The Farm-Labor Union News (Texarkana, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1926 Page: 2 of 4
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(Comtinued from last week.)
Our first letter closed with
Five years ago—soon after de Drumhead. 100-35ets; 200-60eta;
flation struck us—I was in cor- $1.00; 1000-$1.75; 5000-$7.50
description of the jubilee of Big
Business, given in honor of Miss
Prosperity at the close of 1925.
But "all is not gold thatglit-
tors”. “Nero fiddled while Rome
Hatton W. Sumners of the Dal- yellow 300-60ets; 300-7;
las district, on the subject of 5000-$5.50; 10,000-$10.00.
risti?—d, oth
to Be mar-
By 1825 industrial develpy
ment had given birth to ’he nya-
en from the schools.
In Texas the politicians sold
themselves school land at 60 ets
him to an exploiting system.
This brings us to consider the
second phase of our subject, and
ly new craft demanding a high
degree of intelligence and more
education than was common to
tie masssB of the workers. In-
dustr began to demand engi-
display the American flag;
titute of a home and of the ne-
cessary means for the support
of his wife and children, (ex-
cept pittaMfeg handed out to him
we MUST come back; there is
nothing else compatble with
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story was the same—lumber,
water power and irrigation com-
panies gobbled the school lands
for a pittance. In Oklahoma and
with the most vicious political
corruption.
Politicians have alweys been
generous with the ptspic’s land;
M. 9 WILIAMS. .
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class-consciousness. "
Mentioning some of the things .
which
“ken” Gee eveyon.
SPECIAL
OFFER
a sod shany with a dirt roof.
gamblers, politicians, and protected middlemen
want the governrnent to
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ss meets again, the same old crowd will march hack to Washingion
Farmers. Same old manipulators, .same old delays. Same old line
Mere moncy back of it. Are we going to whip
Special prices to Union Local eqd
knowledged to me that when the Union stows. Every plunt gumrantd
farmers were organised in suf- i to please you.
W hen C<
to feed off
of bunk! But, much stronger. _ - -
this old line cutfit once ami for all and make Congress stand by its promises:
and loan sharks ‛iho
audit the farmers bool
on the lands, stay long enonzh
to secure the title, and hand it
over to them. In the Northwest
em and Northern States the
If you will pardon personal re-
ference. let it be said, the writer i
has been in the farmers ‘move-
ments for ober fifty years, be-
ginning with the Grange in 1872
then complete the sentence by
placing our leading character in
the subject nominative. Then
our subject will read: Farmers
hease" by nta OHare "It is difficult for the young-
Mh. the Aie,._ er generation who were never
P pioneers to realize what the “dis
has privikge 06 a pioneer trict school house” meant to tie
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ORGANIZE — UNIONIZE - ORGANIZK
That is the ondy way on earth we are going
lb heat the well trained gang of speculators.
are not so happy all the time, the head of our papers, on pur
Many of them are already see- letterheads, write it on our ben-
ing red, which very closely cor-ners, and on our cards; at all
responds to what, in red-liker times; and, forever keep the
ed machinery The devlopment
of machinery brough into exis-
tance many trades unknown to
last dollar out of the farmers’ produets and
toil. Tl Farmers Magazine gives th-
respondenee with
per acre: in Louisiana it was I no longer anything in common
and when the time came that un land for its maintenance; they
ited public opinion supported the immediately turned about and
public school they embraced it satisfied private greed by enact-
and made it their favorite pas- ing law’s which made it possible
ture and hunting grounds, and for the lands to be virtually stol-
burned." Let’s take a peep at
for vndews. It ws set’ n the
Ajpartieswho
tion tor policies
Mutual Life Insun
warm the common heart with
hope, and blind the voter’s eyes
with tears while he “got away“
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traction of the farmer
"ith the family relations of the
Shy locks. Modern subjection to
capital by both urban and rural
labor, the same in England, in
France, in Italy as in America,
has just about stripped these
vorkers of their national char-
acter, hence patriotism is slip-
ving away, and, for the reason
that the land has slipped away
A few on Mt watchtowel's of
Big Business see this situation.
Henee the teachers are told to
Gientlemen: Enelosed please find...........i"r. ■ . Subscript’. ior One
Year to the I <irliters Marm^inc at the Sperjal Rate made to all memhers of the
. Farmers’ Union.
land covered with the most valu-
able timber at 75 cents to $1.25
per acre. In Kansas, Oklahoma
and the other Southwestern
states the school lands were pre-
sumably sold only to actual set-
tiers who had not used their
homestead rights. What actual-
ly happened was that great cat-
tle ranchers, lumber, mining and
oil companies hired men to file
amad my momnelievt the passion- sacrifices laid the foundation
aely settlers for this nation’s greatness. It
was a goal achieved, a battle won
trophe, he feels the urge to
throw his manhood against the
fetters that have so long bound
WILL YOU FicHTW1TMus?
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~ er get organized. Bor would we
teach military tactics; to organ- ever get anywhere with the or-
toe Boy Scouts; etc. Theyounsganizationuniess we towtopid
we called
Our schoo -
ling mixture,
I remember
hnkwelenmed our, geography factory superintendents, and oth
by Rsbnmning to the lesson read
literate men from which to
• dug fkm, and toled sheepskin
fvee school system which it had of the nation for all time is one
resisted with all the power of’of the most shameful chapters
wealth and culture, the press in American history.
- . . an ideal realized, it was meat
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' “ a. stitution “ {of the nation the politicians had liticians had satisfied the sup
1 ysed the hunger of the masses porters of the free school by set-
for education for their own ends, ting aside millions of acres of
FROST PROOF CABBAGE plan
and onion plants ready now. I shi
ped last season fifty million planta
without a complaint. My plemta aj <
large niee ones, toe kind that
crop and not seed heads.
me this year and not be ,
Early Jersey, Charleston, Flat
mad rush of competition the
.e newly devetoped convenient sop for the worker’s
of production had Consumption. When the North-
west territory was established, children. Of all that fabuously
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penne its hunger for culture by Every inch of that march to vie-
the bl toto “Literary”. Here tory had been won by the work-
. . Though we may fall here; go FROSTPROOF CABBAGE
are coming to signify_tohim, under over there; at high tide tgeady.all varities, 200 fe
this year; then submerge next tuto; 1000-$1.75 Er
times, they called “snakes ini message at the front in a mili-
vour boots." What’s the cause ?tant move. The reason for this
Let’s take a kick for it. That is obvious. Absolutely and with
profit by diserediting me.
Yours in the Cause,
J. A. SMITH.
"hands" to direct and manage
edu- its industries.
1610 1-1 Commmee St.
is organization. We ought to Forster and Son. Sunger, Texas,
adopt as a slogan: FARMERS c(25p)
another picture. The big moguls ORGANIZE, and display it at_____
PLEASANT ROOT easiiy, meqspau-
iveyl overcomes any tobacco er i
habit. Send address. R. A. Stokies, Mib
hawk, Florida.
calculable, and the prostitution eondemneduanyim vethatmight
and plundering of this trust I A."“ In" ™ An-ener
fund belonging to the childhood Windemk is move °Thsrpost
school lands filched from the
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Ekineland viage, carried wil-
hews Fuma tih riwer nine" miles
avay ard made us plaited
| ciation was so unfor
COOPERATIVE NATIONAL MARKETING to secure a dishonest !
OMM» e a geqt rattle range.
without property—tenants— is
being augmented rapidly; the
fraction of industrial labor is
already large, and still growing.
The relation of these large frac-
tions to wife and children lias
the training camps, et cetera, ad
infinitum. that have hindered we
Yes, Big Business iemembersmention, competition b
‘male tekel" he is almost afraid farmers themselves. This_________ _
to leek at the "wall",,his slum- tition sometimes tabu place in Experiment station farm
bers are disturbed by night- the sale ef his produet
m_____a______•_ry___ 1 other times it takes the
fires and assassinatiens. nf n mep fop LanAapahin »
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Returning te the stripped same organization,
worker we find him not only des- r--------* •d--
so land grants for public schools
furnished them with cheap and Texas some of the largest oil op-
and the puipit—the educational Had this great domain, in the
. branded aggregate rich in every natural
with social stigmay called imprac resouree, been conserved, honest
tical and immoyal, irreligious ly administered and intelligently
and socially dangerous—was re- developed, the publie school sys-
.illy a glorious institution which tena of this country would have
every true AClristian and patriot been endowed with wealth, yes
must foctr and support. wealth that would forever free
in “The ISele Rel . Schoolvotes.
The lowly working class origin education from .the thrall of pov-
of the public school was forgot- erty, or the domination of greed
ten, and the ruling classes who and political corruption. But
had done all in their power to public lands have not, except in
throttle and emasculate it, now rare instances, been conserved.
and.we iudian chine age in the United tatos,
MMBto w was "ISd 1 and its dovetopment was rapid.
M nt.on Dhten JohnThenolahamdcooisoz
who lgmnea Hasket making in a
, -i £ ,peeds of the rapidly developing
---------- -I0™1’ but h machine production; the time
wes the collective iabor had come when the ruling class-
wemcke"duma&-sdra wastttht aavlinrancomdtionshtsThe
pimte enw-hide stetehed on ail its branches ereated an entire
and pinned down
with wenien pins, and we used
heuse where al the//edueation
abailable was free to every child.
out equivocation or modification |
I wish to emphasize the fact
that agriculture never will come
into its own except through a
move made by ORGANIZED
farmers.
And heads meant more educa-
school- tion for the workers. In the
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the same thing. But Mr. Sumn- e,, _ s8usn, EAo 553
era added, that he would hate to Pe, ‛ . "F »
see such organization develop " ***’ "T* "5
“class consciousness”, and in re- ____D
to ply to this I said: We would nev- uiGu BLOOD PREssUnE
for many years the “little red
schoolhouse’’ has been a large
part of the politician’s emotion -
al stock in trade. ‘Because the
hunger of the human heart for
education is so keen, and the
most sacred ambitions of par-
ents is to give their children
more learning than they them-
selves possessed. The "little
red schoolhouse” has been the
oily politicians most useful shib-
boleth. It was the theme upon
which he could play the whole
gamut of human emotions; could
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of publie schools in the United i
States, up to 1900, is 86,138,473 that it is reported J
have connected myself with the
MV organizati
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■ Byron. This quotation will serve
a us well as a premise. It is so
nearly a universal truth, proven
by history, that it may be accept BRONZE TURKEYS, show M.
ed as an axiom. Bird Brothers strain, direet.
ex killed and trained men. llit-
#9t-b00k by the erte “hands” could not meet the
Bhid house was - -
and he finds himself stronger to
day for organization than ever.
So thoroughly convinced to ho,
of the justice and equity of the
farmers’ move against the sys-
tem of the exploiters, that he ex
peets to live nd die in the strug-
gle.
(To be continued.)
TrA,e aphe kree
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‘Amdsndikarkrerdwemi-eu
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farmers, the truth about the farmers’ hnsiness
so you ran have the whole story at your fingers’
tips, and be prepared. _
(Fi eut. tear ew and mait-Tomav._1
ficient strength they could got W. C. BLACKBURN PLANT Mb
what they asked for. Congress- Jefferson, Texas
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