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THE NATIONAL CO-OVERATOIt AND FARM JOURNAL
— AMD —
PARM JOURNAL
O. P PYLE
Managing Editor.
GEO. B. LATHAM
General Manager.
Published weekly, every Wednesday,
by The Farmers' Educational and
Co-Operatlve Union Publish-
ing Company.
MS and >67 Commerce St., Dallas,- Texas.
Terms of subscription, one dollar a
year. In advance.
•"Sintered as second-class matter No-
vember 13, 1906, at the postofflce at
Dallas, Texas, under the Act of
Congress of March 3. 1879,"
l&dvertlsing rater wm be turmsnea on
Duplication.
Let us muke conditions such that all^ rience of their young manhood, bat Y\e do, and are willing to do much however, the brother ia unwilling to Oklahoma, which comes into the are enabled to buv at their own fijj«
who want such a home enn have it. with a scientific knowledge of farm-^ard work. Are you willing, brother, take the risk, we fail to pee where it Union of States as one of the wealthv ures and this they do utterly regard-
Wealth belongs as it should belong, ing, a knowledge of the chemical J" l,c' JJf "'"r If™. .<J" w"u,d be u3' liarin for him to buy class, should be congratulated. Her less of what is a fair and a just prie*
im w io pio ucis it. constituent-, of soils, a thorough un- cjl||) anij jn„ ^ r( _j(| ^ the cotton, paying the full market grand constitution and the whole- bacuse they say it is business to d*
" dorstanding of noil foods and how rm,jV(J *Irianv ](.t((.rs statin" that all Pr'ce for it, and put it into the ware- some laws which must be made un- this.
The time will be when crop mort- u"'1 wl'('n l<> «'« >, « P^rfcct tJ)e njembcrg of t,)0 |/K.afread the house himself, thus holding it of! der this constitution will attract The agricultural experiment st*
gages will he no more. We will be comprehension of the importance ot j,ajW.r- (Jt.t jn sjiaj)e t0 Hrite gm,j, a the market for the agreed price. Sup- many settlors there who otherwise tions have tullv demonstrated the
Pose this ha<1 'lone last year would not go ' Wekome> Mlss 0kla- fact that cottonseed are worth $16
ashamed to give one and the other U11L' ways and means for intensified jcttcr f,0m yours.
fellow will be ashamed <o ask "one. '«r'ning. Hut there are other im- ; 1_
Indeed, the Jand may refuse to recog- portant and inviting fields open for Qy TIIF l'\CIFIC CO VST
nize them. They deal in futures. the young graduate of this' college.
U" T ,ollow lho vocatiwn of Co-Operator editor has just re
Keep it constantly in mind that peering, either a civil engineer, arch- ceivetj a |ettor froIJ1 our mort worthy
thiris un industrial and not a polit- itectiiral, mining, mechanical or tex- Xlftional i>rmil|eIltf (|,as. s. Bar
ical organization. No man shall ever
when cotton was selling at 8 and 9 lloraa-
cents a pound. Ifow long would it
have been till the 11-cent mark was
reached? There is no doubt about
the principle of controlled markets
IMPORTANT NOT Hi:.
wreck us because of the prominence
the farmers have given him. Wo
will stay on the main track.
r
Do you think you would sell your
cotton again for five or six cents a
pound? No, you would not. He-
cause you would not, is the only rea-
son you do riot. What a great edu-
cational work has been done!
tile engineer, and he will be eminent-
ly qualified for either. If he has
developed a fondness for hortieil-
111 re lie goes forth a finished ami
highly cultured horticulturist in all
particulars. He might prefer to he-
roine a working chemist and he will
he at liome in the laboratory among
its flasks, retorts and crucibles. If
the law, or medicine, or the counting
per ton ffir fertilizer. The land own-
er can very reasonably be expected to
hold his seed for more than this
price, or else enrich his land with
them. The tenant cannot do this. It
does not pay him to fertilize another
rett. lie is in the State of Washing-
ton, away over on the Pacific coast.
He writes that the farmers there
hear the good news gladly and are
coming into the Union as fast as the
principles are presented to them.
Many liocals have been planted in
the States of Washington, Idaho and
Oregon. One Local of 100 members
. . , _ , For the past few months we have
being correct. A he tarmers should Im; . . . .
.... | | „ . , , lailed to discontinue a few subsc-rip-
I • < «' to • tlmt no mnrt Jand Ws cottonseed, even
"'"t- "" " ,,,nrkGt «* " for tliej ce p.i,i. Wo did " he ' r no more than
friends Pe- *on' a Pr'ee as frequently
a hale goes on the market when it
should not. It should be made a
neighborhood affair. It should be
talked in the local. Each local sjy*uld
first get every farmer to join, and
then take a kind of supervision over
the cotton of the neighborhood, and.
see to it that not one bale Ls placed
on the market in anv other manner
partments, look good to him, he is
A complete change of system of iust aK well fitted to follow his bent
marketing is what we are working a'0,,g any ol these lines. And while
for and what we arc to have. We ilis educational training and mental
are on the right road. We will stay development has been carefully look-
on the main track. Not political,
has been organized in the State of
room, or fhiJroading iiuanyof its do- Washington. Truly, this is a nation- than through the warehouse, and not
al organization in fact as well as in then below the minimum price
name. The charter obtained from agreed upon by the National Union,
the State of Texas made it National Lot us not forget that we are work-
froiu the beginning. It will spread ing for ourselves when we work for
to all the agricultural States. our brother. Every bale of cotton
It has now grown to be so large placed on the market bears the mar-
but; indu-
The Home Is the hope of the Nation.
When every family owns a home fres
from mortgage, then Indeed will we
have a prosperous country. To own
a home ls a duty every man owes hlm-
Mlf. his family and his country.
FARM PRODUCTS PHI CBS.
■stabllahed for 100€ aad 1S07 by the
National Farmers' Union.
This schedule of prices was agreed
upon at the National Convention of
the Farmers' Union held at Texarlcana,
September 6, 1006, and v.II meinb«rs
are expected to inalntaln them during
the year l#0G-7. The key to success*
In this organization la Controlled Mar-
keting. Don't dump your crop on the
market the month you harvest It. Hold
back, you who are able, and let thon*
In debt sell first. Help to make these
Rrices Standard by refusing to sell for
jss. Organize and Rtay organized:
lloo
.BO
.36
.75
10.00
ir..oo
100.00
16.00
6.00
6.00
If we wait for the other fellow
to do this great work for us, we will
be sadly disappointed, for he will
not do it. He will attend to his own
business as lie should. Let us do
the same.
that it has only to move forward
and passes the Jieid. Having had
its beginning in the South, it was
but natural that it organize in the
cotton States first. It is now lirmlv
ket to that extent. Let us not he
bears ourselves, .nor permit our
brother to he a bear if within our
power to prevent. There is abso-
lutely no doubt that the farmers can
that
I iCt
Let
Cotton, middling, per lb
Wheat, no. N. red, per bu
Corn, No. 2, per bu
Oats, No. 2. per bu
Potatoes, sweet or Irish
liay. No. 1, per ton
Hay, No. 1, alfalfa, per ton
Broom corn, per ton, $86 to
Cotton seed, per ton
Hogs, per cwt. alive. 16.60 to...
Cattle, per cwt., allre, $6 te
Don't sell for less.
We are most'liable to raise
extra blade of grass this year,
us think about a price for it.
us not permit it to break the market
and sell both blades for less than the
one. It takes thought as well as
work to succeed.
cd after, the welfare of the body has
not been neglected for the student
%is encouraged in all reasonable athlcr
tics along with the military drill, so
■that he enters upon his life's calling
with a sound mind in a sound hotly.
I lie I nited States government j,|,inted in every cotton State, and control this situation if they will. It
oackyoar gives to this college $15,000 j||(1 js forward in all the must be a perfect understanding.
toward its maintenance and this, oth(,r ..^cultural states. The pro-
■with the biennial State appropria- dm.ers are brethren) no niatter to
tions and the students $L>5 per an- w|)a( sect ion of the country thev bc-
niim for board, laundry and medical ]ong< Ko SP(.tion oan .lfr()nJ to"Helf.
jshly undertake to control the price
WILL HftVE SUPPERS.
this because several of our
wrote to us asking us to do so. Our pai(1 as moro- aiul a Price tl,at is gi,n>
list is very large, and is growing very r>l-v and PurelJ highway robbery, jusl
fast. We can not continue to let sub-
scriptions run after the time has ex-
pired. It is not the best for us nor
for the subscriber. Beginning June
1st, we will drop from our lists all
who are in arrears. Examine the
label on your paper and see if y< ur
time lias expired. If so, renew how.
You cannot afford to miss an issue.
This is the decisive year for onr
great organization. We must make Pr|ec of seed at $15. It is not enough
permanent the temporary success we lje(,ause they are worth more for fer-
liave won. tilizer, still it is the official, fixed
price, and the Union brethren who
arc so situated they cannot hold must
be relieved from the necessity of sell-
" ing under price. Co-Operator has
Observe closely the cartoon on the suggested a plan for keeping distress-
first page of Co-Operator. It speaks ed cotton—the cotton that must be
sold—off the market, and a similar
as absolute stealing as taking a man'i
money at the point of a pistol.
Now, the problem Is, what can In
done to keep tenant farmers' cot-
tonseed off the market—that is ta
say, what ways and means can be
provide.'] to take up this seed so aa
to force oil mill men to pay a just
and honest price for seed? The Na-
tional I nion has fixed the minimum
OUIt CARTOON.
It teaches a les-
shouhl know per- ... • , , , , , . „ • .
Un- ' might be adopted lor saving the
No Ix>cal is a dull one where Co-
Operator goes. Don't fail to make it
'go-
Are you making arrangements for
a warehouse? You arc not able to
not build it.
Co-operator Fred W. Davis, chair-
man of the State Committee of Tex-
as was at headquarters last week.
He is well pleased with the work
now being done in Texas. He is
also well pleased with the legislation
in the interest of the farmers of Tex-
as by this legislature.
We have been clubbed pretty hard
of late. We can stand it. Keep on
clubbing us.
The new system is coining. What
are you doing to help bring about
President L. N. Holmes, of the
Louisiana Stale Union, writes us
that the Pelican State Union is in
fine financial shape. President J.
E. Montgomery, of the Tennessee
State Union, writes us the same of
the volunteer State. All the States
are in most excellent shape.
attention, is the source of the Col-
lege's support, save perhaps a small |.
amount from interest on bonds from
sale of its lands. There is no institu-
tion in the Statx' of more importance
or greater utility, for the education
of youth, and perhaps, it fares worse
at the hands of the legislatures than
any other.
It is the one and only institution
of learning the farmer can call his
own. There is scarcely anything too
good for the University at Austin,
or its medical, pharmaceutical and
nurse branches at (ialveston; for the
normal and girls' industrial school,
and no one objects to liberality to
any of those institutons but that
liberality ought not to be at the ex-
louder tl ii words
son every farmer
fectly, especially The Farmers'
iou member. It is a voice from the st( Hom the pirates. Cannot the
Since I he ( o-Operator mention- past, a prophecv of the future. landowners take over the seed of
ed the great success of the Forest See that fat, smooth, self-coin- their tenants who are going to change
its products wiu.out a conference Hill Local, Wood County, Texas, on plaeent speculator leaning~'on the homps, paying approximately tha
with those of other sections. The account of a contest they had, we bale of cotton on the left. With minimum price and thus protect
have received word Irom several Lo- y10 smj]0 0f a Judas he greets the themselves in the sale of their own
cals to 1 he ellect that they will also cotton raiser with his few bales on seed? Could it not bo arranged that
have a contest and a supper. I he
fact is, a sectional organization can
not cxi>t.
Instead of the fifteen States re pre- ,
Denied at our last National meeting, Pla" IS to choose "P Jlke we used
wo will have, perhaps, thirty States to do for a Spelling Bee. The ob-
represented at our next National
meeting, which will be held in Little
Rock, Ark., next September. It will
be much the greatest and most im-
portant meeting of farmers in the
historv of the race. '
WILL GO TO EUROPE.
the glad day?
Co-Operator is anxious to do all
possible for the cause. Renew and
get all the members of your local to
subscribe.
Co-Operator is in receipt of a
large club from Washington, away
over on the Pacific coast. They are
coming from all directions.
Co-operator T. P. Crawford went
from Arkansas to Illinois to organ-
ize about a year ago. At the organ-
ization ol the Illinois State Union
on March 27, he was elected State
organizer. Thus the north and the
south are again bound together.
What Arkansas and Illinois hath
joined together, let no man put asun-
der.
ponse of the A. & M. College.
Some of the fllder States, because
of dense population, have two tgri-
eiiltural colleges, but Texas will not
need another for twenty years yet-
not until her vast spaces of unoccu-
pied area are filled up with farm
houses and cultivated fields, yielding
their abundance to bless the labors of
the husbandman.
Our National President, ( has. S.
Parrett. will sail for Europe on Alav
S<h to attend a meeting of Spinners'
Associations at Vienna. Ilis mission
is to boost cotton. He will assure
the spinners that the South can keep
all their spindles going, and millions
more also, if a just, equitable and
TflKV ALL ENDORSE IT.
A. M. COLLEGE.
Co-operator J. L. Armstrong has
moved his family from Hilda, Texas,
to Kyle, Texas. He is constantly
in the lecture field and is doing
much excellent work for the cause.
Co-operator T. N. Rcneau writes
us that the co-operating farmers of
Wooil county will build a warehouse
at the little city of Golden this year.
Build them; build them everywhere.
A letter from Co-operator L. F.
Luthy, secretary of the Missouri
State Union, states that they are
bringing order ot/ of chaos and that
the work is moving grandly on.
During the year millions of nice
trees will be planted on the school
house grounds whore the Locals are
held. How beautiful they will be
in a few years.
The Co-Operator has received n
neat, handsome publication issued bv
the Texas Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College near Bryan, sent with
the compliments of President II. II.
Harrington, for which The Co Oper-
ator returns thanks. The little book-
is labeled "bulletin," and it is in-
deed a bulletin of pretty and at-
tractive pictures of the college
campus and the various buildings,
that is to say buildings devoted lo
the several departments, such as
chemistry, engineering, dairying, the
dormitories, .mess-hall, etc., quite a
number of them, all stylish ornate
and commodious. The campus is
artistically laid off in landscape gar-
dening manner and is no inconsider-
able feature in the general make up
of the grounds. There are pictures, -p|u,v
The Co-Operatoi' is receiving
many letters from the co-operating
farmers of the many States com-
mending the plan The Co-Operator
presented week before last. It is
to be hoped that all the cotton States
will accept, this plan and begin at,
oner to secure the pledges. There is
no tini(
in
permanent tlie temporary
they have won during the past three
years. Success is ours if we will but
do our full dutv now. 1
stable price is maintained. He will
assure them that nothing else will in-
sure them plenty of the staple at all
times. The spindles are all busy
now, but the spinners are looking to
the future. They have repeatedly
tried to produce cotton in various
parts of the world, but have failed.
President Barrett will assure them
that they need not fear for tlie fu-
ture if a proper price is maintained.
The. South ran raise all the cotton
the world need*, and will do so, it
the profit be kept at what it should
be. It is to the interest of the spin-
ners to help us maintain a just,
ject is to see which side can obtain
the greatest number of new members
for a given time, th^'fJI ize being a
nice supper, to be given by the los-
ing side.
This will have the effect of bring-
ing every eligible person in your
neighborhood into your Local. It
has done this every time it has been
tried. If every Local Union through-
out the entire jurisdiction would do
this, the membership woukl#be dou-
bled in a very short time. It means
much to the life of the community
in many ways, besides the great good
it does for the cause of the co-oper-
ating farmers of this Nation. Get
up a nice program of music and
speeches by the children and the
young inen and the young ladies of
the community. Get all the now
members to read Tlie C'o-Operator
raiser
his Vagon. With the insinuating where tenants, in the same conimun-
manner of Aminidab Sleek, with the Jty ,inove Irom one farm to another,
soft, persuasive tones of Ephraim would swap seed, ton for ton, "or
Smooth, with the greasy unction of
Oily Gammon, and with the affidavit
countenance of the professional ad-
ministrator of estates, ho woos the
unsophisticated son of toil from the
rural districts into believing that six
cents is an enormous price for his
cotton and he is only giving so much
because "it is him." See the front
of the bale of cotton. Out of it
glares the facc of the spirit of greed,
the demon of graft. It is a devil's
face. See the leer of the eye! You
can see the baleful light of averice,
of malice, of crueltv flash from it
bushel for bushel and thus, saving
the expense and labor of hauling,
lo enabled to hold their seed for the
minimum price? It seems that this
mi Hit be done in a great many in-
stances.
The seed is as much apart and
parcel of the cotton crop as the lint
itself, and the Union, having devised
a rational, a just and a most effect-
ive way. in warehouses, for protect-
ing the value of the lint cotton, and
forcing a just and honest price for
it. the seed must be protected the
same way. Paying starvation prices
as the lips curl with sardonic smiles. for see(1 a,u| selling the products
The weird genius of the bucketshop, thereof at extortionate and usurious
the fell Lucifer of the Exchanges prjc.0iS) the oil mill men are robbing
glowers from that cotton halo with the cotton raiser just as systematical-
the lurid, lambent lightning of ]v? as unscrupulously, as soullessly
Tophet itself.
There is the story of the past that
that they may keep posted on the tells of the want and woe of the men,
movement in all the States. Do all
this and the result will be a wonder-
fill swelling of the ranks of the co-
operating farmers of this nation.
the women and children of the South
and mercilessly as the speculator, the
gamblers in futures. If the bucket-
shops and gambling exchanges are
the ante-chambers of hell, the oil
MADE A CONSTITUTION.
The Farmers' Union is
politics. It is in business.
not in
If it
. time to be lost by the eo-operat- . , and thev B,,ould happGn to want to do a little pointing to the Farmers' Union
g farmers, if thev are to make L 1 * ' " politics it would do it in a business, "warehouse with a contented happy
, ' wil so dee do after they have heard J , , . .... , ' ^arcnouse, witn a conienreo, nappy
Tinanont the temporary success • and not in a political way. We have Bmi]0> his face ag]ow witi, kindliness
resit out am • a gj,injnpr light near us. There was and benevolAce. From this cotton
I he next great conference wil be a constitution to make for the new lale> t]loro beams a facp> thc spirjt
held in Atlanta, (.a., next October, st,ite of Oklahoma. It so happened of brotherly love, the soul and es-
Setween the spinners and represent- that the Farmers'Union was well or- gcnce of the GoIdeil ]?u]e lights up
.Uives of the tarmers Union lu all ganized in tho proposed now State, that face with a sweetness that rcach-
the cotton States. I Ins conference The bovs knew what they wanted and
who, by their toil, their very blood, nij][ associations are the vestibules,
for nearly forty years have enriched
the speculator and gambler in fu-
tures while thev starved.
Look on tho other picture. That
is the prophecy of the future. The
prosperous member of The Farmers'
Union stands by his cotton bale,
SHOULD ALL READ
il all (he Locals be will be held just one month after our j,r0(.m]od to pledge the candidates
at work, it is neces- National meeting, at which time the 0f ;l]| parties to work for their prin-
In order that
kept, alive and
sary that all the members read the mimmim1 Pric0 XV|11 be a£rwl uPon- cipies. Nearly every man who re-
National ( o-Operator. It is not There is no doubt but that.the spin- nia]<e the pledge was left
enough that we organize the Locals. ,u'rs will endorse this price and a(. home. That was business. It
We must put the proper kind of lit- pledge themselves to help maintain was no^ p0ljt|ca nt all. Tho result
erature into the hands of the mem- it- V hat wonderful, wonderful prog-
bers after they are organized. The r°ss we are making I
Locals can not qxist if we do uot.
of joyous cliil-
up in ig-
*-■ Co-Opetator will continue to give
the news from all the States. It is
National in scope as well as in name.
Put it into the hands of all our peo-
ple.
, ... ... j must have something to tell
too, of the students in their military . ... ,.
. .• them of this mightv organization
uniforms, and in groups at work in all(j wi,at it is doing from week to
the studv rooms. week. This, the Co-Operator will do.
DISAGREES WITH Us.
was, thc Farmers controlled the con-
vention and elected a Farmers' Un-
ion worker for its president, Thc
wiseacres,^and aristocratic gentry,
wondered what kind of a constitution
cs every heart, that tells of plenty,
of happy homes, of glad-hearted
wives and mothers
dren no longer
norance. It teaches the lesson of
justice, of right, of honesty, it tells
all that The Farmers' Union is do-
ing and will do for all its members,
the farmer of every section of our
land, as well as for the cotton grow-
er.
Newt. Gresham.
Founder tf th* Farmers Educational
Co-Operative Union tf America.
A gnod Texas brother diMgm.'±E? STttViL COTTOXSEEDPROBl.pl.
/
w, .... ^v. , •iii. b. yens ' would mate, this being the
The education attainable at this Every ljocal throughout the entire with us on our editorial last week name applied to the honest sons of
the farmers, them- toil. They made
college is sane, safe, practical and jurisdiction where all the members calling upon
a good one. Co-Operator has rcceivc-d from
t.
Have you a warehouse at your
market town? If not, now is the
time to build it. Do not wait till
the crop is made. It will be too late
then. Now is the time to build it.
So many ot our people have written
for portraits of the late Newt Gresh-
am. the fonnder of The Fanners' Union,
that we have decided to have a large
engraved picture made on appropriate
paper. 19x25. This picture can be
framed and hung up in your lodge
room or residence. They are soid,
postage paid, for 25 cents each, the
money to be used for the benefit of
useful. It fits the graduate, after a read the Co-Operator is alive and at selves, to help to hold the distressed It has been pronouncod by very em- tim(? to tjmo proCoeding< of Unions thp family of our deceased brother
four years' course, to enter nt once work, believing more and more in cotton. He says it is not right to incnt men to be the ven best State (]enouncjng the inadequate prices thc this great organization might6 Mve!
upon the duties and responsibilities the final triumph of our principles. the cotton for speculative pur- constitution of all. It is certainly farmer!, ^ f,)rcecj to take for their Every member of the Order should
of life in whatever calling he may it is a very easy matter for all to p°ses. If the brother will rend the the most progressive, and. therefore, cuttonseed if thev sell them. A ma-
havo studied for, fully equipped for rra,i The Co-Operator. When once editorial again, ho will see that we the best
all its demands. Most of the ma* a member begins reading lie will not advise this only as a last resort. If There is a movement on foot to de-
triculate8 nt this college are from quit. Few, very few indeed, of our a
have one. The name of the founder
of this great organization will be cher-
ioritv of the cotton raisers aro ten- ish,"l in memory of the farmers of
and changing their bom- J" T.Hr.S S S JffVSJ
farmer has the money, and they feat, thc ratification of this progres- often, as they do. thev of necessity manlty while giving his own life to
r Every producer is certainly enti-
tled to a pleasant, a beautiful home.
farm homos and if tho young man subscribers have ever requested that are in'every community who have, he sive constitution by the people, but it Imlst sell their seed because it will j C*n'niortal'^an1^ do e3He"gave hi*
chooses to return to agricultural pur- their names be dropped from the list, should prevail upon his less fortu- will be ratified by an overwhelm- not Pfl.v them to move them. Ibis nfC for the cause that those who aro
suits he begins, uot as our fathers We will continue.to build this prand uate brother to warehouse his cot- ing majority. Tho bov« who made being the case, the speculators in
did, with tho brawn and little expo- orgiuaua'ior) greater and -tronger. iou, loaning him money on it. If, it will see to it tliat it is ratified. 6ced, that is to say, the oil mill men, Texas.
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Pyle, O.P. The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 1, 1907, newspaper, May 1, 1907; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth186288/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .