The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 20, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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' THE NATIOWAU UU-UJTJJ/KAiUU AINU iTAKM JOTTRNAB
COUNTY UNION MEETING.
ATTEND TO BUSINES8.
Interesting and Enthusing Speeches
Mads and a Great Awakening
Was the Result.
Dear Co-Operator: Cypress Creek
Local Union bad the honor of enter-
taining Nevada County Union at its
last regular meeting.
The program was arranged to have
the first dayman open session, and Bro.
Lewis, our State Lecturer, to entertain
the people. Though £e failed to mr*
rive until about 3 p. m., we had a very
Interesting meeting.
While the weather was very unfav-
orable, the people began to gather
reasonably early, and by 11 o'clock we
had a good crowd and other speakers
being present, our County Organizer,
especially, who began to'instruct the
people on Union principles.
At 12 o'colck we took a recess until
1:30. Dinner being spread by our la-
Jles, we all feasted until we felt un-
pleasant, and I want to say right here
to the credit of our ladles, that we
aave the best cooks in Arkansas.
At 1:30 o'clock the people were call-
ed to order, and our speaker contin-
ued his speech, and as he was closing
Bro. Lewis appeared and gave us a
iplendid talk on Unionism. Next day
we had a very interesting meeting of
the County Union, with closed doors.
At night we had public speaking again,
at the close of which we had a real
Old time love feast, sung a song and
adjourned until next County Union.
We feel assured of the fact that we
will reap much fruit from the effect
of'our County Union meeting with our
Local. We receiveu six new members
In our Local during the meeting. Bro.
Lewis is certainly the right man in the
right place.
We expect to perfect plans next
week to build a Farmers' Union ware-
bouse in Prescott.
We had nineteen Locals represented
at our meeting and Nevada County is
on a boom.
I read so many Interesting letters
in Co-Operator of what our Union peo-
ple are doing and what they have done
—1 think we should all feel encour-
aged, renew our energy and press the
battle until victory is won. Fraternal-
ly yours, W. E. MARSH.
Rosston, Ark.
many otherwise clever farmers do a
good deal of talk away from home along ■
the line -of diversified farming. But Let Other People Talk About Ue If
they do not write It out on their farms They Want to—Be Faithful and
In a way that he that runs by may Firm in All Things.
men's farms as plainly as It can be ■
read it out on the ground of these Dear Co-Operator: Our Local Union 1
read In their papers and Calk. This la progressing nicely. We are about <
thing of an talk and no work to back nlxty strong, aud I think the most of '
««. mnnn 4A U1..A A# 1
it up Is too much to go down a
us mean to be true blue. Of course,
we have our ups and downs, like all i
practical man 8 throat without strain- oher organizations. We have had 1
lng a little. I believe it was B. Harris some unpleasant talk about our Union, j
that made the suggestion at our hog l"1' that is not our business, and we <
j i * ,„♦ <+ don't care; we mean to stick fast. I 1
and hominy meeting that it would pay mak thog; feUoW8 tbat h|cked so hlRh
the owner of the farm best to do the about the Union when we were first
hog and hominy and other diversified trying to organize would now come in
farming stunts and sell these farm and be strong Union men It they had
supplies to his fool all-cotton-growing not Just kept kicking until they kicked
renters who will persist in working know how to get back on.
themselves and families down to rags themselves oft the track and don't
and tags every year trying to f,et rich I think The Farmers* Union is the
growing cotton while the other man grandest thing us poor farmers ever
out in the shade makes the price and
takes the profits.
ANOTHER YOUNG SISTER.
had the opportunity of uniting our-
selves to, except the Church of God. If
we have got enough backbone to stick,
victory must he ours.
Now, brethren, let's not get lazy and
8he Sympathizes With the Poor Spec- careless on this line and let the spec- i fllC Building that will be
ulator so Much, She Actually ulator have what we make for nothing, J J _
Works for Him. when it justly and honestly belongs to J J Seen at every COttOIl TOWIl
our wives and children. If w? do 1 < ■ jn TeXSS by Sept. 1, 1907
Dear Co-Operator: I have been a don't know but what we will be held
member of The Farmers' Union for a accountable for it in that great and
short time. My membership is in awful day.
the Shady Grove Local Union, Arkan- Now, as we are getting ready for
sas. I am deeply interested in the our new crops, let's begin preparing
Union and its noble work. My father ourselves to be in shape next fall to
is a farmer and I know what it is to hold what we have made that we may
work in the field, as 1 have spent many obtain the minimum price fixed by our
a day there in bard toil, so hard that National Union. And, above all, breth-
oftentimes It seemed I would drop ren, for thereby alone can we succeed,
from sheer exhaustion. But I knew let's be faithful to our Union princi-
the speculator was sorely in need of pies and to our solemn obligations as
money. His family didn't have more Union members. We can not do this
than six carriages of different pat- unless we are faithful to our Local, to
terns; he had not,been able to buy our County, to our State and to our
more than sixty or seventy new silk. National Unions. We must keep our
Farmers; Defend Yourselves!
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With your cotton in your own warehouse you can .
Defy the Speculator! Your Warehouse Is your fort*
ress; behind it's protecting walls you can wage a
War that Will Win. The fight for a Fair Price is on.
If you are alert you can win; sleep on your rights
and you lose.
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Protect Yourselves With Warehouses.
dues paid up in each one of these, that
they may each one be able to do the
duties incumbent upon it to do.
WALTER SPENCE.
Rara Avis, Miss.
UNDULY HONORED.
GOOD RULES.
Farmers (S. C.) Union Bureau.
( Here are some good ruleB to paste
Up in your books to be read out the
first thing at the beginning of the bus-
iness feature of your meetings:
1. Are we Union men?
2. Do we know that to be good
Uniofi men we must submit to the
will of the majority?
3. Have we come together for the
purpose of combining our strength for
the good of the fraternity as a whole,
or have any of us assembled for self-
aggrandizement or pecuniary Interest
of Individuals or cliques?
4. Have we come together for the
purpose of hunting up good things to
talk of for our benefit, or are we hunt-
ing for more trouble by talking over
the mean things that others have
done?
6. When you want a thing done be
■ure to get very busy men to do it
tor you; never think of appointing
men to do important work for the Un-
ion tbat are not now, nor never were,
worth a cuss for anything.
6. If you are looking for good you
will be sure to find something good,
and If you are out looking for bad
things you will find more of this than
you want very soon.
satin and lace dresses each for his
wife and daughters; he had only been
able to expend $30,000 for diamonds a
year for bis family and he was so hard
pressed he had to keep his wine bill
down to the insignificant figure of
|20,000 and his family bad not been
able to make but three tours of Eu- ■
rope, so that he might not suffer, he Dear Co-Operator: The following
and his poor, neglected family, I resolutions were adopted by Liberty
worked the harder. Of course, I Local Union of Grayson County, Tex-
knew it made no difference as to my- as, at its last meeting, and it is the
self or my father aud the rest of his desire of the Local that Co-Operator
family. Any old thing was good publish the same:
enough for us, if the dear, good, kind- Inasmuch as the Cotton Growers'
ly, generous speculator would just Union is attempting to disrupt the F.
honor us by letting us work for him. E. and C. E. U. of A. by severely critl-
A calico dress for me, so it was red, cizing our State officials, thereby hop- profitable tO stockholders. All guaranteeing prO-
was all sufficient, and a little corn- rag to sow the seeds of doubt and dis- . "
bread and fat bacon was ample food content in our ranks, and
and sufficiently luxurious for the peas- Whereas, we believe it is through a
antry, while our nobility fare sumptu- spirit of malice and envy,
ously and were clad in fine raiment Resolved, By Liberty Local of Gray-
of silk and purple. son County, Texas, that we heartily
But I want to tell you that I, for indorse the valuable work of our State
one, have grown tired of this thing, officers and condemn in toto the ac-
If I, with other women, have to work tions of the Cotton Growers' Union as
in the fields to help fathers and hus- being antagonistic to our principles
bands, why shouldn't we have the and unjust to our officers.
: We built over a hundred in 1906, A11 satisfactory.
" tection to the cotton and to the price.
J We are closing contracts daily with progressive com-
munities for warehouses to be finished by Sept. 1 1907.
We will be glad to give full particulars and testi-
monials free; write to us.
PRICES
IRON CLAD
No. 0-
No. 00-
STANDARD
No. 1.
No.
No.
No.
2-
3-
4.
.$1,750
. 3,250
.$2,500
- 4,000
. 5.000
. 7,500
WILLIAM BRILEY,
MAX ROBINSON.
Gordon ville,-Texas. Conr
YOUTHFUL UNIONIST.
COTTON MILt MAN 8QUEAL8.
Farmers' (S. C.) Union Bureau.
We have before our Farmers' Union
Bureau a letter to our Bureau from a
cotton mill man that would astonlsn
many of our Farmers' Union men. Be-
yond doubt many of our Southern cot-
ton mills are in a much worse tied up
condition than our cotton growers who
spend a lot of their time cussing these
same mill men that are in ten times
worse fix and tied up subjects to their
selling agents than cotton growers are
borne down upon by New York Cotton
Exchange men. Cotton growers can
pull themselves out from under the
harness of cotton bears by growing
tbelr own foodstuffs. But these South-
ern mill men who own the minority of
their mill stocks are under the com-
plete control of their selling agents in
Philadelphia, New York or other
places, who not only dictate the prices
that these mills shall pay for the raw
cotton, but they also name the prices
for the mills products, the quantity
and quality of goods made, and even
name the brands In many cases that
go on the bales of goods, and at the
same time these selling agents are
said to get a good rake-off In the way
of commissions, both going and com-
ing.
benefit of our labor? I would regret
to see any speculators' women folks
have to hoe cotton, or pick it, or have
to split wood and make fires and strain
over the washtub as so many thous-
ands of good, honest, pure, gentle, re- ■
fined women of the South have to do, Dear Co-Operator: I have my third
because these same speculators rob copy of the Co-Operator and am well
the farmer of his legitimate remunera- pleased with it I Jove to read the
tlon for his labor, that they may grow letters from the brothers and sisters,
rich and live in luxury. I am not vin- and especially the young boys. Now
dictive, nor is our noble Order, and we is the time, boys, to get down to Un-
wish neither his family nor the spec- lonism and Btudy its principles and
ulator himself any harm, but we do make your marks, while the old ones
want justice—we do want exemption are ready to help you. We old fellows
and freedom from his further depreda- have spent the best part of our lives
tions and spoliations, AND WE ARB trying to raise our boys and keep up
GOING TO HAVE IT. the other side of the world at the same
How are we going to do it? Through time. Now, as we have started off on
The Farmers' Union and the earnest the right track, let us all pull together,
determination of the membership to I belong to Prairie Grove Local. We
do all that it asks us to do. To be nave a membership of forty-three, prln-
true to our Local, County, State and clpally young men and boys. They
National Unions, paying our dues may not want to be called boys, but
promptly to each one of these and liv- they are boys. I am a boy, and I am
lng up to our obligations. one among the oldest of them. We
I wonder If every member of the have a few older heads that are mighty
Union takes and reads Co-Operator?
Write To-day For Our Plans And Full Information.
The Farmers and
Building
Bankers Warehouse
Association
; General Offffloe
Houstonf Texas
Mdrm All Camunloatlona To Nearest OHIoe.
Branch Offlcos
Oklahoma City, Ok la.
Wlnnfield, La.
Utttailtook, Ark.
I am sending you nine subscribers
and one renewal. I think I Bhall be
able to send you a lot more shortly.
J. M. GRIFFIN,
Byars, I. T. Secretary.
PAYING NATIONAL DUE8.
If not, what a mistake those who do
not, make. They hurt themselves and
their families by not doing bo and
they hurt the Union.
Now, brothers and sisters, just stand
firm, as firm as walls of stone, and we
will win our victory.
JESSIE JOHNSON.
Buford, Ark.
Dear Co-Operator: I wish to say
good Union men, who hold us boys to- tj,at the Union Is moving along slowly
gether. Then we have a few men In jn our county, but all the members are
our community that have been Union loyal to the cause. At the last meet
members, but they are men of Indus- jng cf Oak Grove Local Union we
trious habits and don't have time to voted to pay our dues to the National
attend the Union, but they are In very Union and signed three petitions, one
ZEALOU8 IN THE CAUSE.
good circumstances and probably think
they don't need help from the Union.
But, brethren, if you don't need help
yourselves, come out and help us poor
fellows that do need help, and let us
push the Union, for It is a good cause.
If It benefits the poor, It will help
those in better circumstances.
J. S. BOYKIN,
Mist, Ark. Secretary.
to each of our Representative and
Senator in the State Legislature, and
our Congressman, A. W. Gregg, in
Resolved, That we condemn In
strongest terms the New York and
New Orleans exchanges.
Resolved, That we condemn the Cot-
ton Growers' Union that has been
formed in some of the Western coun-
ties, the aim of which is to cripple
The Farmers' Union.
We ask that ail members of the F.
E. and C. U. of A. line up for battlo
and prepare for the hardest fight of
our lives this year.
P. L. OWEN,
R. H. YEAGER,
I. J. LAMB,
Cisco, Texas. Committee.
Furniture for the Home
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Dear Co-Operator: I write to let
you know that Barren Fork Local Un-
ion In this little comer of Izard Coun-
ty, Arkansas, Is getting along just tip-
top. We started with seven and now
have thirty-five members, and "weuns"
want "youuns" to know that we are jja8 forty-two male members, and it is
WAREHOUSE VICTORIOUS.
Dear Co-Operator: I desire through
Washington, to do all in their power valuable columns to inform the
to abolish futures gambling In our
farm produce.
I desire to correct the error of Dr.
L. Merrlwether. The merchants of
GOOD TERRITORY UNION.
brethren that wo are still loyal to the
cause here In Cass County, Texas.
In Ballard Local Union, of which I
am a member, we are taking In new
Crockett gave $1100, not $100 to help momberg at almost eevry meeting, tak-
build our Union warehouse. jng |„ 0ur last one.
Our next County Union will meet Our Union warehouse has benefited
with Red Prairie Ix)cal Union on April very much—far more than we ex-
Did you know that the Southland has a factory equipped with capital, skill,
machines and taste to turn our native hardwood—the finest on earth—into the
most useful, beautiful and durable things for the home tbat you can buy any-
where? That it is possible now for discriminating furniture buyers to furnish
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sure you get it. Sold by leading
dealers thrpughout the 8dutb.
Write today for useful 8ouvenir
free, and our beautiful aew booklet
Lof exclusive designs.
TIE miTE FUMITNE CO., MM, R, 1
Dear Co-Operator: Our Local Union jg an(j ^ an<j we would be glad to peeled, as the season was half over bc-
THAT DIVERSIFED FARMINQ
TALK.
Farmers' (S. C.) Union Bureau.
All this talk about diversified farm-
ing is now getting rather stale talk to
most dose observers. We note that
ready to do our part, and more, too,
In making everything lovely in all re-
spects in our grand Order.
Our Local Union meets twice a
month, and while some are a little
backward In talking on the various
questions that come, there are others
who make up for it It is not always
the man who talks most who Is most
Interested or interesting.
L. H. McSPADDEN.
Barren Fork, Ark.
Order Is being gradually restored lo
the stricken city of Kingston.
waking up with renewed spirit and
vim. We also, besides our forty-two
male members, have twenty ladies,
who grace our meetings with their
presence and make them much more
pleasant. We meet every Tuesday
night and every first Saturday at 1
o'clock p. m.
We are getting ready to build a co-
operative gin, so that we will be In-
dependent of the toll or custom gins.
We had a cotton yard last year, and It
paid us. We have scales and a weigh-
er, and we shall do business for our
selves this year, absolutely.
have Brother Pyle and President Cal- fore wo got it ready. We have welgh-
vin with us. ed over 4000 hales of cotton.
We are thinking strongly of build- Our warehouse hus taught us that
lng a warehouse at Grapeland this through warehouses we can hold our
year> 8. T. PARKER. cotton, and by holding our produce we
Grapeland, Texas. can get the fixed price. Therefore, I
__________ say build warehouses. Stick to them,
CONDEMN FUTURES GAMBLING, by putting your produce in them; stick
to the minimum price and stick to all
Dear Co-Operator: Cisco District
Union at its last meeting adopted the
following resolutions:
Resolved, That we reaffirm our for-
mer resolutions against gambling in
futures.
Union priuciples and we will win.
M. B. WILKERSON.
Atlanta, Texas.
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Pyle, O.P. The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 20, 1907, newspaper, March 20, 1907; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth186282/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .