process,
hammer down the price?
Upon the exercise of ordinary business sense dur-
ing the next two months will depend, in large meas-
ure, the prosperity, not only of the farmers them-
selves. but of the entire South. 1 f, instead of rushing
their cotton to market, as they have done in the past,
thev sell only as the legitimate demands of the spin-
ners require, they will be able to practically dictate
the price.
Kut if, on the other hand, they disregard this
practical, common-sense warning; if, instead of hold-
ing their cotton—or a goodly portion of it—they in-
sist upon hurrying it to market, the inevitable re-
sult is a low price for the staple, t<> the delight and
profit of the bears, who are now busily engaged in
the hammering-down process.
Every cotton farmer, large anil small, should look
the situation squarelv in the face. No other class of
producers on earth so completely hold their best in-
terests in their own hands. They have a monopoly
in the production of a staple which all the world
needs. The world demand for cotton is steadily and
surely increasing, and under the natural law of sup-
ply anil demand the producers are entitled to prices
giving a better return for their crop than is enjoyed
by the producers of any other agricultural crop of this
or any other country of the world. The only thing
essential to ineure this price is business-like market-
ing
The co'tton producer is better able this year than
ever l efore to absolutely control the marketing of
his crop. If he will sell sparingly—if he will hold
back the bulk of his crop, selling gradually to meet
the legitimate demands of the market—he will cir-
cumvent the machinations of the bears and will get
a fine price for his product. He can do this, and
every dictate of self-interest demands that he take
full advantage of the opportunity.
The problem facing the cotton growers of Geor-
gia and the South is a vital one. Its solution is in
their hands. Thev can either ttmimand a good price,
or thev can sacrifice millions of dollars to the cot-
ton bears. Which will they do?
Tt. is for the farmers themselves to decide.
WHOLES A I.E POISONING.
The extent to which the adulteration of the peo-
ples food is practiced is something as amazing as
it is deplorable. The country people, however, are
the lesser sufferers in this regard, since they can sup-
ply themselves with most of their food from their own
farms. The wage-workers of the cities are most un-
fortunately situated—thev must buy what they can.
Chpiie, high-priced goods thev are unable to buy.
The urban workers are virtually doomed to subsist on
the cheapest, most inferior goods on the market, while
the non-producing speculator, who can afford to l e
fastidious, buys only the choicest.
Only through co-operative industry can the wage-
worker reasonably hope to secure permanent relief
from these evils. Kigorous laws on the subject may
be enacted, but easily evaded, and rarely are they
enforced impartially. The universal use of the union
label—including the Farmers' Union label, as a guar-
antee of the purity and honesty of goods, must be
encouraged, and when fully understood and gener-
ally adopted, will lie of inestimable service along this
Kite.
In a recent number of the independent Mr. W.
J. Ghant, the brilliant young author of "Benevolent
Feudalism," presents some striking facts collated
from the reports of government experts who have an-
—1 many of the foods on the market which the
aro compelled to stuff into their stomachs,
nd, for example,—and this the investigations
jnd's Magazine in Texas corroborate—that
dosed with formaldehyde, while condensed
(, much tforse. and wholly unfit for food. Fruit
abominable concoctions in which no fruit
, gelatine, hayseed, aa make-be*
lievc fruit seeds, ground up refuse from fruit* can-
neries, etc. There is cheese ou the market made of
lard, cotton seed oil and metallic salts! I>arge
amounts of renovated rancid butter are sold, and fac-
tories do a big business in taking spoiled butter and
putting it through a "cleaning" and doping pro-
cess, after which it is freely sold as fresh all over
the country. In Canada there is a chemical process
by which skimmed milk is solidified and made up
into fake butter hard to detect from the real. All
canned goods are doped and colored. Old "prehis-
toric," shelf-worn cans are freshened up with chem-
icals and put out with new, bright labels. Pulverized
sugar is badly adulterated, and no more maple sugar
is to lie had in the market. Molasses and fancy syr-
ups are mostly glucose. Preserved and cold storage
eggs so dead that they pould not be made to
hatch, are greedily consumed. But bakers use "bot-
tled egg" and "egg flake" preparations made of an-
tique eggs, broken,, deodorized, mixed, dosed with •
bnracic acid (five pounds td' the 10ft pounds of eggs,
says I)r. Wiley), dried and .packe t for transit. And
the most prominent caterers make free use of this
abomination.
Baker's bread, especially the factory product, is
fuir of adulterants, alum, poor and cheap flour badly
adulterated with ground peas, boa us, chicory, bar-
ley and worse substances. Tea • is adulterated- to a
great extent and leaves of other plants mixed in to
cheapen it. The India teas are said to g(jt their fla-
vor from the abundant perspiration of the unclean,
natives who gather it. Spoiled fish are treated with
salts of zinc. Vaseline and coal tar is rubbed on
the gills of well dead fish to give them a fresh look.
Spices are inosfly substitution, vinegar is almost
wholly a chemical product and lemon extract is fre-
quently adulterated with . wood alcohol, a poison.
Catsup is colored with coal tar dyes and "preserved."
Olive oil is made from cotton seed, lard oil and other
stuff. Chocolate and cocoa are filled with foreign
fats and loaded down with starch and earth. Cheap
candy is largely adulterated. Terra abla is used to
loail it down and cheapen its manufacture. The
flavors are not natural, but produced by chemists.
Glucose, which is made by treating starch with sul-
phuric acid, and is regarded as dangerous to health
by honest chemists, is largely used in candy, even
when made by leading confectioners. Saccharin,
a powerful irritating sweetening, often containing
arsenic, is much used, although foreign countries
prohibit its use. And so on—all deception, poison-
ous cheapenings to increase profits.
den bv the patent "whitening" process, ete. Coffee
At the World's Fair at St. Louis a government
chemist waved a flag of many vivid hues before a
meeting of pure food scientists and showed them
that each color had been extracted bv himself from
various foods bought in open market in which arti-
ficial coloring had been used.
Now, brother, read this article to your son or
daughter, who is dissatisgied with ecountrv life and
infatuated with the garish light and artificial, de-
ceptive varieties which entice so many to their un-
doing.
The Oklahoma Union Messenger truly says: "The
official who opposes investigation of his financial
accounts and records., or squirms under the fire of
adverse criticism of his official acts, compromises
himself in the estimation of his fellow-citizens—
convicts himself of culpability of crime of some char-
acter known or suspected. It is a safe and logical con-
clusion that the person, whether an official or not,
who resents criticism and seeks to suppress the im-
partial investigation of his public acts fears the re-
sults which would follow, and is therefore unworthy
of trust by honest people." .
No one will take exceptions to the above—openlv.
But instead, the fellow who fears the light of truth,
will write a homily on "harmony." and therein will
excoriate alleged disturbers and disorganizes, and
throw houqiyts at himself as a "builder."
The I'nion Messenger argues logically in saying
that "the successful efforts of the farmers to unite and
stick together in the past, is no reason why they can-
not, or will not, do so in the future! It all depends
upou their education. The system of education in
the past has been woefully deficient, but this is tt
more enlightened age: thev are proving themselves
to be apt scholars, and are rapidlv absorbing essential
ideas that will elevate them intellectually and finan-
cially."
When our esteemed contemporary, the Texas Farm
and Hunch, came out in a plausible editorial smooth-
ing over the packing house disclosures so far as pos-
sible. we wondered if it did not mean a juicy adver-
tisement for its columns from the meat trust. And,
sure enough, in the current number of the Farm
and Ranch, Swift's ad. looms up. all right, all right.
Yes, bud. we are living in u commercial age.
, only
Have you observed that the class of crimes which
only those possessing wealth are in a position to com-
mit. are rarely ever punishable by imprisonment?
Under the Elkins anti-relmte law. for instance, the
Sugar Trust magnates who have been caught rebating
in league with the railroads will escape imprisonment?
And what does a tine amount to for them? Nothing!
"Among the amendments to the Indiuhomn consti-
tution adopted at Shawnee, and to be submitted to
the locals, was one slightly increasing the quarterly
duos, and another providing for the election of of-
ficers by a referendum vote.of the locals, and also
providing that unsatisfactory officials may he re-
called by the membership.
•Tas. Smith of Ilugo, I. T.. lecturer of the Twelity-
fourth District, states that a Union cotton warehouse
is to Ite put in at Hugo. Considerable money has
boon raised, and the business men of Hugo will con-
tribute about $1,200 towards the enterprise. Next?
The final resolution passed by the Texas State
Union, introduced by T. B. Taylor, declared in favor
of perfecting of the Farmers' Educational Union of
America on as inexpensive a plan as possible com-
mensurate with the magnitude of the organization.
Our esteemed Minnesota contemporary. Farm,
Stock and Home, declares that "legislative subservi-
Tuey to plutocracy is less dangerous to the Republic
than legislative subserviency to a party machine. *
System and order must displace chance is the
market i ug of farm products
The following open letter possesses some pecu-
liar historic interest, and introduces a chapter in
the early history of the Farmers' Union, which a
majority of the piescnt membership are probably not
familiar with. It was written under date of May
31, 1904, by the first secretary of the executive com-
mittee of the F. E. and C. U. of A., in rejdy to
an attack upon the organization by Hon. Harvie
Jordan, who it that time was president of the Na-
tional Farmers' Congress and of the Southern Cot-
ton Growers' Protective Association. Jordan's stric-
tures appeared in the agricultural department of the-
Atlanta Journal, and were playing havoc with the
progress and prospects of the organization until its
malign influence was broken by the following open
letter, which was circulated extensively in that, sec-
tion. Mr. Jordan did not publish this reply, hut
crawfished beautifully, and was careful thereafter
to make no more such wild breaks. On the contra-
ry, lie repeatedly expreffed his approbation of the
movement. The text of the Colwick-Jordan letter
is here reproduced in part:
To the Hon. Harvie Jordan. Editor Agricultural
Department, Atlanta Journal, Monticello, Georgia.
Dear Sir: As you have seen fit to make an un-
warranted attack upon the Farmers' Educational and
Co-operative Union of America, you will, I trust, be
fair anough to publish this letter.
I do not propose to take issue with you at this
time on the question as to whether or not your asser-
tion that any farmers' organization with ritualistic
features always has been, and perforce always must
be, a failure and an abomination in the sight of such
gentlemen as yourself; neither will I here question
your perfect right to deny tho* farmer the privilege
of having secret orders.
The propriety, the wisdom, the necessity for some
measure of secrecy under existing conditions may
not be finally settled by your ipse dixit; for a great
many people prize the ritualistic features very high-
ly, your pronunciamento to the contrary notwith-
standing!
Not a few people, farmers and otherwise a con-
siderably majority, in fact, readily concede that the
(! range, the Farmers' Alliance, the F. M. B. A. and
kindred organizations did a great deal of good. Who
can say that the Farmers' Union may not do more?
Oh, yes! You say thev did no good, and that the
Farmers' Union will ;>nd can do no good. B, care-
ful, Brother Jordan, don't be so cocksure: don't be
too hasty. You may be unwittingly injuring your
own reputation more than you injure the Farmers'
Union—which is'.bigger than any man—by your
reckless allegations and ill-advised criticisms of an
organization which is bringing the fanners together
for the promotion of their common interest, an I
which will unite them in your own State of Geor-
gia. despite all your labored efforts toward staying
the rising tide of progress.
Your influence is no doubt great'; it therefore
becomes a serious tiling when you throw that influ-
ence directly in tl)fc path of the Union, in the vain
hope of crushing or permanently dipping the young
giit/it. You m^vjHtard its growth for a time; you
may impede the towlc and render more difficult, the
task of uniting the Georgia farmers with the farm-
ers of Texas an I (Jfehcr States, but this is all. Crush
it. stop it—t'us you cannot do! Born of necessity,
founded upon the principles of Equity, Justice and
the Golden Rule, growing with increased vigor by
virtue of its inherent merit and admirable adapta-
bility to existing needs and conditions, the prog-
ress of this real union of the farmers cannot be per-
manently obstructed bv anv man! So fall in line,
else get out.of the roal, for we are coming. Father
Jordan, a hundred thousand strong!
The vigorous growth of the Farmers' Union will
afford some idea whether or not the members arc
reasonably satisfied1 with the order.
I quite agree with you that that organization
which leaves the locals entirely dependent upon their
own exertions will till the requirements.
Our I'nion people expect to profit by past ex-
perienve and past mistakes. Immunity from error
is not hoped for; indeed, they have learned that
even the experts and scientific authorities "know"
a great inauy things that mi* ultimately found un-
true. and make almost as many mistakes as any-
IkkIv. Another thing: The farmers fire "catching
on" to the fact that many of our distinguished agri-
cultural college professors and editors and experts
are more solicitous about holding their positions and
maintaining their strtding among the "powers that
he.4' than thev are to liberate the farmers from the
chit lies of the speculators: and that while deeply
concerned about the size of the crop, they are usually
serenely unconcerned about the price of the crop.
The latter is a tabooed topic among these gentry.
Thev seem quite content for the non-producers to
control the prices.
You intimate that Georgia farmers are doing very
well, thank you. and their prospects so bright that
they have no good reason for striving for betterment
of their condition, except in so far as the organiza-
tions you represent may deem prudent. Harvie Jor-
dan may he satisfied with the condition of the Geor-
gia farmers and the progress they are making, but
I am satisfied it does not follow that the Georgia
farmers arc satisfied, nor that they ought to be sat-
isfied. Tf yon can keep the farmers satisfied, they
will never achieve industrial or commercial inde-
pendence. They will naver secure their rights until
they unite atid demand them. Limp acquiescence
with injustice never won- a victory. The children
of Israel would not have thrown off the Egyptian
yoke had they remained contented. It is better to
be a contented man than a satisfied hog. We wel-
come every manifestation of intelligent discontent
with conditions which ignorance and apathy of the
many and the selfishness of the few permit to go
unremedied.
You think there "ought to be one or two agricul-
tural clul s in each county," presumably located in
the towns, controlled bv business and professional
men. buyers and other town farmers. As for the
bovs in the ^orks of the creek—well, they can get
such "fatherly" advice aa may be deemed good for
them when thev do come to town. The Farmers'
Union, on the contrary, believes in compact school .
house organizations, universally, for the purpose of
reguluting markets, controlling prices of farm prod-
ucts, discouraging the credit system, promoting sci-
entific methods, order ami economy in production
and distribution, and" for the elevation of the ethical,
social and intellectual life of the community.
This ia the mission of the Farmers' Educational
and Co-operative {Jnion of America. Very sincerely,
ALFRED M. COLWICK,
State Secretary Executive Committee.
N. C. MURRAY, Pres..
NEWT. GRESHAM, Sec.
WHAT THE TRUST DOE$.
The International Harvester Company—the agri-
cultural machinery trust—has just made a contract
with the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company for 25,-
000 tons of pig-iron, the price being about $13 a ton
at Birmingham, says the S. F. Star. That will make
a good many harvesters and other farm machines
which will cost the farmers of the United States at
least 20 per cent more than it should through tariff
protection'of the trust. Paragraph 460 of the tariff
law provides that:
"Plows, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters, reap-
ers, agricultural drills, and planters, mowers, horse-
rakes, cultivators, threshing machines and cotton gins,
twenty jiej-etfiitum ad valorem."
Tliis trust is said to be selling its products cheaper
abroad thsiii'herc and our fanners have to pay high
prices for the benefit of the trust and the foreigners.
The refusal of the New York Central Railroad to
haul a trainload-of of Win. J. Bryan's admirers
over its road simply because they had a large ban-
ner f!o:\;ng from the forefront of the train, compli-
mentary to Mr. Bryan, is indicative of the hatred
of the railroad magnates of the print-piles Mr. Bryan
represents. Indeed, this act is an insult to the Amer-
ican people. Railroads are common carriers, and
have no legal right to refuse to haul anything not
bannered by law—when the charges have been paid.
Political prejudice and dictatorial actions, such as
the above,-only widen the breach, already too wide,
between the people and "captains of industry."
"The farmers are the world's masters," says the
Union Messenger, "and if they could be made to
realize this fact there would be a revolution in the
commercial world and those who sit supinely like
beggars at the feet of our modern Dives, would stand
before the world as specimens of noble manhood and
womanhood instead of suppliants at the throne of the
greedy gods of finance."
The telephone has become a farm necesisty. For in-
formation concerning markets, weather forecasts, the
doctor, farm help, etc., etc., all one need to do is to
stop to the 'phone and you are enabled to discuss the
matter all you like with the same party whom it
would otherwise take you hours of travel to reach.
And again, the social enjoyment which the wife and
children derive from "visiting over the 'phone" is not
a trivial matter. A rural telephone line is easily put
in operation—any telephone manufacturer will fur-
nish you detailed instructions on request.
Let our watchword be: Agitate, organize, edu-
cate. Learn to say, "I can't afford it." Many a man
has been ruined because of false pride. That your
means are limited is not to your discredit. Many a
poor man's poverty is attributable to his honesty
and generosity. Many a rich man's wealth is due
to his cupidity and avarice.
There is no safer investment than a good farm.
Not necessarily a large farm, either In Belgium,
one of the few countries in Europe which is enjoying
comparative prosperity, the average farm is only a
couple of acres. Rid your mind of the idea that it is
useless to. buy land unless you can purchase a whole
quarter section.
Producers must not compete, but act in concert.
In the broader and truer sense, the general interests
of all producers harmonize. The great battle of the
ages is between producers and non-producers—be-
tween the la'Hirers and the leeches—between the
workers and the shirkers. On which side are your
sympathies enlisted?
One-crop farming is poor business. To grow
one crop year after year means; to encourage insect
posts and fungous diseases. Another consideration is.
that by rotation of crops the fertility of the soil is
indefinitely retained, even if the use of fertilizers
is negle; ted.
In two recent issues of the Grain Dealers' Journal
of Chicago, mention is made of no less than seventy
farmers' co-operative grain houses and mills. This
evidences the fact that the cause of co-operation is
growing, growing, in the North, as welj as in the
South and West.
Of all people, those with but one money crop arc
the people who must keep out of debt if they would
be free. The"creditor makes the debt due when the
crop is ready for market, and you are thus virtually
forced to sell, regardless of market conditions and
prospects.
Under the system of capitalist control the producer
always gets the small end, always. It is founded with
that end in view. Only under co-operation does the
producer get his own product. Co-operation means
equity.
Why not have a co-operative rural telephone sys-
tem in your section? Then you could keep in touch
with the markets, and your family would feel lees iso-
lated and lie less likely to leave the farm andi&o to
town.
A union fin Is being built at
taw, Okto. Next?
A big Farmers' Union picnic
held at Tulsa. I. T., on Sept. 4th.
fv
The September number of the Farm.
era' Union Magazine will appear about
Sept. 10.
A very complete union (in to being
erected at Marlow,. I. T., at a cost ot
99.099. '
A clearinghouse was opened on the >
1st at Checotah, under the management
of that veteran worker, W. H. H. , .
Harrison. . . .
The Menard County Union will hold
their quarterly meeting at Hext, Tex.,
Oct. 5-6.—W. C. Eckert, Streeter, Tex.
At Roosevelt. Okla, the Union farm-
ers have formed a strong company for
handling grain, coal, etc. A grain ele-
vator will probably be built.
The business men of Lockesburg,
Ark., have evinced commendable en-
terprises and liberality by pledging a
donation of 500 to a union cotton
warehouse to be established In that
town. Next ?
The systematic plodder often outdistances others
of twice his ability in other respects, who rely on ir-
regular, haphazard "spurts." Rational, persistent ef-
fort wins. The slow-inotioned tortoise, of the old
fable, by "keeping everlastingly at it," outdistanced
the fleet-footed hare.
Building so many cotton warehouses all over
Texas is going to have great weight in securing cot-
ton factories in the State. One good thing always
brings another.—Nacogdoches Plaindealer.
The organized farmers of the South are tired of
putting their cotton on the auction block. By Union
and concerted action vast bodies of scalpers will be
dispensed with, and a more economical and rational
system be established.
Without scientific marketing, scientific produc-
tion is' of little avail. The former is the supreme
question now confronting the agricultural world.
"Our County Union will convene on
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14-15. with
Fairfield local, east of Blue Springs.*
Would be glad to have E. A. Calvin or
A. M. Colwlck or N. C. Murray with
us to expound the practical workings
of co-operation, and give us further
light on how to put our union princi-
ples Into practical effect."
J. L. COGGIN.
Blue Springs, Miss.
AND NO PLACE FOR THE DEVIL
IN ONE OF THEM.
Have you noticed that our lawyer
friends in recent convention said that
our relations to society (that is, what
we owe to society and what society
owes us), made it necessary for laws to
be passed that would restrict the giant
minds of finance from combining and
oppressing their weaker fellows.
It seems to me they would do well to
study the scriptures and see what
Jesus taught His followers. It cer-
tainly was not to restrict combination,
but it was a pure co-operation, that
they should not call aught their own,
but that they should own all things to-
gether, and each one have according to
his needs by his labor. And this was
considered of so much importance that
Annias and Sapharia were stricken
with death for withholding a portion
from the Commonwealth. .There don't
now seem to be many being so stricken
for withholding the products of the
workers from them that they produce,
and grinding the faces of the poor. But
society itself is in such a deplorable
state that it is suffering (as a chain is
no stronger than the weakest link in
that chain) as is evidenced by the ex-
treme poverty, and the fact that thou-
sands are being killed by the condi-
tions, the existence of which is attrib-
utable directly to our having -failed to
follow the law of co-operation laid, /
down by that greatest of . teachers,
2,0C0 years ago. '
But you say, we are living in a dif "
ferent age; that things applicable to
those times and conditions are not
practical or applicable to the present.
Do you mean to tell me that God has
changod since he laid down the law>
that all debts should be wiped out
every seven years? And that land
titles should revert to the family ev«i*y
fifty years? (May be our lawyer friends
have been studying the Mosiac law.)
And has the divine principle of co-
operation, as taught by Jesus, changed?
No, only the hearts of men and women
have become hardened by ccvatousness
and not. willing to have bread by the
sweat of their own brows, but rather
have that that they cannot consume,
by the sweat of the brow of their
brother.
The principle of co-operation is more
applicable to the preaent time from the
fact that great inventians have almost-
obliterated time and space so that the
news of the wants of any part of our
country is known all over it the sanie
day, and our means of transportation
and exchange are so perfected that in
a day can be done that which formerly
consumed a month or more. And were
these means operated for us, instead of
profit, they could be very much im-
proved. Then, necessities, by our
present great machines, are being pro-
duced a thousand fold faster than they
were produced at the time of the early
Christian era. So that the communist
idea that was practical for them is not
necessary t> be considered today, but,
that beautiful principle of co-operation
remains the same ahd is made more
applicable for the above reasons, and
if we are believers in that principle, in
the Word, we do not need to kill or
oppress the oppressor, but all we that
believe can simply commence the co-
operative ownership of these machines
and own them in common (jointly). No
one saying, this is mine, but rather, it
is ours. „
No need to change your politics, your
religion, or your place of residence.
Pleaee don't think your "Uncle John-
ney" has turned preacher, for he has
only determined to live out in life what
he believes by practice, but aak your-
aelf if this is not pure gospel truth,
"Just the same," and if so, make us
your mind right now to turn your back
upon the satan that has led ue into the
oonditions that are nothing short of
hell to thousands of the human family.
If this should be your kind of religion
commence now to live it as is made
possible by what we have started, and
spread the news.
We want honeet, earnest men and
women in every eounty of every State
In the United Statee to know about it
and to earry the geepel to others.
If Jesus considered the having of
food, shelter and clothing of so muck
importance in attaining to a higher
life, and if we call the getting of theee
three things BUSINESS, then we need
net k afraid of handling business aa m
divine subjeet. And if yew will present
it as ouch, it won't be if* months until
we will co-operatively own the fattti'i
iee in three NECESSITIES, woolen,
cotton and leather, and the "Devil's"
private greed will net be in any ef
thwii*
RIO GRANDE WOOLEN MILLS CO,
CO-OPERATIVE.
J. H. BEARRUP, ...
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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