The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-11

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The age demands an automatic fnan-
| ciaI system thas will furnish the dol
lars to distribute the decreased output
and CO operation will furnish it. Co
operation Of each class enables them
to ok prices that will secure the dollars
and it is automatic.
If we produced twelve billion dollars
last year and fourteen billion dollars
worth this year we must be able to
! command two billion dollars more or
we cannot distribute it. Co operation Of
each class and fixing prices is the only
way by which the extra two billion
dollars can be secured. The competi.
tive system is a failure, as it will not
secure one half enough dollars to dis
! tribute all that we have the facilities
to produce. Cooperation is the oppo-
site of competition. As competition
is a failure so co operation will prove
a success. This cry Of trusts, trusts,
robber trusts, is childish. Place your
selves where you car fix the price OF
your produce and wages and no u
can rob you. Organize a mutual trust
and fix the price of your produce and
no one can rob you. Stop your cry
about the robber tobacco trust forcing
the price of the raw tobacco down until
it has nearly ruined you. The price
of the manufactured tobacco has not
fallen in ten years. What kept the
price upi The tobacco manufacturing
trust. Why has the raw tobacco gone
down9 There is no tobacco raisers'
trust to hold up prices. What the to-
bacco manufacturing trust has done a
tobacco raisers' trust a do, The
manufacturers have a constitutional
and moral right to fix the price Of
their manufactured tobacco, and the
only vs., they can do il is by organic
ing g trust. FIX the price OF the raw
tobacco through q Tobacco R8isers'
trust and the tobacco manufacturing
trust cannot rob you. Let each trust
fix maximum prices at their end of the
line and neither will have any room to
complain. The tobacco raisers are re
sDonsible for the condition they are in
and they are the only power that a
bring TO themselves the needed relief
Get this fact into your head: that the
price Of manufactured tobacco ia not
too high; that the price Of the raw ma
terial is too low. You say the tobacco
truss il rich. Well, il the trust made
them rich won't the trust naEe you
ricl 2 r. you could enforce the anti
truss Law aad force the manufacturers
to compete as you do With each other
the price OF manufactured tobacco
would decline, wages in these institu-
ticns would decrease and the price of
raw tobacco would go lower and lower.
What benef5 would sou derive from
puIioE the trust G0wr? Would it not
be be5ter, brother farmer, TO climb on
top By organizing trug, CO operating,
fixing living prices aud ruling IN the
necaEaarle3 Qnd lUxurlng Of life9 The
cotton rRtsers compete with the cheap
est labor ia the world and see where
they are a.. Destroy tie { rust system
and you will force every class to com
pete with this increasing horde Of
cheap labor equippirg with the best of
labor saving machinery ard the bot
tom will soon be knocked out OF prices.
Get this other fact into your head:
that the trusts are cooperative. The
Obi CT Of co operation is t. fix prices
AMI wages that will command the dol
lars that will distribute all produced
ana heIp each other. Competition
n9a-.s every man for himself and the
devil take the hindermost. The cotton
and tobacco raisers are the hindermost
and she devil Of low prices has them
Ia h.a grio, and I challenge the world
to sho any other way ou5, end retain
the dollar as a distributor of values.
exc p; through the Organization of
tcusrs, The politicians who hope to
ride INTO Office on the back of the q
crow trust will say Trusts, trusts"
but not a one OF them will show you
a way by which you can get twelve
cents a pound for your cotton and
double the price Of your tobacco and
this the cotton ana tobacco raisers'
trust can do and they know it if they
have enough information to represent
the FIJI Islanders.
In a future number We will show
how to organize a tobacco raisers'
trust.
T
I have received a clipping from a
newspaper from Charlottesville, Ind,
giving a history of the nail plant and
ifs falling into tho hands NJ tina tr,,aE